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Musique De Chambre - Cordes : Cordes

For string quartet. This lively piece draws on complex rhythms and dance elements and combines them with lyrical passages reminiscent of the haunting melodies of the Welsh folk tradition. The use of h...

Berkeley's second string quartet uses a free, random presentation of thematic material. There is a sharp contrast between the tight and rhythmic central section and the final passage which dispenses w...

First performed at the 1984 Cheltenham Festival by the Brodsky String Quartet

This is a version for string quartet of Erkoreka's saxophone quartet, Duduk II. It is the last of the four Duduk pieces which are based on the traditional modes/scales of Armenia.

Mathias' third and final quartet was commissioned by the 1986 Harrogate International Festival and premiered there in August that year by the Medici Quartet. It has three movements: the first takes th...

This work is in two parts; each starts and ends with the same musical gestures, but surrounded by other music which results in the identical passages having totally different musical meanings.

The work is in one unbroken span that is formed from four linked movements.

For string quartet. Written for the Smith Quartet, the title refers to some of the many different meanings of the word 'catch' - fishing, tricks, rounds. The result is a twelve-minute piece played con...

For string quartet. Tendrils has been described as a 'masterly display of Skempton's utterly natural art. ' It is built out of continuous undulating lines that sustain their effect throughout, the imp...

A fantasia based on five folk tunes which was first performed by Pablo Casals in 1930. The piano reduction was prepared by John Lenehan from the original score. Score and parts of the version for orch...

For string quartet. Harmony for string quartet is a musical summation of three harmonic principles: Peace-Light-Love. The first movement starts with a vigorous five-note chromatic motive, followed by...

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