Noten für Streicherensemble

Arrangements of three of Bolcom's famous piano rags: Poltergeist, Graceful Ghost, and Incineratorag.

Stringworks is a series of popular music for working string quartets. Light repertoire pieces and entertaining encores are all expertly arranged by Jack Long. Each folio contains individual parts, plu...

Exercises in 7 major keys covering slurred, legato, staccato and détaché bowings.

... the most evocative and moving piece of chamber music composed by an Australian. It is tragic and deeply felt, terse, shattering in its impact. The Bulletin (Kenneth Robins), 27 September 1969

It is an exceptionally impressive work, possibly a great or near-great one. Donald Mintz, The Musical Quarterly vol. 53, no. 4, 1967

... this snazzy piece (filled with folky references and odd percussion effects) takes the cake - a terrific, immediately entertaining and absorbing work. San Francisco Chronicle (Heuwell Tircuit), 8 J...

... one of his finest works... a composer thoroughly at ease with himself, working in a mode that has come to terms with his tradition and with his environment, and using it with assurance to create m...

... true quartet-music, admirably conceived for the medium. I found it a most vivid and compelling piece. The Sunday Times (Desmond Shawe-Taylor), 7 December 1975

The terse String Quartet No 9 is a major addition to the quartet repertory.San Francisco Chronicle (Heuwell Tircuit), 1 March 1980

... the quartet is a highly distinctive work, a welcome addition to Simpson's significant contribution to the British twentieth-century string quartet. Trevor Bray, Music and Letters Vol. 68, 3 April...

The first performance was given by the Endellioon Quartet in the West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge as part of the Cambridge Elgar Festival on 16 November 1994.

‘A subtle baroque flavour... a slow movement of ravishing arabesques above a pizzicato cello, balanced by outer sections of darting counterpoint.’ The Independent (Nicholas Williams), 24 M...

... a subtle Baroque flavour... Nicholas Williams, The Independent, 24 May 1994

'Four Play' is the essential gig album for string quartet, masterfully arranged by Carlo Martelli. The volume includes music by the great composers as well as theme songs and soundtracks from TV and f...

These two tracks are from Paul McCartney's album Working Classical and are arranged for String Quartet. This is the score. The parts are available separately.

These two titles are from Paul McCartney's Working Classical project. This is the string quartet parts

'Quartet in C' is in four movements with a total duration of about 25 minutes. The opening Allegro is Dvorák-ish in its lyricism, though there is a darker, more brooding atmosphere towards the close....