Noten für Streicherensemble

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.

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

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 continuously and full o...

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 impulse being lyrical an...

In this piece a solo (for the first violin) runs parallel to a trio (violin, viola, cello), but is independent in metre, speed, and style. The title is from Foucault: 'Truth is a thing of this world:...

Newly edited edition, off-printed from the Walton Edition vol. 19 'Chamber Music'Performing edition of Walton's String Quartet in A minor, based on the edition published in the Walton Edition Chamber...

The composer writes: I have always loved marches. Quick, slow, measured, cheerful, funereal, aggressive, sinister. When bands approach I rush to the street, and when they recede I collapse in a pleasa...

Winchester Te Deum is a glorious work with a great sense of ceremony. This important setting is bright and joyful and equally suitable for church and concert performance. It pairs wonderfully in a con...

This single-movement quartet was commissioned by the Cardiff University Quartet on 25 April 1968. It was dedicated to Mathias' colleague and composer Alun Hoddinott and his wife Rhiannon.

Spectrum for String Quartet is a collection of specially commissioned pieces. Three composers of widely different backgrounds and experience have written works of about eight minutes duration for play...

Spectrum for String Quartet is a collection of specially commissioned pieces. Three composers of widely different backgrounds and experience have written works of about eight minutes duration for play...

Lara Poe's (b. 1993) energetic Divergence (2015-2016) for string quartet was conceived cyclically: the four movements explore drifting in and out of focus between different materials. A light ditty of...