for string quartet. Par VASKS PETERIS. In 2013, Peteris Vasks set Mother Teresa’s peace prayer “The fruit of silence is prayer” for the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. The piece is for mixed choir however the versions for piano quintet and string quartet now make this musical expression of Mother Teresa's words accessible to two traditional genres of chamber music without the help of a choir. /…

from String Quartet No.1 Op.11. Par TCHAIKOVSKY PYOTR ILYICH / NICHOLAS ELLIS(Arr.). The slow movement of Tchaikovsky’s First String Quartet is one of his most cherished melodies. Inspired by a Russian folk tune he had heard sung by a house servant, the Andante Cantabile combines heartfelt simplicity with the composer’s gift for lyrical expansion. The movement soon took on a life of its own, admir…

Création 10/07/2017 - Aix-en-Provence, Hôtel Meynier d'Oppède - Académie du Festival d'Aix Commanditaire Académie du Festival d'Aix et ProQuartet Notice Lyrae est une oeuvre pour quatuor à cordes, harpe et percussions (grosse caisse, marimba, vibraphone et tamtam). Elle s'inspire d'une des étoiles les plus fascinantes de la constellation de la Lyre. Il s'agit en réalité d'une double-étoile don…

Par ALAKOTILA TIMO. Composer, musician Timo Alakotila (b. 1959) is a distinguished, active and versatile talent in the Finnish music scene whose long career working with different genres of music ? folk music in particular ? has been ground-breaking. Alakotila?s works showcase his versatility: he has produced highly acclaimed classical music compositions and arrangements for Pekka and Jaakko Kuusi…

Par CHOSTAKOVITCH DIMITRI. Shostakovich's last work, the Sonata For Viola And Piano Op. 147, is a superbly crafted Sonata in three movements with, unusually, a slow Adagio movement for the third. It was dedicated to the violist Fyodor Druzhinin, a professor of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and a member of the Beethoven String Quartet, a renowned Moscow ensemble that played at the premieres o…

Ferdinand Küchler is regarded as one of the great violin teachers of the 20th century, not least because of his violin method. His Concertino in G major Op. 11 still is a popular entry-level piece of concert literature even in today's violin lessons.Apart from the edition in the original instrumentation for violin and piano (SE 1001), this arrangement follows the title 'Concertino' and allows for …

A viola method for childrenThe leading German viola method now available in English.For more than three decades the Sassmannshaus Tradition has been the household name for excellence in beginner string methods in German-speaking countries. More than half a million students have successfully learned to play string instruments using this publication.The publication of the four violin books in 2008 i…

For Recorder Quartet (Ssab). Par VIVALDI ANTONIO. Antonio Vivaldi was a celebrated baroque composer, however his Concerto in G major is, undeservedly, one of his lesser known pieces. Bart Spanhove has arranged the original string work for recorder quartet. / Niveau : Facile à Intermédiaire / Date parution : 1905-07-03/ Répertoire / 4 Flûtes à Bec

Attractive solo literature for the intermediate level student. Contents: Bourrée from the Suite in B minor, BWV 1067 (J.S. Bach) ? Polonaise from the Suite in B minor,BWV 1067 (J.S. Bach) ? Siciliano from the Sonata No. 2 in E-flat Major, BWV 1031 (J.S. Bach) ? Canzone from the Concerto for Piano, Op. 38 (Barber) ? Nocturne from Two Pieces for Violin and Piano (Boulanger) ? Voyage (Corigliano) ? S…

Emmanuel Pahud Presents. Par DVORAK ANTONIN. Dvorák’s “String Quartet No. 12” was created during a three-year stay in the USA. Also, in this work he skilfully developed original melodies and peculiarities, which for him embodied the music of the American natives and integrated them into his Central European influenced romantic musical language. The spirit of this quartet fits perfectly into the na…