string quartet (alone or + inst or voc)

str4t

BOTH SIDES

Composer: 
Ross Bauer
Scoring: 
flute doubling alto flute, string quintet

Ensemble Type

Instruments

commissioned by Mondavi Center for the St. Louis Symphony Chamber Players

List Price: 
$36.95 score with parts

VIGNETTES

Composer: 
Frederic Balazs
Scoring: 
str quar

Ensemble Type

Instruments

SOLILOQUI

Composer: 
Frederic Balazs
Scoring: 
str quar

Ensemble Type

Instruments

List Price: 
$ 16.95 for both Score and Parts

MINOR BLASTS, SOME FLURRIES

Composer: 
Beth Wiemann
Scoring: 
string quartet with optional video

Ensemble Type

Adapted from an earlier work for the Portland Chamber Music Festival.
List Price: 
$22.95 score with parts

STRING QUARTET No. 1

Composer: 
Karl Weigl

Ensemble Type

List Price: 
$39.95 parts only

Le Journal du Corps

Composer: 
Lewis Nielson
Instrumentation freestyle: 
2 violins, viola, cello
Scoring: 
String Quartet

Ensemble Type

Instruments

Commissioned by the JACK Quartet, to be recorded on Mode Recordingsd

QUINTET FOR ALTO SAXOPHONE AND STRING QUARTET

Composer: 
Allan Blank
Instrumentation freestyle: 
alto sax, string quartet

Ensemble Type

Instruments

List Price: 
$37.95 score and set of 5 parts

QUENTIN

Composer: 
Reinaldo Moya
Instrumentation freestyle: 
string quartet

Ensemble Type

This work is a musical representation of the inner world of Quentin Compson, the character in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. The novel delves into the tragic downfall of a Southern family in the early twentieth century.

CAPRICCI

Composer: 
Thomas L. Read
Instrumentation freestyle: 
guitar, two violins, viola, cello

Ensemble Type

Instruments

List Price: 
$12.95 full score
List Price: 
$44.95 score + set of parts (concert size)

FLUX AND FIRE

Composer: 
Robert Gibson
Instrumentation freestyle: 
string quartet

Ensemble Type

QUARTETTO DELL'ARTE

Composer: 
Matthew Davidson
Scoring: 
Violins I & II, Viola, Violoncello

Ensemble Type

QUARTETTO DELL'ARTE is a five movement polytonal string quartet with an existential secret program. In addition, it uses direct transcriptions of melodies from the following recordings:
Movement One: Musique et Musiciens du Monde - Biélorussie (UNESCO); Kazakh Music Today (Topic Records Inc.)
Movement Three: Belgique  Ballades, etc. (OCORA-Radio France);Lituanie - Le pays des chansons (OCORA-Radio France)
The second movement is a pointillistic retrograde double fugue using melodies by Verdi and Puccini, and the fourth movement juxtaposes melodies of Machaut and Stephen Foster.

Genre/Theme

audio/mpeg iconIII. Gavotta Assurda (Scherzo-II)

PERHAPS GILEAD

Composer: 
Harvey Sollberger
Scoring: 
fl, guitar, 2vln, vla, vc

Ensemble Type

Instruments

Harvey Sollberger, composer: with premiere performers of Perhaps Gilead, 2011Harvey Sollberger, composer: with premiere performers of Perhaps Gilead, 2011Sollberger's Perhaps Gilead is inspired by the novels of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson (Iowa Writer's Workshop), which spring from her fictional Iowa town of Gilead. Relive the history and spirit of the great state of Iowa. Funded in part by The Iowa Arts Council, the new work by flutist-composer-conductor Harvey Sollberger has received more than 20 performances since it was completed in 2010. Detailed program note can be found here.

Composer's note: 

Sursum

Composer: 
Michael Slayton
Scoring: 
String Quartet

Ensemble Type

Instruments

Composed for the Kreutzer Quartet (London), Sursum is a single-movement work centered around themes of yearning, striving, rising. ("Sursum" is a Latin prefix meaning "upward".)
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