This beautiful slow movement takes full advantage of the string quartet's richly expressive potential. LORRAINE is a plaintive aria for violin with string trio accompaniment, balanced with contrasting textures from the "tutti" string ensemble. A remembrance for the composer's sister, it is a perfect work to program on memorial concerts, and as a 6-minute selection on string quartet recital programs. - the publisher
Daniel Strong Godfrey's Three Encores features three thematically and instrumentally diverse pieces transcribed for string quartet. The movements include versions of John Newton's Amazing Grace, arranged here with a rocking, barcarolle-like character, "Nimrod," the ninth variation from Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations, Op. 36, and Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen (Lo, How A Rose e'er Blooming), which offers settings of this carol by both Michael Praetorius and Johannes Brahms. These transcriptions, wh...
The 26 compatible duets in this collection span 200 years of repertoire, featuring works from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods. The arrangements are drawn from a variety of sources, including piano and chamber works, with the majority taken from actual duets originally written for two instruments by the composers themselves. Skillfully arranged for any combination of two string instruments, these duets may be performed at recitals, adjudications, weddings, and other social occasions. ...
The 26 compatible duets in this collection span 200 years of repertoire, featuring works from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods. The arrangements are drawn from a variety of sources, including piano and chamber works, with the majority taken from actual duets originally written for two instruments by the composers themselves. Skillfully arranged for any combination of two string instruments, these duets may be performed at recitals, adjudications, weddings, and other social occasions. ...
The 26 compatible duets in this collection span 200 years of repertoire, featuring works from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods. The arrangements are drawn from a variety of sources, including piano and chamber works, with the majority taken from actual duets originally written for two instruments by the composers themselves. Skillfully arranged for any combination of two string instruments, these duets may be performed at recitals, adjudications, weddings, and other social occasions. ...
The 26 compatible duets in this collection span 200 years of repertoire, featuring works from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods. The arrangements are drawn from a variety of sources, including piano and chamber works, with the majority taken from actual duets originally written for two instruments by the composers themselves. Skillfully arranged for any combination of two string instruments, these duets may be performed at recitals, adjudications, weddings, and other social occasions. ...
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, the eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach, wrote these three duo sonatas probably after 1775 in Berlin, his last place of life and residence. Berlin had grown into one of the most important musical centers during this period. Bach did not number the three duos, but an order is clear from the source: Duetto I in G major, Duetto II in G minor, Duetto III in C major. A cyclical connection of the three duets is not recognized, however. While in the version for two violoncellos ...