News 2008 - Schott Music
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Chamber <strong>Music</strong><br />
BELAIEFF<br />
Mansurjan, Tigran<br />
String Quartet<br />
No 1<br />
Mansurjan’s String Quartet No. 1<br />
(1983-84) takes us ‘on the long<br />
road of simplicity, on a wonderful<br />
journey during which the question<br />
whether this music is new or old<br />
can be answered very soon: It is<br />
timeless in a delightful manner, but<br />
not nostalgic in a negative sense,<br />
often almost classical in its polyphonic<br />
part-writing but not outdated.’<br />
Characteristic of Armenian<br />
music in general and Mansurjan’s<br />
later works in particular is the<br />
sparing use of all means of<br />
expression, a certain unity in tone<br />
colour and tonal onset. This style<br />
is recognizable here for large part<br />
but is broken by surges of emotion<br />
and contrasts in dynamics<br />
and articulation.<br />
score and parts<br />
Grade: intermediate<br />
ISMN M-2030-0365-6<br />
BEL 714 ....£ 19.99 / € 32,95<br />
June<br />
SCHOTT<br />
Edition <strong>Schott</strong><br />
Schnebel, Dieter<br />
1. String Quartet<br />
‘im Raum’<br />
This string quartet by a grand<br />
master of the German avantgarde<br />
combines a decidedly traditional<br />
four-movement structure<br />
with experimental situations in<br />
the concert hall. In various sections<br />
the performers act on<br />
revolving stools, in others they<br />
take positions at the edge and in<br />
the corners of the platform or<br />
around the listeners. However,<br />
the composer also allows a performance<br />
in a conventional seating<br />
arrangement which emphasizes<br />
the work’s classical nature<br />
with regard to material and form<br />
even further.<br />
score and parts<br />
Grade: very difficult<br />
ISMN M-001-15011-8<br />
ED 20297.£ 30.50 / € 49,95<br />
April<br />
BOTE & BOCK<br />
Kessler, Thomas<br />
NGH WHT<br />
for speaker and string quartet<br />
After the successful collaboration<br />
concerning the work ‘said the<br />
shotgun to the head’, the Swiss<br />
composer Thomas Kessler has<br />
again set a text of the rapper and<br />
slam poet Saul Williams to music.<br />
‘NGH WHT’ for narrator and string<br />
quartet is based on Williams’<br />
most recent book ‘The Dead<br />
Emcee Scrolls’. Kessler developed<br />
the musical structure from a<br />
recording of the recited text. On<br />
the one hand, the quartet has the<br />
task to retell and decode the<br />
poem, on the other hand, voice<br />
and instruments enter into a ‘fluid<br />
process between approach and<br />
distance, synchrony and time<br />
shift, adaptation and resistance’.<br />
score and parts<br />
ISMN M-2025-3205-8<br />
BB 3205...£ 29.99 / € 49,95<br />
April
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