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String
Quartets - click links for .mp3 audio or .pdf score samples
| • Three Transcriptions | string quartet (15 min.) (1987) audio sample score sample |
Ever popular with audiences, this three movement string quartet juxtaposes transcriptions of music played by a Chinese jaw's harp, a Madagascan zither (valiha), and the music of a Bulgarian village band. Composed at the request of the Kronos Quartet.
Score:
Waiteata Music Press
Recording: Waiteata Music Press
| • Arum Manis | string quartet (amplified) with tape (8 min.) (1991) audio sample score sample |
An unusual work combining field recordings of fiddle music played by an Indonesian street-seller of candy-floss (in Indonesian, "arum manis", meaning "sweet aroma") with a string quartet. The listener is charmed by music which passes seamlessly between the tape and the live performers. Composed for the Kronos Quartet, this work was presented at the 1996 International Rostrum of Composers.
Score: the composer
Recording:
Sounz Fine Vol.
| • Campur Sari | string quartet with traditional Javanese musician (14 min.) (1996) audio sample score sample |
A work combining two musical traditions. The Indonesian musician plays a gamelan metalophone (gender), sings a macapat poem, and plays a drum, while the string quartet draws out this material into a more familiar sound world. This work was written for the NZ String Quartet with soloist Joko Susilo, and premiered at the 1996 Wellington International Festival of the Arts.
Score: the
composer
Recording: Pulse CD Rattle D009
| • Flury | string quartet (3 min.) (2002) audio sample |
An energetic flury, ideal as an
encore. In its original version is was designed for
three string quartets,
and commissioned for the 2002 NZ International Festival of Arts.
| • Epicycle | string quartet (13 min.) (1989, rev. 2005) score sample |
A string quartet in which the four instruments play within the same register to create a psychodelic sonic effect. The middle section is inspired by the differing qualities of vibrato as found in traditional Korean music.
Score: the composer
| • Saetas | string quartet plus accordion (15 min.) (2003, rev. 2005) |
A four movement work inspired by the passionate religious songs heard in the Holy Week processions in Southern Spain. Commissioned by the NZ String Quartet. The original version for four musicians requires the cellist to double on the accordion, but the revised version is for five musicians.
Score: the composer
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