The Four Quarters (String Quartet/Score Only) (Faber Edition) - Softcover

Thomas Adès (Composer)

 
9780571540112: The Four Quarters (String Quartet/Score Only) (Faber Edition)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0571540112 ISBN 13: 9780571540112
Publisher: Faber Music Limited, 2017

Synopsis

Thomas Adès s second work for string quartet, The Four Quarters was written for the Emerson Quartet and was premiered by them at Carnegie Hall in 2011. The winner of the 2012 British Composer Award for Chamber Composition, the 20-minute work charts the progress of a day. Glassy harmonics typify the opening movement Nightfalls, whilst playful pizzicati abound in Serenade Morning Dew. A sombre third movement, Days, is underpinned by a searching ostinato before the work breaks free from conventional time in The Twenty-Fifth Hour, the glittering finale which swings and dances in the unusual time signature of 25/16.

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Review

Though brief these four movements have a striking weight and presence. --The Sunday Times (Paul Driver), 17 April 2011

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Publisher
Faber Music Limited
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0571540112
ISBN 13 
9780571540112
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
24

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780571540129: The Four Quarters (String Quartet/Parts) (Faber Edition)

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ISBN 10:  0571540120 ISBN 13:  9780571540129
Publisher: Faber Music Limited, 2017
Softcover