Partituras para cuarteto de cuerda

Auftragswerk des Internationalen Musikwettbewerbs der ARD

First performed 16 October 2010, Donaueschingen by Arditti Quartet, Quatuor Diotima and Jack String Quartet. Commissioned by Donaueschinger Musiktage for the festival's 'Quardittiade'.

String Quartet No. 8 by James Dillon is a 19-minute work in three movements that are arranged symmetrically. Both outer movements unfold through episodic blocks of material with the central movement b...

String Quartet No. 9 by James Dillon is a 20-minute work composed in 2017 & 2018. Its three parts are organised continuously, and the ever-changing micro-gestures of part 1 are combined with the more...

Vanishing Gold by Jonathan Dove is a 5-minute work for string quartet inspired by two little creatures: the once-abundant golden toad of Costa Rica which was last seen thirty years ago, and has been d...

Heartfelt by Roxanna Panufnik is an 11-minute string quartet inspired by pulse and heart rate. In two parts the first movement, Uzbek Processional, imagines a grand and regal caravan of camels and car...

On the streets and in the sky (String Quartet No. 2) by Jonathan Dove is a 23-minute string quartet dedicated to the Sacconi Quartet in celebration of their twentieth anniversary commissioned by Wigmo...

Togetherness by Jonathan Dove is a 22-minute string quartet that explores the experience of isolation in the pandemic lockdown that began in 2020, and the joy of physically reconnecting afterwards. In...

Introducing his new player-friendly edition of the Haydn Quartets, Simon Rowland-Jones writes: 'There can be no such thing as a final, perfect version; Haydn left too many questions open.' The new Pet...

First performance, 7 March 2005 at the festival Musica Nova Helsinki, Quatuor Diotima Commissioned by the Festival Archipel Geneva in partnership with the Helsinki Festival for the Quatuor Diotima. Th...

For String Quartet (after Christopher Tye) (2006).