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- Nyman’s set of string quartets (which number seven to date) provide as good a pathway as any into a wonderfully vivid and colourful landscape.
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String Quartets 1–3 is a 1991 album by the Balanescu Quartet ( Alexander Balanescu, Jonathan Carney, Kate Musker, and Tony Hinnigan) and the fifteenth release by Michael Nyman.
Sixteen-years separate Nyman’s String Quartets Nos. 4 and 5, and although the fifth does not directly draw on pre-existing material, the exuberant quality of its first and fifth movements vividly illustrate the composer’s penchant for dance-like rhythms and patterns, while the lyrical, song-like second and sixth hint at themes found in his ...
Are these true string quartets or just music written for four strings? This is very accessible music, especially for one with a Minimalist pedigree, true to Nyman's goal of bringing good music to the masses.
Michael Nyman wrote Quartet No.5 & No.4 for The Smith Quartet in 2011 and Quartet No.5 receives its premiere recording on this CD. “String Quartet No. 5 (2011) is the first of my quartets not only to have a subtitle but, more importantly, not to be based on pre-existing musical material.
Nyman’s three Quartets date from a five-year period – 1985-90 – and owe their existence to a disparate variety of circumstances.
Nov 18, 2016 · Among the passages new to the string quartet are measures 17-24, 125-126, and a cello part beginning at measure 63. Some cause of the variation is that the quartet is a celebration of the...
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String Quartet No. 4 was composed in the winter of 1994/5 and, like my first three quartets, is based on pre-existing material. In 1993 I was commissioned by Yohji Yamamoto to write a solo violin work for his autumn fashion show in Paris.
