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Alan Starrett  

3 movements towards g

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1980
for string quartet

John Rimmer  

A dialogue of opposites

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1997
for cello solo

Ross Carey  

A Little Suite for Yuji and Rieko

Duration: 12' 00" Year: 2003
for violin and piano

Douglas Lilburn  

Allegro Concertante

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1944, r. 1945
for violin and piano

Jeroen Speak  

Auxetos

Duration: 10' 00"
for string quartet

Matthew Davidson  

Bergamasques

Duration: 13' 30" Year: 2013
for solo violin

John Rimmer  

Bowed Insights

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1993
for string quartet

Juliet Palmer  

Egg & Tongue

Duration: 10' 00" Year: 1994
for string quartet

Jack Body  

Epicycle

Duration: 13' 00" Year: 1989
for string quartet

  • Programme Note

    Composed in 1989 for the Kronos Quartet, Epicycle is rarely played due to its level of difficulty. The unrelenting running patterns, filled with displaced accents, changing meters, and hairpin hockets (rapidly played interlocking phrases passed from player to player) are just a part of the challenge. Jack Body explains, “When I write for string quartet I like to think of the instruments as equal partners within the same register, each with its own quality of sound, not in the vertical hierarchy – from cello upwards towards the first violin that we normally hear from a string quartet. This makes strenuous demands on the cello of course, who must ascend into the violin’s register, since the reverse is not possible.

    Since I first composed Epicycle for the Kronos quartet in 1989 I have always been dissatisfied with tis brief conclusion. In 2004 I decided to rectify this and wrote a new final section (the third) which is a kind of antithesis of the rest of the work – instead of a single line melody we have chords; instead of just employing the upper register we explore a fuller spectrum of sound, though still based on the original circular melody. Thus Epicycle concludes.”

    From notes by Charles Amirkhanian
    for the CD “Ring of Fire” © 2008 Other Minds

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David Farquhar  

Equali

Duration: 14' 00" Year: 1991
for two cellos

  • Programme Note

    The title “Equali” expresses the idea of sharing between two similar instruments. This happens in a variety of ways in the eight duos, but I was particularly interested in exploring the interweaving and crossing of the two violin lines and the idea of dividing ideas between them. I have always been drawn to the idea of duos, whether for equal or unequal instruments clarinets or keyboard. But the warmth and expressiveness of stringed instruments has a special appeal, which I hope comes across in this set. They also exist in a version for two violins.

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