#a string quartet

[petermorwood]

ZHL Strings, www.zhlstrings.com /zhlstrings@gmail.com.

[navree]

"that you could be so cruel" ok correct me if i'm wrong but does penelope featherington not run a gossip rag that exist solely to publish unsubstantiated rumors about women she doesn't like for various reasons that have profoundly negative repercussions on those women (didn't the publication of marina's pregnancy lead to marina almost dying in her quest to terminate said pregnancy??????) and has in fact used that same rag to put not just colin's entire family but also specifically colin's sister, her best friend, through a significant amount of grief and strife that came as a direct result of that rag?

but colin's the cruel one? because she happened to eavesdrop on a conversation where he said he doesn't wanna date her? that's cruelty but all the other stuff isn't?

[freakinflipflop]

I imagine Kristoph Gavin was a 2nd violin in a string quartet when he was in college. He's absolutely the kind of guy to have played violin, and I would imagine he LOVED like. Haydn. But he's not showy enough to want the first violin position. And he gets SO perfectionist about the whole thing that the quartet ends up falling apart after 6 months.

So when his little brother is the lead musician in a successful band? AND has passed the bar and is about to debut as a lawyer? It makes Kristoph So Fucking Mad. Why does Klavier get to have everything Kristoph has strived to have. Why can Klavier do what Kristoph couldn't.

Kristoph doesn't know that behind the scenes Klavier is just as much of a control freak with his music as Kristoph was- Klavier is just able to keep his relationships based in kindness enough that it doesn't all fall apart.

[mikrokosmos]

Mozart - Masterpost

For his birthday today (1/27) I compiled all of the blog posts I've written about his music over the years on this blog. There's so much more to write about for a composer with as significant an output as Wolfgang...I hope you enjoy anything you haven't heard yet!

Opera

Abduction from the Seraglio

Masses

Requiem in d minor

Symphonies

Symphony no.25 in g minor

Symphony no.36 in C Major, “Linz”

Symphony no.38 in D Major, “Prague”

Symphony no.41 in C Major, “Jupiter”

Concertos

Piano Concerto no.15 in Bb Major

Piano Concerto no.20 in d minor

Piano Concerto no.24 in c minor

Piano Concerto no.25 in C Major

Violin Concerto no.1 in Bb Major

Violin Concerto no.3 in G Major, “Strasbourg”

Violin Concerto no.5 in A Major “Turkish”

Clarinet Concerto in A Major

Double Concerto for Flute and Harp in C Major

Horn Concerto no.1 in D Major

Piano

Adagio in b minor

Piano Sonata no.8 in a minor

Piano Sonata no.11 in A Major

Piano Sonata no.18 in D Major, “The Hunt"

Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major

Sonata for Piano, Four Hands in F Major

Chamber Music

Clarinet Quintet in A Major

Clarinet Trio in Eb Major, “Kegelstatt”

String Quintet no.1 in Bb Major

String Quintet no.2 in c minor

String Quintet no.4 in g minor

String Quintet no.6 in Eb Major

Piano Quartet no.1 in g minor

Piano Quartet no.2 in Eb Major

Serenade no.10 in Bb Major, “Gran Partita

Divertimento for 2 Horns and String Quartet, “A Musical Joke"

Violin Sonata no.21 in e minor

Misc.

17 Church Sonatas

[neil-gaiman]

10. Neil Gaiman and FourPlay String Quartet – Signs of Life

Sydney-based string quartet FourPlay have made a name by playing versions of music by various rock and jazz artists, including Radiohead and Metallica, but they have also been working with the fantasy writer Neil Gaiman for more than a decade. Here they provide a series of wonderfully quizzical, meandering accompaniments as Gaiman recites deeply humanistic prose and poetry about truth, lies, death, Joan of Arc and the “casual genocide” of Indigenous Australians. His verses can be horrific, mini-horror movies, like The Wreckers, or amusingly whimsical and Ivor Cutler-ish, like Möbius Strip.

[nobeerreviews]

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

-- Laurie Colwin

(tomatoes on the streets of Ribeauvillé, France)

[aangarchy]

Now WHO'S bright fucking idea was it to play PITBULL over the bridgerton carriage scene????????????

[crimeronan]

you may have already answered this but im obsessed with your ocs so: what kind of music do they all listen to? what's their relationships with music in general?

GREAT question. it's taken me a couple days to answer because i was like "this is probably not going to be surprising to anyone," but hey. we love character consistency. and i will use this as an excuse to plug some artists i like!

nova is the only one whose music taste does not overlap with my own at All. she's an EDM girlie through and through. the thumping bass is stimmy for her. the louder the better. unfortunately i do not have good EDM recs because my own autism recoils from it LMAO

ruby likes traditional music from home. lots of fiddle, lots of clapping, lots of singing. the kind of music you find going into a pub during a jam session. i also like to think her parents are musicians who met through their love of music... one group i really love is afro-celt sound system, which combines west african drums with celtic fiddle. i picture her parents' music sounding like this since she has a fantasy nigerian dad and fantasy irish mum. also, i imagine she listens to fantasy raidió na gaeltachta whenever she's alone. even though it makes her so homesick she feels like she's gonna throw up.

i think devin would LOVE shit like fire from the gods. really angry political rap metal. devin likes music loud and furious. anti-establishment vibes are Technically legal in tachni (as long as they don't "incite violence"), so. this type of band Absolutely exists.

like, take these lyrics from the song excuse me:

like. yeah. devin Needs This.

i think it would be cathartic Especially because devin has the rageful nazi-punching instincts of the best angry metal frontwomen, but has been given a life where she's basically being forced at gunpoint to be an american senator. Harrowing .

sol is the only one who Might be surprising.... i think she mostly listens to soft, sometimes-emotional piano. she wants everything to be quiet forever & i don't think she'd get much out of angry music. i like to picture her listening to stuff like this gorgeous piece by elijah brossenbroek. he's one of my favorite favorite Favorite composers of All Time. i actually bought a book of his pieces for my sister to learn years ago & he was very kind in the emails we exchanged!

[jt1674]

[sheepsweep]

My first couple of songs made in Beepbox :} just short little string quartet arrangements because I wanted to stick to an ensemble I'm comfortable with!

The first one is more to demonstrate the motive, and the second is more of a waltz arrangement in three. It was so fun to think about what I like playing myself and to imagine how the quartet members would communicate phrases and etc. with each other :)

I found the beepbox string quartet timbres to be a bit bright for my taste. I'd love to try messing with them later to get a warmer sound, and also maybe practice mixing/mastering a bit at some point? There's lots to learn that's for sure!

[postpunkindustrial]

Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet – Dracula 2xLP

Halloween Season: Vampire Soundtracks

[gloalnie]

Oh MY GOT!!!! Does this mean that we may expect “Yellow” by Vitamin String in Season 3 Part 2!!!!! Look at the images that appear while playing the track in Spotify!!!! I’M SCREAMING!!!!!!

[bioluminescencia]

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons candlelight concert date night

The Chapel at Griffith College Cork

[cheminer-poesie-cressant]

le pétale vole dans un doute qui embellit la certitude de sa chute

je serre ton cher souvenir dans cette image où je te sens nous dire adieu

ta perte qui n’a pas encore trouvé sa terre

(vingt-troisième hommage)

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© Pierre Cressant

(mercredi 30 avril 2025)

[lesser-known-composers]

Glenn Gould (1932-1982) - String Quartet, Op. 1 (1953-1955)

The Symphonia Quartet :

Kurt Loebel & Elmer Setzer, violins; Tom Brennand, viola; Thomas Liberti, cello

[stvrmaker]

A long long time ago I illustrated a page of the ending of Neil Gaiman’s ‘In Transit’ which is a lovely beautiful thing.

I’m not sure if I’ll ever do the entire thing but I did the ending. I listened to the audio version with Fourplay String Quartet on repeat while I was working on it too.

Figured since we’re coming up on the eclipse it’s a timely piece to share! ⭐️🫶🏻