#string quartet

[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

[nobeerreviews]

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

-- Laurie Colwin

(tomatoes on the streets of Ribeauvillé, France)

[postpunkindustrial]

Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet – Dracula 2xLP

Halloween Season: Vampire Soundtracks

[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

[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!

[nofatclips]

The Wolf by Jherek Bischoff with the SCRAPE Quartet, live for Second Inversion

[higherfriends]

First string quartet out of a series I’m currently writing. Reflecting on life seasons, the nature of existence and love. 🎻🥀

[catgirlmoss]

deadly drinking game: listen to Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet no. 8 but every time you hear the DSCH motif you take a shot

[jgthirlwell]

"Ozymandias" performed live by Mivos Quartet. Composed by JG Thirlwell.

Just uploaded a performance of the composition "Ozymandias" at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY on May 16 2023. The performance was part of an evening of Mivos Quartet playing string quartet compositions by JG Thirlwell, to celebrate the release of the album 'Dystonia'. 'Dystonia' was released by Cantaloupe Music and comprises string quartet compositions composed by JG Thirlwell and performed by Mivos Quartet.

Mivos Quartet were Olivia DePrato on violin, Maya Bennardo on violin, Victor Lowrie Tafoya on viola and Tyler J Borden on cello.

While you are there please subscribe to the JG Thirlwell YouTube channel. More to come!

[abitcaughtinthemiddle]

SHUT UP.

You’re telling me that Vitamin String Quartet (who has already had music featured on Bridgerton) has a version of “Yellow”?!?!

If this or another orchestral cover is not in part 2, I’m going to need the most epic edit to this.

[postpunkindustrial]

Kronos Quartet - Dracula

Hallownn Season: Vampire Soundtracks

[sailing-the-seven-seas]

Fire and Hemlock | by Diana Wynne Jones

[cinnamonbunpuff]

how a song changed my year.

achilles, achilles, achilles come down, won't you get up off, get up off the roof?

it's officially been one year since i first heard this song. it's kinda crazy how much can happen in that time, in reality and in mentality.

i still remember stumbling upon it. i'm sure i've seen it on my recommended in the past but this was the first time i really listened to it. it was late and i was sat on my bed, recovering from a cold. stressed over my barely-started application for some of the UC schools i never saw myself going to. i paused to take a little peruse through youtube, where i saw this performance. based on the song of achilles (a familiar name), and choreographed to achilles come down (an unfamiliar title).

i was drawn immediately in. not just by the smooth flow of the dancers portraying their characters, but by the power of the lyrics and how it affected what i was seeing of achilles, patroclus, and briseis.

and so i decided to look up the actual song and its lyrics, to see what they really were. and they were beautiful.

today of all days, see, how the most dangerous thing is to love,

this song, all seven minutes and two seconds of it, has seen me through so many monumental changes in my life. from growing positively mentally, to graduating high school and starting uni, to familial tensions.

how you will heal and you'll rise above, crowned by an overture bold and beyond,

it's honestly a wonder how i haven't grown bored or tired of it yet. and i think that's because every time i sit and really listen to it, there's always something new i'm discovering or interpreting, whether that be compositionally or lyrically.

to start, it was realising that the only instruments are strings - definitely a cello, and in all most likely a string quartet. as a violinist myself, i love hearing any use of strings in modern songs. having a whole song relying on the softness and dynamics of them though? that's gonna get me every time. how almost the entirety of the song is underlaid with the eighth notes of the cello, and throughout the verses the intermittence of the higher strings.

as i grew familiar with achilles come down, i discovered the power that all the lyrics held. there were a select few that drew my attention, from either how poetic they sounded, to how they seemed to mirror an aspect of my life that i didn't know could be put into words.

loathe the way they light candles in rome, but love the sweet air of the votives,

then there were the sections of spoken french. i thought that the addition of a second language in the song really added to it as a whole, but upon looking up (and attempting to translate what i could), i found that they added another level of melancholy. because what better way is there to make the song more emotional than including snippets of french philosophy about the value of life?

qu'on appelle une raison de vivre, est un même temps une excellent raison de mourir

through this year, i've found myself coming up with scenarios in my head, with this song playing in the background. mostly it's been with characters of my current hyperfixations, but i've found myself in these situations as well. it's definitely a reflection of who i see myself to be, but i hope it's also an envisioning to who i hope to be.

thank you to achilles come down for finding its way into my life. thank you for the past year, and i hope the next is just as exciting.

throw yourself into the unknown, with a pace and fury defiant

[lesser-known-composers]

Arnold Mendelssohn (1855-1933) - String Quartet No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83: II. Andante con moto ·

Reinhold Quartett