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Patterson: String Quartet for string quartet - op. 58, for string quartet
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My
String
Quartet has four contrasting movements, and I have attempted to make it
a showpiece, in which all four players have an equal slice of the action.
It starts with a
tough restless movement where there are two themes; one is bold and angular and
has a spiky cross-rhythm accompaniment; the other is mellow and has a warmer
quantity. These two opposing ideas are developed in a sort of sonata form
argument.
The notes of the
first theme are used as the basis of the concise witty pizzicato second
movement.
For the slow
movement the theme is again transformed, this time into a long elegant line.
Marked “con sordini” (muted) the theme weaves its way in layers of contrapuntal
writing building to a loud climax. These layers move closer together
antiphonally as it falls away to a subdued ending. The Finale is vigorous and
rhythmic; I made frequent use of the open strings in double-stopped passages;
this gives the movement a gritty quality. The main pillars of the movement are
dispersed with short virtuosic passages passed around the quartet in a flurry
of activity.
Paul Patterson
(This programme
note can be reprinted in concert programmes with a credit to the composer)
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Type: Partitur
Series: -
Languages: -
Difficulty: -
Format: 170 x 240 mm
ISBN: 9783702453251
Pages: -
ISMN: 979-0-008-04122-8