Bryars, G. - String Quartet No. 1 (score)

"Between the National and the Bristol"

 

String Quartet No. 1 ('Between the National and the Bristol'), was commissioned by the Vienna Festival for the Arditti Quartet to perform in October 1985. '... a great deal of the music is in the high register, most notably towards the end where each instrument de-tunes a pair of strings and thereafter plays only in harmonics, both natural and artificial.'

Dedication: to Hazel Davies (1931-1985)
Premiere: October 8, 1985 Vienna, Messe Platz (A) Vienna Festival 1985 · Arditti Quartet
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 23' 0''
Year of composition: 1985
Difficulty: difficult
Edition: study score
Series: Music Of Our Time
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