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Poul Ruders. String Quartet No.4. score. Sheet Music. String Quartet. STR QUARTET.

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Poul Ruders. String Quartet No.4. score. Sheet Music. String Quartet. STR QUARTET.

Original

Programme Note It might be of interest for some to note, that a gap of only six months separates the writing of my second and third quartets. 1979. , but a 33 year interval stands between the third and the present piece, String Quartet No. 4. Which is in five movements and is about nothing but itself. The first movement "Adagio - Presto alla breve - Adagio" is an overture of sorts, lifting the lid, as it were, on the odd bit of what happens later on in the other movements. A portal into. The second movement "Vivo scherzando", which is just that. a short. 2 minutes only. fast and jocular piece leading up to the next movement. "Adagio sognante", a slow and hushed dream-world, paving the way for the pièce de resistance of the entire quartet. "Presto alla breve", a ferociously fast tour de force for the four players, who, with that one under their belts, can lean back a little. but only a little. and put the whole thing gently to bed in the fifth and final movement. a simple "Adagio". Off the record. my first string quartet. 1972. has been withdrawn and is no more, a fact that renders the numbering of the subsequent quartets a matter of personal conviction. Poul Ruders, November 2012.

Translation

Programme Note It might be of interest for some to note, that a gap of only six months separates the writing of my second and third quartets. 1979. , but a 33 year interval stands between the third and the present piece, String Quartet No. 4. Which is in five movements and is about nothing but itself. The first movement "Adagio - Presto alla breve - Adagio" is an overture of sorts, lifting the lid, as it were, on the odd bit of what happens later on in the other movements. A portal into. The second movement "Vivo scherzando", which is just that. a short. 2 minutes only. fast and jocular piece leading up to the next movement. "Adagio sognante", a slow and hushed dream-world, paving the way for the pièce de resistance of the entire quartet. "Presto alla breve", a ferociously fast tour de force for the four players, who, with that one under their belts, can lean back a little. but only a little. and put the whole thing gently to bed in the fifth and final movement. a simple "Adagio". Off the record. my first string quartet. 1972. has been withdrawn and is no more, a fact that renders the numbering of the subsequent quartets a matter of personal conviction. Poul Ruders, November 2012.