8
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 64 ("Quasi una fantasia")
Henryk Górecki · 1933–2010 · Polish
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Level 8 · Professional — about LRSM / LTCL · RCM LRCM, with the parts evenly matched
Listen
- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Full work
- Length
- About 32 min
- Composed
- 1991
- Era
- Contemporary
Notes
Four movements, Largo sostenuto, Deciso, Arioso and Allegro; written for the Kronos Quartet
About this work
- Largo sostenuto – Mesto
- Deciso – Energico; Furioso, Tranquillo – Mesto
- Arioso: Adagio cantabile
- Allegro
A step before · level 7
Naxos Quartet No. 5 ("Lighthouses of Orkney and Shetland")
Peter Maxwell Davies
2 violins, viola, cello
21 min
7balanced