8
La Caresse du Couteau
Jimmy López · 1978– · Peruvian-Finnish
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Also known as La caresse du couteau
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 15 min
- Composed
- 2004
- Era
- Contemporary
Notes
String quartet built on the Enneagram, nine-pointed symbol; the title means 'The caress of the knife'
A step before · level 7
Naxos Quartet No. 5 ("Lighthouses of Orkney and Shetland")
Peter Maxwell Davies
2 violins, viola, cello
21 min
7balanced