8
String Quartet No. 2 ("Urbilder")
Toshio Hosokawa · 1955– · Japanese
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Also known as Urbilder
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
- 1980
- Era
- Contemporary
Notes
Five short sections (Urbilder I-V), about 15 minutes
A step before · level 7
Naxos Quartet No. 5 ("Lighthouses of Orkney and Shetland")
Peter Maxwell Davies
2 violins, viola, cello
21 min
7balanced