Benedict Mason (1954)

String Quartet No.2 (1993)

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1993
    • Duration: 20 mn
    • Publisher: Chester Music, Londres
    • Commission: Ministère de la Culture, France, Festival Musica, Strasbourg pour le Quatuor Arditti.
Detailed formation
  • 1 violin, 1 second violin, 1 viola, 1 cello

Premiere information

  • Date: 23 September 1993
    Location:

    France, Strasbourg, festival Musica


    Performers:

    le Quatuor Arditti.

Observations

Les parties ne sont pas necessairement jouées dans l'ordre.

Table of contents

  1. A fast, scherzo-like mechanism of terraced accelerandos
  2. Quiet heterophony - col legno, vertical spiccato
  3. Alla chitarra
  4. Al tamburo
  5. Static harmony with microtonal inflexions
  6. A second scherzo, with changing metre