Hans Abrahamsen (1952)

String Quartet No. 4 (2012)

  • General information
    • Composition date: 2012
    • Duration: 20 mn
    • Publisher: Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhague
    • Commission: Westdeutscher Rundfunk avec le support de la Siemens Musikstiftung et du Wigmore Hall
Detailed formation
  • violin, second violin, viola, cello

Premiere information

  • Date: 28 April 2012
    Location:

    Allemagne, Witten, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik


    Performers:

    le quatuor Arditti

Table of contents

  1. Light and airy (High in the Sky Singing) ;

  2. With motion (Dance of Light) ;

  3. Dark, heavy and earthy (with a heavy groove) ;

  4. Gently Rocking (with utmost sensitivity, babbling).