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SOLILOQUY
(string quartet no. 4)

for string quartet

Duration:

15:30 minutes
 

Instrumentation:   

violins (2); viola and cello

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Year Composed:  

2018
 

Written For:            
Borromeo String Quartet

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Premiere Performance:

27 October 2019

James Library & Center for the Arts​​

Norwell , MA, USA
Borromeo String Quartet
 

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Soliloquy is my fourth string quartet and, to date, the most intimate of them. As the title suggests, the piece is a journey into self-reflection and exploration. It was composed for the Borromeo String Quartet.

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​​Score of Soliloquy for string quartet

One-Movement String Quartets (20th & 21st Century)

Early 20th Century

  • Arnold Schoenberg – String Quartet No. 4 – 1936

  • Anton Webern – Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 – 1909

  • Alban Berg – Lyric Suite (movements interconnected) – 1926

  • Béla Bartók – String Quartet No. 3 – 1927

  • Paul Hindemith – String Quartet No. 4 – 1921

  • Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 7 – 1960

  • Sergei Prokofiev – String Quartet No. 2 – 1941

Mid to Late 20th Century

  • György Ligeti – String Quartet No. 2 – 1968

  • Iannis Xenakis – Tetras – 1983

  • Luciano Berio – Notturno – 1993

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen – Helikopter-Streichquartett – 1995

  • Elliott Carter – String Quartet No. 3 – 1971

  • Gérard Grisey – Vortex Temporum (quartet version) – 1996

  • Helmut Lachenmann – Gran Torso – 1972

  • Harrison Birtwistle – The Tree of Strings – 2007

  • Tristan Murail – String Quartet – 1978

21st Century

  • Kaija Saariaho – Terra Memoria – 2007

  • Tania León – Esencia – 2009

  • Steve Reich – WTC 9/11 – 2010

  • John Adams – Absolute Jest – 2012

  • Brian Ferneyhough – Dum Transisset I-IV – 2017

  • Rebecca Saunders – Unbreathed – 2019

  • Mark Andre – String Quartet – 2015

  • Georg Friedrich Haas – String Quartet No. 9 – 2016

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