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WHISPERED QUESTIONS
(string quartet no. 3)

for string quartet

Duration:

17 minutes
 

Instrumentation:   

violins (2); viola and cello

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Year Composed:  

2010
 

Written For:            
Bermuda4 String Quartet

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Commissioned By:

Bochumer Symphoniker

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Premiere Performance:

13 March 2011
Bochum, Germany
Bermuda4 String Quartet

Contemporary string quartet repertoire

Contemporary string quartet repertoire

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Program Notes:

"Whispered Questions," String Quartet No. 3, in one movement, was composed for the Bermuda4 String Quartet by the Bochumer Symphoniker.

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​​Score of Whispered Questions for string quartet

List of Key 20th–21st Century String Quartet Repertoire

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  • Claude Debussy – String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 – 1893

  • Maurice Ravel – String Quartet in F major – 1903

  • Béla Bartók – String Quartet No. 4 – 1928

  • Arnold Schoenberg – String Quartet No. 2 – 1908

  • Alban Berg – Lyric Suite – 1926

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

  • Paul Hindemith – String Quartet No. 4 – 1921

  • Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 8 – 1960

  • Sergei Prokofiev – String Quartet No. 2 – 1941

  • Benjamin Britten – String Quartet No. 3 – 1975

  • 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

  • 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

  • Salvatore Sciarrino – Sei Quartetti Brevi – 1993

  • Beat Furrer – String Quartet No. 3 – 2004

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