2 posts tagged “string quintet”
Feverish and frustrated last night, coming from the flu into bronchitis on top of myriad other issues and irritations from things going wrong or badly with friends and family, I turned, as I sometimes do, to a bit of "key banging" as an outlet for said frustration.
For any curious, I ended up recording the result, which is here, Mens turbulenta. (Now, with a preliminary recording of a string quintet arrangement of the score.)
Evening, or morning perhaps, depending on your location. Have just finished a second revision + recording of an arrangement I've been working on, the passacaglia of HIF von Biber's Rosenkranz Sonaten; originally for a solo violin, I've reworked the piece as a quintet for two violins, viola, violoncello and contrabass (also transposing, in the process, to Cm), working from Tufvesson's transcription of the original from the unique manuscript (Mus. MS 4123, c. 1670s) in the Bavarian State Library in Munich. I think, if I can find the time, I will subject the work to at least one more revision/recording, as there are a few places where the 'cello is more subdued than I would like it, but beyond that I think it's very near its final form at this stage. Comments on the work, good or ill, welcome and appreciated.
