| 作曲者 | Alex Freeman |
| タイトル | String quartet no. 1 (2015) |
| 出版社 | Fennica Gehrman・フェニカ・ゲールマン |
| 楽器編成 | 2 violins, viola, cello |
| 品番 | mds9790550117754 |
| 形状 | 63 ページ |
| 出版番号 | 9790550117754 |
| ISMN | 979-0-55011-775-4 |
| サンプル | http://assets.schott-music.com/Assets/Product/0/61/8/610842/500_MAVE/BSPSEITEN/F_11775.JPG:: |
Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with pizzicato unisons that begin the single-movement work call to mind something crystalline and shimmering, which is immediately infused with tumbling lyrical lines in something of a rapid caccia technique throughout. The middle of the work becomes more suspended in slower material loosely based on a technique of prolation canon, comprises layers of free, expressive, lyrical, and even elegiac music moving at different speeds. As the work concludes, the materials converge in a rhythmically pulsating stasis and an almost chorale-like statement.