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Hommage à Haydn : for piano / Ross James Carey
Genre:
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Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
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Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
Bimbo eruptions : for string quartet, 1992 / Dolf de Kinkelder
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vl vla vc
Pallas Athene : for string quartet / Cornelis Dopper
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
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Scoring:
2vl vla vc
composition
Elegy : for string quartet / Ross James Carey
Other authors:
Carey, Ross James
(Composer)
Description:
Elegy for string quartet was composed in April 2005 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, a few months after the Indian Ocean tsunami of the 26th of December 2004, which caused such a large loss of life in many countries in that region. It is dedicated to the memory of those who perished at that time.
Over a murmuring ostinato in the viola and cello, the two violins articulate an impassioned declaration of loss, before the piece comes to a gentle close.