related works

String Quartet Nº 2 / Rieteke Hölscher

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vn vla vc

Strijkkwartet nr. 3 : 1988 / Tera de Marez Oyens

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vl vla vc

Quartetto di strumenti ad arco no. VI : 1961 / Oscar van Hemel

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vl vla vc

String quartet : based on three paintings by Edvard Munch, 2000 / Astrid Kruisselbrink

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring: 2vl vla vc

composition

Circles Around a Broken Dream : String quartet Nº 1 / Rieteke Hölscher

Other authors:
Hölscher, Rieteke (Composer)
Description:
Inspired by String Quartet No. 8 by Dmitri Shostakovich, this string quartet also tells the story of the process of dealing with a loss.
At first you can hear soft tremolos combined with pizzicato glissandos – according to the composer this main motive is the event of the loss itself – this motive is alternated with other musical motives and themes that represent the different stages of mourning, successively there is: denial, anger, confusion, sadness, and finally a kind of acceptance.
Just like Shostakovich, Hölscher writes a signature in this work, consisting of the letters C.HSCHE.