Pianophilia

Here's some modern quartets, by L'Ecole de Paris composers and otherwise. Sorry if the scan quality is questionable:

Tibor HARSANYI
String Quartet (1925) Zoltan KODALY
String Quartet no. 2, op. 10 (1918) Darius MILHAUD
String Quartet no. 3 (avec Chant: Poem by Leo Latil), op. 32 (1916) Alexandre TANSMAN
Triptych, for string quartet or string orchestra (1930) Enjoy!

Many thanks for these interesting works (and your Milhaud uploads in some other threads) - highly appreciated.

Henning

Glad you enjoy them. I can't tell if any of my older Milhaud scans are available any longer, but I can repost those if you're interested (piano sonata no. 2, reduction of 'L'homme et son desir', Hymne de Glorification). I also have 3 huge boxes filled with other works by him and other Paris-based composers and plan on getting a hold of more scores over the summer. I just need to gain access to a faster and better scanner and I'll be good to go.

That sounds promising. Indeed I seem to have missed his 2nd piano sonata - so a repost would be highly welcome.

I promised this ages ago and finally have a working scanner at my disposal.

Somebody recalled the copy of Larry Sitsky's book on the repressed Soviet avant-garde composers before I got to read the chapter on Melkikh, the 'Rhapsodist', so I have little idea on how to contextualize this particular work, not having attempted to study it yet. Even so, this should be of interest to anyone who likes works for the Boleslav Yavorsky school of composition. Anyone who hasn't should note that Alfor recently posted Melkikh's third piano sonata in the Russian and Soviet Music thread.

Dimitry MELKIKH
String Quartet no. 2, op. 18 (1928)

Some more string quartets for fans of French neoclassicism (or neoromanticism?):

Henri SAUGUET
String Quartet no. 2 (1947-48) Alexandre TANSMAN
String Quartet no. 3 (1925) String Quartet no. 4 (1935)

Very nice.

Thanks

Riodk

IMSLP has the score of Holbrooke's String Quartet No.2 twice over.
So what? Well, different nicknames, different keys, different works!

Does anyone have the David Popper String Quartet Op.74?

I've been slowing building up a small mountain of string quartets from Soviet-era composers, including a number from the larger cycles therein (e.g. Golubev, Miaskovsky) and many others. I'm curious which, if any, have already been posted here or elsewhere.