String Quintet

String Quartet No. 4 is a compact piece in three continuous movements. The first movement is nervous and constantly shifting, with wisps of ideas swirling around each other. The middle movement begins with shimmering tremolos followed by a strange melody played in the cello’s high natural harmonics. The last movement is a ferocious fugue that builds in intensity until it reaches a kind of crisis and falls apart. In the brief coda, musical ideas from each movement come together and are folded in on themselves until the piece comes to a conclusion.

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String Quartet No. 4 (2016)

EDO DE WAART conducts
JOYCE YANG piano

MICHAEL IPPOLITO Nocture
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 3

IPPOLITO Nocturne

Becca Stevens | Attacca Quartet

Venus (arr. Michael Ippolito)

Michael Ippolito
Composer
Assistant Professor of Composition, Texas State University


String Quartet No. 4 (2016)

Michael Ippolito, composer

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