Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-8ctnn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T09:29:02.325Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Benjamin Lees's String Quartet Concerto

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Niall O'Loughlin
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Benjamin Lees's Concerto for string quartet and orchestra was written on commission for the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, and was first performed by them under the conductor Hans Schwieger, with the Paganini Quartet as soloists, in January 1965. The unusual nature of the work arose out of the desire of Mrs. Louis Sosland who commissioned it, to help the Kansas orchestra while also continuing to foster the art of the string quartet, which was her own special interest. Lees, whose output includes highly successful works in both concerto and string quartet media, responded with a work which solves the difficult problem of combining the two with characteristic artistic mastery and inventiveness.

Type
Research Article
Information
Tempo , Issue 82 , Autumn 1967 , pp. 21 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)