• Philip Glass
  • String Quartet No 2 "Company" (1983)

  • Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc (World)
  • 2vn.va.vc
  • str
  • 7 min

Programme Note

Company is the name of a short novel by Samuel Beckett which was adapted for the stage and performed as a monologue by Frederick Neuman. Mr Neuman had asked and received Beckett's permission to use an original musical score which I was commissioned to compose.

I liked the idea of using the medium of the String Quartet that would allow for both an introspective and passionate quality well suited to the text. Beckett picked four places in the work which he referred to as the "intercices as it were". Not surprisingly these four short movements have turned out to be a thematically cohesive work which now, as my String Quartet No.2, has taken on a life of its own.

© Philip Glass

Discography

Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass

Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass
  • Label
    Nonesuch
  • Catalogue Number
    79356-2
  • Ensemble
    Kronos Quartet

Complete String Quartets

Complete String Quartets
  • Label
    Signum Classics
  • Catalogue Number
    SIGCD117
  • Ensemble
    The Smith Quartet