String Quartet in a minor

Lehensteiner's String Quartet challenges the traditional conception of the genre as four individual voices: It drops the conventional contrapuntal treatment of the instruments in favour of their atmospherical capabilities, thus creating vast and dynamic string-soundscapes throughout its four movements:

an energetically driving, yet still somewhat lyrical opening movement, a melodically focused song-like second one (based on a New-Year-song the composer wrote on New Year's Eve 2017), a strangely energetic waltz with some unusual harmonies, and an extremely powerful and pressuring finale.

The downloadable PDF-file contains the score + parts.