Single movement works for string quartet (or string trio)?

[Guido]

Suggestions? I have the Finzi Prelude and Fugue for string quartet (sadly still not recorded comercially), which is as you'd expect a beautiful short movement, and really makes the most of the medium. But I would quite like to know of some other single movement pieces for string quartet or trio (preferably the former, but it doesn't matter too much... Its partially to fill a concert, but also partly for general ineterest).

I recently heard Hindemith's Ouverture zum "Fliegende Hollánder" wie sie eine schlechte Kurkapelle morgens um 7 am Brunnen vom Blatt spielt, 1925: Allegro - ... - un poco ritenuto which is hilarious.

[JoshLilly]

There's always Schubert's famous Quartettsatz. It's my favourite string quartet movement of them all, actually, from a completed work or not.

[not edward]

Most of this repertoire is distinctly modern, I think.

Schnittke's Canon in memoriam Igor Stravinsky is an intense five minutes. (There's also Stravinsky's little Double Canon and Concertino.)

There's some contrasting Carter: the tonal-era Elegy and the two recent Fragments. Cage's Four is beautiful, if static, and can be played in 10, 20 or 30-minute versions. There's Feldman's short early Structures too.

Don't forget the four Xenakis quartets!

[mahlertitan]

the last movement of Schubert' string quartet no.10

[Guido]

Great ideas so far - I love all the composers metioned so I'll have to investigate (20th century is fine by me! Actually preferable!).

I just remembere that Barber actually started work on a second string quartet, but it remained unfinished, but there is one (completed?) movement - apparently the second. I wnder if this has ever been performed? Also the original 'unsatisfactory' finale to the first string quartet survives. Anyone have Barbara Heyman's contact details?

[carlos]

Robert Simpson's SQ No.2 in one movement (1953)

[MishaK]

Wolf, Italian Serenade.

[BachQ]

I believe that Morton Feldman's String Quartet no. 1 is one movement . . . . . .

[Maciek]

Pawel Szymanski wrote a very short (less than 3 mins.) quartet piece called... Photograph from a Birthday Party (The Silesian Quartet with a Shade of Bartok). It was dedicated to the Silesian Quartet on their "birthday".

[carlos]

Gershwin's Lullaby for SQ

[mahlertitan]

Schubert's String quartet 9 last movement allegro

[Maciek]

OK, now I can finally properly sit down to type this, so here is a slightly more comprehensive list. Apart from the stuff mentioned by everyone above there is also:

1) First a list of short pieces that could work well as fillers:

Jimi Hendrix an arrangement (by Steve Riffkin) of Purple Haze (the Kronos Quartet play it)
Terry Riley G Song
Astor Piazzolla Four, for Tango
Arvo Part Psalom and Summa are short
Michael Thomas Encore - Variations on a Theme of Banjo Patterson (Waltzing Matilda)
David Matthews Adagio for SQ
Javier Alvarez Metro Chabacano
Krzysztof Penderecki - all three of his SQs (or has he written more?). They are all short (less than 10 minutes each) but No. 3 (Der unterbrochene Gedanke) is very short (about 3 minutes, I think - I don't have a recording at hand)
Aleksander Lasoń Relief for Andrzej - lovely, sad, relatively short piece (less than 10 mins).

2) And a list of slightly longer pieces for SQ which are nontheless single-movement:
Arvo Part Fratres (almost 10 minutes)
Sofia Gubaidulina SQ No. 4 (longer than 10 minutes)
Aulis Sallinen SQ No. 3 Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik's Funeral March (about 15 mins long)
Witold Lutosławski SQ - long (over 20 minutes), alleatoric, difficult but in one single piece!
Zbigniew Bujarski Quartet for a Housewarming - quite long (over 20 mins)
Aleksander Lasoń SQ No. 2 is in one movement (almost 20 min. long)
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki SQ No. 1 is in one movement (a little less than 20 mins)
Andrzej Krzanowski SQ No. 2 is in one movement again (just over 10 min.)
Krzysztof Meyer - some of his SQs are in one movement (e.g. No. 11 - it's about 15 min. long)

[mahlertitan]

SCHUBERT String Quartet no. 7 last movement presto

[Maciek]

You missed Schubert SQ No. 8!

[mahlertitan]

You missed Schubert SQ No. 8!

nope, don't like the 8th.

[oyasumi]

Puccini - Crisantemi

[mahlertitan]

the last movement of Schubert's String quartet no.4

[val]

BEETHOVEN: Gross Fugue opus 133. Can be played without the Quartet opus 130.

SCHÖNBERG: First Quartet.

[Drasko]

Silvestre Revueltas - String Quartet No.4 Musica de Feria

[mahlertitan]

Schubert String Quartet No.2 last movement