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2024-03-08 11:10:00
Pierre Boulez SaalJonathan Harvey: String Quartet no.1 (1977) Cathy Milliken: In Speak for string quartet (2023, world premiere) Toshio Hosokawa: Oreksis for piano quintet (2023, world premiere) Birtwistle: String Quartet: The Tree of Strings (2007)Irvine Arditti, Ashot Sarkissjan (violins)Ralf Ehlers (viola)Lucas Fels (cello) Tomoki Kitamura (piano) On 7 March 1974, the Arditti Quartet gave its first concert at the Royal Academy of Music, music to honour Krzysztof Penderecki on bestowal of an honorary degree. Fifty years later to the day and several changes of personnel later – Irvine Arditti the one constant – the Quartet celebrated at Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal its fiftieth birthday, followed by a reception hosted by the Paul Sacher Stiftung, which also hosts the ensemble’s archive . True to its spirit, here was a mixture of new and newer: two Arditti commissions, Jonathan Harvey’s First String Quartet (the first ever) and Harrison Birtwistle’s The Tree of […]
2022-04-05 04:00:28
The LSO at the Barbican and the Arditti Quartet at Southbank Centre gave stimulating premieres
2021-11-25 07:37:42
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival on BBC Radio 3's New Music Show
The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival has been running from 18 to 22 November 2021 across venues in Huddersfield. For those that have not managed to get to Huddersfield this year, the festival is continuing its long-standing partnership with BBC Radio 3 and its New Music Show. Radio 3's weekly programme devoted to contemporary and experimental music, New Music Show, recorded nine concerts from the festival and there are two New Music Shows devoted to highlights from the festival, to be broadcast on Saturday, November 27 and Saturday, December 4 at 10pm. These will mix performances with interviews with composers and performers. These two programmes will feature music by Chaya Czernowin, James Dillon, Jenny Hettne, Tonya Ko, Zubin Kanga, Lisa Illean, and Michael Pelzel, performed by Riot Ensemble, Red Note Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, Arditti Quartet and Ensemble Musikfabrik. And over the coming months New Music Show will broadcast more from the festival with works by Mauro […]
2021-10-06 07:22:49
Chaya Czernowin as composer-in-residence, two James Dillon premieres and much more: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is back.
Chaya Czernowin, hcmf// composer-in-residence Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) returns to in-person, live performance for the (somewhat delayed) 2021 festival, following its online presence for 2020. From 18 to 22 November 2021, hcmf// 2021 features a wide ranging programme of concerts, talks, exhibitions and installations. This year's composer-in-residence is the American/Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin, and there will be two new works by Scottish composer James Dillon. Other premieres include music from composer/improvising saxophonist John Butcher and Cath Roberts, writing for her own trio. UK premieres will include Laurence Osborn (UK), Eva Reiter (Austria), Enno Poppe and Eva-Maria Houben (Germany), and Mauro Lanza and Andreas Valle (Italy).Cologne-based Ensemble Musikfabrik gives the UK premiere of Czernowin’s latest composition, The Fabrication of Light, whose structure she compares to optical illusions, 'colours that seem striking and deep, but that aren’t really there', whilst The Arditti Quartet and IRCAM perform HIDDEN (2014), one of […]
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