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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 Strings […]
2018-03-15 11:21:00
Wigmore Hall Salvatore Sciarrino: Sei quartetti brevi (1967-92) Philippe Hurel: Entre les lignes(2017, UK premiere)Mark Andre: iv 13 (Twelve miniatures) (2014-17, UK premiere)Sciarrino: Cosa resta (2016, UK premiere) Jake Arditti (countertenor) Irvine Arditti Ashot Sarkissian (violins) Ralf Ehlers (viola) Lucas Fels (cello) First, some early music – certainly by the Arditti Quartet’s standards: Sciarrino’s Sei quartetti brevi, the first of which was written in 1967, dedicated to Franco Evengelisti, added to with five further pieces in 1991 and 1992. Perhaps such a conception inevitably brings to mind Webern, at least for those of us with a centre of gravity in still earlier music, but it was only really in the second piece (that which was written first, in 1967) that he came strongly to mind in musical terms, at least in performances such as these, typically free of nostalgia. That intimate post-Webern riot – […]
2016-06-14 01:00:00
[…] 23. Cor mio deh non languire [05:45] 24. Parlo misero, o taccio [02:20] L'Aura Soave on period instruments Antonella Tatulli + Diana Pelegatti (solo in 19, 21, 23), sopranos Susanna Bortolamei, alto Rolf Ehlers + Peter De Laurentis (solo in 20, 22, 24), tenors Leonardo Morini, spinet Marco Frezzato, cello Diego Cantalupi, theorbo Recording: Chiesa di Pizzo Fontanelle, Parma, 1999 CD 3 [73:00] […]
2016-05-13 00:29:00
[…] auf Naxos"). Also, the fact that Ferneyhough, long championed by the Arditti, came to our city and offered the same day a lengthy lecture at the Colón´s Salón Dorado (he was present at the concert). Arditti, now a veteran, showed no decline, and was partnered with stunning efficacy by Ashot Sarkissjan (second violin), Ralf Ehlers (viola; not Elhers as wrongly printed in the hand programme) and Lucas Fels (cello). We heard the premières (not so stated but they are) of Ferneyhough´s Quartets Nº3 (1987) and Nº 4 (1990), text by Jackson MacLow on the "Canto LXXII" by Ezra Pound. Ferneyhough, born in Coventry (1943), has written music "born of […]
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