#arditti string quartet

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Time Zones (1989) Quatuor à cordes n° 2 [String Quartet no. 2] Composer: Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955) Performers: Arditti String Quartet (1994) _______________________________________________________________ "C'est au moment où Pascal Dusapin composait Times Zones, son second quatuor à cordes, que l'idée d'un « quatuor infini » lui vint à l'esprit, dans lequel chaque nouvelle pièce au sein d'une série potentiellement infinie (ou peut-être n'y en aurait-il que vingt-quatre) serait un commentaire de la précédente et aussi une vision des problèmes à affronter dans la suivante.

(via Pascal Dusapin - Time Zones (1989) Quatuor à cordes n° 2 - YouTube)

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Luigi Nono – Luigi Nono 1: Fragmente-Stille, An Diotima / "Hay Que Caminar" Soñando [1991]

Modern Classical; Chamber Music

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The Arditti String Quartet perform La Monte Young’s Trio for Strings. (Edward Strickland, Minimalism: Origins)

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Helmut Lachenmann - Gran Torso (1971-72/78) Musik für Streichquartett Composer: Helmut Lachenmann (b. 1935)

Performers: Arditti String Quartet. Irvine Arditti, violin; Ashot Sarkissjan, violin; Ralf Ehlers, viola; Lucas Fels, cello.

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Other Minds 24, Concert Three, Reviving the Music of a Forgotten Master

Other Minds 24, Concert Three, Reviving the Music of a Forgotten Master

Photo: Ebbe Yovino-Smith

The staging was simple and practical but nonetheless imposing for this third and last OM 24 concert series.  Imagine four Steinway concert grand pianos arranged in a semicircle with a conductor and a music stand at the apex.  The heavy black curtain at the back served to emphasize the instruments and the musicians in a visually standard concert presentation.

But, and…

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RIP Klaus Huber (1924-2017) The formidable Swiss pedagogue and composer Klaus Huber died last week, aged 92. Among his students were…

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Hay un tiempo para destruir y un tiempo para crear.

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Francisco Guerrero – Zayin [Arditti String Quartet] (1999)

Verbose anger and hostility, at times having the unbearable look of pure, abstract, cheap wickedness. Very, very difficult, probably unnecessary, sometimes even hideous, yet Guerrero's grim music is an experience.