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 Irvine
Arditti (violin)
Elliott Carter and Irvine Arditti, New York, January 2004
photo Robin D'amore
QUOTE
Irvine
Arditti, "a prophet amongst musicians"
Harrison
Birtwistle 12.5.09
REVIEW
For
the fourth year in a row, Ultima, Oslo's festival of contemporary
music, has had the good fortune to count violinist/new music missionary
Irvine Arditti among its featured performers. Mr. Arditti has made
a substantial career playing the edgiest of cutting-edge pieces,
as both a soloist and the founder of the quartet that bears his
name. Here, in a performance that showcased his formidable technique
and his commitment to making music, Arditti showed why he is like
money in the bank for the future of music.
Consider
his performance with the Oslo Sinfonietta under the direction of
Christian Eggen. The piece he played, a fiendishly complex rhapsody
of sorts for soloist and 10-piece chamber ensemble, was Luca Francesconi's
Riti Neurali.3.studio sulla memoria (1991). Arditti lunged
into the opening bars, slicing through each gesture as though his
life depended upon his stabbing each and every note through the
heart. Francesconi's music seems to require this approach: it is
angular and full of energy, but the energy is somewhat scattered
among a number of disparate ideas. Arditti pulled the ideas together,
connecting passages that wouldn't otherwise connect to each other
well; his attentive phrasing somehow made the score into song, even
when the notes themselves seem only to pile up on one another.
Eric
Valliere, Andante.com, October 2002
BIOGRAPHY
ENGLISH
In addition to his phenomenal career as first
violinist of the Arditti Quartet, Irvine Arditti continues to excel
as an extraordinary soloist. Born in London in 1953, Irvine Arditti
began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 16.
He joined the London Symphony Orchestra in 1976 and after two years,
at the age of 25, became its Co-Concert Master. He left the orchestra
in 1980 in order to devote more time to the Arditti Quartet which
he had formed while still a student.
During
the past decade Irvine Arditti has given the world premières of
a plethora of large scale works especially written for him. These
include Xenakis’ Dox
Orkh and Hosokawa’s Landscape III, both for violin and orchestra,
as well as Ferneyhough’s Terrain,
Francesconi’s Riti Neurali
and
Body Electric, Dillon’s
Vernal Showers and Harvey’s Scena, Pauset's Vita
Nova, Reynolds
Aspiration and
Sciarrino's Le Stagioni Artificiali all for violin and
ensemble.
He
has appeared with many distinguished orchestras and ensembles including
the Bayerische Rundfunk, BBC Symphony, Berlin Radio Symphony, Royal
Concertgebouw, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Munich
Philharmonic, Orchestre National
de Paris, Het
Residentie den Hague, Rotterdam
Philharmonic, Asko Ensemble, Ensemble
Contrechamps, London
Sinfonietta, Nieuw
Ensemble, Nouvel Ensemble Modern, Oslo Sinfonietta, Schoenberg Ensemble.
His performances of many concertos have won acclaim by their composers,
in particular Ligeti and Dutilleux.
In
January 2012 there was a Nono concert in Madrid containing La
Lontananza and Hay que Caminar, where he was
joined by Andre Richard for the sound projection and Ashot Sarkissjan
for the duo.
On
12th May at Miller Theatre, New York, Irvine gave the premiere of
a new work by Hilda Paredes, Senales for violin and ensemble
with Signal, the New York based ensemble and their conductor Brad
Lubman.
There
are several performances planned this year of Cage's Freeman Etudes,
to coincide with the centenery of the composer's birth.
These
will take place in Darmstadt (17th July), Washington (6th September),
Tokyo (25th September), Venice (10th October) and Huddersfield (20th
November).
From
11th-14th March 2013 Irvine will be in residence at McGill University
Montreal where he will coach performers and composers, as well as
perform a recital with music by Xenakis, Reynolds, Dillon, Ferneyhough,
Paredes and Sciarrino.
As
well as having recorded over 180 CDs with the Arditti Quartet, Irvine
Arditti has built an impressive catalogue of solo recordings. His
CD of solo violin works by composers such as Carter, Estrada, Ferneyhough
and Donatoni, as well as his recording of Nono’s La
Lontananza, both on
the label Montaigne Auvidis, have been awarded numerous prizes.
His recording of Cage’s Freeman Etudes for solo violin,
as part of his complete Cage violin music series for American label
Mode, has made musical history. The series is now complete. The
violin concertos by Berio, Xenakis and Mira, recorded in Moscow
with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, are featured on a disc by
Swedish label Bis.
Irvine
Arditti's arrangement for Quartet of Cage's 44 Harmonies from Apartment
House can be found on Mode Records.
The
complete Mode recordings of Berio's Sequenza's, on which Irvine
has recorded the violin sequenza has won the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis
for 2007, and was awarded best contemporary music release by the
Italian music magazine Amadeus in 2008.
DEUTSCH
Biographie
Parallel
zu seiner phänomenalen Karriere als Primarius des Arditti Quartetts
ist Irvine Arditti als ein außergewöhnlicher Solist hervorzuheben.
In London im Jahre 1953 geboren, begann Irvine Arditti sein Studium
an der Royal Academy of Music im Alter von 16 Jahren. Er trat 1976
dem London Symphony Orchestra bei, das ihn bereits zwei Jahre später,
mit 25 Jahren, zum ersten Konzertmeister berief. 1980 verließ
er das Orchester, um sich auf die Arbeit mit seinem Quartett, das
er schon als Student gegründet hatte, konzentrieren zu können.
Während
des letzten Jahrzehnts hat Irvine Arditti eine große Anzahl
von bedeutenden, eigens für ihn komponierten Werken uraufgeführt,
darunter die Violinkonzerte Dox Orkh von Xenakis und Landscape
III von Hosokawa, beides Solokonzerte für Violine und
Ensemble, sowie Ferneyhoughs Terrain , Francesconis Riti
Neurali und Body Electric, Dillons Vernal Showers,
Harveys Scena, Pausets Vita Nova, Reynolds
Aspiration und Sciarrinos Le Stagioni Artificiali.
Er trat mit vielen herausragenden Orchestern und Ensembles auf,
darunter das Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk, BBC Symphony
Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Münchner Philharmoniker,
Orchestre National de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Junge
Deutsche Philharmonie, Asko Ensemble, Nieuw Ensemble, Schoenberg
Ensemble, Oslo Sinfonietta, London Sinfonietta, Nouvel Ensemble
Modern oder das Ensemble Contrechamps. Besonders gefeiert wurden
seine Aufführungen der Violinkonzerte von Ligeti, mit dem Rotterdam
Philharmonic Orchestra, und von Dutilleux, mit Het Residentie Orkest,
beide in Anwesenheit der Komponisten.
Neben
den über 180 CDs, die Irvine Arditti mit dem Arditti Quartett
aufgenommen hat, schuf er einen beeindruckenden Katalog an Solo-Aufnahmen.
Hervorzuheben sind seine Einspielungen von Solo-Werken von Carter,
Estrada, Ferneyhough und Danatoni sowie von Nono's La Lontananza
bei Montaigne Auvidis, die beide zahllose Preise gewannen. Seine
Aufnahme von Cage's Freeman Etudes für Solo-Violine, die als
Teil seiner kompletten Cage-Einspielungen für die amerikanische
Plattenfirma Mode entstand, hat Musikgeschichte geschrieben. Die
Aufnahme der Violinkonzerte von Berio, Xenakis und Mira mit dem
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra sind auf einer CD der schwedischen
Plattenfirma Bis erschienen. Zuletzt wurden bei Mode Cage's 44 Harmonies
from Apartment House 1776 in der Bearbeitung für Quartett von
Irvine Arditti veröffentlicht.
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