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Highlights
THE
ARDITTI QUARTET The Quartet has recently completed a recording of the complete string music of Jonathan Harvey which includes his 4 string quartets and string trio. The Quartet has had a long standing relationship with Jonathan since 1977 and all his quartets were written for the Arditti Quartet. This should be released by Aeon in the later part of 2008. Four different venues played host to the quartet in January 2008. They begin with a concert for the chamber music society in Basle on 15th with a programme of Kurtag, Carter, Crawford-Seeger and Berg. On 19th and 20th they played in Berlin's Ultraschall Festival and continued a collaboration with the Neue Vocalsolisten of Stuttgart performing 3 works with voices by Paredes, Ronchetti and Nova. The Nova 'Octet' was a premier. The quartet also performed alone works by Scelsi, Haas, Jimenez and Traversa. The quartet No.2 by Martino Traversa was also a premier. The Quartet then moved to Paris, where on 25th and 26th they performed in the Cité de la Musique quartets by Elliott Carter in a Festival celebrating his 100th birthday year. There were also be 'tribute' pieces written for the occasion by Birtwistle, Ferneyhough and Reynolds. On 30th, there was a concert in the Leipzig Gewandhaus where they will play music by Lachenmann, Ligeti, Nancarrow and Xenakis. In February there was an open composition workshop at Kingston University on 14th and 15th with quartets submitted for the occasion. The quartet spent 2 days with Brian Ferneyhough rehearsing and discussing the chosen works. Three of these quartets by Steven Daverson, Michael Graubart and Nadja Plein were selected for inclusion in a concert in LSO St Lukes church in London on 16th February. The concert also included as well as the 3rd quartet by Ferneyhough his Exordium, which is the short piece written for Carter's centenary and premiered in January. Also in the programme, a new BBC commissioned quartet by Roger Redgate and Paul Archbold's Impacts and Fractures. The Quartet then travelled to Stockholm for two concerts on 19th and 20th February with music by Carter, Ferneyhough, Lachenmann, Moe and Morthenson. The Morthenson work Epilogos received its premier. On 23rd February there was a concert in the Festival Nous Sons in Barcelona, where as well as works by Carter, Hosokawa and Ligeti, new works by Augustin Charles and Jose Rio-Pareja were heard. The Quartet visited Israel at the end of February, where they introduced works by Dusapin, Rihm and Lachenmann as well as performing more classical repertoire. Concerts took place in April in Salzburg, Brussels, Basle, Canterbury, Munich and Witten. In Salzburg at the Dialogo Festival on 10th and 11th April there was a premiere of a new piece by Aperghis entitled 3 Movements. Also quartets by Lachenmann and Beethoven were heard. The Quartet returned to the Ars Musica festival in Brussels for a double concert on 13th April. The repertoire ranged from Bartok, Stravinsky and Webern to recent works by Ferneyhough, Felder and Baltakas. On 16th April in Basle, the Quartet gave a private concert in the Sacher Stiftung, and this coincided with the announcement that their entire archive will be available in the Stiftung. It will be possible to view more than 1000 scores and playing material that the Quartet have used as well as programmes of most concerts going back to the first concerts in 1974. On 18th April there was a concert in the Canterbury Festival where music by Dutilleux, Kurtag, Ravel and Takemitsu was heard. On 24th April in Munich, the Quartet played in the prestigious Herkulessaal with music by Berg, Dutilleux and Janacek. On 27th April, the Witten New Music Days hosted to 2 new works by British composers. The Tree of Strings, Birtwistle's latest work was heard alongside Ferneyhough's Dum Transisset's I-IV. The Dum Transisset's were commission by the Salzburg Festival for performance in the summer of 2006 but the work was not completed in time and only the first movement was performed.
On May 1st, the Quartet performed in Insel Hombroich, music by Berg, Haas and Zender with the soprano Angelika Luz. In Umea, Sweden on 10th May, at the MADE Fesival, the Quartet played music by Dusapin, Ligeti, Lachenmann and Xenakis. On 19th and 20th May, two concerts took place in Gran Caneria and Tenerif with music by Carter, Dusapin and Lachenmann. There was also a premier of a clarinet quintet by Blai Soler with the clarinetist Cristo Barrios. On 21st May the quartet returned to the Ensems Festival in Valencia where they played music by Carter, Ferneyhough, Guerrero, Posadas and Rio-Pareja. On 29th May in the Schwetzingen Festival a mixture of Beethoven and Lachenmann was heard. From 14th to 21st June, the Quartet was in residence again working with young composers in the Hindermith Institute in Blonay, Switzerland for the Pro-Bio Foundation. They were working in collaboration with Wolfgang Rihm. On 22nd June they performed in the Musiekgebouw in Amsterdam. The UK premier of Birtwistle's highly acclaimed Tree of Strings took place on 27th June in the Aldeburgh Festival. Music by Stravinsky, Cage and some new arrangments by Birtwistle of three movements from Bach's Art of Fuge were also heard. The Quartet will be in residence in Darmstadt again for one week, from 5th-12th July. They will perform the complete string quartets of Brian Ferneyhough in a marathon concert as well as music by Stroppa and Mundry. There will also be a concert devoted to 7 young composers, all having written new works for the occasion. 3 of these works will be with the electronics of the Freiburg Studio.
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RECENT CD RELEASES The Arditti's first complete KAIROS CD comes in the form of the complete string quartets by Helmut Lachenmann, supervised by the composer. This is the new line-up of the Quartet, since 2006. This may not be available in some countries until early 2008
NEW CD Again with the new line-up of the Quartet, a documentation CD of their complete programme at the Donaueschingen Festival 2006 |
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NEW CD The Arditti's return to Wergo after many years for this stunning recording of all Nancarrow's string music plus 4 arrangements of his player-piano studies
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NEW CD Another new CD of on the Neos label containing the complete quartets of the German composer Erhard Grosskopf |
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NEW CD New CD of music by Brian Ferneyhough with Ensemble Recherche. As well as the complete Funerailles, this CD also includes the first studio recording by Irvine Arditti of Unsichtbare Farben for solo violin
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CD New CD of music by the leading Mexican composer, Hilda
Paredes. Listen How They Talk: Chamber Music 1998-2001 Mode 149  |
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NEW CD Mexico. Music by Mexican composers featured in Mexico City's Radar Festival 2002 |
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NEW CD Chamber music of Jesus Rueda with Ananda Sukarlan, piano Toni Garcia Araque, double-bass |
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NEW CD Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE 0003 |
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NEW CD New CD of all the string music of the Italian composer Ivan Fedele begins a new collaboration with the label Stradivarius. Stradivarius STR 33702 |
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NEW CD New
CD of the long awaited recording of Piano Quintet by Tom Ades played by
the composer and the Arditti Quartet.  |
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NEW CD New CD from Kairos with the string chamber music of Olga Neuwirth. Featuring her two quartets, written for the Arditti and a viola d'amore work for the Ardittis' ex-viola player Garth Knox plus a piano work played by Nicolas Hodges. Rohan de Saram can be heard also playing the drums on this CD. KAIROS
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NEW CD New
CD by the Icelandic composer Atli Ingolfsson which includes, HRZ:
Quartet No.1BIS 1298
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NEW
CD 2 Cd's from Winter & Winter CD No. 910 103-2
Fred Frith Eleventh Hour |
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| NEW CD New Norwegian CD of music by Berstadt, Ness, Kahrs and Wallin Notes CD Appraisal and Notes Grappa ACD-5035-200
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CD withTeodoro Anzellotti, accordion Winter
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