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Arditti Quartet Marathon

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Sat, May 11, 2024, 17:00
The Arditti Quartet is the leading string quartet of the modern age. Its musicians have premiered more than 1,000 works since 1974 and collaborated with a number of legendary 20th- and 21st-century composers, including György Ligeti, Sofia Gubaidulina, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis and Pierre Boulez. In 2017, they were given the honour of being the first string quartet to perform in the Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall. The Arditti Quartet now returns to that concert hall to celebrate its 50th anniversary. In... Read full text

Keywords: Chamber Music, Recital, World Premiere

Info & Ticket (www.elbphilharmonie.de)
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Musicians

Irvine ArdittiViolin
Ashot SarkissjanViolin
Ralf EhlersViola
Lucas FelsCello

Program

Jonathan HarveyString Quartet No. 1
Rebecca SaundersFletch
Elliott CarterString Quartet No. 5
Iannis XenakisTetras
Olga NeuwirthIn the Realms of the Unreal
Brian FerneyhoughString Quartet No. 3
Sarah NemtsovNew work / Kompositionsauftrag von Arditti Quartet, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg und Wien Modern, gefördert durch die Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung (Uraufführung)
Helmut LachenmannString Quartet No. 3 »Grido«
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