Arditti Quartet Marathon
Date & Time
Sat, May 11, 2024, 17:00The 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
Musicians
Irvine Arditti | Violin |
Ashot Sarkissjan | Violin |
Ralf Ehlers | Viola |
Lucas Fels | Cello |
Program
String Quartet No. 1 | Jonathan Harvey |
Fletch | Rebecca Saunders |
String Quartet No. 5 | Elliott Carter |
Tetras | Iannis Xenakis |
In the Realms of the Unreal | Olga Neuwirth |
String Quartet No. 3 | Brian Ferneyhough |
New work / Kompositionsauftrag von Arditti Quartet, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg und Wien Modern, gefördert durch die Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung (Uraufführung) | Sarah Nemtsov |
String Quartet No. 3 »Grido« | Helmut Lachenmann |