Arditti Quartet / The quartet and modern masterpieces / cancelled

Date & Time

Fri, Oct 25, 2024, 19:30

Venue

Narodowej Orkiestry Symfonicznej Polskiego Radia, Chamber Hall (Katowice)

The Arditti Quartet is a chamber music legend. Half a century ago, the violinist Irvine Arditti invited three friends of his, students at London’s Royal Academy of Music, to perform Krzysztof Penderecki’s String quartet No. 2 together. Since then, the ensemble has premiered hundreds of contemporary pieces, released over 200 albums and traveled all the world with new music. The Arditti Quartet will perform a 20th-century masterpiece by Witold Lutosławski, music by Lucia Dlugoszewski, an American composer with Polish roots... Read full text

Keywords: Chamber Music, New music, Subscription Concert

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Musicians

Jake Arditti	Counter-tenor
Arditti Quartet

Program

Disparate Stairway Radical Other	Lucia Dlugoszewski
Cosa resta for string quartet and countertenor	Salvatore Sciarrino
String quartet No. 7	James Dillon
String quartet	Witold Lutosławski

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