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    Harrison Birtwistle – Tree of Strings (UK Première)

    by 5:4 March 30, 2013 • 21:04
    March 30, 2013 • 21:04

    A couple of summers ago, the Beloved and i could be found on a small boat offshore from the idyllic town of Portree, on the east coast of the Isle of Skye. Taking in caves and sea eagles, we sailed along the edge of the smaller island of Raasay, a…

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    James Dillon – String Quartets No. 5 (World Première) and No. 6 (UK Première)

    by 5:4 March 26, 2013 • 17:08
    March 26, 2013 • 17:08

    Despite their official numbering, the last two string quartets written by Scotland’s most brilliantly inventive composer, James Dillon, were actually composed the opposite way round to how they appear. His String Quartet No. 5 was originally begun as a gift for the Arditti Quartet, to celebrate their 30th anniversary. However,…

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    John Cage – String Quartet in Four Parts

    by 5:4 March 21, 2013 • 21:05
    March 21, 2013 • 21:05

    In addition to intimacy, the string quartet is a medium capable of remarkable levels of austerity. It’s no surprise, then, that John Cage turned to the quartet as the vehicle for a work in which, “without actually using silence, I should like to praise it” (as Cage wrote to his…

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    Christopher Fox – Chambre privée (World Première)

    by 5:4 March 14, 2013 • 19:33
    March 14, 2013 • 19:33

    Imagine a culture in which the string quartet has no history. No Haydn, no late-Beethoven, no Bartok, no Eleanor Rigby. How would a group of four string players – why four? why not? why two violins? maybe the bass player couldn’t get up the stairs… How would a group of…

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    Jörg Widmann – String Quartet No. 2 (Chorale Quartet)

    by 5:4 March 8, 2013 • 13:43
    March 8, 2013 • 13:43

    One of the greatest gifts of the string quartet is its ability to explore the most intimate of soundworlds. The second of Jörg Widmann‘s string quartets (he’s composed a series of five), subtitled the ‘Chorale Quartet’, is a striking example of this, spending much of its time at the threshold…

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    Simon Holt – Two movements for string quartet

    by 5:4 February 28, 2013 • 15:38
    February 28, 2013 • 15:38

    My Lent string quartet series continues with a most unusual work from Simon Holt. Its title, Two movements for string quartet, seems uncharacteristically abstract for Holt, but its content is rooted in the evocative imagery of Emily Dickinson’s poetry (the piece is, in fact, the second in Holt’s five-part ‘a…

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    Simon Steen-Andersen – String Quartet No. 2 (UK Première)

    by 5:4 February 21, 2013 • 22:45
    February 21, 2013 • 22:45

    If there’s one thing practically guaranteed every year at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, it’s the presence of a string quartet that approaches the medium from a radical perspective, one that does away, almost entirely, with its traditions and connotations. The next work in my Lent series focusing on new…

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    Richard Barrett – 13 selfportraits (UK Première)

    by 5:4 February 18, 2013 • 19:31
    February 18, 2013 • 19:31

    The next quartet i’m including in my Lent series is one that i’ve been grappling with for over a decade. When Richard Barrett’s 13 selfportraits was given its first UK performance at the Huddersfield Festival in 2002, i can’t have been the only person in the audience to have been…

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    Thomas Adès – Arcadiana

    by 5:4 February 13, 2013 • 23:01
    February 13, 2013 • 23:01

    Being Ash Wednesday, today marks the start of Lent; last year i spent the season exploring a variety of choral and vocal works, but this year i’m going to focus attention on the string quartet. To begin, one of my favourite contemporary quartets, Thomas Adès‘ Arcadiana, composed in 1994 for…

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