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—Los Angeles Times The Arditti Quartet enjoys a world-wide reputation for their spirited and technically refined interpretations of contemporary and earlier 20th century music. Several hundred string quartets and other chamber works have been written for the ensemble since its foundation by first violinist Irvine Arditti in 1974. These works have left a permanent mark on 20th century repertoire and have given the Arditti Quartet a firm place in music history. World premieres of quartets by composers such as Adès, Andriessen, Aperghis, Bertrand, Birtwistle, Britten, Cage, Carter, Denisov, Dillon, Dufourt, Dusapin, Fedele, Ferneyhough, Francesconi, Gubaidulina, Guerrero, Harvey, Hosokawa, Kagel, Kurtag, Lachenmann, Ligeti, Maderna, Nancarrow, Reynolds, Rihm, Scelsi, Sciarrino, Stockhausen and Xenakis and hundreds more show the wide range of music in the Arditti Quartet’s repertoire. The ensemble believes that close collaboration with composers is vital to the process of interpreting modern music and therefore attempts to work with every composer it plays. The players’ commitment to educational work is indicated by their masterclasses and workshops for young performers and composers all over the world. From 1982 to 1996 the quartet’s members were resident string tutors at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. The Arditti Quartet’s extensive discography now features over 170 CDs. 42 discs have been released as part of the ensemble’s series on the French label Naïve Montaigne. The series presents numerous contemporary composer features as well as the first digital recordings of the complete Second Viennese School’s string quartet music. Stockhausen’s infamous Helicopter Quartet is to be found here. As well as many composer portraits recorded in their presence, the complete quartets of Luciano Berio were recorded shortly before his death. Over the past 30 years, the ensemble has received many prizes for its work. They have won the Deutsche Schallplatten Preis several times and the Gramophone Award for the best recording of contemporary music in 1999 (Elliott Carter) and 2002 (Harrison Birtwistle). The prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize was awarded to them in 1999 for ‘lifetime achievement’ in music. Highlights of 2011 thus far have included performances of the music of Wolfgang Rihm in Porto both as a quartet and as featured in Rihm’s Dithrambe for quartet and orchestra with Emilio Pomarico and the Orquestra Sinfonica; sextets by Brahms and Schoenberg in Madrid with Isabel Charisius and Valentine Erben; concerts in at the Ultrashall Festival in Berlin and at the Wigmore Hall in London (the world premiere of Fulikura’s second quartet, Flare, and the London premieres of Clarke’s second quartet and Ferneyhough’s sixth quartet and the first complete performance of Paredes’ Cantiones Lunaticas for countertenor and quartet with Jake Arditti; performances at the Musica Nova Festival in Helsinki, including the world premiere of Franson’s On Repetition and Reappearances, and Lachenmann’s Tanzsuite for quartet and orchestra with Roland Kluttig and the Finnish Radio Orchestra; and the quartet’s first appearance in Glasgow (quartets by Cage at the University). Forthcoming events in March and April include performances in Bern, Geneva, Salzburg (Biennale), Madrid, Munich and Potsdam. The Arditti Quartet has recently released a CD of chamber music by Rihm (Winter & Winter), a CD of the complete string music of Benet Casablancas supervised by the composer, and the second CD in a series including all the string quartets of Christobal Halffter. March 2011 |
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