MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Music & the Arts

April 13, 2024 • 2:14 pm

Thomas Adès and the Danish Quartet

The Danish String Quartet’s multi-year “Doppelgänger” Project has paired newly commissioned works by four leading contemporary composers with chamber music masterpieces by Franz Schubert (three of them quartets, the last one being Schubert’s String Quintet in C major). The project has now concluded with the premiere of Thomas Adès’s new string quintet Wreath.

Wreath — for Franz Schubert is the latest creation from one of the world’s most-sought-after composers. “I am most grateful to the great Danish String Quartet for giving me the time and encouragement to realize and develop this new path in my work,” Adès writes in the freshly completed score. 

My program notes for the Cal Performances performance in April 2024 can be found here.

Filed under: Cal Performances, chamber music, commissions, Danish String Quartet, Schubert, Thomas Adès

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