Thursday marks the 50th anniversary to the day that Irvine Arditti and his colleagues gave their first concert. The Arditti Quartet would go on to become one of the leading advocates for new chamber music — from Ligeti, Xenakis, and Stockhausen (including the Helicopter Quartet) to their latest commissions from Toshio Hosokawa and Cathy Milliken.
My program text for the official 50th-anniversary concert at the Pierre Boulez Saal can be found here.
The program:
Jonathan Harvey (1939–2012)
String Quartet No. 1 (1977)
Cathy Milliken
In Speak for String Quartet (2023) world premiere
Toshio Hosokawa (*1955)
Oreksis for Piano Quintet (2023) world premiere
Intermission
Harrison Birtwistle (1934–2022)
The Tree of Strings for String Quartet (2007)
Filed under: Arditti Quartet, chamber music, Pierre Boulez Saal
MEMETERIA by Thomas May 