Le vent de fraîcheur du Quatuor Arditti sur la Biennale

By Clara Leonardi, 16 January 2020

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“les timbres des instruments (...) laissent entrevoir des univers sonores très distincts”

Reviewed at Philharmonie de Paris: Amphithéâtre de la Cité de la musique, Paris on 14 January 2020

Maïda, ..., das spinnt... pour quatuor à cordes amplifié (création française)

Mason, This present moment used to be the unimaginable future… (création mondiale)

Jolas, Topeng, pour quatuor à cordes (création mondiale)

Arditti String Quartet

The Arditti Quartet turns 40 in style

Katy Wright, 26th April

Celebrating 40 years of championing the contemporary string quartet, the Arditti Quartet concluded a day-long marathon with six quartets from composers around the globe. Polished beyond belief, they gave mesmerising performances.

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Seeking new music with the Arditti in Dublin

Cynthia Wilson, 6th March

The Arditti Quartet has adventurously championed contemporary repertoire throughout an illustrious career. Recent quartets from Haas and Abrahamsen are joined by Xenakis' Tetras at the New Music Dublin Festival.

*****

Wigmore Hall celebrates Irvine Arditti at 60

Paul Kilbey, 16th October

Irvine Arditti is turning 60 this year, but the real landmark perhaps comes next year, when his eponymous string quartet turns 40. The astonishing amount of good they have done contemporary music in this time deserves a ton of celebration in 2014.

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Prom 5: Helmut Lachenmann vs. Gustav Mahler with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

Georgina Hastings, 15th July

The fifth Prom of the 2013 season welcomed Jonathan Nott and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra to the Royal Albert Hall, with the Arditti String Quartet as soloists. Nott and his orchestra became an award-winning partnership in 2010, winning the MIDEM Award for their recording of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony.

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Eight extraordinary string players meet: The Arditti and JACK Quartets combine at Wigmore Hall

Paul Kilbey, 6th May

The volume was that of a string quartet on steroids, but the sound was that of eight extraordinary string players each playing slightly different things. James Clarke’s 2012-S, for two string quartets, gave an explosive, subtle start to the Arditti and JACK Quartets’ joint Wigmore Hall recital this Monday.

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The Arditti Quartet play new music at the Wigmore Hall

Paul Kilbey, 31st October

As a non-composer, I always find it a little disconcerting when composers completely disagree with me about new music. And when I talk to two composers separately, and they offer matching opinions opposed to my own – as happened last night at the Wigmore Hall – I definitely end up feeling slightly wrong-footed.

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Clara Leonardi

Formée au Conservatoire de Metz, Clara Leonardi y obtient son DEM de violon et son prix de Perfectionnement de quatuor à cordes. Elle s’implique aujourd’hui dans plusieurs orchestres amateurs parisiens en parallèle de ses études de commerce et fréquente assidûment les grandes salles parisiennes. Passionnée par le répertoire des compositrices, elle est aussi la co-fondatrice de ComposHer, un média en ligne dédié aux femmes dans la musique classique.

Maïda, Mason, Jolas : le vent de fraîcheur du Quatuor Arditti sur la Biennale