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Ahead of his debut recital at Carnegie Hall, the British pianist talks about finding common connections in a breadth of repertoire – from Handel to Schumann and Ligeti to Gabriela Lena Frank.

This summer marks the tenth anniversary of the Chigiana International Festival, but its origins go back a century to the founder of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Count Guido Chigi Saracini. 

For five decades, Irvine Arditti has been at the forefront of new music for string quartet. Ahead of concerts at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Arditti talks about his many collaborations with composers – including a long friendship with Toshio Hosokawa.

Ligeti’s early life was deeply eventful and traumatic. Biographer Richard Steinitz describes writing Ligeti’s biography – and the alienated and abstracted imprint it left on his music.

Born 100 years ago, the music of Hungarian composer György Ligeti is varied and multiplicitous, displaying a voracious curiosity and a multifaceted imagination.

From jazz-inflected musical theatre to consciousness-expanding musique concrète, these are the most influential works of the last century.  

From Schoenberg and Ives to Boulez and Ligeti, landmark pieces of modernist and contemporary solo piano music chart the turbulent progress through the 20th century.

Supersoliste à l'Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, ex-premier violon du Quatuor Zaïde dont elle a été une des fondatrices, Charlotte Juillard revient sur son parcours et partage sa vision collective de la musique.