Arditti Quartet
String Quartets by Nancarrow, Ligeti and Dutilleux
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall,
£9.99
Complete CD Track Listing
- Nancarrow String Quartet No. 3
- Ligeti String Quartet No. 2
- Dutillieux
String Quartet 'Ainsi la nuit'
About this CD
The Arditti Quartet is one of the great ensembles of the world – tireless in its championship of contemporary music, linked closely with the most important scores of the early 20th century.
The full range of the Quartet’s repertory was explored in a mini-series of two concerts at Wigmore Hall in April 2005. This disc, features string quartets by Nancarrow, Ligeti and Dutillieux.
Performers
- Arditti Quartet
- Irvine Arditti violin
- Graeme Jennings violin
- Ralf Ehlers viola
- Rohan
de Saram cello
Track Listing
Nancarrow String Quartet No. 3
1. First movement
2. Second movement
3. Third movement
Ligeti String Quartet
No. 2
4. Allegro nervosa
5. Sostenuto, molto calmo
6. Come un meccanismo di precisione
7. Presto
furioso, brutale, tumultuoso
8. Allegro con delicatezza
Dutillieux String Quartet 'Ainsi
la nuit'
9. Introduction
10. I Nocturne
11. Parenthèse
12. II Miroir d'espace
13. Parenthèse 2
14. III Litanies
15. Parenthèse 3
16. IV Litanies 2
17. Parenthèse
4
18. V Constellations
19. VI Nocturne 2
20. VII Temps suspendu
Reviews
“Witness this splendid live CD of the best specialist string group in the business, the Arditti Quartet … I’ve never heard these ear-stretching pieces performed with the passion, commitment and sheer beauty of sound that the Arditti’s manage here. No wonder the audience is so quiet: they’re hanging on” The Times
“Nancarrow’s third string quartet demands and receives astonishing virtuosity, but it is almost child’s play compared with Ligeti’s second quartet, in which the sheer magic of the sounds is enthralling” Sunday Telegraph
“The Arditti Quartet displays astonishing precision and sensitivity in Conlon Nancarrow’s late Third Quartet with its cunningly geared canons, Ligeti’s fantastically varied Second Quartet, and Dutilleux’s atmospheric Ainsi la nuit” BBC Music Magazine
“The Arditti Quartet’s disc is, for me, the pick of the bunch on the new Wigmore Hall label. As soon as they begin their hazardous journey through the convulsive canons of Nancarrow’s Quartet No. 3, two things are apparent: first, that warm yet clear acoustic, beautifully captured, positively invites us to engage; second, the performance is brilliant, alive and spontaneous” The Sunday Times
"The world’s pre-eminent contemporary music quartet" The Guardian
Product Details
- Cat. Number: WHLIVE0003
- Recorded: 9 April 2005