Apartment House

Audience members will be able to move in and out of the auditorium freely throughout the performance.

At John Gilhooly’s invitation, London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF) returns to Wigmore Hall with Apartment House in one of the holy grails of chamber music: Morton Feldman’s five-and-a-half-hour String Quartet No. 2. This monumental work was described by Feldman’s contemporary Christian Wolff as ‘an aggressive provocation without an aggressive sound; on the contrary, it is hauntingly beautiful.’ Its single-movement structure is a slow, watchful odyssey through a vast landscape, and this performance will surely be one of the highlights of the centenary celebrations for a towering American experimental composer.