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Arditti Quartet by Philippe Gontier

Arditti Quartet

Saturday 12 April 2008 22:30-0:00 (Radio 3)

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents new music for a classic medium, with a concert given by the Arditti Quartet and a report from recent workshops they have held to discuss the practicalities of writing for quartet.

Duration:

1 hour 30 minutes

Playlist

Presenter: Alwynne Pritchard
Producer: Philip Tagney


Paul Archbold: Impacts and Fractures (5:05)
Roger Redgate: String Quartet No 3 (BBC commission) (10:54)
Michael Graubart: String Quartet (world premiere) (7:34)
Steven Daverson: Microscopic Negatives (13:00)
Nadja Plein: Seven White Flowers (world premiere) (10:43)
Brian Ferneyhough: Third String Quartet (18:42)

Performed by the Arditti Quartet

Recorded at LSO St Lukes on the 16^th of February 2008.
In collaboration with Kingston University.

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Episode and Playlist Information

• 26 Apr 08 British composers
• 19 Apr 08 Musical Modernism
• 12 Apr 08 Arditti Quartet
• 5 April 08 Holt's Suenos
• 29 Mar 08 Louis Andriessen
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• 15 March 2008