Arditti Quartet
Elbphilharmonie Opening Festival
Description
The Arditti Quartet is the first string quartet to perform in the Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall – a reward for its consistent involvement with contemporary music, which will have a prominent place in the new glassy »wave« in Hamburg’s harbour. The Arditti Quartet has been »the« benchmark for new quartet music for over four decades. That is not only true for audiences and music connoisseurs, but also for the leading composers of our time. Mauricio Kagel, Wolfgang Rihm, Helmut Lachenmann – all have written pieces specially for the Arditti Quartet.
The ensemble has given hundreds of works their premieres, making musical history in the process. In the Elbphilharmonie’s opening week, the quartet presents a characteristic programme that includes the first ever performance of a piece by the South-Korean composer Younghi Pagh-Paan, which the quartet commissioned themselves. The programme includes three other works, all of which were premiered by the »Ardittis«: the first German performance of a work by the French composer Philippe Moundry; Helmut Lachenmann’s Third String Quartet, whose sobriquet »Grido« is made up of the initials of the quartet members; and the spectacular virtuoso Quartet No. 6 by British composer Brian Ferneyhough.
Performers
Arditti Quartet
Irvine Arditti violin
Ashot Sarkissjan violin
Ralf Ehlers viola
Lucas Fels violoncello
Programme
Brian Ferneyhough
Quartett Nr. 6
Younghi Pagh-Paan
Horizont auf hoher See (Uraufführung / Auftrag der Elbphilharmonie Hamburg und des Arditti Quartet, gefördert durch die Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung)
– Interval –
Philippe Manoury
Fragmenti (Deutsche Erstaufführung)
Helmut Lachenmann
Streichquartett Nr. 3 »Grido«
