Quatuor Diotima
Portrait Luigi Nono
Milestones for 16 strings
Formed in 1996, Quatuor Diotima from France is a familiar name in the field of New Music. Because with »Fragmente – Stille, An Diotima« of 1980, Luigi Nono composed one of the epochal works of contemporary music. And because Nono also refers to Beethoven’s equally innovative, late String Quartet Op. 132 in his work, Quatuor Diotima now combines these two compositions for an evening of great string quartet music.
Luigi Nono described his string quartet, which was premiered at the Bonn Beethovenfest in 1980, as »transcendental music«. Nono wove a number of quotations into the fine soundscape that oscillates between silence and non-silence, including from Verdi’s »Ave Maria«. Reference is also made to the slow, transcendentally beautiful movement »Heilige Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit« from Beethoven’s final official String Quartet Op. 132.
Performers
Quatuor Diotima
Yun-Peng Zhao violin
Léo Marillier violin
Franck Chevalier viola
Alexis Descharmes violoncello
Programme
Luigi Nono
Fragmente – Stille, An Diotima for string quartet
– Interval –
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132
Encore:
György Ligeti
Allegro con spirito / aus: Musica ricercata (Bearbeitung für Streichquartett von Alexis Descharmes)
Spotlight
Luigi Nono