Quatuor Diotima, Sam Hayden, Louis Andriessen
Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Quatuor Diotima in quartets by Sam Hayden, Jonathan Harvey and Gerard Pesson. Plus recent new music CDs and a tour of Louis Andriessen's workspace.
Recorded at the Spitalfields Festival, France's exceptional new music specialist Quatuor Diotima performs a programme testament to the seemingly inexhaustible medium of the string quartet. The world premiere of Sam Hayden's Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ-commissioned 'Transience' is put beside his mentor Jonathan Harvey's third quartet from 1995 and GΓ©rard Pesson's 'Bitume' (premiered by the Diotima in 2008). Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to Sam about the challenges of composing for quartet, an instrumental combination freighted with an intimidating line-up of the great composers.
In her series Composers' Rooms, Sara calls on Louis Andriessen to check out his Amsterdam workspace, and she presents the latest in a series of world premieres by winners of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra's Inspire Young Composers' Competition.
GΓ©rard Pesson: String Quartet No. 2 Bitume (SΓ©rΓ©nade chevauchΓ©e)
Sam Hayden: Transience (world premiere)
Jonathan Harvey: String Quartet No. 3.
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Composers' Rooms: No.29 Louis Andriessen
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GΓ©rard Pesson
String Quartet No.2 Bitume
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Jonathan Harvey
String Quartet No. 3
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Sam Hayden
Transience
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Louie McIver
The Cat and The Crow
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Alex Woolf
Genie
Ensemble: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra.
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- Sat 14 Feb 2015 22:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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