Search - Wolfgang Rihm, Elliott Carter, Arditti String Quartet :: 1974-1994

Warning- these are mostly EXCERPTS. Avoid.

01/27/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This seems to be some sort of promotional teaser or something i don't quite understand. The works here are not presented in thier entirety. Avoid. My friend discovered this fact only after buying it. There should be some sort of indication on the track listing as such.If you want to hear Arditti that will blow you away, buy the first disc in the new sony Ligeti series or Xenakis 1: Musique De Chambre (Montaigne)."

Arditti Quartet plays superb modern music

Karl Henzy | 05/09/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"By commisioning and playing superbly quartets from so many great composers, the Arditti Quartet may well have done more for contemporary classical music even than Boulez's Ensemble InterContemporain. In fact, the string quartet has become, arguably, the single most important musical form in the 20th-Century, and the Arditti have had a lot to do with it. To those who object to the above statement, I ask: through what other form could you assemble so nearly complete a history of musical styles in the century? Think of the quartets from Bartok, Berg, Schoenberg, Webern, Ives, and then later Carter, Ligeti, Kurtag, Lutoslawski, Xenakis, Cage, Nono, Dutilleux, Ferneyhough, etc. I could go on, but the point should be clear to those who know this incredible variety of stellar music, always played both passionately and accurately by the Arditti."

Los Ardittis.

Francisco J. Muñoz | Santa Cruz, Bolivia | 06/03/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"En esta antología de grabaciones del Cuarteto Arditti conmemorando los 20 años de hacer música (1974-1994), los productores del disco ha querido mostrar la extraordinaria versatilidad de estos músicos en el repertorio de obras del Siglo XX. Creo que está bien claro que el "Cuarteto Arditti" es conjunto de mayor prestigio en el mundo en el repertorio al cual en la actualidad han dedicado 26 años de servicio al arte.Ninguna persona que esté interesada en la música contemporánea puede dejar de escuchar a estos fabulosos músicos, es como si un amante del la música Barroca no escucha las interpretaciones de Karl Richter, se perdería de mucho ¿No es cierto? Bueno lo mismo con los Ardittis.Qué le puedo decir, el disco es FENOMENAL! uno termina con muchas ganas de seguir conociendo más de esta música, interpretada por los fabulosos Ardittis."