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Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby focus on string quartets at the 2012 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Music from Rebecca Saunders, Naomi Pinnock and Christopher Fox.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce highlights from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012. Tonight's programme focuses on the String Quartet with new music from Rebecca Saunders, Naomi Pinnock and Christopher Fox performed by the Arditti and Bozzini Quartets. Also featuring a report on John Tilbury's four-and-a-half-hour performance of Morton Feldman's "For Philip Guston".

Naomi Pinnock String Quartet No.2: Traces (UK premiere) (co-commissioned by hcmf// & Witten) (2012)
ARDITTI QUARTET

Rebecca Saunders Fletch (2012)
ARDITTI QUARTET

Simon Steen- Andersen- String Quartet No. 2 (UK premiere)
BOZZINI QUARTET

Christopher Fox- Chambre privée
BOZZINI QUARTET

Paul Archbold Nine memos for string quartet
ARDITTI QUARTET.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • naomi pinnock

    String Quartet No 2: Traces

  • Rebecca Saunders

    Fletch

  • Simon Steen-Anderson

    String Quartet No 2

  • Christopher Fox

    Chambre Privee

  • Paul Archbold

    Nine Memos for String Quartet

Broadcast

  • Sat 15 Dec 2012 22:30

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