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Quatuour Diotima

Boulez Anniversary Concert

,Milton Court Concert Hall
Quatuor Diotima holding broken instruments.

Performed by one of its outstanding interpreters, Boulez’s uncompromising Livre pour quatuor is at the heart of a centenary tribute to the composer referencing Webern, Bach, and impassioned Debussy. 

Begun in 1948 and refined over six decades – latterly in collaboration with tonight’s performers – Pierre Boulez’s restless and inquisitive string quartet reveals the exacting composer-conductor and fearless polemicist at his most exhilarating. It’s a work that embraces, in his own words, ‘deliberate austere bareness’ as well as ‘the most proliferating exuberance’, and is framed by music he particularly esteemed. 

‘What Quatuor Diotima bring to the table is a real sense of historical progression’ declares The Classic Review. And in a programme spanning Bach to Boulez, historical progression is ever-present. The Diotima Quartet’s 2016 recording of Livre pour quatuor is a landmark achievement.

Tagged with: Classical music Barbican Presents Young Barbican

The end time for this concert will be added here closer to the performance date

Produced by the Barbican

Part of Boulez 100

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach 'Contrapunctus I' from Die Kunst der Fuge
Pierre Boulez I, Livre pour quatuor
Johann Sebastian Bach 'Contrapunctus IX' from Die Kunst der Fuge
Pierre Boulez II, Livre pour quatuor
Anton Webern Cantata No 1
Pierre Boulez III, Livre pour quatuor
Johann Sebastian Bach 'Contrapunctus XVIII' from Die Kunst der Fuge
Claude Debussy String Quartet in G minor

Performers

Quatuor Diotima

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