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the last 50 years with a strong emphasis on living composers. Their aim from the beginning has been to collaborate with composers during the rehearsal process. However, unlike some other groups, it is loyal to music of a classical vein and avoids cross-genre music. The
Quartet has performed in major concert halls and cultural festivals all over the world and has the longest discography of any group of its type. In 1999, it won the
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and has a reputation for having a very wide repertoire. They first became known taking into their repertoire technically challenging pieces. Over the years, there have been personnel changes but Irvine
Arditti is still at the helm, leading the group. The repertoire of the group is mostly music from
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for best recording of contemporary music in 1999, 2002 and 2018, the Coup de Coeur Prize and Grand Prix from the
Academie Charles Cros in 2004 and the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for lifetime achievement in 1999. They are the first and only group to date to receive the Siemen Foundation prize.
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Most of their performances are in concert halls and festivals within Europe, but they are known all over the world and have performed extensively in the US, Canada, Korea, South
America, Japan and Mexico. One special piece which Arditti himself arranged the commission involved not playing in a
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Arditti was born in London in 1953, and began his studies in violin and composition at the Royal
Academy at the age of sixteen. Arditti won prizes for violin and composition, but decided he was a better violinist and stopped composing. The focus of the quartet on new music is due to Arditti's
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Arditti has been particularly closely associated, as well as the world premier or several new works.
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of the United States, focused at first on the LaSalle repertoire, with the aim of supporting composers, playing the pieces as they want them played. Very soon the size of their repertoire went way beyond what the LaSalle achieved or in fact any other group in the history of classical music.
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where classical masters dominate. While they only play a handful of works from before the 20th century, they require that their repertoire maintains the tradition that has been established in Europe for several centuries. They do not work with composers from fields such as jazz, pop or
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quartet..." However, they have also been criticized as being severe, dry and intellectual with a "kind of high-flown rhetoric that almost seemed designed to show that 'new music' can live in a pretentiously self-absorbed world."
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The group continued to have success touring and recording in Europe but it was not until the success of Kronos
Quartet that the ensemble came to the attention of US and Canadian audiences, with a tour in the late 1980s.
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Members of the group regularly conduct master classes in Europe, the United States and Canada, for performers and composers, generally in a guest capacity. From 1982 to 1996, they worked with young composers at the
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which is about how the group prepares for the presentation of new pieces. It was created particularly for composers and music students to help them understand the rehearsal process.
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but unlike them are not interested in crossover audiences or cross-genre pieces, but rather stick with the classical quartet form. There are very few pieces common to both groups.
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quartet, which required each member to perform his part in his own helicopter, and be relayed to the ground electronically where the audience was listening in a concert hall.
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CDs on over twenty labels, by far the longest contemporary discography of any string quartet. A complete archive of the quartet's work is located at the Sacher
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Ariadne's Thread. In their first concert they played new compositions only, but by their second year, they decided that their repertoire needed to include works of the
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calls the group the "Rolls-Royce" of quartets, in part because he does not have to explain how to play his music to them. They just know.
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1163:"Strings on Screen – Arditti Quartet Reveals Tricks of the Trade".
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508:: String Quartets 1–2, Chaconne (CD:
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475:: String Quartets 1–4, Elegy (CD:
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573:: String Quartets 1, 2 (CD:
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528:: String Quartets 1–5 (CD:
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177:to the present and include
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638:9003/9003b, released 1990)
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561:WER 6769 2, released 2014)
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434:: String Quartets 1-4 (CD
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2597:Mstislav Rostropovich
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935:"The Arditti Quartet"
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