Harvey - Complete String Quartets & Trio
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Label: Aeon
Cat No: AECD0975
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 27th April 2009
Contents
Works
String Quartet, no.1String Quartet, no.2
String Quartet, no.3
String Quartet, no.4
String Trio
Artists
Arditti QuartetWorks
String Quartet, no.1String Quartet, no.2
String Quartet, no.3
String Quartet, no.4
String Trio
Artists
Arditti QuartetAbout
Born in Warwickshire in 1939, Jonathan Harvey was a chorister at St Michael's College, Tenbury and later a major music scholar at St John's College, Cambridge. He gained doctorates from the universities of Glasgow and Cambridge and (on the advice of Benjamin Britten) also studied privately with Erwin Stein and Hans Keller.
An invitation from Boulez to work at IRCAM in the early 1980s has so far resulted in eight realisations at the Institute and two for the Ensemble Intercontemporain. Harvey has also composed for most other genres: orchestra, chamber, as well as works for solo instruments, and many widely-performed unaccompanied works for choir, as well as three operas.
Harvey is now in constant demand from a host of international organisations, attracting commissions far into the future and his music is extensively played and toured by the major ensembles of our time. Some 150-200 performances are given or broadcast each year and about 80 recordings of his music are available on CD. He was awarded the prestigious Britten Award for composition in 1993.
The Arditti Quartet enjoys a world-wide reputation for their spirited and technically refined interpretations of contemporary and earlier 20th century music. Several hundred string quartets and other chamber works have been written for the ensemble since its foundation by first violinist Irvine Arditti in 1974. These works have left a permanent mark on 20th century repertoire and have given the Arditti Quartet a firm place in music history.
The ensemble believes that close collaboration with composers is vital to the process of interpreting modern music and therefore attempts to work with every composer it plays. Over the past 25 years, the ensemble has received many prizes for its work. They have won the Deutsche Schallplatten Preis several times and the Gramophone Award for the best recording of contemporary music in 1999 (Elliott Carter) and 2002 (Harrison Birtwistle). The prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize was awarded to them in 1999 for 'lifetime achievement' in music.
Arditti Quartet:
- Irvine Arditti (violin)
- Ashot Sarkissjan (violin)
- Ralf Ehlers (viola)
- Lucas Fels (cello)
Jonathan Harvey composed his First String Quartet in 1977, and has returned to the form once a decade since, composing all four for the Arditti Quartet, who play them with such energy and precision here. Only the Fourth Quartet, completed in 2003, uses the real-time digital transformations of instrumental sound Harvey has explored so successfully, but the three preceding quartets reflect his interest in electronic music, whether it's in the way the First builds its opening paragraph by using the overtones of the opening pitch as a kind of aural scaffolding, or the way the lines of the 1995 Third Quartet seem to split into shards as if resynthesised by a computer. Yet, when Harvey employs the hardware in the Fourth, his music literally gains another dimension, as the sounds are spatialised around the listener and, using software designed at Ircam in Paris, can create another grammar of movement in space alongside his manipulation of harmony, rhythm and timbre. The Fourth Quartet is a remarkable achievement, andHarvey
An invitation from Boulez to work at IRCAM in the early 1980s has so far resulted in eight realisations at the Institute and two for the Ensemble Intercontemporain. Harvey has also composed for most other genres: orchestra, chamber, as well as works for solo instruments, and many widely-performed unaccompanied works for choir, as well as three operas.
Harvey is now in constant demand from a host of international organisations, attracting commissions far into the future and his music is extensively played and toured by the major ensembles of our time. Some 150-200 performances are given or broadcast each year and about 80 recordings of his music are available on CD. He was awarded the prestigious Britten Award for composition in 1993.
The Arditti Quartet enjoys a world-wide reputation for their spirited and technically refined interpretations of contemporary and earlier 20th century music. Several hundred string quartets and other chamber works have been written for the ensemble since its foundation by first violinist Irvine Arditti in 1974. These works have left a permanent mark on 20th century repertoire and have given the Arditti Quartet a firm place in music history.
The ensemble believes that close collaboration with composers is vital to the process of interpreting modern music and therefore attempts to work with every composer it plays. Over the past 25 years, the ensemble has received many prizes for its work. They have won the Deutsche Schallplatten Preis several times and the Gramophone Award for the best recording of contemporary music in 1999 (Elliott Carter) and 2002 (Harrison Birtwistle). The prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize was awarded to them in 1999 for 'lifetime achievement' in music.
Arditti Quartet:
- Irvine Arditti (violin)
- Ashot Sarkissjan (violin)
- Ralf Ehlers (viola)
- Lucas Fels (cello)
Jonathan Harvey composed his First String Quartet in 1977, and has returned to the form once a decade since, composing all four for the Arditti Quartet, who play them with such energy and precision here. Only the Fourth Quartet, completed in 2003, uses the real-time digital transformations of instrumental sound Harvey has explored so successfully, but the three preceding quartets reflect his interest in electronic music, whether it's in the way the First builds its opening paragraph by using the overtones of the opening pitch as a kind of aural scaffolding, or the way the lines of the 1995 Third Quartet seem to split into shards as if resynthesised by a computer. Yet, when Harvey employs the hardware in the Fourth, his music literally gains another dimension, as the sounds are spatialised around the listener and, using software designed at Ircam in Paris, can create another grammar of movement in space alongside his manipulation of harmony, rhythm and timbre. The Fourth Quartet is a remarkable achievement, and
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