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Is anyone/does anyone on the fedi know string instrument players ( #cello mainly, but also #violin ) in #London (UK) interested in joining a #StringQuartet? Alternatively is any almost-quartet looking for a #viola player?

Asking for partner :)

#music #ClassicalMusic :boost_requested:

Hilda Paredes / Jake Arditti, Arditti Quartet – Cuerdas del destino (2014, Mexico/UK)

Our next spotlight is on number 919 on The List, submitted by mimo.

This album celebrates renowned Mexican-born/London-based composer, Hilda Paredes, with a handful of her works performed by the string quartet founded and led by her British spouse, the violinist Irvine Arditti, and featuring countertenor vocals by their son, Jake Arditti. A family affair, if you will.

The album includes performances of the following pieces, composed by Paredes between 2000 and 2009:

Cuerdas del destino (“Strings of Destiny”; 2008) – Paredes’ second string quartet, where the instruments “are conjoined, strung together, moving through phases that are quite different from one another and yet linked, each emerging from the last, until the end, as if indeed the music were pulled, pulling itself, through its attachment to ‘strings of destiny’.”[1]
Canciones lunáticas (“Lunatic Songs”; 2008-09) – This 3-part piece was written for her stepson, Jake Arditti, inspired by imagery in the poetry of Pedro Serrano. “Madness enters the vocal writing in the sudden leaps, the verbal tics…, the swaying glissandos and the…use of speech-song – and yet this is still a lyrical piece, the voice’s shine sometimes beautifully prolonged by the quartet.”[2]
Papalote (“Kite”; 2000) – Written for treble voice – particularly that of her stepson while he was still young (I believe he would’ve been about 12 years old when this was composed) – and violin, presumably that of her spouse, “the piece perhaps expresses the intimate kinship between its intended performers…, the violin doubling every one of the voice’s notes, in unisons that certainly add to the piece’s luminosity, while finding its own way from each to the next. The voice is an abstract of the violin, the violin a development of the voice.”[3]
In Memoriam Thomas Kakuska (2006) – Written for solo violin as part of a memorial concert for “Tommy” Kakuska, a viola player who played in the Alban Berg Quartet for almost 20 years, Paredes “wanted to portray Tommy’s cheerful spirit…by means of working on short contrasting motivic ideas…[and] to express his profoundly melancholic soul…mostly explored in the last section of the piece.”[4]
Papalote (“Kite”; 2007) – This version for treble voice and string quartet was created for a concert celebrating Paredes’ 50th birthday.[5]

Hope you take a listen and enjoy.

By the way, did you know it’s the second anniversary of the 1001 Other Albums blog today (first post here)?! And, here’s to many more! Like, literally, because we’ve only covered about 230 albums from The List, so it’ll still be a LONG while before we manage to spotlight each of the remaining albums, lol. But, truly, thank you all once again for taking part in the project and listening to the music, I’m immensely grateful for all of you.

Quoting Paul Griffiths, from https://hildaparedes.com/compositions/cuerdas-del-destino. ↩︎
Quoting Griffiths, from https://hildaparedes.com/compositions/canciones-lunaticas. ↩︎
Quoting Griffiths, from https://hildaparedes.com/compositions/papalote. ↩︎
https://hildaparedes.com/compositions/in-memoriam-thomas-kakuska ↩︎
https://hildaparedes.com/compositions/papalote-2 ↩︎

#ArdittiQuartet #contemporaryClassical #countertenor #HildaParedes #JakeArditti #ListenToThis #Mexico #music #musicDiscovery #stringQuartet #violin

The cover art is mostly a moody photo of a very cloudy sky with the sun (or, perhaps moon?) trying to shine through the veil of clouds, with the silhouettes of two birds flying around. The photo is on a white background, with the composer's name in bold black font above it in the top left corner, with the album name in smaller grey font directly underneath and then the performer names directly under that in black font.

Goodnight, friends.

Please enjoy Quatour Magenta playing Ligeti’s String Quartet no. 1.

https://youtu.be/dT8ss5P0R90&t=640

#ClassicalMusic #StringQuartet

iamthemorning – Live at St Matthias
#Acoustic #ProgressiveRock #chamberrock #femalevocals #neoclassical #stringquartet #UnitedKingdom
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
https://iamthemorningband.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-st-matthias

Kunstmann's String quartet no. 1 in A major

https://makertube.net/w/hd9fJSL8o8YeQ5Eu9diTk1

The playlist for today's (12/22/25) episode of Not Brahms and Liszt can be found at

https://alleystoughton.us/not-brahms-and-liszt/#show496

And a Samply link (good for 2 weeks only, downloads not allowed) to the high-quality audio file for the show can be found at:

https://samply.app/p/C6Y0fORQEm5eXezSs6V6

You can listen via this link in your web browser, without needing an account. There is also an iOS app.

#Cambridge #Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #StringQuartet
https://fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract/115754540873505913

Ninety minutes of modern string quartets and a trio starting in 10 minutes - at 4pm ET - on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Cambridge #Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical #StringQuartet
https://fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract/115754540873505913

Ninety minutes of modern string quartets and a trio this (12/22/25) afternoon beginning at 4pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Cambridge #Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #StringQuartet
https://fosstodon.org/@fullyabstract/115754540873505913

String quartets and a trio by Christopher Brakel, Travis Laplante, George Lewis, Andrew Rindfleisch, Florence M. Tremblay & Meira Warshauer - featuring Benda Quartet, JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Quatuor Mémoire & Sirius Quartet - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (12/22/25) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Cambridge #Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #StringQuartet

@wmbr

Cover of Travis Laplante and JACK Quartet's New Amsterdam Records album "String Quartets", featuring a graphic with four colored arms whose index fingers are touching - clockwise: green, black, blue and yellow.

Cover of Quatuor Mémoire's Mnémosyne Records album "Chronos, Kaïros et Aiôn", featuring a monochrome graphic suggesting a closeup of a spinning object.

Cover of Mivos Quartet's Sideband Records album "May Our Centers Hold", featuring an extended chessboard with various non-rectangular forms superimposed on it - all in blues and purples.

Cover of Navona Records album "Strung Together", featuring a graphic with strings and musical notation in blues converging on a black circle containing the title and "Music for String Quartet - Arneis Quartet - Benda Quartet - Sirius Quartet".

Nina Simone's version of "For All We Know", arranged by Jacob Garchik & performed by the Kronos Quartet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvGk1XRGIuU

I'd never heard of this song before, but this arrangement was pretty enough that I went and found the original afterwards. See the video's description for a discussion of the piece.

#KronosQuartet #StringQuartet

Paul Juon (1872 – 1940):
String Quartet No. 3 in D minor, Op. 67 (1918)
https://youtu.be/boK_rk32Dr8
#ClassicalMusic #StringQuartet #FridayMusic

Darius Milhaud (1892 – 1974):
String Quartet No. 4, Op. 46 (1918)
https://youtu.be/kYCv4ZwJQOU
#ClassicalMusic #StringQuartet #FridayMusic

If I’m reincarnated as a #classical #composer, every #stringquartet I write will have a #pizzicato section at a very quick #tempo. #music #stringmusic

The Maxwell Quartet’s recent albums include exceptional performances of classical strings quartets, and traditional Scottish folk music — which they previously played as encores. I greatly enjoy the combination.

#music #StringQuartet #Scottish #FolkMusic
https://classical.music.apple.com/us/album/1780881973?l=en-US