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Hear and Now: British String Quartets at the Cheltenham Festival

British String Quartets at the Cheltenham Festival

14/07/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, British String Quartets at the Cheltenham Festival

String Quartets by Giles Swayne, Hugh Wood, and Michael Nyman, plus Lachenmann's Mouvement

Robert Worby presents Giles Swayne, Hugh Wood, and Michael Nyman recorded by the Castalian String Quartet at the Cheltenham Festival. Plus Helmut Lachenmann's Mouvement.

Robert Worby presents British string quartets recorded at the Cheltenham Festival. 

Hugh Wood: String Quartet No. 1
Giles Swayne: String Quartet No. 3
Castalian String Quartet

And in the latest instalment of the Hear and Now Fifty, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard champions the music of maverick German composer Helmut Lachenmann and his 1980s work for ensemble Mouvement (- vor der Erstarrung); conductor Richard Bernas explains how the use of unconventional playing techniques created a rich and highly crafted soundworld the composer has described as "musique concrète instrumentale".

Helmut Lachenmann: Mouvement (- vor der Erstarrung)
Ensemble Modern 
Franck Ollu (conductor)

Recorded at the Aldeburgh Festival last month.

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