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Music Matters: Arditti Quartet at 40, La Salle Quartet, Gluck in London, Miklos Perenyi

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19/04/2014

Arditti Quartet at 40, La Salle Quartet, Gluck in London, Miklos Perenyi

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Arditti Quartet at 40, La Salle Quartet, Gluck in London, Miklos Perenyi

Presented by Tom Service. Featuring Irvine Arditti talking about the LaSalle Quartet.

Tom Service talks to the author of a new book on the LaSalle Quartet and to violinist Irvine Arditti. Plus the work of cellist Miklos Perenyi and Gluck's work at a London theatre.

Tom Service talks to Robert Spruytenburg, author of a new book on the ground-breaking LaSalle Quartet, famous for their performances of works by the Second Viennese School and for commissioning pieces by the likes of Lutoslawski and Ligeti. The violinist Irvine Arditti talks to Tom about the influence the LaSalles had on his quartet - and looks back on forty years of The Ardittis. Tom also discusses the career of the celebrated Hungarian cellist Miklos Perenyi. Plus - as part of Radio 3's Eighteenth Century Season - Tom looks at the brief but important time that Christoph Willibald Gluck spent in one of London's theatres.

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