Irvine Arditti – Caprices (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Irvine Arditti – Caprices (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:07 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aeon

Legendary leader of the Arditti Quartet; Irvine Arditti has worked on many solo projects and is still today one of the foremost interpreters of the music of our time.

Over the past decade he has given the world premieres of a whole host of large-scale works written especially for him.

His approach to the contemporary violin is fascinating. The works by Salvatore Sciarrino, Elliott Carter, Emmanuel Nunes and Pierre Boulez assembled in this album are among the most widely known in the recent repertory for violin.

Irvine Arditti’s performance of them on this disc is masterly and already sets a benchmark.

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Arditti Quartet and Irvine Arditti – Gerhard: Complete String Quartets & Chaconne (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Arditti Quartet and Irvine Arditti – Gerhard: Complete String Quartets & Chaconne (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:31 minutes | 490 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aeon

Born in Catalonia and Arnold Schönberg’s sole Spanish student, Roberto Gerhard is, after Manuel de Falla, the boldest and most brilliant representative of the music of his country. Forced into the exile by the Spanish civil war, he became a British citizen and spend his last years in Cambridge. Although they never met, the connection with the Arditti Quartet seems to have been preordained, as illustrated by this superb recording of what can be considered the composer’s masterworks.

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