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Quatuor Diotima, Sam Hayden, Louis Andriessen

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Quatuor Diotima in quartets by Sam Hayden, Jonathan Harvey and Gerard Pesson. Plus recent new music CDs and a tour of Louis Andriessen's workspace.

Recorded at the Spitalfields Festival, France's exceptional new music specialist Quatuor Diotima performs a programme testament to the seemingly inexhaustible medium of the string quartet. The world premiere of Sam Hayden's ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ-commissioned 'Transience' is put beside his mentor Jonathan Harvey's third quartet from 1995 and Gérard Pesson's 'Bitume' (premiered by the Diotima in 2008). Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to Sam about the challenges of composing for quartet, an instrumental combination freighted with an intimidating line-up of the great composers.

In her series Composers' Rooms, Sara calls on Louis Andriessen to check out his Amsterdam workspace, and she presents the latest in a series of world premieres by winners of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra's Inspire Young Composers' Competition.

Gérard Pesson: String Quartet No. 2 Bitume (Sérénade chevauchée)

Sam Hayden: Transience (world premiere)

Jonathan Harvey: String Quartet No. 3.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Sat 14 Feb 2015 22:30

Music Played

  • Gérard Pesson

    String Quartet No.2 Bitume

    Ensemble: Diotima Quartet.
  • Jonathan Harvey

    String Quartet No. 3

    Ensemble: Diotima Quartet.
  • Sam Hayden

    Transience

    Ensemble: Diotima Quartet.
  • Louie McIver

    The Cat and The Crow

    Ensemble: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra.
  • Alex Woolf

    Genie

    Ensemble: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra.

Broadcast

  • Sat 14 Feb 2015 22:30

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