String quartets at the Wigmore Hall (October 2013): Arditti Quartet and Diotima Quartet
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The string quartet retains the pull of intimacy and the promise of prestige it has held for composers since the late eighteenth century. Unlike, say, the historically over-determined piano sonata, there is a degree of flexibility and adaptability in the form that has allowed a wide range of modern composers, from Xenakis to Shostakovich to Rihm, to make distinctive marks on it.
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2021 ◽
Vol 15
(3)
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pp. 407-425
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