The Arditti quartet were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of their friend and colleague Wolfgang Rihm. Our relationship went back to ’80’s when we first met in Darmstadt. Actually Wolfgang first heard the quartet in our first ever concert in Germany,...

I could say it seems like only yesterday that the quartet started and we did our first concert with Penderecki. It wasn’t yesterday but almost 50 years ago that I asked my friends and colleagues at the Royal Academy of Music to join me in forming a string quartet to...