During a recent trip to Poland last month, our cellist Lucas slipped, bruised his eye and dislocated his arm. You can play the cello with one eye, but unfortunately not with a numb arm. Was he dumb or did he slip on a banana skin left by a sore composer whose quartet...
The members of the Arditti Quartet present and past mourn the passing of...
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...