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No new stuff's too tough for Arditti; Modern music doesn't frighten one string quartet, says Christopher Morley.

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20011017
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Byline: Christopher Morley

Think of the most complex, technically demanding music composed for string quartet over the past few decades and the chances are you will have heard it performed by the Arditti String Quartet.

The arcane demands of Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey, Elliott Carter, Xenakis, Ligeti and others seem like an open book to these phenomenal players, able to cope with subtleties of notation, execution and rhythmic devilry which put such works out of bounds to many groups.

With several hundred works written for the ensemble since its formation in ...

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