Chamber, Lachenmann (composer)
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For all three quartets, a macrocosm of underworldly music finds both refinement and yet abandon in this standout recording. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2025
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Arditti Quartet (string quartet), Irvine Arditti (violin), David Alberman, Garth Knox, Rohan de Saram, Olaf Henzold, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
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Strosser's fingers are kept crazy busy, but each note matters —
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[Lachenmann] elicits from his performers the sort of rebarbative, accidental noises they are conventionally trained to avoid, and builds on these an abstruse new aesthetic. There is genuine... —
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This is the sort of music the Ardittis play best, and the profound sense of a composer upping the ante as he continues into his second and third quartets is intellectually and spiritually rewarding. —
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This live recording of a 2005 concert in Milan opens astoundingly with a performance of Xenakis's Tetras that fizzes with energy. —
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Lachenmann remains the most intransigent of avant-gardists, writing music that
excludes virtually all conventional sound production...These “surround sound” performances are outstanding. —Purchase product
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