A Talk About Helmut Lachenmann’s Gran Torso For those of you in Manchester, I am giving a talk with the wonderful Quatuor Danel this Thursday on Lachenmann’s first string quartet, Gran Torso. The talk runs from 14:30 to 16:00 at the University of Manchester (map), but is preceded at 13:10 by a free lunchtime concert […]
The Quatuor Danel were back in Manchester last week with two composers, Henry Fourès and Catherine Seba, in tow. Their two concerts included Bruno Mantovani’s piano quintet, Blue girl with red wagon (with Richard Whalley on piano), Seba’s string quartet with tape, Quivering, Fourès playing Luc Ferrari’s À la recherche du rhythme perdu, for solo […]
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Thursday, 18 February 2010
Two short fragments for string quartet were workshopped at 14:30, Thursday 18 February by the Quatuor Danel as part of my Masters course. The two fragments are experiments with material and notation that I hope to develop into a fully-fledged quartet later in the year.