Composer
Date of composition
2018
Instrumentation
String quartet
Commissioned by the Ligeti Quartet, with the generous support of the Britten-Pears Foundation and the City Music Foundation.
Supporters
Sardinian Songbook
Events for this work
Concert @ University of Birmingham
Earth
(2018)
The Ligeti Quartet make their return to Barber Concerts and give the final Barber Lunchtime Concert of the 21/22 season.
Quartet Varmints
Tuvan Songbook
(2016)
Ligeti Quartet return to Kings Place with a showcase of new music by Anna Meredith and Christian Mason, two of the most influential and celebrated composers on the London scene.
University of Hull - Songbooks
Cat O'Nine Tails
(1988)
Sivunittinni
(2015)
The Ligeti Quartet showcase works for string quartet by some of the most exciting composers of recent times. The concert is followed by a composition masterclass, observers welcome.
New Voices: Quartet Premieres
Le Dian
(2018)
Mento Mood
(2018)
A performance including four world premieres, with works by Cheltenham Composer Academy Director Michael Zev Gordon, 2017 Academy alumni Sarah Rimkus and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson (commissioned by Cheltenham Music Festival), and one by 2017 RPS Composition Prize winner Bethan Morgan Williams (supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers’ Fund). The programme is completed by a new work by young composer Christian Mason, commissioned by the Ligeti Quartet (supported by the Britten Pears Foundation and the City Music Foundation).
Supported by The Steel Charitable Trust
Cambridge University Composition Showcase
a chorale from afar
(2017)
Kreng
(2017)
Music by Piers Connor Kennedy, Jane Chan, Stephane Crayton, and Christian Mason.
Cafe Diwan
Phantom Voices (Sheffield)
Tuggemo
(2016)
Artikulation (tape)
(1958)
Amplified string quartet and electronic music explores the ways psychoacoustic effects can be exploited to make the whole seem greater than the sum of its parts.