Interviews, Opinions, Collaborations & Updates
Tom Green on composers and words
Friday, May 29, 2015
Posted by : Steve
Should composers be able to write about their own music? Is it a necessary skill, or a false expectation we have of people who make work with sound and not words? Composer Tom Green on how composers are expected to communicate
Black Angels: Numbers, Names and Echoes Part 3
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Posted by : Steve
The Ligeti Quartet will be performing George Crumb's Black Angels this coming weekend. How can you explain or understand this fascinating piece? Jon Hargreaves gives his interpretation what's going on under the surface. Part 3
Black Angels: Numbers, Names and Echoes Part 2
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Posted by : Steve
The Ligeti Quartet will be performing George Crumb's Black Angels this coming weekend. How can you explain or understand this fascinating piece? Jon Hargreaves gives his interpretation what's going on under the surface. Part 2
Black Angels: Numbers, Names and Echoes Part 1
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Posted by : Steve
The Ligeti Quartet will be performing George Crumb's Black Angels this coming weekend. How can you explain or understand this fascinating piece? Jon Hargreaves gives his interpretation of what's going on under the surface
Catching up with Ji Sun Yang
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Posted by : Steve
The Ligeti Quartet will be performing Les accordéons V by Ji Sun Yang this weekend. Meryl caught up with Ji Sun to find out more about the piece and what she’s been up to since her New Dots project last June
Anna Meredith's Playlist
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Posted by : Steve
Composer Anna Meredith curates New Dots a playlist, ahead of the world premiere of her new work Music for Ravens, to be performed by the Ligeti Quartet.
Rubbing up against the status quo
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Posted by : Steve
The Ligeti Quartet will be playing The Aureole Effect by William Dougherty in our Enlightenment concert on 31st May. William's been out of London for a couple of years so we had a quick chat to catch up
Discovering Wadada
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Posted by : Steve
As part of Enlightenment, the Ligeti Quartet will perform Black Church by Wadada Leo Smith. We wanted to know a bit more about this unusual composer and the piece so did a bit of research
Interview with composer Emma-Ruth Richards
Friday, March 27, 2015
Posted by : Steve
Emma-Ruth Richards wrote Caught on the Corner for the Atea Quintet in our second concert back in 2013. Meryl caught up with her to find out what she's been up to since then. Emma-Ruth talks about empty page days, complexity and her new recorder
Angels, ravens and rabbits
Monday, January 26, 2015
Posted by : Steve
We're doing something a bit different in 2015 to what we've done before and our 2 projects, Enlightenment and Curiouser, are collaborations with some people we've worked with before and some new faces. Good and evil, light and dark, eternal conflicts, righteous struggles, surprises, tangents and curious encounters…