Wolfgang Rihm (1952-)
In Verbundenheit, pour quatuor à cordes

Hans Abrahamsen (1952-)
For Arditti Quartet, pour quatuor à cordes

Toshio Hosokawa (1955-)
Small River in Distance, pour quatuor à cordes

Brian Ferneyhough (1943-)
Silentium, pour quatuor à cordes

Brice Pauset (1965-)
Wissenschaft, extrait de "Wahrheitsverf ahren", pour clavecin et quatuor à cordes

Mark Andre (1964-)
iv 13a, pour quatuor à cordes

Marco Stroppa (1959-)
La Vita Immobile, micro automi musicali pour quatuor à cordes

Liza Lim (1966-)
The Weaver’s Knot, pour quatuor à cordes

Harrison Birtwistle (1934-)
Hoquetus Irvinius, pour quatuor à cordes

Hilda Paredes (1957-)
Hacia una bitácora capilar, pour quatuor à cordes

James Clarke (1957-)
Quatuor à cordes n° 3

Georg Friedrich Haas (1953-)
LAIR, pour quatuor à cordes

Uri Caine (1956-)
Caprice 13, pour piano et quatuor à cordes

Johannes Maria Staud (1974-)
Stringendo, pour quatuor à cordes

Quatuor Arditti

The Arditti String Quartet celebrates their 40 years on stage. It is astounding to see how many great composers of our time have written for the unique sound virtuoso Irvine Arditti and his quartet. In co- operation with Westdeutscher Rundfunk Winter & Winter releases a special album with 13 first recordings, compositions which were written for the birthday of this quartet. A top-class birthday song! The WDR studio production, done immediately after the world premieres at Wittener Tage for new chamber music, unites the major contemporary composers of our days. The Arditti String Quartet plays with the guest artists Uri Caine on piano and Brice Pauset on harpsichord pieces by Mark Andre, Hans Abrahamsen, Harrison Birtwistle, Uri Caine, Brian Ferneyhough, Toshio Hosokawa, György Kurtág, liza lim, Hilda Paredes, Brice Pauset, Wolfgang Rihm, Marco Stroppa and Jennifer Walshe. An album brimming with first recordings, sound gifts, serenades, dedications, greetings, homages, an album titled »Gifts and Greetings«. Arditti – that’s the ensemble for which critics have run out of the superlative: The fabulous four!