Arditti Quartet | Classical review

Assembly Rooms, BathThe indefatigable Arditti Quartet gave the first performance of Harrison Birtwistle's The Tree of Strings two years ago. Since then it has become a regular part of their repertoire, and their performance of it has become ever more assured. It remains puzzling work. An evocation of the spirit of the music that persisted on the island of Raasay in the Hebrides (where Birtwistle lived 30 years ago) even when it was prohibited by Scottish Presbyterianism, it alternates moments o...

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