Three radical quartets - Bowmore Quartet

From quiet shadow sounds to sonic adrenaline rushes Nono, Ligeti, and Xenakis serve up three radical visions of what four string players can do. In ‘Fragmente – Stille, an Diotima’, Luigi Nono sketches an intense listening space of silence and shadow sound. György Ligeti’s early ‘String Quartet No. 1’ shows that his musical mother tongue lies in Bartók's modernism. And with ‘Tetras’, Xenakis wrote a fifteen-minute eruption of sonic dynamite. Micro-fine glissandi feel like swirling nerve pathways, noise shifts toward tone (and back again), clouds roar unexpectedly in and out of each other. ‘Tetras’ is not a conversation between four voices, but a battle of textures and frictions. For those who love music that rushes through the body and gets under the skin. Exclusive to De Bijloke, moreover.