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Edinburgh International Festival

 20 August 2012 at 11 am 

Edinburgh International Festival

Queens Hall
Edinburgh
Scotland
0131 668 2019
http://www.thequeenshall.net

Calder Quartet

The players of the Calder Quartet from Los Angeles are as at ease performing with rock musicians Airborne Toxic Event and Andrew WK as they are in their incisive interpretations of the Classical repertoire.

They have collaborated extensively with British composer Thomas Adès, and their lyrical performances of his nostalgic Arcadiana, seven exquisite miniatures evoking idyllic memories of places real and imagined, have been widely acclaimed.

Alongside a rapturous short piece by young US composer Andrew Norman and the glowing melodies of Mozart’s ‘Dissonance’ Quartet, they also perform Mendelssohn’s last major work, a hugely impassioned piece full of rage and lamentation, written shortly after the death of the composer’s beloved sister.

‘a group of four dynamic and wickedly talented musicians’ (Hollywood Weekly)

This performance will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.



Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : String Quartet in C K465 ‘Dissonance’
Thomas Ades : Arcadiana
Andrew Norman : ‘... toward sunrise and the prime of light...’
Felix Mendelssohn : String Quartet in F minor Op 80
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