Lachenmann String Quartets

Konstantia Gourzi - Music for Piano and String Quartet (2014) {ECM New Series 2309}
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Classical / Contemporary Classical

Athens-born and Munich-based composer Konstantia Gourzi makes her ECM New Series label debut. “What historical voices commingle in the current idiom of a composer whose cultural roots lie in the birthplace of rhetoric, but who emigrated to take a musical apprenticeship in European constructivism?” asks Ingrid Allwardt in the liner notes.

Founded by laureates from the Paris and Lyon conservatories, the Diotima Quartet takes its name from the work of Luigi Nono Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima, thus affirming its commitment to the music of its time. A privileged partner of many composers (Helmut Lachenmann, Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Toshio Hosokawa…), he regularly commissions new pieces from composers such as Alberto Posadas, Gérard Pesson, Emmanuel Nunes, James Dillon, Oskar Bianchi or Miroslav Srnka. However, the Quartet does not neglect the classical string quartet repertoire, paying particular attention to Beethoven's last quartets, French music and the repertoire of the early twentieth century.