Quatuor Diotima / Mark Simpson

• Concerts

Contemporary music is Quatuor Diotima’s speciality. In addition to three modern string quartets, including one premiere, the ensemble from Paris also performs a clarinet quintet with the British clarinettist Mark Simpson. The Times sees Thomas Larcher’s music as »one of this century’s wonders« – will the premiere of his Fifth String Quartet be received with enthusiastic cheers like the others before it? The work was commissioned by the Elbphilharmonie, which is dedicating a spotlight to the Austrian composer this season.

The German premiere of a piece by the British composer, pianist and conductor Thomas Adès promises similar excitement. His clarinet quintet »Alchymia« (2021) is a commissioned work for the concert series NDR das neue werk.

Quatuor Diotima also bring something from their homeland with them: a new work by the Paris-based Japanese composer Misato Mochizuki, and a frenetic string quartet (2020) by Bruno Mantovani, the long-standing director of the Paris Conservatory, round off the progressive programme on a French note.

PERFORMERS

Quatuor Diotima string quartet

YunPeng Zhao violin

Léo Marillier violin

Franck Chevalier viola

Pierre Morlet violoncello

Mark Simpson clarinet

PROGRAM

Misato Mochizuki
Neues Werk

Thomas Larcher
Streichquartett Nr. 5 (Uraufführung)

- Interval -

Bruno Mantovani
Streichquartett Nr. 7

Thomas Adès
Alchymia