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ELLIOTT CARTER : String Quartet No. 5
Tuesday 19 September, 1995 – De Singel, Antwerp, Belgium
The Arditti Quartet
“One of the fascinations of attending rehearsals of chamber music, when excellent players try out fragments of what they later will play in the ensemble, then play it, and then stop abruptly to discuss how to improve, is that this pattern is so similar to our inner experience of forming, ordering, focussing, and bringing to fruition — and then dismissing — our feelings and ideas. These patterns of human behavior form the basis of the 5th String Quartet. Its introduction presents the players, one by one, trying out fragments of later passages from one of the six short, contrasting ensemble movements, at the same time maintaining a dialogue with each other. Between each of the movements the players discuss in different ways what has been played and what will be played.
In this score the matter of human cooperation with its many aspects of feeling and thought was a very important consideration.”
– Elliott Carter
ELLIOTT CARTER : String Quartet No. 5
Tuesday 19 September, 1995 – De Singel, Antwerp, Belgium
The Arditti Quartet
“One of the fascinations of attending rehearsals of chamber music, when excellent players try out fragments of what they later will play in the ensemble, then play it, and then stop abruptly to discuss how to improve, is that this pattern is so similar to our inner experience of forming, ordering, focussing, and bringing to fruition — and then dismissing — our feelings and ideas. These patterns of human behavior form the basis of the 5th String Quartet. Its introduction presents the players, one by one, trying out fragments of later passages from one of the six short, contrasting ensemble movements, at the same time maintaining a dialogue with each other. Between each of the movements the players discuss in different ways what has been played and what will be played.
In this score the matter of human cooperation with its many aspects of feeling and thought was a very important consideration.”
– Elliott Carter