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World Premiere of Julian Anderson's String Quartet No. 3 at Wigmore Hall

Mar. 31, 2018

World Premiere of Julian Anderson's <em>String Quartet No. 3</em> at Wigmore Hall

The JACK Quartet presents the world premiere of Julian Anderson's String Quartet No. 3 'hana no hanataba' on April 11 at London's Wigmore Hall. Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall and the Tanglewood Music Center, the string quartet receives repeat performances on April 13 (in Baden, Switzerland), and April 14 (in Edenkoben, Germany). On July 1, The New Fromm Players will present the American premiere at Seiji Ozawa Hall in Lenox, MA as part of the Tanglewood Music Festival.  Julian Anderson notes about his new work:

"My third String Quartet is in six contrasted movements. Certain musical figures recur across the work, but there are few themes as such.   The main emphasis is on contrast of mood, texture, harmony, pacing and timing. Unlike many of my works this quartet had no extra-musical inspiration, and in principle should have no subtitle. Certain features already present in my music became more prominent in this new work: modes (limited collections of pitches) have always helped me to focus musical character, but here a sense of key note for each mode became much more pronounced, as did the difference between modes for each section of the work.... Here, then, is this collection of six musical colours, related and unrelated, different yet belonging together, variable yet in a set order. Hence the subtitle, chosen both for both its sound and its sense: ‘hana no hanataba’ meaning, in Japanese, ‘bouquet of flowers’.


The work was composed for the astonishing JACK Quartet, whose virtuosity is already legendary.  It is dedicated to Ellen Highstein."

Listen to Julian Anderson's Incantesimi (2015-2016) here:


(Incantesimi/Julian Anderson/BBC Proms 2016/Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle, conductor)

To learn more about Julian Anderson, please visit: schott-music.com

Julian Anderson
String Quartet No. 3 'hana no hanataba' (2017-2018)
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