Harrison Birtwistle / Brian Ferneyhough / Hugues Dufourt

Brian Ferneyhough/Harrison Birtwistle/Hugues Dufourt

Archive 2009
Music
Opéra Bastille
octoberoct 28

© Hugues Dufourt. Video still © Yan Proefrock ©

Brian Ferneyhough
Dum Transisset I – IV  (by Christopher Tye)
Harrison Birtwistle
The Tree of Strings (second quatuor)
Hugues Dufourt
Dawn Flight

Quatuor Arditti

 

Corealised with Opéra national de Paris and Festival d’Automne à Paris

Hugues Dufourt’s first string quartet, Dawn Flight, was inspired by the visual universe of the painter Stanley Hayter.  For Dum Transisset (2007), Brian Ferneyhough turned to Renaissance plain song, creating four pieces evoking the music of Christopher Tye;  while Birtwistle chose the Scottish poet Sorley MacLean for his quartet The Tree of Strings, exploring past time spent on the Isle of Raasay