can this be moved to "recordings"?
I haven't been following the Arditti's recent "Complete" traversals of Dusapin, Harvey, or Lachenmann (others are on the bandwagon with Complete Ruzicka, Schnebel, etc,...), or their collaborations with Uri Caine or Pedro Cameiro, so, I've been delving into their back catalog of lost stuff.
"Mexico" (Mode):
3 violin pieces and 3 SQs. At first, the avacado cover put me off, but it's a classic Arditti line-up. If you have the rest, this makes a good companion.
Philippe Boesmans "Summer Dreams" (Ricercare):
This is one sweeet SQ! It might do Dutilleux one better!! Pretty much all one could ask for. The discmate is for baritone and piano, and,...mmm,...eh, not for me.
Japanese Composers (Fontec):
No, I didn't win this when it came on Ebay a few months ago, but I certainly helped drain the winner's account! This is like the grail of Arditti discs, haha!
B. Proeve, SQ No.5 (Zeitklang), and Gerhard Staebler, "Strike the Ear" (Koch), and Georg Katzer, SQ No.5 (Wergo):
Here are 3 classic Arditti-type workouts, all choc-full of interesting sounds, different from one another, but all held together with that burning white light that Composers writing for the Ardittis must have experienced once turned on to the group's effortless playing.
I have a feeling those glory days of the early to mid '90s are gone gone gone, but that's really ok, because we really don't need hundreds of new SQs written each year, do we? (unless I was king of the world and that's what I wanted for breakfast).