At the 2012 Musiques Biennale en Scène in Lyon, Johannes Maria Staud’s work for string quartet and orchestra, Über trügerische Stadtpläne und die Versuchungen der Winternächte (Dichotomie II), is given its French première.

Pascal Rophé conducts the Arditti Quartet and the Orchestre National de Lyon (1 March).

We move into the final weekend of the 5e Biennale de quatuors à cordes at the Cité de la musique in Paris, with three Rihm string quartets on the programme today.

11:00 Quatuor Ysaÿe
including Wolfgang Rihm’s Quartettstudie

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14:30 Arditti Quartett
including Rihm’s String Quartet No. 5

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20:30 Prazák Quartet
including Rihm’s String Quartet No. 4

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It’s day 6 of the 5e Biennale de quatuors à cordes at the Cité de la musique in Paris.

19:00 ARDITTI QUARTET / JERUSALEM QUARTET
including Wolfgang Rihm’s String Quartet No. 3

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20:30 BORODIN QUARTET
including Wolfgang Rihm’s Grave – In memoriam Thomas Kakuska

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It’s day 5 of the 5e Biennale de quatuors à cordes at the Cité de la musique in Paris.

19:00 QUATUOR DIOTIMA
including Wolfgang Rihm’s String Quartet No. 1 and String Quartet No. 8

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Full score of String Quartet No. 8

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20:30 ARDITTI QUARTET / QUATUOR ÉBÈNE
including the world première of Wolfgang Rihm’s String Quartet No. 13 (commissioned by the Cité de la musique)

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