String Quartet – Festival 33,7

Eugénio Rodrigues (*PT, 1961)
Mata Hari (1992) for string quartet – 12’
“… with the strongest impact was Eugénio Rodrigues’ ‘Mata Hari’ for string quartet… It opened simply, with a long series of harmonized drones like a bagpipe, then grew in complexity–notably in its intricate, powerful dance rhythms–to represent the character of the World War I spy and femme fatale.” (The Washington Post – Washington, DC December 17, 1994)

Diana Soh (*SG, 1984)
Sssh (part one) (2018) for string quartet – 5’
The three letters “s” in the title refers to silence, solicitation and saturation – 3 portraits of an artist as a young mother. «They say we need silence to create. But I reckon it is that necessary stillness that is hard find. We are always in demand, to the extent that our head-space is filled with the rhythms of daily mundane affairs, so saturated that it becomes an irritating hum, buzzing at the back of the mind. And in accommodating the needs of everybody else, the mother appears
silent and still»

Carlos Azevedo, Filipe Vieira, Dimitris Andrikopoulos, Nuno Peixoto, Pedro Santos, Telmo Marques, Ângela Da Ponte – Miniature / Miniature 2 / String Quartet N1 / Segment 1 / kõt ’R nju / Sketch fragment / Charamba (2017) for string quartet – 14’
The “Eight Miniatures for String Quartet” were commissioned by Harmos festival (Portugal) to seven composers, all teaching at ESMAE’s (Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo) Composition Area.

With: Winnie Cheng (violin), Wanru Cheng (violin), Renata Van der Vyver (viola), Pierre Fourcade (violoncello)