Quatuor Diotima

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Yun-Peng Zhao, Constance Ronzatti, Franck Chevalier, Pierre Morlet Founded in 1996 by laureates of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, the Diotima Quartet has gone on to become one of the world’s most in-demand ensembles. The name reflects the musical double identity of the group: the word Diotima is a reference to German Romantisism – Friedrich Hölderlin gave the name to the love of his life in his novel Hyperion – while it is also a nod to the music of our time, recalling Luigi Nono’s work Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima. The Diotima Quartet is honoured to partner with several of today’s major composers, such as Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough and Toshio Hosokawa, while also regularly com­missioning new works from a broad range of composers, such as Tristan Murail, Alberto Posadas, Gérard Pesson, Rebecca Saunders and Pascal Dusapin. While being staunchly dedicated towards contemporary classical music, the quartet is not limited exclusively to this repertoire. In programming major classical works alongside today’s new music, their concerts offer a fresh look at works by the great composers, in particular Bartók, Debus­sy and Ravel, the late quartets of Schubert and Beethoven, composers from the Viennese School, and also Janácek. The Diotima Quartet has performed widely on the international scene and at all of the major European festivals and concert series (such as at the Berlin Philharmonie; Berlin Konzerthaus; Reina Sofia, Madrid; Cité de la musi

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albums

Schoenberg, Berg, Webern: Complete Works for String Quartet

American Music

Lachenmann: Works for String Quartet

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Bruckner & Klose: String Quartets

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Rune Glerup: Perhaps Thus the End

Schoenberg, Berg, Webern,Quatuor Diotima

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Boulez: Livre pour Quatuor

Metamorphosis Ligeti

Gervasoni, Pesson, Poppe

Bartók: Intégrale des quatuors à cordes

Posadas: Liturgia fractal

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Qobuz Sampler #1

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