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Premiere of the Month: Tom Coult’s new work for the Adelphi Quartet

2024-09-10T13:14:00

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A new string quartet explores the rich possibilities of the genre

‘I like the idea of music as “gifts”,’ says British composer Tom Coult about his Second String Quartet, which will be premiered at the Lucerne Festival by the Adelphi Quartet. In the work, the word ‘gift’ returns in each movement’s title, in a nod to the pedagogue Friedrich Froebel’s gifts for children: wooden shapes that can be creatively combined in various ways. While these ideas don’t translate literally into the new piece…

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