Name: Colin Currie Group & JACK Quartet Perform Xenakis
Start: 2022-10-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-10-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: South Bank Centre

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Southbank Centre

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Colin Currie Group

JACK Quartet

Colin Currie Group & JACK Quartet Perform Xenakis

London

United Kingdom

Queen Elizabeth Hall

Colin Currie Group & JACK Quartet Perform Xenakis: Concert Various

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ikhoor for string trio

Pléïades

Mikka

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South Bank Centre

Two bold ensembles unite to mark the centenary of a pioneer who unleashed the forces of the universe in music.

Iannis Xenakis crammed a lot into his 78 years, from being sentenced to death as a revolutionary to designing buildings in the architectural office of Le Corbusier.

But the Romanian-born, Greek-French polymath saved his most extraordinary visions for music.

Xenakis unleashed the natural forces of rhythm, pitch and texture like no other composer. Almost every one of his uncannily physical, mathematical and elemental works carves out its own space in musical history.

Marking a hundred years since the composer’s birth, the JACK Quartet and Colin Currie Group present some of Xenakis’ most radical, beautiful creations.

Psappha reimagines the ancient Greek poetry of Sappho as a brittle stream of repeating rhythmic cells. Pléïades, scored for industrial-scale glockenspiels that have to be specially built, takes listeners on a unique and embracing rhythmic adventure fusing space and time.

In his string quartet Tetras, Xenakis imagined the four players of a string quartet as one: a continuum of timbral connections and microcosmic virtuosity.

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Colin Currie Group & JACK Quartet Perform Xenakis by Xenakis, From (2022/2022), South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom

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