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Judging a book by its cover is rightly frowned upon, but you can sure tell a lot about a string quartet by their given name. If you’d expect the Ligeti Quartet to observe a different world view from the Amadeus Quartet, then ‘Quatuor Diotima’ feels like a determined statement of intent from a young Paris-based group who hear possible futures for the string quartet emerging out of German Romanticism.
Friedrich Hölderlin’s poem Hyperionco-opted the character Diotima from Plato’s Symposium, and Luigi Nono’s 1980 quartet Fragmente – Stille, an Diotimaembedded quotes from Hölderlin into a score that floated the light-touch textures of Anton Webern’s pellucid late-period string quartets towards a music which hovered on the very brink of not being there.
Quatuor Diotima have previously recorded modern composition ranging from Reich and Crumb to Lachenmann, Nono and Dieter Schnebel; but the complete string quartet music of Sch