CD of Garth Knox String Quartets by the Ragazze Quartet

A new CD release, Open Spaces by the Ragazze Quartet (Amsterdam) features the first three string quartets by Garth Knox. The first quartet, Satellites, was written for the Kronos Quartet and is part of their Fifty for the Future project . The second quartet, Four into Twenty, was written for the Ragazze Quartet. The third ‘quartet’ is called Quartet for One and is scored for solo viola! (written during the lockdown period of 2020). Played on this recording by Garth Knox.

The album is completed with a solo from the Violin Spaces by each member of the quartet plus a duo between Garth Knox and the viola player of the group, Annemijn Berkotte.

You can visit the Ragazze page about this Cd with interview and videos or listen to a Radio France podcast. The entire album is on Spotify.

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New duo CD with super irish fiddler Caoimhin O Raghallaigh! His beautiful ten string “Hardanger d’Amore” blends perfectly with Garth’s viola d’amore, in a mix of traditional Irish tunes and free improvisation. Now available here.

Film Music

The informer 1929

Garth Knox was commissioned by the British Film Institute in London to write a new score for “The Informer“, a 1929 silent classic by Arthur Robison which they restored entirely. The film is based on Liam O’Flaherty’s novel of the same name, and is set in Dublin in the 1920’s, during the Irish Civil War.

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« Cinq petites entropies » de Garth Knox

Le compositeur de la semaine est Garth Knox, un compositeur pas tout à fait comme les autres puisqu’il est aussi interprète et improvisateur. C’est lui qui joue cette semaine ses Petites Entropies pour viole d’amour : cinq voyages dans les sonorités d’un instrument magnifique, un peu oublié et qu’il fait revivre dans la musique d’aujourd’hui.
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