Ruisi quartet premiere new
Thomas Adès work at Wigmore Hall
The quartet returned to Wigmore Hall to give the world premiere of a new work from composer Thomas Adès.
Having been invited by Thomas to work on the piece at IMS Prussia Cove (photo above), the group were delighted to be joined by mezzo-soprano Katalin Károlyi, pianist Joseph Havlat and bassist Graham Mitchell to give the first performance of ‘Növènyek’ at Wigmore Hall on November 26 2022.
“Növények (“Plants”) was composed for the superb Hungarian mezzo Katalin Károlyi, who introduced it here with the Ruisi String Quartet, double bass Graham Mitchell and pianist Joseph Havlat. The poems – four by Sándor Weöres, the others by Attila József, Miklós Radnóti and Ottó Orbán – all use botanical imagery to mirror aspects of human life, and Adès gives them fabulously varied musical frames, full of magical harmonic sleights of hand and glistening textural effects, for Károlyi’s impeccable, compelling delivery.”