MOE: Vent-Litt-Lenger

Ole-Henrik Moe (1966-): Vent Litt Lenger

Arditti Quartet

Ole Henrik Moe (born in Oslo 1966) has composed chamber and orchestra music, performed in concerts and on radio and television in Norway and abroad. He has contributed both as composer and performer (as we shall hear in his work "Tre Persefone Persepsjoner) to a number of "crossover" projects, as well as appearing as a jazz violinist. Ole Henrik Moe is a renowned improvisor and has participated in theatre productions and modern dance performances.

The Arditti Quartet enjoys a worldwide reputation for their spirited and technically refined interpretations of contemporary and earlier 20th century music. Several hundred string quartets and other chamber works have been written for the ensemble since its foundation by first violinist Irvine Arditti in 1974. World premieres of quartets by composers such as Birtwistle, Cage, Carter, Ferneyhough, Gubaidulina, Harvey, Hosokawa, Kagel, Kurtag, Lachenmann, Ligeti, Nancarrow, Rihm, Scelsi, Stockhausen and Xenakis show the wide range of music in the Arditti Quartet’s repertoire.

The ensemble believes that close collaboration with composers is vital to the process of interpreting modern music and therefore attempts this with every composer whose works it plays. It is not every day that the Arditti quartet invites a composer to play with them as a soloist. Irvine Arditti says that "Ole-Henrik Moe has produced a series of string pieces that are original and truly innovative in their style of playing and the way one listens to music. A close collaboration with the Arditti quartet has ensured that these recordings will be truly representative of the composer’s wishes."