First Listen: Ben Johnston String Quartets
Aug 31, 2016•19 min
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Episode description
The American composer Ben Johnston has spent much of his musical career exploring the world of microtonality. His ten string quartets are incredibly challenging for the performers, but in 2002 the Kepler Quartet was formed to perform and record this complete cycle.
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