Wolfgang Rihm - Fetzen 1-8 (1999-2004)

Arditti String Quartet Teodoro Anzellotti: accordion Recording at WDR, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, Funkhaus Köln, Germany, June 2009 Fetzen means "scraps" or "shreds", and what began as a short piece for string quartet with that title in 1999 was expanded over the next five years in typical Wolfgang Rihm fashion into a cycle of eight equally tiny pieces. - Andrew Clements