Ictus
Stephen Graham
ictus, Flagey, Brussels, 3 December 2009
Ictus is Belgium’s leading contemporary music group. Famed for their incisive interpretations of Fausto Romitelli and Georges Aperghis, the group likes to present concerts with commentary, offering on-the-spot clarification of music which often goes unexplained. Ictus recently joined Michaël Levinas – theorist, composer, and performer (with his ensemble, l’Itinéraire) of spectral music – for a revealing lecture-demonstration based around the latter’s String Quartet No. 2. Two performances of the work were separated by a lengthy interview with Levinas exploring the compositional technique in the work. The interview was conducted by Jean-Luc...
