Helicopter String Quartet (1996)

Directors

Frank Scheffer

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thumb|Irvine Arditti, leader of the Arditti Quartet, who premiered and made the first recordings of the Helikopter-Streichquartett thumb|upright=1.4|Dutch aerobatics team, flying the Alouette helicopters they used in the world premiere of the Helikopter-Streichquartett The film, produced by , documents the preparations and rehearsals in 1995 for the world-premiere performance by the Arditti Quartet of the 1993 composition Helikopter-Streichquartett (English: Helicopter String Quartet) by Karlheinz Stockhausen. This piece requires four separate helicopters (provided for the 1995 performances by the Royal Netherlands Air Force). Within it,…

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