Ezov (Ysop)

The Arditti Quartet is renowned for its unwavering commitment to contemporary music and its remarkable ability to interpret new compositions with a profound understanding of the composer's intentions. I am deeply glad to entrust them with this new piece, which relates to the plant Ezov, (moss) renowned for its symbolic richness in various cultures and  associated with ideas of renewal, resilience, tenacity and healing through interconnectedness. Written in a fateful time in the world, fraught with pain and suffering, Ezov is a piece that opens itself to an attempt of finding hope. This commission holds special significance as it coincides with Arditti quartet's  50th anniversary. It is dedicated to the quartet. (Chaya Czernowin)