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Formed in 2020 and comprised of veterans of New York City's vital contemporary music community, the Anzû Quartet — Olivia De Prato (violin), Ashley Bathgate (cello), Ken Thomson (clarinet) and Karl Larson (piano) — is an ensemble dedicated to the music of our time and the recent canon. The quartet’s first full-length studio release of premiere recordings features new works by Thomson (𝘜𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺) and fellow composer Anna Webber (𝘢𝘥𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵, which lends the album its title).

Thomson’s 𝘜𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺 is relentless, kinetic, and emotive, reflecting the pace and anxieties of modern life, while Webber’s 𝘢𝘥𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 explores the liminal space between classical contemporary music and experimental jazz. Both works, composed between 2019 and 2022, highlight the quartet’s prowess as interpreters and performers of demanding, modern repertoire, and fulfill Anzû’s mission of commissioning and promoting new repertoire for the instrumentation of Messiaen’s elemental “Quartet for the End of Time,” a new recording of which the quartet will release later in 2025.

Formed in 2020, the Anzû Quartet is an ensemble dedicated to the music of our time and the recent canon. A collaboration between internationally renowned performers of contemporary music, the quartet pays homage to Olivier Messiaen’s "Quatuor pour la fin du temps" by actively commissioning and performing new works for this iconic instrumentation alongside Messiaen’s original masterpiece.