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Artist:	APOSTEL, HANS ERICH
Title:	Complete String Quartets
Label:	CYBELE RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	3CD/SACD
Price:	$42.00
Catalog #:	CYBELE 002CD

Performed by Frank de Groot, 1st violin; Maartje Kraan, 2nd violin; Karin Dolman, viola; Hans Woudenberg, cello. "If the subject of Hans Erich Apostel comes up at all, he is known above all as a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg, and later of Alban Berg, as a member of the Schoenberg circle and perhaps as the most talented lyrical composer among Schoenberg's students, as someone who later developed a purely instrumental style. The present recording displays Apostel's complete output for string quartet (5 quartets, four are World Première Recordings), completed by archival recordings with the voice of Hans Erich Apostel, and a conversation of Mirjam Wiesemann and Apostel's pupil and friend Prof. Dr. Rainer Bischof (both in German language). Bischof remembers his admired and beloved teacher in a lively, precise and multifaceted way; Apostel taught Bischof about much more than being a composer and left a lasting impression on Bischof's views on composition and the world. Rainer Bischof recalls anecdotes that reveal Apostel the man, depicts the artistic and personal developments undergone by Apostel and sheds light on a few traits of his teacher's personality. Apostel was like the edelweiss in the Bergian tradition, a flower that Apostel kept on his writing desk, and like the skull in the Schoenbergian tradition, symbolizing the past. Bischof describes Apostel the man, caught between Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg, between charm and rudeness, between a fear of life outside his study and a musical micro-life with an unusual propensity for adventure (Dr. Harald Kaufmann). Apostel was a devoted humanist, musical architect and intellectual, a musician deep in thought, opposed to any form of emotional aesthetics (Rainer Bischof), but also prone to vitriolic outbursts and an intense fear of illness and madness." -- Mirjam Wiesemann. Stereo/multichannel hybrid SACDs that can be played on any CD player.

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