Aribert Reimann: Unrevealed & Variations for Piano

Featuring

Richard Salter
Ilan Gronich
Friedegund Riehm
Hans Joachim Greiner
Dietmar SchwaIke
David Levine

Kreuzberger Streichquartett
Aribert Reimann

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Performer Biography

Ilan Gronich, the first violinist of the Kreuzberger Streichquartett, was born in Tel Aviv in 1942 and was a concertmaster of the Israel Chamber Ensemble.

Compositional Technique

Reimann's "Unrevealed" for baritone and string quartet can be considered a "second string quartet" due to its four-movement form and the string quartet's independent role, similar to Schoenberg's Quartet No. 2.

Composer Biography

Aribert Reimann has held professorships for contemporary Lied in Hamburg and at the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 1983.

Compositional Technique

In Reimann's "Variationen" for piano, the "theme" is not a traditional melodic line but a changing "state of sound," starting as a chord series that expands into clusters and arpeggios.

Composer Biography

Aribert Reimann, born in Berlin in 1936, studied composition with Boris Blacher and Ernst Pepping, and piano with Otto Rausch.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Aribert Reimann chose a quote from Lord Byron's diary as the motto for his work "Unrevealed," which refers to the poet's incestuous love affair with his half-sister Augusta.