The Sonata-Mazur combines the Sonata and Mazurka forms to explore themes of opposition and resolution, recalling Caspar David Friedrich's painting Wanderer over the Mist.
Composer Biography
Ralf Yusuf Gawlick, the composer, was born in Pfaffenhofen-an-der-Ilm, Germany, in 1969 and is of Kurdish descent.
Composition History
Gawlick's Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano was completed on the day his first child was born, with the Arietta movement serving as a lullaby for the child.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Gawlick's music draws inspiration from and engages with literary, visual, and musical landscapes across centuries and art forms.
Performer Biography
Rafael Popper-Keizer, a cellist on this album, was praised by the New York Times as 'imaginative and eloquent' and by the Boston Globe for his 'dazzling dispatch of every bravura challenge'.
Compositional Technique
Gawlick's Mysterium doloris quintae (Tropen-Kreuz) incorporates quotations from Bach, Mozart, and children's songs, arranged and superimposed on original music.
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