Edition Artists in Conversation Vol. 1 - Professional and Private LivesKarl Amadeus Hartmann (1905-1963)
Complete Works for String Quartet
Cybele KiG 001 (3 Hybrid SACDs: Stereo and 5.0 Channel Surround Sound)
Booklet languages: German, English (78 pages in total with Digipak)
ISBN13: 978-3-937794-06-8
With Archival and new recordings featuring the voices of the Hartmann family
A man, and an artist in particular, is not allowed to live day in and day out without having had something to say. (Karl Amadeus Hartmann)
Total Playing Times: 68:52 (SACD 1) / 73:46 (SACD 2) / 41:36 (SACD 3)
SACD1: Music
1.–3. 1st String Quartet "Carillon" (1933) [21:11]
I. Langsam [8:04]
II. (con sordino) [7:05]
III. Ohne Bezeichnung [6:02]
4.–6. 2nd String Quartet (1945-48) [26:20]
I. Langsam [9:27]
II. Andantino (sehr ausdrucksvoll) [10:08]
III. Presto (alternative ending) [6:45]
DoelenKwartet:
Groot, Frank de (1st Violin) - Kraan, Maartje (2nd Violin) - Dolman, Karin (Viola) - Woudenberg, Hans (Violoncello)
SACD1: Voices
7.–19. Ulrich Dibelius in Conversation with K. A. Hartmann’s Wife, Elisabeth Hartmann (1994) [21:19]
7. I wished that he could have told more [1:03]
8. A 40-Year-Old Beginner [1:54]
9. Orderly Scores, Orderly Mind [1:00]
10. Our Honeymoon [1:20]
11. Aimless between 1938 and 1945 [2:51]
12. Buried Treasure during World War II [1:50]
13. The Perils of Grocery-Store Brands [1:18]
14. Flee to Switzerland? [1:39]
15. Disappeared Scores [1:29]
16. A Mood of Departure in Italy [1:05]
17. The Birth of the Musica Viva Concert Series [3:12]
18. Success: Open Doors after the War [0:44]
19. Illness and Death [1:54]
SACD2: Music
1. Little Concerto for String Quartet and Percussion (1931/32) [11:10]
2.–9. Chamber Concerto for Clarinet, String Quartet and String Orchestra (1930/1935) [27:50]
(Live Recording, April 23th, 2008, Jurriaanse Zaal - De Doelen, Rotterdam)
2. Introduction. Moderato [9:29]
3.–8. Dance Variations [8:27]:
3. I. Variation (Introduction and Theme. Vivo) [1:26]
4. II. Variation (Ostinato). Allegro molto [0:43]
5. III. Variation. Adagio [2:19]
6. IV. Variation. Allegretto [2:26]
7. V. Variation. Allegro [0:49]
8. VI. Variation (Finale). Allegro molto vivace [0:44]
9. Fantasie. Langsam [9:54]
DoelenKwartet:
Groot, Frank de (1st Violin) - Kraan, Maartje (2nd Violin) - Dolman, Karin (Viola) - Woudenberg, Hans (Violoncello)
Grootenboer, Wilbert (Percussion)
Woudenberg, Arjan (Clarinet)
Sinfonia Rotterdam
Alphen, Conrad van (Conductor)
SACD2: Voices
10.–14. Karl Amadeus Hartmann on Himself (ca. 1962) [34:44]
10. Autobiographical Sketches [12:52]
11. Arnold Schoenberg [4:28]
12. My Concerto funebre [1:13]
13. A Confession about Opera [7:05]
14. Art and Politics [9:06]
SACD3: Voices
1.–16. Mirjam Wiesemann in Conversation with K. A. Hartmann’s Son, Dr. Richard P. Hartmann (2009) [41:36]
1. Richard’s Key Experience – A Child’s World and the Real World [5:46]
2. The Sacred Spaces of His Father [4:35]
3. Picking Beetles off Potatoes and Richard’s Dream [2:55]
4. A Mission in Life, or: You Must See [3:13]
5. I Could Not Do Otherwise – Writing against the Nazis [1:42]
6. Family Squabbles [0:32]
7. Richard the Flycatcher [1:36]
8. Fanatical Devotee of Content [1:55]
9. On His Father’s Transformation [4:11]
10. The Youth as Composer [1:07]
11. Epitaphs for His Father – Henze and Stockhausen [1:59]
12. If Only I Could Have Stayed with You Longer [4:25]
13. Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter – Music as Medicine [3:18]
14. My Father’s Legacy [2:10]
15.-16. Two of Richard’s Poems:
15. A Sketch on Evolution [0:38]
16. E = m*c˛ [1:32]