String Quartets by Stephan Thelen, Gebhard Ullmann, Udo Agnesens, Al Pari String Quartet
This is the release of my first string quartet performed by the Al Pari Quartet from Kattowice, PL.
It was composed in 2020.
The album also features compositions of the composers Udo Agnesens and Shephan Thelen.
It was a cooperative work between the three of us.
I added the cover with photos and the liner notes of all three composers as a bonus item.
The Al Pari Quartet:
Dominik Kossakowski violin | Alicja Miruk-Mirska violin
Wiktoria Trzebowska viola | Elżbieta Rychwalska-Dobrowolska cello
To order a physical CD please go to:
www.gebhard-ullmann.com/shop
Tracklist
Credits
Produced by Stephan Thelen, Gebhard Ullmann and Udo Agnesens
Recorded by Rafał Drewniany at Kosa Buena Studio, Poland
Recording dates November 2 & 3, 2024
Mixed by Stephan Thelen
Liner Notes: Tobias Fischer
Reviews:
' The compositions by Stephan Thelen, Gebhard Ullmann, and Udo Agnesens are impressively profound, formally well thought out, and at the same time full of creative energy. The Al Pari Quartet brings them to life with precision, sensitivity, and a remarkable openness to new tonal perspectives.
' Their playing is controlled but never academic – rather, it is lively, soulful, and carried by inner tension. They understand how to grasp the composers' intentions and transform them into music of great poetic radiance.
String Quartets is a work that shows how boundless and open the format of a string quartet can be conceived today – an album that touches, challenges, and delights. '
Jacek Brun (10/25)
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Gebhard Ullmann is a composer and woodwind virtuoso based in Berlin, Germany.
He released more than 70 CDs as a leader or co-leader and is considered one of Europe's finest improvising musicians, as well as a heavyweight composer of chamber and orchestra music.
Between 2002 and 2018 alone, seven of his CDs were listed in Downbeat Magazine among the best CDs of those years.