Artists:

• Minguet Quartett
• Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Mezzosoprano)
• Thorsten Johanns (Clarinette)

Quartet for the Villa Massimo
Manfred Trojahn was invited to the Villa Massimo in Rome in 1979 / 80, where he worked on his second quartet for French radio. What sounds like a bull's eye for a young composer turned out to be a difficult phase in Trojahn's life - the quartet tells of this with its range of exciting emotions and stagnation, abruptness and almost tender lyricism Trojahn chose three poems by the Austrian expressionist Georg Trakl for some of the movements. The string quartet documents a young composer's search for his own musical language in the dawning postmodern age. Manfred Trojahn did not follow the atonal dogma, rather tonal contexts reveal a romantic inspiration.

Track List:

1. Ruhelos
2. Melancholie
3. Quasi Marcia Funebre
4. Der Schlaf
5. In Venedig
6. Bagatelle, Scherzo Frammento (Hommage À L.V.B.)
7. Abgesang