This new release is Musica Omnia’s debut of the Hugo Wolf Quartett from Vienna, Europe’s leading younger-generation string quartet, specialists in both classical and contemporary...

This new release is Musica Omnia’s debut of the Hugo Wolf Quartett from Vienna, Europe’s leading younger-generation string quartet, specialists in both classical and contemporary repertoire. For this debut, the quartet has chosen to pair Ralf yusuf Gawlick’s latest work, “Imagined Memories,” with one of the many quartets quoted in its introduction, Schubert’s A minor “Rosamunde” Quartet, D. 803. “Imagined Memories is Gawlick’s most intensely personal work: a musical offering to the biological mother he never knew. This new piece, which utilizes the entire range of possible string techniques, is a major essay of haunting and evocative beauty, representing the intersection of memories, both real and imagined, of three presonalities whose paths crossed only briefly. To bring this dreamscape to life required, literally, the best string quartet in the world, whose technique and musical knowledge are all encompassing: the Hugo Wolf Quartett of Vienna, in whom the composer has found the ideal partnership, and to whom the work is dedicated.