Christiane Karg | Aris Quartett by Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Reimann, Noiztik (2024/2024), Kölner Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany

Aribert Reimann, a sensitive representative of contemporary music, loves the Romantics. He has dressed some of their piano songs in crystalline string tones. Christiane Karg's magical soprano will make them shine together with the Aris Quartet. Reimann embedded the melodies from distant times in his quartet versions in an almost fairy-like manner. He treated Schumann's "Six Songs" and Brahms' "Ophelia Lieder" just as sensitively as the Mendelssohn selection, which he organized into a new cycle. To do this, he composed delicate interludes, “reflections in my musical language,” says Reimann, “on a Mendelssohn song that has already been heard or will follow.” Pure Mendelssohn, on the other hand, can be experienced with the lively E flat major string quartet.