Quatuor Arod - Mathilde Format:CD and Norberto Apellaniz adding percussion

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Quatuor Arod - Mathilde Format:CD and Norberto Apellaniz adding percussionWith this album of works by Schnberg, Zemlinsky and Webern, (key figures in Vienna's musical life in the early 20th century) the Quatuor Arod honours the woman who became Arnold Schoenberg's wife in 1901. Mathilde was Zemlinsky's sister and the dedicatee of her husband's 'String Quartet No. 2', an innovative work in both it's tonal language and it's integration of a soprano here Elsa Dreisig. It was completed in the summer of 1908, a tumultuous period