CMYK NAXOS Playing Ursula Time: MAMLOK 57:02 (b. 1923) ൿ broadcasting and copying of this compact disc prohibited. translations reserved. Unauthorised public performance, All rights in this sound recording, artwork, texts and 8.559771 1 Interview: Ursula Mamlok

& AMERICAN CLASSICS MAMLOK: Ꭿ and Frank Dodge 7:28 2014 Naxos Rights US, Inc. • Made in the USA. 2-4 Confluences (2001) 8:04 Ursula Mamlok lived for many years in 5-8 2000 Notes (2000) 7:46 New York before returning to Berlin, 9-@ Polyphony I (1968) 9:15 the city of her birth, in her eighties. # From My Garden (1983) 6:52 Featuring a conspectus of her much String Quartet No. 1 • Polyphony I $ Rhapsody (1989) 7:59 admired chamber music, this recording %-& String Quartet No. 1 (1962) 9:38 is of the concert given in the city’s prestigious Philharmonie in celebration Armida Quartet %-& of her ninetieth birthday. Mamlok Spectrum Concerts Berlin herself has said: ‘My main concern is Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer, that the music should convey the Clarinet 2-49-@$ various emotions in it with clarity and Alexander Sitkovetsky, Violin 2-4 conviction. It interests me to accomplish Hartmut Rohde, Viola # $ this with a minimum of material, String Quartet No. 1 • Polyphony I Jens Peter Maintz, Cello 2-4 Naomi Niskala, Piano 2-4 5-8 $ transforming it in such multiple ways so Frank S. Dodge, Artistic Director as to give the impression of ever-new ideas that are like the flowers of a plant, DDD A co-production with Deutschlandradio Kultur A detailed track list can be found inside the booklet. all related yet each one different.’

MAMLOK: Recorded live at the Kammermusiksaal, Berliner Philharmonie, Germany, on 1st February, 2013. www.naxos.com 8.559771 8.559771 Produced, engineered and edited by Michael Havenstein Publishers: Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Inc. (tracks 2-12, 15-17); Edition Peters (tracks 13, 14) Booklet notes: Habakuk Traber Cover photograph by Adil Razali 6 36943 97712 5 NAXOS