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Composer: RIHM, Wolfgang ((b. 1952)) |
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Studied in Karlsruhe with Stockhausen an Fortner.
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ID: KAI0012042
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: String instruments
Wolfgang Rihm's 'Music for Three Strings' is an immediately striking piece, opening with violent, barely controlled chordal attacks, which become long drones. The first three movements proceed thus, punctuated by long sections of silence. Rihm freely refers to tonal harmony without confining himself to it. The music is reminiscent of the New Viennese School before it became dogmatic in its strict adherence to atonality. The influence of early Berg is audible in the middle section (three "Canzonas") as well as recurring quotations from the late Beethoven quartets.
Much of the material requires strident playing, but also very sensitive ensemble work. For example, many of the triple forte attacks are accompanied by droning pianissimo in the other voices, which must remain audible. The Trio Recherche does a remarkable job of enacting the mania of the first section without stepping on each other's toes. Throughout the work they bring out the expressionistic fervor in Rihm's music with intelligent and supportive playing. |
| 21.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0012072
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
"Art, working with art and making art, is in itself an invitation to boundless freedom. There can be no submission here," writes Wolfgang Rihm. "Uncertainty predominates, the only potential for an agile mind." Four pieces of one of the most significant and provocative post-war composers whose titles speak for themselves: "Gejagte Form" or hunted form, "Verborgene Formen" or concealed forms, "Chiffre I" or cipher, and "Silence to be beaten (Chiffre II)". Four pieces of music that attempt to realise what Wolfgang Rihm considers "art's purpose": "Not to be a place of refuge but a reservoir of energy in regressive times."
Includes booklet with text by Wolfgang Rihm |
| 21.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0012372
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Wolfgang Rihm once said retrospectively of his piano oeuvre: "The music I have composed for piano is not a separate block within my production stream. In its own way, every piece shares in and belongs to the problematic of its wider context. The works Klavierstück Nr. 1 to Klavierstück Nr. 7 are not based on a cyclical concept." To summarise, let us reflect on Wolfgang Rihm's piano work, here in his own perspective: "Nr. 1 is a free development form, which, however, did not emerge freely, without constraints. The piece is wholly dominated by the expressive uncertainty which derived from what everyone was preaching, namely that everything be structured. So I integrated refrains, inserts, cross-references here and left and right. This technique becomes especially distinct in Klavierstück Nr. 4 and Nr. 5. Setting the part of the piano gradually turns into the setting of accents, which opens up possibilities of expression that I did not discover until Klavierstück Nr. 7. This is where the preoccupation with Beethoven's piano setting and his wild-gentle gestures, the so-called late Beethoven's, becomes the main driving force. (Wolfgang Hofer)
Includes booklet with text by Wolfgang Hofer |
| 21.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0012442
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
The method of composition, which has recourse to existing musical material, reworking it into a new composition, figures as a central principle of occidental music history. This applies particularly to the mass and motet compositions of the Renaissance, when this method of adopting and reworking existing music represented one of the key features of musical production. An especially vivid example - which however remains singular in its appearance - for the continuous engagement with a certain musical “theme” is the English “In Nomine“ genre dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries.
This tradition started out with the six-voice mass Gloria tibi Trinitas by John Taverner (around 1495-1545), composed no later than around 1528. To the words “In nomine Domini” the section of the Benedictus (the lyrics are: “Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini” - “blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord”) has a salient four-voice section, which, as cantus firmus in the alto part, contains the antiphon “Gloria tibi Trinitas” quoted in its entirety.
Includes booklet with text by Torsten Blaich |
| 28.00 eur Buy |
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ID: KAI0012892
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
This CD combines pieces for three instruments, trios - and yet it is very remote from the contemplatively muted frame-work of traditional chamber music. The small group of musicians does not establish intimacy, but causes the gaps, warpings, abysses in Rihm's music to widen even further instead. When the three instrumentalists position themselves as far away from each other in the calm scene "am horizont" (on the horizon), this is only an external sign for the extreme tension that prevails: delicacy of sound and wild noise, falling silent and eloquence, conglomeration and decomposition - accompanied by covert (auto)biographical allusions to Ingeborg Bachman or Karlheinz Stockhausen, Rudi Stephan or Maurizio Kagel. |
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ID: KAI0012952
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
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ID: MSVCD92068
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano
The Lieder of Wolfgang Rihm is one of the most significant bodies of new vocal music to emante from Europe in the last forty years. Here sung with enormous sensitivity and expression by Clare Lesser, this is an important recital for all connoisseurs of art-song.
tracks: Ende de Handschrift (1999): Glückloser Engel 2 Nature Morte Blaupause Leere Zeit Traumwald "Im ächten Manne "Mit der Wiederkehr der Farbe" "..Und gehe weiter in die Landschaft.." "Wie einen Schatten hat gott den.." Drama "geh Ariel bring den Sturm.." Drei Gedichte von Monique Thoné(1997): "Vielleicht kommt mich morgen.." "Es ist unerträglich.." "ich bleibe allein" Lenz-Fragmente (1980): den 28 December 1775 "Ich will den nagenden Beschwerden ein Ende machen.." "Fühl alle Lust, fühl alle Pein.." An die Sonne Lied zum teutschen Tanz Das Rot (1990): Hochroth Ist alles stumm und leer Des Knaben Morgengruß Des Knaben Abendgruß An Creuzer Liebst du das Dunkel |
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ID: STR33999
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
Ex Novo Ensemble, Germano Scurti, Filippio Perocco |
| 18.00 eur Temporarily out of stock |
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