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NEOS 11732CD
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The long-anticipated premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Requiem-Strophen (Requiem Verses) in March of 2017 was also a special debut, that of Mariss Jansons, principal conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducting his orchestra for the first time at the musica viva concert series. The live recording of this concert is being released as a co-production with BR Klassik, musica viva and NEOS. Rihm extends the liturgical Requiem text with, among others, three sonnets by Michelangelo and verses by Hans Sahl. Tradition is of considerable significance to Rihm, but in the sense of assimilating it, advancing it, and developing it. In this sense, Rihm's Requiem-Strophen are a highly personal approach to the Requiem genre by one of the most influential composers of our times. Personnel: Mojca Erdmann - soprano; Anna Prohaska - soprano; Hanno Müller-Brachmann - bass baritone; Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Mariss Jansons, conductor).
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Wolfgang Rihm is doubtless one of the most successful composers of modern times and can meanwhile look back on an enormous oeuvre that can hardly be classified within a single stylistic direction. Until 2008, Andreas Schablas was a member of the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, after which he became deputy solo clarinetist of the Bavarian State Orchestra, where he has been solo clarinetist since 2010. Andreas Schablas has been appointed Professor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg starting in October 2017. The oenm . österreichisches ensemble für neue musik has dedicated itself to the performance of contemporary music for over 40 years and has established itself internationally as one of the leading ensembles of its kind. With over 300 world premieres since its founding and regular participation at numerous major festivals, the ensemble residing in Salzburg has meanwhile become indispensable on the world's great concert stages. Rupert Huber has conducted many premieres (works by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luigi Nono, Jani Christou and others); he is the founder of the Jani Christou Institute in Athens. Rupert Huber has received prizes for various CD productions (works by Schumann and Nono, e.g.), and was awarded the German Music Critics' Award. He regularly conducts ensembles for new music and orchestras within the German ARD. As a composer, his main lines of thought concentrate on the immediate effect of music itself, and music as a tangible phenomenon ("contact singing"). Altered sentient states created by music such as ecstasy and trance form part of his performance art. Workshops at various conservatories and other institutions on the subject of "research into the effect of music" remain an important part of his work, as do his intensive investigations into the shaman tradition of Nepal. Performed by oenm . österreichisches ensemble für neue musik: Rupert Huber - conductor Andreas Schablas - clarinet.
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Featured works: "La musique creuse le ciel" music for two pianos and large orchestra (1977/1979) and "Über-Schrift" for two pianos (1992/2003); performed by GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Peter Rundel. "Music from various phases in the output of Wolfgang Rihm, combined into a diptych by one of the most renowned piano duos of our times. Scene One: flexing the muscles with twenty digits, or how does one smash the glasshouse of serialism without rendering one's fingers bloody? Scene Two: some years later (the scabs have gone, but the scars remain): some clever twitching. Sounds typed in create an ever-denser kaleidoscope of colors and spatial effects. The glass cage -- if it ever existed -- has disappeared. Music creates its own structure, a flexible one too. A dazzling tinsel sphere."
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Performed by Markus Bellheim, piano; recorded 2007/2008. "Wolfgang Rihm was born in 1952 in Karlsruhe; between 1968-1976 he studied Composition in Karlsruhe, Cologne and Freiburg with Eugen Werner Velte, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Klaus Huber, Wolfgang Fortner and Humphrey Searle. In Freiburg he also studied musicology with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht. Various stipendiary grants (Villa Massimo, Rome, e.g.) and awards followed, including the Rolf Liebermann Prize, the Jacob Burckhardt Prize given by the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Foundation, the Bach Prize of the City of Hamburg, the Federal Cross of Merit and the 2003 Ernst von Siemens Foundation Prize. From 1978 onwards, Rihm has taught at the International Summer Courses in Darmstadt, and since 1973 in Karlsruhe, where he was given a professorship in composition in 1985. He is a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and of the Academy of Arts in Berlin and Mannheim. A number of festivals and concert series have been dedicated to the music of Wolfgang Rihm."
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Performed by ChorWerk Ruhr Ensemble Modern/Rupert Huber. "In the Catholic liturgy, Vigils is the nocturnal part of the canonical hours, which are spread over the entire day. In formal terms, they consist of a series of prayers, psalms, and hymns from the so-called Gregorian hymnal. Vigilia, too, satisfies the principle of concatenated form: instrumental and vocal ensembles are heard seven times in alternation before joining forces at the end of the 'Miserere'. The instrumental and vocal sections differ in character. The vocal writing in the sung sections constantly recalls the age of early vocal polyphony as well as sixteenth-century madrigals. Melody, harmony, and rhythm reign supreme. With few exceptions there are no dynamic marks. The instrumental movements are different in kind: rather than representing introductions to or commentaries on the vocal sections, they invoke a field of tension in which the vocal numbers are embedded. The clarinet and horn are stationed apart from the rest of the ensemble, heightening the impact of this field of tension. Here, too, there are echoes of imitation and cantus firmus techniques, albeit fewer than in the vocal ensembles. Yet the instrumental movements, called 'Sonatas,' are marked by extreme dynamic contrasts typical of Rihm's music altogether. The sung texts, in Latin, are taken from the Biblical Good Friday story and its liturgical and mystical adjuncts." Stereo/multichannel hybrid SACD that can be played on any CD player.
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WER 6756
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"Wolfgang Rihm's compositions for string quartet are as extensive as they are varied. A selection of these works can be found on this recording featuring the Minguet Quartet and pianist Markus Bellheim. Rihm's String Quartet No.11 is a piece of work of extreme contrasts -- restrained and explosive, simple and virtuosic, fragile and forced to the point of screaming, tightly homophonic and polyphonically splintered to the edge of total dissolution. Interscriptum is an elaboration of Rihm's twelfth string quartet. To the quartet ensemble, treated as one instrument, a piano part is added, which initiates a dialogue and creates entirely new relationships within the piece. Grave is dedicated to the Alban Berg Quartet, and was written in response to the group's request for a requiem."
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"To celebrate composer Wolfgang Rihm's 60th birthday, Wergo presents this selection of his music for organ. In Rihm's works, the organ holds a special position. The works heard here, performed by young organist Dominik Susteck, span his entire career, from the early Drei Fantasien to the more recent Bann, Nachtschwärmerei."
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"This survey of the recent piano music of Wolfgang Rihm exhibits the love/hate relationship that the composer had with the piano. From ridiculous to sublime Rihm covers all aspects of his compositional style and the piano's capabilities." Limited stock.
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