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Hänssler Classics is committed to recording all the works of Wolfgang Rihm, one of the most prolific and intriguing German composers to emerge in the late twentieth century, and this CD is the third installment in the Rihm Edition. The composer shows remarkable assurance in his first symphony, written in 1969, when he was 17. It's a serial piece, and its roiling turbulence and unpredictable juxtapositions make it very much a product of the defiant modernism that dominated music in postwar Europe. The symphony is emotionally and dramatically charged, a potent expression of the composer's credo, which he was to articulate five years later: "Music must be full of emotion, the emotion full of complexity." The second symphony, composed in 1974, is more aesthetically daring, an example of Rihm's willingness to go to expressive extremes. It begins with a single pitch that grows in timbral complexity for over a minute and is followed by a silence lasting 35 seconds. Gestures of that boldness, regardless of whatever other responses they elicit, are guaranteed to rivet and focus an audience's attention, and when the orchestra finally reenters in an expressionistic, densely contrapuntal haze, listeners can't help hearing it with a heightened alertness. In the later works recorded here, written between 1987 and 1995, Rihm has matured; the youthful angst has been replaced by a more controlled and sophisticated handling of his material. Vers une symphonie fleuve III, for orchestra (1992-1995), is a particularly attractive and poetically eloquent piece. Two large choral works use a full range of extended vocal techniques, always to meaningful expressive ends. The performances by Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR and SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, under a variety of conductors, are consistently superlative, deeply committed, and technically polished. The CD should appeal to listeners with an interest in new developments in unapologetic modernism.
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Symphony No. 1, Op. 3 (Wolfgang Rihm)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wolfgang Rihm, Composer - Jonathan Stockhammer, Conductor
(C) 2008 SWR Classic (P) 2008 SWR Classic
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wolfgang Rihm, Composer - Jonathan Stockhammer, Conductor
(C) 2008 SWR Classic (P) 2008 SWR Classic
Symphony No. 2, "Erster und letzter Satz" (Wolfgang Rihm)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wolfgang Rihm, Composer - Jonathan Stockhammer, Conductor
(C) 2008 SWR Classic (P) 2008 SWR Classic
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wolfgang Rihm, Composer - Jonathan Stockhammer, Conductor
(C) 2008 SWR Classic (P) 2008 SWR Classic
Nachtwach (Wolfgang Rihm)
Marcus Creed, Artist - Wolfgang Rihm, Composer - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir - Ute Wille, Artist - Mikhail Shashkov, Artist - Bernhard Hartmann, Artist - Hubert Mayer, Artist - Barbara van den Boom, Artist, MainArtist - Martin Huber, Artist - Rüdiger Linn, Artist - Aleksandra Lustig, Artist - Susanne Meissner-Schaufelberger, Artist - Angelika Frei, Artist - Michael Peuse, Artist - Heinrich Golzenleuchter, Artist
(C) 2008 SWR Classic (P) 2008 SWR Classic
Vers une symphonie fleuve III (Wolfgang Rihm)
Gianluigi Gelmetti, Conductor - WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wolfgang Rihm, Composer
(C) 2008 SWR Classic (P) 2008 SWR Classic
Raumauge (Wolfgang Rihm)
Wolfgang Rihm, Composer - Rupert Huber, Conductor - SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Choir, MainArtist - Varianti, Ensemble
(C) 2008 SWR Classic (P) 2008 SWR Classic
Albumbeschreibung
Hänssler Classics is committed to recording all the works of Wolfgang Rihm, one of the most prolific and intriguing German composers to emerge in the late twentieth century, and this CD is the third installment in the Rihm Edition. The composer shows remarkable assurance in his first symphony, written in 1969, when he was 17. It's a serial piece, and its roiling turbulence and unpredictable juxtapositions make it very much a product of the defiant modernism that dominated music in postwar Europe. The symphony is emotionally and dramatically charged, a potent expression of the composer's credo, which he was to articulate five years later: "Music must be full of emotion, the emotion full of complexity." The second symphony, composed in 1974, is more aesthetically daring, an example of Rihm's willingness to go to expressive extremes. It begins with a single pitch that grows in timbral complexity for over a minute and is followed by a silence lasting 35 seconds. Gestures of that boldness, regardless of whatever other responses they elicit, are guaranteed to rivet and focus an audience's attention, and when the orchestra finally reenters in an expressionistic, densely contrapuntal haze, listeners can't help hearing it with a heightened alertness. In the later works recorded here, written between 1987 and 1995, Rihm has matured; the youthful angst has been replaced by a more controlled and sophisticated handling of his material. Vers une symphonie fleuve III, for orchestra (1992-1995), is a particularly attractive and poetically eloquent piece. Two large choral works use a full range of extended vocal techniques, always to meaningful expressive ends. The performances by Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR and SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, under a variety of conductors, are consistently superlative, deeply committed, and technically polished. The CD should appeal to listeners with an interest in new developments in unapologetic modernism.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 7 track(s)
- Total length: 01:05:07
- Main artist: WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
- Composer: Wolfgang Rihm
- Label: SWR Classic
- Genre: Klassiek
(C) 2008 SWR Classic (P) 2008 SWR Classic
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