Browse: Rihm (composer)

Mendelssohn’s Variations Concertantes packs a lot of variety into its nine minutes...The players here capture its changing moods, and the plangent song-like quality of the Assai Tranquillo, with... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The more exciting music is often in the orchestra, but it’s a tribute to Capuçon’s skills that, like both of the other works it is completely under his skin — BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The voice – a distinctive instrument offering a hint of Christian Gerhaher’s refined artlessness and some of the pleasingly acidic tang of Wolfgang Holzmair – changes according to the accompaniment:... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2021 More…

Bookended by Bach arrangements, this album of solo piano works explores musical connections through history. The overwhelming echo in the recording creates a shimmering effect, overriding some... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 2 out of 5 stars More…

it’s one of Rihm’s greatest achievements, an unstoppable, ever-renewing stream of invention that seems to follow its own satisfying logic. It’s also phenomenally difficult to play, though you’d... — The Guardian, 3rd March 2022 More…

[The performances] demonstrate vividly how protean Rihm’s music can be, and are a reminder of how, throughout his career, his music has always been in a dialogue with the past, and of how he... — The Guardian, 3rd March 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mozart’s ‘Abendempfindung an Laura’ ( K523) looks simple on the surface but is artfully through composed, and Richter leads each phrase into the next with subtle vocal shading and seamless breath... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

You could scarcely do better than this CD for an introduction to some of Rihm's more intimate pieces: at Naxos's better-than-reasonable price, it is virtually risk-free. Tianwa Yang and Nicholas... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…