Wolfgang Rihm: Chamber Works Vol. 1

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Rihm is not one of those seeking a new simplicity - but he embraces the unexpected, looking for a directional freedom that celebrates the unforeseen...‘Music must be full of emotion, the emotion... — Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 13th June 2007 More…

Release Date: 12th Feb 2007
Catalogue No: HAEN93185
Label: Hänssler
Length: 72 minutes

Rihm: Music for Oboe and Orchestra

Work length16:22

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$5.15

Alexander Ott
SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks
Hans Zender

Rihm: Styx and Lethe

Work length23:45

Album only

Lucas Fels
SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks
Hans Zender

Rihm: Dritte Musik, Musik für Violine und Orchester No. 3

Work length17:55

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Gottfried Schneider
SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks
Michael Gielen

Rihm: Erster Doppelgesang

Work length14:04

$3.00

$3.85

Hirofumi Fukai, Walter Grimmer
SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks
Jan Latham-Koenig

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Wolfgang Rihm says he is one of the most performed, most discussed and most successful living composers. And one of the most productive, as well: word has it that his opus numbers would already be far above four hundred, were he to assign such, while his expositors and commentators have already identified three distinct "creative periods". Presumably, more will be added, since

Rihm's oeuvre is growing as continually and fluidly as his five (so far) "Symphonies fleuves". As his friend, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, characterizes him, "Plenitude is his credo, and the stream which arises anew in flowing is his element." Rihm's confession, his "Donaueschingen Creed" of 1974, so bold for that time, has since lost none of its authority: "Music must be full of emotion, the emotion full of complexity."

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13th June 2007

Rihm is not one of those seeking a new simplicity - but he embraces the unexpected, looking for a directional freedom that celebrates the unforeseen...‘Music must be full of emotion, the emotion full of complexity’ Rihm wrote in 1974…and these four first recordings are ample proof that it’s an imperative he’s been satisfying with brilliance and rare imagination ever since.

Wolfgang Rihm: Chamber Works Vol. 1

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