Rihm/Bartok: Schrift-Um-Schrift

This performance is a model of sustained alertness, the recording admirably spacious and sonorous. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2011 More…

Release Date: 15th Nov 2010
Catalogue No: NEOS11032
Label: Neos
Series: Contemporary
Length: 56 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

March 2011

Editor's Choice

Rihm: Schrift-um-Schrift

Work length30:51

Album only

Jan Schlichte (percussion), Franz Schindlbeck (percussion)
GrauSchumacher Piano Duo

Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion, BB 115, Sz. 110

Work length26:05

$5.00

$6.00

Jan Schlichte (percussion), Franz Schindlbeck (percussion)
GrauSchumacher Piano Duo

I. Assai lento - Allegro molto

Track length13:19

$3.00

$3.60

II. Lento, ma non troppo

Track length6:25

$1.00

$1.20

III. Allegro non troppo

Track length6:21

$1.00

$1.20

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Bartók wrote this sonata in 1937, having already written his epoch-making Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Rihm’s work is dated 1993/2007. It enjoys a successive development of discrete musical events and attenuated sounds, transformed into a space filled with echoes and resonances.

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March 2011

This performance is a model of sustained alertness, the recording admirably spacious and sonorous.

28th November 2010

Bartok’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion is a marvel of 20th-century music, an uncanny fusion of the cerebral and the visceral, the folkloristic and geometrical. It is played here with a keen ear for both kinds of attribute, coolly, passionately and altogether thrillingly

6th January 2011

Schrift-Um-Schrift was composed by Wolfgang Rihm as a companion piece to Bartók's great sonata, and certainly uses the pairs of percussionists and pianists to create a shimmering, delicate soundworld that occasionally snaps into focus with much more sharply defined musical objects...Alongside it the Bartók sonata seems a model of clarity and vivid originality

Rihm/Bartok: Schrift-Um-Schrift

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