Wolfgang Rihm: Works for Organ

Release Date: 8th May 2012
Catalogue No: WER67512
Label: Wergo
Length: 72 minutes

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Rihm: Bann, Nachtschwärmerei

Work length16:09

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Dominik Susteck

Rihm: Fantasie

Work length9:39

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Dominik Susteck

Rihm: Drei Fantasien Für Orgel I

Work length3:40

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Dominik Susteck

Rihm: Drei Fantasien Für Orgel II

Work length2:42

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Dominik Susteck

Rihm: Drei Fantasien Für Orgel III

Work length5:26

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Dominik Susteck

Rihm: Sinfoniae I. Messe Für Orgel I

Work length3:08

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Dominik Susteck

Rihm: Sinfoniae I. Messe Für Orgel II

Work length1:45

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Dominik Susteck

Rihm: Sinfoniae I. Messe Für Orgel III

Work length2:52

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Dominik Susteck

Rihm: Sinfoniae I. Messe Für Orgel IV

Work length3:43

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Dominik Susteck

Rihm: Sinfoniae I. Messe Für Orgel V

Work length0:46

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Dominik Susteck

Rihm: Sinfoniae I. Messe Für Orgel VI

Work length1:27

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Dominik Susteck

Rihm: Sinfoniae I. Messe Für Orgel VII

Work length1:16

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Dominik Susteck

Rihm: Contemplatio Per Organo

Work length3:27

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Dominik Susteck

Rihm: Siebengestalt Für Orgel Und Tamtam

Work length16:40

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Dominik Susteck, Jens Brülls

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To commemorate Wolfgang Rihm's 60th birthday, WERGO releases a CD comprised of his organ works. The organ holds a special position as his instrument of choice for early adventures in compositional self-discovery.

“Drei Fantasien” and “Contemplatio” are surprisingly spare. In them, the melodic element predominates. “Fantasie für Orgel” is, according to Rihm in retrospect, “a multi-faceted organ piece with a frenetic ending”. The piece does in fact contain passages that anticipate those violent “outbursts” in his later orchestral works.

“Sinfoniae I – Messe für Orgel” [Sinfonias I – Mass for Organ] continues the tradition of the French organ mass and organ symphony. Nonetheless, the six “movements” of this piece form, through their common material and textural structure, a tightly integrated whole.

In the composition “Siebengestalt”, both “intuitive and emotional” and “synthetic and constructive” elements are interwoven.

For “Bann. Nachtschwärmerei”, Rihm returns to the world of his earlier organ pieces from an ironic distance. Young organist Dominik Susteck performed these works on the organ of St. Peter’s Art Station in Cologne for this recording. The disposition of this instrument – the uniquely large number of overtone registers as well as specially construed registers for new music should be mentioned and makes these works appear in an entirely new light.

Wolfgang Rihm: Works for Organ

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