Wolfgang Rihm & Luigi Nono: Passion Texts

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Wolfgang Rihm has always acknowledged the importance of Luigi Nono’s music in the development of his own style. That influence comes across strikingly in this serenely beautiful sequence of... — The Guardian, 20th November 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 20th Oct 2014
Catalogue No: AECD1441
Label: Aeon
Length: 57 minutes

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Rihm: Quo me rapis

Work length11:19

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Exaudi, James Weeks
Recorded: 2 October 2006
Recording Venue: St Paul's, Knightsbridge, London, UK

Rihm: Sieben Passions-Texte

Work length28:31

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Exaudi, James Weeks
Recorded: 18-19 February 2012
Recording Venue: All Saints', East Finchley, London, UK

1. Tristis est anima mea

Track length2:37

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2. Ecce vidimus eum

Track length3:38

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3. Velum templi scissum est

Track length3:43

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4. Tenebrae factae sunt

Track length5:16

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5. Caligaverunt oculi mei

Track length4:44

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6. Recessit pastor noster

Track length2:55

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7. Aestimatus sum

Track length5:38

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Nono: Dónde estás, hermano?

Work length6:06

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Exaudi, James Weeks
Recorded: 18-19 February 2012
Recording Venue: All Saints', East Finchley, London, UK

Rihm: Mit geschlossenem Mund

Work length4:10

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Exaudi, James Weeks
Recorded: 2 October 2006
Recording Venue: St Paul's, Knightsbridge, London, UK

Nono: Sarà dolce tacere

Work length7:47

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Exaudi, James Weeks
Recorded: 19 September 2009
Recording Venue: St Silas, Chalk Farm, London, UK

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The musics of Luigi Nono and Wolfgang Rihm have often been linked. Nono’s late style, a world of sharplyetched, strikingly sparse sound forms set against a background of silence, made a deep impression on his younger colleague, whose works from the mid-1980s onwards show the clear imprint of the Italian master’s visionary clarity.

This recording of works for differing ensembles of solo voices shows another trait the two hold in common: a passionate engagement with their fellow humanbeings, giving rise to a music of searing and shocking directness. The human soul stripped to a mouth, a mouth opened in transcendental suffering - of the relatives of the disappeared in Argentina, of Jesus on the Cross - or closed in defiant compassion for the victims of AIDS. A mouth that can also sing of the violent cataclysms of creative ecstasy and the quiet lyricism of a peaceful Utopia.

Recorded over a period of five years, EXAUDI’s new disc is a labour of love, featuring music that has been part of the ensemble’s lifeblood since its foundation, each performance thoroughly embedded in heart and voice before being committed to disc. We hope that the results succeed in showing these varied and remarkable works, which we love deeply, in a new and clearer light.

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20th November 2014

Wolfgang Rihm has always acknowledged the importance of Luigi Nono’s music in the development of his own style. That influence comes across strikingly in this serenely beautiful sequence of unaccompanied choral pieces...It’s music in which every note matters, and Exaudi ensures that it does.

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