Wolfgang Rihm: Geste zu Vedova, String Quartets & Epilogue

This fine disc traces something of the composer’s creative journey, placing a pair of early quartet alongside two mesmeric recent works…The Minguet Quartet (joined by Jens Peter Maintz) deliver... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 8th Sep 2017
Catalogue No: WER73462
Label: Wergo
Length: 47 minutes

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Rihm: Geste zu Vedova

Work length10:08

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Minguet Quartett

Rihm: Streichquartett in G

Work length9:19

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Minguet Quartett

Rihm: Streichquartett 1968

Work length15:37

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Minguet Quartett

III. Allegro vivo

Track length1:54

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IV. Allegretto – Allegro agitato

Track length1:33

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V. Scherzo (Allegro)

Track length5:47

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VI. Finale: Largo (Chaconne) – Allegro con brio

Track length6:23

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Rihm: Epilog

Work length11:57

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Wolfgang Rihm is a real phenomenon: his overwhelming creative energy was already present during his childhood. He began composing when he was only 11 years old, long before his studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe where he successfully passed the state examination in composition and music theory. The current CD featuring string quartets and quintets presents works from the early and late stages of his compositional oeuvre.

Rihm composed the String Quartet in G minor as a 14-year old schoolboy. The youthful work displays a close proximity to early Beethoven. Stylistically, this quartet also shows many similarities to the String Quartet 1968 written a few years later.

The Epilog for string quintet which forges a link with the late works of Schubert was composed 45 years later. Despite its affinity with Schubert’s Romanticism, the composition is clearly contemporary in style, not least due to its advanced playing techniques.

Geste zu Vedova is a homage to the Venezuelan artist Emilio Vedova (1919–2006). This music is a percussive and block-like reaction to the kinesis and energy of the artist’s creative approach to his works that had such a profound impression on Rihm.

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December 2017

This fine disc traces something of the composer’s creative journey, placing a pair of early quartet alongside two mesmeric recent works…The Minguet Quartet (joined by Jens Peter Maintz) deliver fine performances, finding the precision, lyricism and fiery abandon demanded by Rihm’s endlessly inventive scores.

December 2017

It is well worth investing in, especially when the production values, which are first rate, are taken into account; add to this the wonderful performances of the Minguet Quartett, who seem to have a deep understanding of this music, and Jens Peter Maintz, and you have a real winner. A must for all fans of the music of Wolfgang Rihm, but also of string quartets and especially those of the modern era.

January 2018

There’s a subtle deployment of extended string techniques, and the players chart the work’s slowly evolving textures expertly. It’s a remarkable, compelling disc, captures in rich, crystal- clear sound.

Wolfgang Rihm: Geste zu Vedova, String Quartets & Epilogue

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