Wolfgang Rihm

Morphonie & Klangbeschreibung I-III (Volume Wolfgang R)

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CD/ Track	Title	Duration
1.1	Morphonie for orchestra with solo string quartet	40:10
1.2	Klangbeschreibung I for three orchestra groups	20:15
2.1	Klangbeschreibung II for four women's voices, five bass instruments and six percussions in a poem by Nietzsche	28:40
2.2	Klangbeschreibung III for full orchestra	38:15

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29,95 EUR

: SCM Hänssler
series:: Wolfgang Rihm Edition
Art.-No.:: 093.010.000
: Doppel-CD
: 28 S.
Duration:: 1:06 hrs.
: August 2000
: *recommended retail price

Rihm, Wolfgang: Morphonie for Orchestra and Solo String Quartet; Klangbeschreibungen I - III
Ingrid Ade-Jesemann, soprano
Monika Bair-Jvenz, mezzo soprano
Christa Muckenheim, soprano
Christine Whittlesey, High soprano
SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg
Michael Gielen, Ernest Bour, Conductors
Wolfgang Rihm will surely rank as one of the most important Post-Expressionist composers of the late 20th century. Drawing upon the language of Berg and Bartok, Rihm has created a powerful, if at times, elliptical language that is full of elegiac power. How does his music sound? Striking musical gestures, delineated with a keen sense of tone-color ebb and flow in episodes of violence and stasis. Gramophone magazine described Rihm's scores as “…music which neither talks down to intelligent concert audiences nor aims deliberately over their heads, and it has a conviction and distinctiveness which invites rehearings.”