Tag: Wolfgang Rihm

• Wolfgang Rihm – Sieben Passions-Texte for six voices (2001–06)

  Mar 24

  Sacred music is by no means at the centre of his creative output, and Wolfgang Rihm had actually intended to »take off his monastic habit«, as he himself recalls, when… more ›

• Wolfgang Rihm – Magma (1973)

  Mar 22

  In Magma (1973), the large symphonic sound apparatus is savoured. With a desire towards the anarchic, Rihm devoted himself to a multifaceted, differentiated and auratic sound composition. more ›

• Wolfgang Rihm – Versuchung (2008-2009)

  Mar 21

  Wolfgang Rihm – Versuchung, An homage to Max Beckmann for cello and orchestra (2008-2009). more ›

• Wolfgang Rihm – reinventing the greats

  Mar 21

  With more than 400 works to his name, Wolfgang Rihm is among the most prolific living composers. The BBC Symphony Orchestra exposed us to a fraction of this oeuvre in… more ›

• Wolfgang Rihm: the musical omnivore

  Mar 7

  The taxi driver knows immediately who I’m going to see when I tell him the address I need in Karlsruhe. “That’s Professor Rihm, right?” I’m a wee bit bemused that… more ›

• Wolfgang Rihm: Quid Est Deus

  Feb 15

  Since he composed his St Luke Passion for Stuttgart 10 years ago, choral works seem to have figured more and more prominently in Wolfgang Rihm’s output. The Hänssler disc includes… more ›

• Anne-Sophie Mutter in United Arab Emirates

  Feb 14

  “Excuse my English,” Anne-Sophie Mutter says with a laugh. “I know it’s rather flowery, but that’s as good as it gets.” As it turns out she speaks it better than… more ›