ConcertPulseFor Wolfgang Rihm – I
Date & Time
Tue, Mar 8, 2022, 20:00musica viva is celebrating Wolfgang Rihm’s 70th birthday with a week of concerts. Since the 1970s, when he burst upon Germany’s music scene as an enfant terrible, Rihm has embodied the unconditionality of the creative act. It is thus no accident that his 1978 essay on pain and pleasure bore the title Ins eigene Fleisch (“mortifying the flesh”) and dealt with the close bond between mind and body. The same applies to the quintet studies he wrote for composer-clarinettist Jörg... Read full text
Keywords: Contemporary, World Premiere
Musicians
| Georg Nigl | Bariton |
| Olga Pashchenko | Piano |
| Jörg Widmann | Clarinet |
| Bavarian Radio Chorus | |
| Solist*nnen des Symphonieorchesters des Bayerischen Rundfunks |
Program
| Missa brevis for choir a capella | Wolfgang Rihm |
| “Terzinen an den Tod“ four poems by Albert Vigoleis Thelen for baritone and piano (2021/22) – commissioned by musica viva of the Bayerischer Rundfunk | world premiere | Wolfgang Rihm |
| Vier Studien zu einem Klarinettenquintett für Klarinette und Streichquartett (2003) | Wolfgang Rihm |