Rihm - Geste zu Vedova: String Quartets, String Quintet | Wergo WER73462

Rihm - Geste zu Vedova: String Quartets, String Quintet

£13.25

Usually available for despatch within 2-3 working days

Label: Wergo

Cat No: WER73462

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 1st September 2017

Contents

About

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-yearold 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.

Error on this page? Let us know here

Need more information on this product? Click here