It's day 2 of the 5e Biennale de quatuors à cordes at the Cité de la Musique in Paris.
14:30 ZEMLINSKY QUARTET
including Rihm’s String Quartet No. 10
Full score
17:30 QUATUOR TETRAKTYS
including Rihm’s String Quartet No. 6
Full score
The 5e Biennale de quatuors à cordes is now underway in Paris, presenting the string quartets of Wolfgang Rihm amongst a range of other works. To celebrate, we are posting the full scores of many of the works here and on ISSUU.com.
The festival begins today (Saturday 14 Jan) with three concerts.
14:30 QUATUOR THYMOS
including Rihm’s String Quartet No. 9
17:00 QUATUOR VOCE
including Rihm’s String Quartet No. 2 and String Quartet No. 11
The full score of String Quartet No. 11 is here
20:30 QUATUOR MODIGLIANI
including Rihm’s “Streichquartett” and String Quartet in G
The full scores are here:
Streichquartett
String Quartet in G
The iconic ZaterdagMatinee
concert series in Amsterdam begins a special season dedicated to Wolfgang Rihm
this Saturday.
During the forthcoming concert series, works by Rihm will be included in eight of the matinee concerts presented by the Dutch Radio at the Concertgebouw.
The series begins with the world première of Rihm’s Der Maler träumt for baritone and ensemble given by Christian Miedl and the Asko|Schönberg ensemble, alongside a performance of Male über Male 2 with clarinettist Jörg Widmann. Reinbert de Leeuw conducts. Music by Schreker and Widmann will also be performed.
Read more on the NTR website.
The concert is broadcast live on Dutch Radio 4 at 14:15 (Amsterdam time) on Saturday 29 Oct, and there’s a live video stream on the NTR website.
The 2011
Donaueschingen Festival starts tomorrow with a concert given by the RSO
Baden-Baden and Freiburg together with the Ensemble MusikFabrik.
Emilio Pomàrico conducts the world première of Wolfgang Rihm’s “Séraphin”-Symphonie. The work is the latest incarnation of a “complex” of works that carry a reference to Antonin Artaud and his work.
To learn more, see this Rihm-Artaud-Overview, showing how the works are connected (PDF file – with thanks to Ulrich Mosch from the Sacher Foundation in Basel).
Visit the Donaueschingen pages at the SWR website, including videos from last year’s festival.
The concert will be broadcast live on SWR2 Radio at 8pm Paris time on 14 October. Listen online.
Anne-Sophie Mutter talks about her new CD featuring four world première recordings.
Included on the disc are Wolfgang Rihm’s Lichtes Spiel and Dyade.
col-legno’s
2003 CD with Christoph Prégardien and Siegfried Mauser, 3 Liederzyklen, is
available again. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung celebrates the
rerelease of this “brilliant recording”.
The CD contains:
Ende der Handschrift. 11 späte Gedichte von Heiner Müller
Nebendraußen. 8 Gedichte von Hermann Lenz
Rilke: 4 Gedichte
Order online at col legno
Listen to an excerpt of Nature morte, from Ende der Handschrift
Listen on SoundCloud
The Dutch performances of Wolfgang Rihm’s new opera Dionysos have just come to an end, to much critical acclaim in the Netherlands.
The Netherlands Opera has published a video presenting the work, including interviews with Rihm and with stage director Pierre Audi.
The full recording of the Amsterdam production is still online at Radio4 Netherlands. And the full vocal score is here.
Wolfgang Rihm’s opera Dionysos was broadcast live from the Holland Festival in Amsterdam yesterday. The recording is online for a short period at the Dutch Radio4 website (the opera begins about 35 minutes in).
The full vocal score is online here.
Carolin Widmann performs Wolfgang Rihm’s Über die Linie VII,
Morton Feldman’s For Aaron Copland and Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VIII at
the Konzerthaus in Vienna tonight.
Vykintas Baltakas’ (co)ro(na) is performed in Düsseldorf by the notabu.ensemble (15 June)
Ernst Krenek’s Das Geheime Königreich opens in Athens at the Greek National Opera.
The world première of Luke Bedford’s opera Seven Angels is on Friday 17 June.
The world première of Johannes Maria Staud’s Par ici is given by Ensemble intercontemporain, also on Friday.
Richard Rodney Bennett’s All the King’s Men can be heard in a new production in Cambridge on Saturday.
The list goes on … see all forthcoming concerts in our online performance calendar.
Our week of world premières continues, following yesterday’s new work by Vykintas Baltakas.
On Saturday, Georg Friedrich Haas’ new work for chamber orchestra, chants oubliés, is part of a portrait concert given by the Munich Chamber Orchestra, which is joined by Teodoro Anzelotti and Kelvin Hawthorne.
Johannes Maria Staud’s new monodrama for narrator and ensemble, Der Riß durch den Tag, is given its world première in Dresden by Bruno Ganz and the Staatskapelle Dresden.
In other news, the Dutch Radio’s famous ZaterdagMatinee series presents the Dutch première of Wolfgang Rihm’s QUID EST DEUS? The concert is broadcast live on Dutch Radio (14:15, Sat 4 June CEST).
We’re still celebrating Schönberg’s estate being included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, so here’s another chance to hear Wolfgang Rihm talking (in German) about Schönberg’s Variations Op. 31.
Here are translated excerpts.
By the way, the photo above is available as a mousepad (would you believe it!), as is this one.
We've just published our new catalogue of works by Wolfgang Rihm.
Download a PDF file of the catalogue here
On the
radio tonight, a recording from the recent Klavierfestival Ruhr, with tenor Taylan
Memioglu and Dan Deutsch at the piano.
Hear Wolfgang Rihm’s song cycle, Das Rot, to poems by Karoline von Günderrode, in a concert also including Henze and Schumann. 20:03 (Paris time) on WDR3.
Read more at the WDR website.
Here’s a video of Alarm Will Sound rehearsing Wolfgang Rihm’s Will Sound at the Maerzmusik Festival in Berlin last week.
Watch you YouTube.
Alarm Will
Sound take to the stage tonight at the MaerzMusik Festival in Berlin.
On the programme are Harrison Birtwistle’s Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum and Wolfgang Rihm’s Will Sound, which was written for the ensemble. Alan Pierson conducts.
The concert will be broadcast on Thursday 24th on Deutschlandradio Kultur.