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Requiem-Strophen

Wolfgang Rihm

Reviews (3)

NEOS Music

2018

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2018

"The long-anticipated premiere of Wolfgang Rihm's Requiem-Strophen (Requiem Verses) in March of 2017 was also a special debut: Mariss Jansons, principal conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted his orchestra for the first time at the musica viva concert series. The live recording of this concert is being released as a co-production with BR Klassik, musica viva and NEOS. Rihm extends the liturgical Requiem text with, among others, three sonnets by Michelangelo and "verses" by Hans Sahl. Tradition is of considerable significance to Rihm, but in the sense of "assimilating it," "advancing it," and "developing it." In this sense, Rihm's Requiem-Strophen are a highly personal approach to the Requiem genre by one of the most influential composers of our times".

Fono Forum

2019 Juli

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Tilman Urbach

2019 Juli

"Von Anfang an setzt Rihm auf grosse Kontraste, auf eng verzahnte, hoch expressive Gesangslinien (meisterhaft vorgeführt von Mojca Erdmann und Anna Prohaska). Der Chor des Bayerische Rundfunks tut ein Übriges ... Rihm entwirft hier eine fortlaufende, packende musikalische Rede. Wer kann das heute schon auf diesem Niveau? Diese Musik berührt. Und das soll sie auch!".

The gramophone

2019 January

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Richard Whitehouse

2019 January

"Its consistently inward mood is leavened by the burnished instrumentation (with lower woodwind and brass to the fore) and the restrained fervency of its vocal writing ... The premiere is directed by Mariss Jansons with a keen sense of expressive continuity across the whole ... A work which should amply repay repeated listening".