Archived Event

Wolfgang Rihm Composer Focus Day
Quatuor Danel; Jörg Widmann clarinet; Bruno Schneider horn
Date
Sat 28 Feb 2015, 11.30am
Duration
This concert will be approximately 1 hour 20 minutes in duration, without an interval
Availability

Wolfgang Rihm Composer Focus Day

Artists

  • Quatuor Danel
    • Jörg Widmannclarinet
    • Bruno Schneiderhorn

    Programme

        • Sextet
          (UK première) [1]
        • Vier Male for Clarinet in A major
        • 4 Studien zu einem Klarinettenquintett
    1. Co-commissioned by Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, with the support of the AMMODO Foundation; Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, President of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation, and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

    Overview

    In the 1970s the young Wolfgang Rihm was at the vanguard of a movement to restore expressivity to contemporary German music and open a modern dialogue with the past.

    While his strikingly original works often connect with the aesthetics of Romanticism, they do so without trace of nostalgia or sentimental yearning for styles overturned by the cataclysmic upheavals of the last century. Wigmore Hall’s Composer Focus Day, featuring performances by artists closely associated with Wolfgang Rihm, touches on the myriad ways in which his art draws pulsating life from the abiding energy of music and poetic images of an earlier age.

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