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Rihm: Complete Works for Violin & Piano

5/6/2013, 10 Tracks, 2:28:40

Featuring

  • Tianwa Yang
  • Nicholas Rimmer
  • Wolfgang Rihm

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Wolfgang Rihm composes "completely by intuition, not by a programme," letting the music guide the instruments rather than the other way around.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Tianwa Yang, the violinist on this album, was named 'A Pride of China' by Hong Kong media and is the youngest artist to have recorded Paganini's 24 Caprices.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Wolfgang Rihm, born in 1952, began composing at age eleven and studied with notable figures like Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Wolfgang Rihm is a highly prolific contemporary composer, with a catalogue of over 400 works spanning all major musical genres.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album features the complete works for violin and piano by Wolfgang Rihm, including a world premiere recording of Über die Linie VII for solo violin.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Wolfgang Rihm's music, while contemporary, does not repudiate the musical past and draws upon the full extent of the Austro-German late Romantic tradition.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Nicholas Rimmer, the pianist, won the German Music Competition twice: as a piano accompanist in 2006 and as a member of the Leibniz Trio in 2010.

Source: Booklet

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