Rihm: Klavierstücke Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5 & 7

Featuring

Bernhard Wambach
Wolfgang Rihm

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Performer Biography

Bernhard Wambach has collaborated with many notable composers, including Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, and Iannis Xenakis.

Performer Biography

Bernhard Wambach, the pianist on this album, is a laureate of the International Arnold Schönberg Competition (1979) and the Kranichsteiner Music Award (1982).

Composer's Artistic Vision

Wolfgang Rihm's use of sequential numbers for his Klavierstücke may be an homage to his teacher, Karlheinz Stockhausen, a renowned composer of electronic and serial music.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Wolfgang Rihm, the composer, stated that his piano music is not a separate block but rather participates in the broader issues of his entire creative output.

Composer Biography

Wolfgang Rihm had his international breakthrough in 1974 at the Donaueschinger Musiktage and has been a professor of composition at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe since 1985.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Wolfgang Rihm views each of his works as a fragment from a continuous "musical mine" where creative prospecting is always ongoing.

Compositional Technique

Wolfgang Rihm's Klavierstück Nr. 4 derives its basic proportions (5:7:2:9) from his large-scale orchestral work Dis-Kontur, compressing them into a rondo-like form.