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2020 |
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Len Mullenger Editor
in Chief:John Quinn
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RECORD OF THE MONTH
Wolfgang RIHM (b.1952) |
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The fiftieth birthday of Wolfgang Rihm, possibly the finest living German composer, has gone unremarked in this country. A retrospective such as the extremely interesting one I recently saw in Madrid would have been most valuable as he is a very fine composer, one that in these years when contemporary classical music has lost confidence in itself carries a torch for serious, ambitious music. As the violin concerto he wrote for Anne-Sophie Mutter shows, his music is extremely busy, and certainly cerebral, yet it is exceptionally expressive, much more so than opponents of "modern" compositions would believe. Cutting a swathe through the repetitive, pastoral mush that passes for new music, could this be the acceptable face of the Boulez school of composition? |
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