Wolfgang Rihm: Complete Works for Violin and Piano

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You could scarcely do better than this CD for an introduction to some of Rihm's more intimate pieces: at Naxos's better-than-reasonable price, it is virtually risk-free. Tianwa Yang and Nicholas... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Oct 2012
Catalogue No: 8572730
Label: Naxos
Length: 74 minutes

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Rihm: Phantom und Eskapade

Work length18:10

$4.00

$5.15

$7.00

Tianwa Yang, Nicholas Rimmer

Rihm: Hekton

Work length6:32

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Tianwa Yang, Nicholas Rimmer

Rihm: Antlitz

Work length14:18

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

Tianwa Yang, Nicholas Rimmer

Rihm: Violin Sonata

Work length10:50

$3.00

$3.85

$5.25

Tianwa Yang, Nicholas Rimmer

Rihm: Über die Linie VII

Work length24:28

Album only

Tianwa Yang

Uber die Linie VII

Track length24:28

Album only

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Wolfgang Rihm is one of the world’s most eminent and prolific composers. His works for violin and piano encompass almost his entire compositional career, from Hekton in 1972 to the solo violin Über die Linie VII in 2006. Each draws on a wide range of influences, from folk-like moments, embedded quotations and dazzlingly virtuosic episodes. They reflect the breadth of Rihm’s various changing styles, which are almost unique in today’s music in marrying contemporary technique with emotionally powerful resonances.

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January 2013

You could scarcely do better than this CD for an introduction to some of Rihm's more intimate pieces: at Naxos's better-than-reasonable price, it is virtually risk-free. Tianwa Yang and Nicholas Rimmer sound quite at home, even in the most difficult passages, and imbue these works with emotion, as well as meeting their technical challenges with aplomb.

February 2013

The devotion that Rihm attracts from his performers is impressive and this young duo is no exception. Both deploy a full range of colour and nuance, and the ability to change mood in an instant. The early pieces might just have benefited from a touch more savagery

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