Credits:

Offenbach, J.

Description:

Wolfgang Rihm's Goethe Lieder by Hans-Christoph Begemann and Thomas Seibold, a veteran German duo with a career spanning more than 30 years! Wolfgang Rihm, born in Karlsruhe in 1952, is a contemporary German composer of orchestral, operatic, chamber, and instrumental music, He has published over 400 works in a variety of genres, and his songs also set music to poems from various periods, but here he includes all songs composed between 2004 and 2014 on poems by Goethe and Schiller. Begemann has taken up Rihm's work over the years, including several world premieres, and was involved in the symphony "Near and Far," which premiered at the Lucerne Festival in 2012. A 56-page booklet (in English and German) with lyrics, commentary, interviews, etc. for all the pieces is enclosed. Tokyo M-Plus