Rihm - String Quartet No.11, Interscriptum, Grave
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Label: Wergo
Cat No: WER67562
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 29th April 2013
Contents
Works
Grave 'in memoriam Thomas Kakuska' for string quartetInterscriptum: Duo for string quartet and piano
String Quartet no.11
Artists
Markus Bellheim (piano)Minguet Quartet
Works
Grave 'in memoriam Thomas Kakuska' for string quartetInterscriptum: Duo for string quartet and piano
String Quartet no.11
Artists
Markus Bellheim (piano)Minguet Quartet
About
The '11th String Quartet' (1998/2010) was not finished by Rihm until after his '12th String Quartet' (2000/2001). At the end of this – for Rihm – exceptionally protracted twelve-year period of compositional gestation, there was a piece of work of extreme contrasts: restrained and explosive, simple and virtuoso, fragile and forced to the point of screaming, tightly homophonic and polyphonically splintered to the edge of total dissolution. Rough contrasts determine abrupt shifts in detail as well as, on a larger scale, the different characters of the four movements, which are played without pause.
'Interscriptum. Duo für Streichquartett und Klavier' is an elaboration of Rihm’s '12th String Quartet'. To the quartet ensemble, treated as 'one instrument', a piano part is added, which – as the title 'Duo' indicates – initiates a dialogue and creates entirely new relationships within the piece.
'Grave' is dedicated to the Alban Berg Quartet, and was written in response to the group’s request for a requiem. The postscript 'in memoriam Thomas Kakuska' shows the work to be an epitaph following the death, after a long illness, of Kakuska, the veteran violist of the Alban Berg Quartet, who had performed many of Rihm's works.
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