Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - BRSO

Ingo Metzmacher

Friday
11
March 2022
8:00 pm
Munich, Munich Residence, Herkulessaal
Musica viva

Programme

Wolfgang Rihm
Doppelgesang
Wolfgang Rihm
Wölffli-Lieder for Bassbariton and Orchestra
Interval
Wolfgang Rihm
Die Stücke des Sängers
Wolfgang Rihm
In-Schrift

Performers

Ingo Metzmacher conductor
Georg Nigl baritone
Lawrence Power viola
Nicolas Altstaedt violoncello
Magdalena Hoffmann harp
Bavarian Radio Chorus
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Concert video

Wolfgang Rihm © Astrid Ackermann

Information about the programme

Wolfgang Rihm’s work is pervaded by “lines of force”, such as a passion for literature and the visual arts, and often by borrowing from his own music. Earlier pieces are reworked and overwritten without being discarded. A crucial role on this labyrinthine path through time is played by lines, both written and performed: “I love the convoluted web of lines in orchestra’s potential”, he explains. “They are the intertwining grids on which I’ve been working for years”. In Die Stücke des Sängers, Orpheus is torn apart and his lyre is smashed. But new things emerge from the destruction, for his harp continues to play: “Everything I’ve brought forth by way of music I owe to a life, not to a strategy, theory or experiment. It has always been life itself.”

Further concerts

Thu, 7 Nov, 8:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie
Sir Simon Rattle © BR\Astrid Ackermann
Sir Simon Rattle
Mahler 7
Thu, 14 Nov, 8:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie
Sir Simon Rattle © BR\Peter Meisel
Sir Simon Rattle
Works by Ligeti, Wagner, Webern and Bruckner
Sat, 16 Nov, 7:00 pm
Munich, Gasteig HP8, Isarphilharmonie
Sir Simon Rattle © BR\Astrid Ackermann
Sir Simon Rattle
Charity concert in favour of SZ Gute Werke e. V.