The music of Aribert Reimann (born 1936), one of the most prominent German composers of the second half of the twentieth century, is notable for its graphic and very effective depiction of bleakness. His most famous opera is based on King Lear, and the desolation and existential despair of the play are ideally suited to the composer's expressive ...
Like many post-modern composers, Rolf Riehm has found the music of the past to be a stimulating source of material and has reshaped it to suit his needs in several orchestral works. Whether drawing on medieval composers in He, très doulz roussignol joly (1978), the master of lieder in Schubert Teilelager (1989), or J.S. Bach in Die Erde ist eine ...
It could be argued that Sergiu Celibidache's 1990 recording of Bach's B minor Mass is not as slow and heavy as it sounds, rather that it just seems that way in comparison with the other B minor masses of the early digital era. Because let us not forget that the early digital era was also the golden age of the historically informed performance ...
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