COMPOSERS: Wolfgang Rihm
LABELS: SWR Music
ALBUM TITLE: Wolfgang Rihm
WORKS: Two Other Movements; Abkehr; Schattenstück
PERFORMER: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR/Norrington, Arming
CATALOGUE NO: SWR Music SWR 19001CD (1982-2004)
Rihm’s milder-than-Berg brand of moderate modernism is impressively fluent, resistant to revisionist slickness, and cross-hatched with an incisive streak. Classy performances.
Malcolm Hayes