Wolfgang Rihm

Featuring: Ensemble 13

condition (record/cover): M / M (still sealed)

Three works for strings by the young Wolfgang Rihm, from the years when he was the enfant terrible of German music, with an expressive charge that openly rejected the cool of the Darmstadt generation. Nature morte, Ländler and Erscheinung (a sketch on Schubert) all play with the past, sometimes as a ghost, sometimes as a wound.

They are played by Ensemble 13 under its founder Manfred Reichert, the Karlsruhe group that premiered much of Rihm's early music. Recorded in Ludwigsburg in 1981 and issued by Jeton as a direct-to-disc pressing, with the immediacy that the technique brings to string sound.