Wolfgang Rihm
Wolfgang Rihm
Vigilia
Photo : D.R ©
Wolfgang Rihm
Vigilia for organ, instrumental ensemble and six voices (2006)
World premiere
Francesco Filidei, organ
Singer Pur, vocal ensemble
Ensemble musikFabrik
Stefan Ashbury, musical direction
Commissioned by Berliner Festspiele, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Biennale di Venezia, musikFabrik and Kunststiftung NRW
With the support of SACEM
This is the work of a composer who is both an architect and an experimenter. It is specifically written for the acoustics and architecture of Saint-Eustache. The church reverberates the music differently according to the disposition of the instruments – a soft echo of the divine, and a successful attempt to express a primitive musical emotion as reflected in all of Rihm’s oeuvre.
In the same place
Das atmende Klarsein marked the last of Luigi Nono's different styles. In it, the Venetian master exalts the demise of our certainties, a way new of listening, made up of silences and fragile, unique sounds, and an attention to space and the possible. A possible which is always going somewhere and in which song equates to the existence.
Clara Iannotta, Chris Swithinbank I listen to the inward through my bones
Clara Iannotta's project is to listen to the city and its various life-forms, in a space, that of a church, which a priori preserves those inside from the noises outside. She does so by means of an electronic installation designed for the acoustics of the Church of Saint-Eustache, a building with a rich musical tradition, ranging from from Rameau to Berlioz.