Wolfgang Rihm

Wolfgang Rihm

Vigilia

Archive 2006
Église Saint-Eustache
octoberoct 10

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.