Wolfgang Rihm, Vol. 40 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Franck Ollu

• Wolfgang Rihm (b. 1952): Jagden und Formen (2008 Version):
• 1 Rihm: Jagden und Formen (2008 Version): Takt 1 07:27
• 2 Rihm: Jagden und Formen (2008 Version): Takt 142 00:50
• 3 Rihm: Jagden und Formen (2008 Version): Takt 161 01:28
• 4 Rihm: Jagden und Formen (2008 Version): Takt 189 03:09
• 5 Rihm: Jagden und Formen (2008 Version): Takt 254 03:48
• 6 Rihm: Jagden und Formen (2008 Version): Takt 35 04:38
• 7 Rihm: Jagden und Formen (2008 Version): Takt 452 04:40
• 8 Rihm: Jagden und Formen (2008 Version): Takt 538 01:52
• 9 Rihm: Jagden und Formen (2008 Version): Takt 572 02:19
• 10 Rihm: Jagden und Formen (2008 Version): Takt 624 03:50
• 11 Rihm: Jagden und Formen (2008 Version): Takt 730 05:52
• 12 Rihm: Jagden und Formen (2008 Version): Takt 851 04:25
• 13 Rihm: Jagden und Formen (2008 Version): Takt 928 02:11
• 14 Rihm: Jagden und Formen (2008 Version): Takt 953 05:52
• 15 Rihm: Jagden und Formen (2008 Version): Takt 1063 03:40
• 16 Rihm: Jagden und Formen (2008 Version): Takt 1131 05:40
• Total Runtime 01:01:41

Info for Wolfgang Rihm, Vol. 40

Rihm's symphonic work Jagden und Formen (2008) received its world premiere in November 2001 in Basel by the Ensemble Modern. BR-KLASSIK releases now the Munich premiere by the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks conducted by Franck Ollu on CD. It was a studio production in the Herkulessaal der Residenz in Munich on 22.6.-25.6.2021.

Wolfgang Rihm is one of the most important contemporary composers of our time. The musician, professor of composition and author from Karlsruhe, Germany is a larger-than-life personality, and the contemporary music scene is impossible to imagine without him. His knowledge of music is all-encompassing, as is his mastery of the arts, literature and philosophy – all of which serve as sources of inspiration for his composing. With more than 400 compositions, he has created a universe that cannot easily be defined. Rihm has written New Music – the titles of his compositions have come to symbolise the musical history of recent decades. Other works by him refer to music history – they include, for example, oratorios inspired by Bach, orchestral works based on Brahms, or chamber music inspired by Schumann. His stage works enrich the programmes of opera houses.

The recording features the large-scale symphonic work Jagden und Formen (2008), which received its world premiere in November 2001 in Basel by the Ensemble Modern. Of the original version, which was created between 1995 and 2001, Rihm composed a new version between 2007 and 2008 that was staged for the first time with a choreography by Sasha Waltz at the Schauspiel Frankfurt, again with the Ensemble Modern playing. – Rihm’s orchestral work is so instantly gripping in its urgency and relentlessly motor-like power that it already ranks as a modern classic. In its 2008 state, the “work in progress” that grew over the years reached its final form. What begins as a courtship dance between two violins soon escalates into breathless music that is irresistibly captivating: virtuosic, intoxicating and overflowing with ideas, without ever losing its tension and urgency. Rihm reveals himself here as a master of compression. – The Munich premiere by the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks conducted by Franck Ollu was a studio production in the Herkulessaal der Residenz in Munich on 22.6.-25.6.2021.

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Franck Ollu, Leitung

Franck Ollu
is a versatile conductor, widely acknowledged as an expert in the field of contemporary and French music. During the 2017/18 season he will conduct the world premiere of A Wintery Spring by Saed Haddad, with a libretto based on poems by Khalil Gibran. This is a co-commission by Oper Frankfurt and the Ensemble Modern and will be presented alongside the baroque cantata The Bronze Snake by Jan Dismas Zelenka. This season he will also conduct a revival of Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg (Lille and Rennes) and a double bill of Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero and Rihm’s Das Gehege (La Monnaie and Stuggart).

Last season, Franck made his debut at Basel Opera (Xenakis’ The Oresteia) and the Bolshoi Opera (Benjamin’s Written on Skin) and the BBC Philharmonic. He also returned to Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin (Rihm’s Jakob Lenz). Other recent opera productions have included performances at the Netherlands Opera, Théâtre des Champs Elysées (Paris) and Théâtre du Capitole (Toulouse).

Franck has been invited to conduct the world premiere performances of many important opera titles, including Bianchi’s Thanks to My Eyes, (Festival Aix-en-Provence), Dusapin’s Penthésiléa (La Monnaie) and Passion (Festival Aix-en-Provence). He conducted the first performance of Benjamin's first opera Into the Little Hill at Opéra Bastille in 2006 with many subsequent performances with the London Sinfonietta (Aldeburgh Festival and Linbury Theatre, Covent Garden), and with Ensemble Modern in New York and major festivals in Amsterdam, Vienna, Dresden and Frankfurt. Die Wunde Heine by Helmut Oehring was performed under his baton with both Ensemble Modern (Cologne MusikTriennale) and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen (Berlin Philharmonie).

His particularly close relationship with Ensemble Modern has led to numerous opera performances, including at the Salzburg Festival and of Heiner Goebbels’ Landschaft mit entfernen Verwanten at the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt. They have also collaborated in orchestral repertoire, including at the Venice Biennale. Franck recently made his debut with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin, BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Opera House in Stockholm with Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, the Staatoper Berlin with Frank Martin's "Le vin herbé" and Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestras.

Franck is a committed teacher and mentor and has established relationships with the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie and in London, at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music.

Booklet for Wolfgang Rihm, Vol. 40