At NTR's Saturday Matinee concert, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra led by Markus Stenz will perform Wolfgang Rihm’s Third Symphony along with Diderik Wagenaar’s recent work Preludio all’infinito and the world premiere of his latest piece Canzone sull’infinito. In the 1970s, at a very young age, Rihm had his breakthrough with three ambitious symphonies which resolutely broke with postwar modernism to embrace the grand gesture, in the spirit of Bruckner and Mahler. In that same period, Wagenaar rollercoasted into Dutch music with his pulsating rhythms and obsessive repetitions. Now, almost four decades later, he adopts a very different, more subtle idiom. We can expect a concert full of rich harmonies, layered textures and sharp contrasts.
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Sat June 6 2015 2:15 PM
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Back in the 1970s, Diderik Wagenaar stormed onto the Dutch music scene with works like Tam tam, a polyphonic grillwork of ironclad rhythms, obsessive repetition and the characteristic rawness of The Hague School sound. In Preludio all’infinito, which premiered in 2009 on Radio 4’s Saturday Matinee programme, the composer showed that he also had a more sensitive idiom up his sleeve. Those rich harmonies, layered textures and sharp tonal contrasts are being given a follow-up in this concert with the world premiere of Canzone sull’infinito.
In those same 1970s, the very young Wolfgang Rihm wrote three ambitious symphonies. Besides international recognition, this earned him the label ‘Neo-Romantic’. And indeed, Rihm’s Third Symphony, for orchestra, soloists and choir clearly fits in with the fin de siècle German symphonic tradition, which resolutely traded in the structuralist spirit of Stockhausen and Boulez for the grand, expressionist gesture à la Bruckner and Mahler.
