Micah.5

For baritone & piano.  First printing.  Poems by Goethe.  Text in Ger.  Dedicated to the famed lieder duo of

This set of songs on Goethe texts for baritone and piano asks questions of the duality of being and appearance. "If one sees Tasso as a relic of a stormy and urgent period," says initiator and premiere

Vermischter Traum, commissioned by the Berliner Festspiele/Musikfest Berlin, was the first work Rihm composed after a serious illness. He chose verses by Baroque poet Andreas Gryphius, who wrote