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

Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) dedicated his "Cien Sonetos de Amor" to his wife, and it remains among the world's most revered collections of love poems. Among these hundred poems is the gorgeous