German Song Collections

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