Verwandlung : Arming / Pintscher / Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra

WOLFGANG RIHM: Verwandlungen

Verwandlung I - Music for Orchestra (2002)
Verwandlung II - Music for Orchestra (2005)
Christian Arming, conductor
Recorded 2006, 2007

Verwandlung III - Music for Orchestra (2007-08)
Verwandlung IV - Music for Orchestra (2008)
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Recorded 2008

SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra

Rihm wrote four movements entitled Verwandlung in the first decade of the new millennium. Each one begins differently; No.1 out of a single tone, No.2 from pastoral thirds in the violin, No.3 from a “coup d’archet”, an orchestral trap effect, No.4 out of brusque orchestral buffets. All carry along an abundance of musical reminiscences and the voice of Mahler is the one heard most distinctly.