Wolfgang Rihm – Rihm Edition vol. 4: Quid est Deus
Wolfgang Rihm – Rihm Edition vol. 4: Quid est Deus (2009)
Classical/contemporary/21st Century | FLAC lossless | cuesheets+log | covers+booklet | 1h09m | 260mb
Label: Hänssler Classics | cat. no. Hänssler 93.236
The first half of this Volume Four in Hanssler's Rihm Edition series is the new choral work "Quid est Deus fur Chor und Orchester" (2007), commissioned by the University of Freiburg for its 550th anniversary. Rihm uses as the libretto an ancient text attributed to Hermes Trismegistos which presents the answers of 24 philosophers to the question 'what is God?' The 24 theories take the form of short definitions.
Sylvain Cambreling leads the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart and the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg in the performance, recorded in November 2007. According to Rihm, "The vocal parts are devoid of all the typical features of contemporary choral practice, but are nonetheless very demanding – especially in the areas of intonation and articulation." So the text is not fragmented, and is sung without any experimental vocal techniques.
The second half of the disc is two works written back-to-back, "Frau/Stimme fur Soprano und Orchester (1989) and "Ungemaltes Bild fur Orchestra (1990). Both works are from Rihm's "less-is-more" period when he incorporated techniques from late period Luigi Nono, Helmut Lachenmann, and Morton Feldman. "Ungemaltes Bild" is mainly quiet and discontinuous, periodically interrupted by percussive outbursts. "Frau/Stimme" is a similar soundworld, but adding the soprano voices of Isolde Siebert and Carmen Fugiss, singing lines from Heiner Muller's play "Der Auftrag":
"I am the angel of despair. With my hands i spread intoxication, numbing, forgetting, the desire and torment of bodies. My speech is silence, my song is the scream. In the shadow of my wings lives terror. My hope is the first battle. I am the knife with the dead break open their coffins. I am the one who will be. My flight is revolt, my heaven the abyss of tomorrow."
Tracks:
01. Quid Est Deus für Chor und Orchester (2007) [0:33:20.63]
02. Ungemahltes Bild für Orchester (1994) [0:16:10.00]
03. Frau/Stimme für Sopran und Orchester (1989) [0:19:57.57]
Performers
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Isolde Siebert – soprano
Carmen Fugis – soprano
Sylvain Crambeling - conductor (tr. 01)
Friedrich Goldmann - conductor (tr. 02)
Michael Gielen - conductor (tr. 03)
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 2 from 29. April 2011
EAC extraction logfile from 2. March 2012, 19:18
Wolfgang Rihm / Rihm Edition vol. 4
Used drive : TSSTcorpCDDVDW SH-S222L Adapter: 0 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : No
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" -T "BAND=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%–ta
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 33:20.63 | 0 | 150062
2 | 33:20.63 | 16:10.00 | 150063 | 222812
3 | 49:30.63 | 19:57.57 | 222813 | 312644
Range status and errors
Selected range
Filename E:\CLASSICAL\14.post\Rihm, Wolfgang - Rihm Edition vol. 4 - Quid Est Deus\Wolfgang Rihm - Rihm Edition vol. 4.wav
Peak level 100.0 %
Extraction speed 7.2 X
Range quality 99.9 %
Copy CRC 3C0D5291
Copy OK
No errors occurred
AccurateRip summary
Track 1 not present in database
Track 2 not present in database
Track 3 not present in database
None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database
End of status report
==== Log checksum 93327975E5055FC1B9A8E196AC085D71DE9A0DF8917BE68AADD69D95B018BA1E ====
EAC extraction logfile from 2. March 2012, 19:18
Wolfgang Rihm / Rihm Edition vol. 4
Used drive : TSSTcorpCDDVDW SH-S222L Adapter: 0 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : No
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" -T "BAND=%albuminterpret%" -T "COMPOSER=%composer%" %haslyrics%–ta
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 33:20.63 | 0 | 150062
2 | 33:20.63 | 16:10.00 | 150063 | 222812
3 | 49:30.63 | 19:57.57 | 222813 | 312644
Range status and errors
Selected range
Filename E:\CLASSICAL\14.post\Rihm, Wolfgang - Rihm Edition vol. 4 - Quid Est Deus\Wolfgang Rihm - Rihm Edition vol. 4.wav
Peak level 100.0 %
Extraction speed 7.2 X
Range quality 99.9 %
Copy CRC 3C0D5291
Copy OK
No errors occurred
AccurateRip summary
Track 1 not present in database
Track 2 not present in database
Track 3 not present in database
None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database
End of status report
==== Log checksum 93327975E5055FC1B9A8E196AC085D71DE9A0DF8917BE68AADD69D95B018BA1E ====