Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Wolfgang Rihm: "Jagden Und Formen"


Getting into hardcore modern classical music is a bit like when I started listening to avantgarde electronica acts like The Aphex Twin and Autechre back in the good ol' 90s. At first the music doesn't make sense at all, then your brain slowly starts to be able to make sense of it... just about. It sure keeps you occupied.

Wolfgang Rihm is Germany's leading composer of modern classical music. He studied under Stockhausen in the 1970s. This is the beginning of his work "Jagden und Formen":

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