Rihm: Vigilia

ChorWerk Ruhr/Ensemble Modern/Huber(Neos)As a child, Wolfgang Rihm's ambition was to become a priest, but now, as an agnostic, it has taken a long time for that religious impulse to resurface in his music. The St Luke Passion Rihm composed 10 years ago seems to have been the watershed, and since then works with a religious component, especially choral pieces to sacred texts, have figured prominently in his output. Vigilia dates from 2006; it's a sequence of seven unaccompanied motets for six ...

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