Simone
Young’s recent guest appearance with the Berlin Philharmonic was not the first
time this season that a Bruckner symphony was paired with a work by the late
Wolfgang Rihm: one of the first concerts of the season, conducted by Kirill
Petrenko, used the percussive volatility of Rihm’s IN-SCHRIFT as a
prelude to the epic grandeur of Bruckner’s Fifth. Ms Young’s programme,
however, was arguably the more compelling: in presenting Rihm’s monodrama Das
Gehege – with Vida Miknevičiūtė as soloist – alongside the original 1872
version of Bruckner’s Second, Ms Young created an evening of two equal
but opposing halves in which the intense darkness of the first part was
counterbalanced by genial warmth of the second.
Wolfgang
Rihm had been announced as the Berlin Philharmonic’s composer-in-residence for
the 2024/25, but his death in July of this…
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