Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917253825
Catalog number: CC 72538
Releasedate: 25-05-12
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917253825
Releasedate: 25-05-12
“The less ideas a composition has, the stronger it gets", this is a statement of Morton Feldman and this is a beloved motto of Rijnvos. One can not put him in a box because each composition opens new sound worlds for his listeners.With the utmost precision he works on his oeuvre that unfolds himself like one grand novel. The most of his works are linked together in a series. Rijnvos composes for solo instruments as well as for small ensembles. Besides that he composes for symphony and chamber orchestra.
- Rijnvos received numerous awards, the latest one was in June 2011 the Matthijs Vermeulen Prize for the second time, on this occasion for the song cycle Die Kammersängerin
- One can not put Rijnvos in a box because each composition opens new sound worlds for his listeners
- With the utmost precision he works on his oeuvre that unfolds himself like one grand novel!
- Renowned companies and institutions have commissioned Richard Rijnvos such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris), the Holland Festival, the ZaterdagMatinee concert series, Elision Ensemble (Australia), Dutch Radio, Nieuw Ensemble (Amsterdam), the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Ives Ensemble and Asko Ensemble (Amsterdam)
- His work enjoys attention during international concert series and festivals, amongst others with performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, London Sinfonietta etc.
- The versatile Brazilian conductor Celso Antunes has been the principal conductor of the Netherlands Radio Choir since August 2008
- From 1994 to 1998, he was chief conductor of the Neues Rheinisches Kammerorchester
- During the same period he was also chief conductor of the Antwerp ensemble Champ d’Action, with which he performed numerous world premieres
Richard Rijnvos (1964) likes to listen to masters from previous centuries: Beethoven, Janáček and Sibelius are favourites. Still, there is a great difference between the Romantic composers’ methods and his. Rijnvos himself says: “The classical idea of a composer is that he has the music in his mind and puts it on paper. I have nothing in my mind, yet I still want to compose. I’m interested in music that arises when you put certain conditions together and then see what happens.”
From Rijnvos’ descriptive titles, usually referring to cities and other places, you would not suspect that his method is so radically abstract. However, he is a composer who generates tones from non-musical or numerical sources, such as chess boards or magic squares. Someone who also loves to endlessly pile single-voice lines on top of each other. That strict, “impersonal” method leads paradoxically enough to sensual works with a non-Dutch signature.
“The less ideas a composition has, the stronger it gets", this is a statement of Morton Feldman and this is a beloved motto of Rijnvos. One can not put him in a box because each composition opens new sound worlds for his listeners. With the utmost precision he works on his oeuvre that unfolds himself like one grand novel. The most of his works are linked together in a series. Rijnvos composes for solo instruments as well as for small ensembles. Besides that he composes for symphony and chamber orchestra.
From Rijnvos’ descriptive titles, usually referring to cities and other places, you would not suspect that his method is so radically abstract. However, he is a composer who generates tones from non-musical or numerical sources, such as chess boards or magic squares. Someone who also loves to endlessly pile single-voice lines on top of each other. That strict, “impersonal” method leads paradoxically enough to sensual works with a non-Dutch signature.
“The less ideas a composition has, the stronger it gets", this is a statement of Morton Feldman and this is a beloved motto of Rijnvos. One can not put him in a box because each composition opens new sound worlds for his listeners. With the utmost precision he works on his oeuvre that unfolds himself like one grand novel. The most of his works are linked together in a series. Rijnvos composes for solo instruments as well as for small ensembles. Besides that he composes for symphony and chamber orchestra.