Wolfgang Rihm’s 1978 opera Jakob Lenz comes to the English National Opera in a new translation by Richard Stokes this Tuesday.

Sam Brown directs the new production at the Hampstead Theatre.

Here’s the ENO trailer

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Continuing in Wolfgang Rihm’s incredibly full birthday week, the Gewandhaus Orchestra will give the world première of Samothrake for soprano and orchestra in Leipzig tonight.

Ulf Schirmer conducts and Anna Prohaska is the soloist.

See also the redesigned Gewandhaus Facebook page.

Happy 60th Birthday Wolfgang Rihm!

See also our news item.

Here is a full list of works by Wolfgang Rihm, as well as a list of forthcoming performances and our complete overview of radio broadcasts.

Our comprehensive new catalogue of Rihm's works is also online.

On the eve of his 60th birthday, three radio broadcasts portray the composer Wolfgang Rihm.

Wolfgang Rihm: Fremde Szene III
Karol Szymanowski: Mythes: 2. Narcisse
Christine Busch, vln; Conradin Brotbek, vc; Cornelis Witthoefft, pno
SWR2 | Listen live
Monday, 12.03.2012, 20:03*

Wolfgang Rihm: 3. Streichquartett
Wolfgang Rihm: Schrift-Um-Schrift
Wolfgang Rihm: Das Gehege
Andreas Göbel in conversation with the composer.
Kulturradio | Listen live
Monday, 12.03.2012, 21:04*

Wolfgang Rihm: Am Horizont
Ensemble Recherche
Arnold Schönberg: Bläserquintett
Bläserquintett Heinz Holliger
SWR2 | Listen live
Monday, 12.03.2012, 23:03*

* Vienna, Paris, Berlin time

See our overview of radio broadcasts this week.

Dutch Radio’s ZaterdagMatinee continues its series of Wolfgang Rihm concerts this Saturday with a concert performance of the 1979 opera Jakob Lenz.

Emilio Pomàrico conducts musikFabrik. Thomas Möwes, Johannes Schmidt and Daniel Kirch sing the lead roles.

Listen live on Dutch Radio 4.

The picture left shows our promotion leaflet from 1979, with Richard Salter in the lead role at the world première in Hamburg.

Happy Birthday Alban Berg! He was born on 9 February 1885, 127 years ago today.

On this day in 1945, Frank Martin’s Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke was premièred in Basel by the Basel Chamber Orchestra and Paul Sacher.

In 1949, the orchestral suite of Gottfried von Einem’s Dantons Tod was premièred in Baden Baden by the Radio Orchestra.

20 years ago today, on 9 February 1992, Wolfgang Rihm’s opera Die Eroberung von Mexiko was first heard at the Hamburg State Opera – Ingo Metzmacher conducted. Here’s a German introduction on the Deutschlandfunk radio website.

And on the same day in 1992, Arvo Pärt’s And One of the Pharisees ... was given its world première by Paul Hillier and the Theatre of Voices.

It’s the final day of the 5e Biennale de quatuors à cordes here in Paris, with two more concerts of Rihm’s string quartets.

14.30 QUATUOR CAPUÇON
including Rihm’s Fetzen 1

17:30 HAGEN QUARTET
including Rihm’s Tristesse d’une étoile and Fetzen 2

Full score of Tristesse d’une étoile

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We move into the final weekend of the 5e Biennale de quatuors à cordes at the Cité de la musique in Paris, with three Rihm string quartets on the programme today.

11:00 Quatuor Ysaÿe
including Wolfgang Rihm’s Quartettstudie

Full score

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14:30 Arditti Quartett
including Rihm’s String Quartet No. 5

Full score

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20:30 Prazák Quartet
including Rihm’s String Quartet No. 4

Full score

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It’s day 6 of the 5e Biennale de quatuors à cordes at the Cité de la musique in Paris.

19:00 ARDITTI QUARTET / JERUSALEM QUARTET
including Wolfgang Rihm’s String Quartet No. 3

Full score

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20:30 BORODIN QUARTET
including Wolfgang Rihm’s Grave – In memoriam Thomas Kakuska

Full score

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It’s day 5 of the 5e Biennale de quatuors à cordes at the Cité de la musique in Paris.

19:00 QUATUOR DIOTIMA
including Wolfgang Rihm’s String Quartet No. 1 and String Quartet No. 8

Full score of String Quartet No. 1

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Full score of String Quartet No. 8

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20:30 ARDITTI QUARTET / QUATUOR ÉBÈNE
including the world première of Wolfgang Rihm’s String Quartet No. 13 (commissioned by the Cité de la musique)

Full score

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It’s day 4 of the 5e Biennale de quatuors à cordes at the Cité de la Musique in Paris.

19:00 CUARTETO CASALS
including Wolfgang Rihm’s Zwischenblick “Selbsthenker”

Full score

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20:30 KRONOS QUARTET
including Rihm’s String Quartet No. 7

Full score

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After a day off, the 5e Biennale de quatuors à cordes continues with day 3 at the Cité de la Musique in Paris.

20:30 TOKYO STRING QUARTET
including Rihm’s brief Zwischen den Zeilen

Full score

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It's day 2 of the 5e Biennale de quatuors à cordes at the Cité de la Musique in Paris.

14:30 ZEMLINSKY QUARTET
including Rihm’s String Quartet No. 10

Full score

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17:30 QUATUOR TETRAKTYS
including Rihm’s String Quartet No. 6

Full score

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The 5e Biennale de quatuors à cordes is now underway in Paris, presenting the string quartets of Wolfgang Rihm amongst a range of other works. To celebrate, we are posting the full scores of many of the works here and on ISSUU.com.

The festival begins today (Saturday 14 Jan) with three concerts.

14:30 QUATUOR THYMOS
including Rihm’s String Quartet No. 9

17:00 QUATUOR VOCE

including Rihm’s String Quartet No. 2 and String Quartet No. 11

The full score of String Quartet No. 11 is here

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20:30 QUATUOR MODIGLIANI
including Rihm’s “Streichquartett” and String Quartet in G

The full scores are here:

Streichquartett 

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String Quartet in G

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The iconic ZaterdagMatinee concert series in Amsterdam begins a special season dedicated to Wolfgang Rihm this Saturday.

During the forthcoming concert series, works by Rihm will be included in eight of the matinee concerts presented by the Dutch Radio at the Concertgebouw.

The series begins with the world première of Rihm’s Der Maler träumt for baritone and ensemble given by Christian Miedl and the Asko|Schönberg ensemble, alongside a performance of Male über Male 2 with clarinettist Jörg Widmann. Reinbert de Leeuw conducts. Music by Schreker and Widmann will also be performed.

Read more on the NTR website.

The concert is broadcast live on Dutch Radio 4 at 14:15 (Amsterdam time) on Saturday 29 Oct, and there’s a live video stream on the NTR website.