Wolfgang Rihm
Jagden und Formen
Short instrumentation: 2 1 2 1 - 2 2 2 1 - perc(3), hp, pno, guit, vln(2), vla, vc, cb
Duration: 55'
Instrumentation details:
1st flute
2nd flute
cor anglais
1st clarinet in A (+bass cl(Bb))
2nd clarinet in A (+bass cl(Bb)
cb.cl(Bb))
bassoon (+cbsn)
1st horn in F
2nd horn in F
1st trumpet in C
2nd trumpet in C
1st trombone
2nd trombone
bass tuba
1st percussion
2nd percussion
3rd percussion
guitar (+e.bass)
harp
piano
1st violin
2nd violin
viola
violoncello
contrabass
Rihm - Jagden und Formen for orchestra
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Work introduction
Explanation is (for me) impossible. To what distrust in the view, the listening, do we owe those indications provided like a type of anticipatory service, the alleged “hearing aids,” the all-indicative “THAT IS TO SAY”?
We do not trust our own affairs, nor another possible apprehension by another? – as if the work were obtuse and the recipient were dull? – a priori dull and obtuse? The work needs enlightenment, just like the one who encounters it? Shrivelled to a point for explanation, the work is silenced, along with all its possibilities. Misunderstandings are among those possibilities; wishing to clear them away as a precaution reveals housecleaning mentality.
And integrating such a “benefit” at the outset – or in retrospect – cannot figure in an artist’s ideal concept. I believe in the genuine incomprehensibility and inconsistency of art.
Wolfgang Rihm