Goeyvaerts String Trio

Wolfgang Rihm is an outlier in the contemporary music world. As early as the 1970s he was turning away from the overly cerebral direction that music was taking. His aim is to compose from the gut, as if he’s writing music directly onto his listeners’ skin. His Musik für drei Streicher is a prime example of music that feels more like an ambush. It asks not to be ‘understood’ but to be ‘experienced’. At its core is surrender: the willingness to let yourself be carried along by the maelstrom of your own emotions.