Wolfgang Rihm Wolfgang Rihm

Vigilia

[Music]

This is the work of a composer who is both an architect and an experimenter. It is specifically written for the acoustics and architecture of Saint-Eustache. The church reverberates the music differently according to the disposition of the instruments – a soft echo of the divine, and a successful attempt to express a primitive musical emotion as reflected in all of Rihm’s oeuvre.