Credits:

Ensemble Modern

Description:

The central concept underlying Christian Riddells (1943) chamber music is musical communication. The voices call out to one another, clash, and overlap, constantly forming new relationships. This album brings together works composed between 1977 and 2004, tracing this concept through a diverse range of ensemblesfrom woodwind quartets, wind trios, and solo viola to larger mixed ensembles that include the piano. This is the first-ever world recording of the complete works, showcasing the rich chamber music world of a composer now over 80 years old, where dialogue, conflict, humor, and lyricism coexist.Born in Breslau in 1943, Ridil received a broad musical education at the Regensburg Boys Choir School, studied composition at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts, and musicology at the University of Augsburg. He later served as a faculty member at the Institute of Musicology and as