Was Bedeutet Die Bewegung... a Mendelssohn song cycle for Baritone and Strings was premiered in 2012 by the renowned Baritone Matthias Goerne. This is no workaday transcription: in addition to skilfully arranging seven Mendelssohn songs for Strings and Voice Rasch has created a number of striking interludes to link the songs together. These interludes written in Rasch’s own post-Romantic voice and containing modern techniques including glissandi and snap-pizzicati add a whole new dimension to the 25-minute cycle startlingly revealing its dark undercurrents and psychologies.
