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On August 5, the Bregenz Festival presents the world premiere of Morton Subotnick’s Jacob’s Room , a chamber opera for four singers, four cellos, keyboards and electronics. Jacob’s Room is a co-production of the Bregenz Festival and soniq performing arts, Berlin, with funding from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds in association with the European Arts Centre in Hellerau.
Jacob’s...
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Tobias Picker's adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved children's story sees a run of nine performances from July 26 through August 14 at London's Opera Holland Park in a new chamber orchestration for seven players. This production is designed specifically to utilize the beautiful scenery of Holland Park’s Yucca Lawn as a natural scenic backdrop.
An ideal introduction for children...
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A spectacular finale is planned for the Landsberger Night of the Romantics where a mass choir of 200 singers will give the World Premiere of Enjott Schneider’s Landsberger Te Deum on 23 July 2010. Johann Skudlik will conduct the chorus (which is split eight choirs) and the Mihail Jora Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra in the newly renovated municipal parish church in Landsberg am Lech.
Munich...
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In an Italian-Hungarian co-production between the opera houses of Trieste and Szeged , a new production of Fritz Kreisler’s operetta Sissy will open on 13 July in Trieste . During the course of the Festival Internazionale dell'Operetta 2010 the myth of the famous Austrian empress will be resurrected at the historical sites she visited in real life. The production...
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On 9 July 2010, the Staatsoper Stuttgart will present Chaya Czernowin’s chamber opera Pnima…Inwards as their final production of the 2009/10 season. The new production will be directed by Yona Kim with stage design and costumes by Herbert Maurer and Katharina Weissenborn respectively. Johannes Kaulitzke will conduct the four soloists and chamber orchestra for this challenging...
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On 24 July Enjott Schneider’s film suite Movie Themes made in Germany will be premiered during the grand opening gala event of the Munich Film Festival 2010 in the huge permanent tent of Circus Krone. With the theme "Cinema in Concert", the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra will present the greatest works in the history of film scores under the baton of Ulf Schirmer. Lighting effects...
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On Friday 18 June, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will give the world première of Rodion Shchedrin’s highly anticipated Oboe Concerto at the renowned Amsterdam Concertgebouw. The orchestra’s five-year principal oboist Alexei Ogrintchouck will perform the demanding solo part alongside conductor Susanna Mälkki.
Jointly commissioned by some of the best...
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Throughout a distinguished career spanning nearly 60 years, Alexander Goehr has always been a leading figure in contemporary music, establishing an international reputation and winning numerous awards including a recent British Composer Award for his chamber work Since Brass nor Stone. In recognition of this the Royal Northern College of Music in partnership with the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester...
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On 1 June, Theater Dortmund will be inviting people to "dream the impossible" with the opening of their highly anticipated phoenix-project. Their events will focus on the first scenic realisation of Christian Jost's large-scale melodrama, Phoenix resurrexit with the Dortmund Philharmonic conducted by Jac van Steen and the composer narrating. The new production will be directed by Peter...
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In one of the signature events of the New York cultural season, director Douglas Fitch and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Alan Gilbert will present the much-anticipated, fully-staged New York premiere of György Ligeti’s satirical "anti-anti-opera" Le Grand Macabre on 27th May at New York’s Lincoln Center.
Alan Gilbert, an outspoken supporter of Ligeti's...
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Chinese composer Xiaogang Ye’s new ensemble work Yangzhuoyong Cuo will receive its world premiere on 19 May at the Corbak Festival in Switzerland. The Tibetan title translates as Green Pastures and the work portrays Tibet’s three holy lakes which have been described as sapphires set amongst the mountains.
Taking place in the Temple de la Chaux-du-milieu, the first performance...
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“Opera houses will jump at the chance to present this opera” headlined the daily newspaper “Die Welt” in their report on the 1957 world premiere of Werner Egk’s Der Revisor . Many many productions later, the Stadttheater in Gießen will present a new production directed Cathérine Miville and conducted by Herbert Gietzen to close the opera houses’s...
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On Friday 7th May, a new arrangement of Robert Schumann's Verzweifle nicht im Schmerzenstal will receive its world premiere at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. Conducted by Georg Christoph Biller, the performance, which takes place 160 years after Schumann's original work for double male choir was also premiered in Leipzig, will form part of the many concerts, projects and events which...
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An expressive, direct and unspoilt sound world alongside the sounds of nature. Commissioned by the Bremen Philharmonic Society to close the "Bremer Zyklus", Credo , conducted by Markus Poschner, will receive its world premiere on Monday 26 April by the Philharmonic Orchestra Bremen. Bremer Zyklus' commissioning program started in 2007 with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Das Rauschende...
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One opera - two productions: On Saturday 24 April, two new productions of Hans Werner Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers will open in Europe. In the UK an English National Opera and Young Vic co-production (the third collaboration by the award winning partnership) directed by Fiona Shaw will open at the Young Vic Theatre in London. On the same evening Aalto Theater, Essen in Germany will present...
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On Saturday 13 March 2010, Fazil Say’s Istanbul Symphony will be given its world premiere at the Konzerthaus Dortmund in Germany. Commissioned by the WDR (West German Broadcasting) and the Konzerthaus Dortmund, the performance will form part of the “Ruhr.2010 European Capital of Culture” celebrations. Scored for a large orchestra with additional Turkish traditional instruments,...
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On Sonntag, Februar 28, the Vienna State Opera is presenting the world première of Aribert Reimann's Medea . 10 years after the creation of The House of Bernarda Alba it is the long-awaited new stage work of Reimann who is considered one of the most distinguished opera composer of our time. Directed by Marco Arturo Marelli, the production will see Marlis Petersen as Medea...
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On 19 February 2010, Ralph van Raat performs the world premiere of Gavin Bryars’ Piano Concerto (The Solway Canal) . This is the first time Bryars has written for the genre, up until now almost deliberately avoiding the instrument - as the handful of works in his catalogue attest. The technical brilliance and inquisitive mind of the young Dutch pianist however convinced Bryars to accept his...
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Fazil Say's Sonata for violin and piano will be performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris on 9th February with the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the composer himself at the piano. The successful pairing of Kopatchinskaja and Say has already been recognised when they were awarded the ECHO Klassik award in 2009 for best chamber-recording with a disk which...
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The Divertimento on "Sellinger´s Round" for chamber orchestra is one of Sir Michael Tippett’s most popular concert works. Commissioned by Paul Sacher and written between 1953 and 1954, around the same time as Tippett’s celebrated Piano Concerto , Divertimento has been performed around the globe since its premiere in Zurich 56 years ago.
Currently, Britten Sinfonia...
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A new production of Carl Orff’s final stage work De temporum fine comoedia (The Play of the End of Times) will receive its first night at the Staatstheater Darmstadt on 30th January. The staging of the opera will take place alongside the performance of Orff’s first opera Gisei – The Victim , finally receiving its first performance ninety-seven years after its completion. Both...
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This year the musical world celebrates the 200th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin’s birth. On January 17, two orchestras will play Alexandr Glasunov’s Chopiniana in honor of this milestone. The Orchestre Symphonique de l'Aube will perform at the Théâtre de Champagne in Troyes, France, and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie is set to take the stage at the Alte...
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You would be hard-pressed to find an American composer whose combination of Jazz and Classical music is as effective or successful as that of George Gershwin. The orchestral work An American in Paris is arguably Gershwin’s greatest achievement of this synthesis, perhaps only second to the oft-performed Rhapsody in Blue . The former achieved greater notoriety through the film musical of...
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On the 22nd of December, Arnold Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden ( Peace on Earth ) will be performed at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem by the Hovevei Ha'Musica under the direction of Amos Boasson. The work is based on a Christmas poem by Swiss poet Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and tells a story of enduring peace against the adversity of war from Christ’s birth to the then...
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Christmas time is often considered a time for children and as we approach the festive period many works for both the young, and the young at heart, are filling the theatres. The long overdue French premiere of Nino Rota’s "lyrical fairytale" Aladin and the Magic Lamp on 17th December by the Opéra National du Rhin at the Théâtre municipal in Colmar is one of these....
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Lee Hoiby's latest holiday offering The Christmas Tree sees its world premiere on December 12 by the Cathedral Choral Society led by J. Reilly Lewis at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington D.C. The performance features The Christmas Tree in its version for organ and brass but the piece is also available for full symphony orchestra. Longtime-Hoiby collaborator Mark Shulgasser comments...
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Schott Music’s critical edition of Bizet’s masterpiece Carmen , edited by Robert Didion, brought countless advances to the celebrated opera when it was created and has since been used regularly by the leading opera houses around the world. This week, two new productions using the Schott edition will open in Europe.
Conducted by Daniel Barenboim, Emma Dante’s production will...
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On Wednesday 25th November the renowned Florestan Trio will give the world premiere of Huw Watkins’ highly anticipated Piano Trio at London’s Wigmore Hall. Commissioned by philanthropist Vernon Ellis through the Vernon Ellis Foundation, the 20 minute composition in three movements will be the central work between two classic Beethoven trios and promises to offer a dynamic and expressive...
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For over 100 years, Engelbert Humperdinck’s enchanting opera Hansel and Gretel has entertained audiences of all ages, and as we approach Christmas this combination of the traditional fairy-tale and Humperdinck’s lavish late romantic music exerts a special magic. In the revised Schott edition edited by Hans-Josef Irmen, the opera’s next run of performances begins on the 21st November...
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On Friday 13th November 2009, Thomas Larcher’s new piano work What becomes will receive its world premiere as part of a special collaboration between pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and video artist Robin Rhode. The premiere, which will be part of the larger multi-art project, "Pictures Reframed", will take place at New York’s Lincoln Center before touring worldwide.
The "Pictures...
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Silence is my miracle of listening
(Herbert Willi)
On Tuesday 3rd November 2009 a new staging of Herbert Willi’s opera Brother of Sleep (Schlafes Bruder) will open at the Museumsquartier in Vienna directed by Leonard Prinsloo. Together with the Vienna Neue Oper’s Sprechchor, the Amadeus-Ensemble will bring the opera’s protagonist’s “inner...
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On Saturday, 31st October 2009 the world premiere of Harald Weiss’ Requiem will take place at the Großer Sendesaal of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hannover. Together with the Hannover boy’s choir, who commissioned the work, the NDR philharmonic orchestra along with soloists Dorothee Mields (soprano) and Andreas Karasiak (tenor) will be conducted by Jörg Breidling.
In...
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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies CBE – affectionately known within the musical community as "Max" – is universally acknowledged as one of the foremost composers of our time. On the 8 September this year he celebrated his 75th birthday, and to mark this milestone no less than 7 orchestras and ensembles will perform 18 of his works across 11 concerts, all taking place in Glasgow from mid-October...
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Toru Takemitsu’s 1998 orchestral work Twill by Twilight will be performed by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Yutaka Sado at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall on Saturday 10th October 2009.
Written for the 25th anniversary of Tokyo’s Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Twill by Twilight is a memorial for Morton Feldman, a close friend of the composer, who died a year earlier...
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On 4th October 2009 the Konzerthaus Berlin will hold their final concert to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the prestigious concert venue. As part of the concert, Czech composer Petr Eben’s The Prague Te Deum 1989 for choir, brass, percussion and organ will be performed by the Berliner Singakademie and the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra conducted by Peter Schreier. Prager...
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On 23rd September the Mahler Chamber Orchestra will give the Chinese premiere of Toru Takemitsu's Three Film Scores conducted by Tan Dun, one of China's most well known musicians. The premiere will take place at the new Grand National Theatre in Beijing.
As well as the composer's extraordinary œuvre of concert music, Takemitsu was also an exceptionally gifted film composer. Talking about...
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At the transart2009 festival in Bolzano, Italy and the Festival Klangspuren in Schwaz, Austria; the International Ensemble Modern Academy conducted by Franck Ollu will be performing Paul Hindemith’s film score Im Kampf mit dem Berge alongside Arnold Fanck’s alpine epic of the same name which it was composed for. Performances will take place on 11th September in Bolzano and on 13th...
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On 1st September the World Orchestra for Peace conducted by Valery Gergiev will give the world premiere of Krysztof Penderecki’s Prelude for Peace for brass instruments and percussion at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Krakow. The concert, which is being supported by the Polish Ministy of Culture, will mark the 70th anniversary of the start of World War II with the invasion...
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Schott Music’s unique 'Virtuoso Piano Transcription Series' regularly features challenging piano transcriptions of classical masterpieces and there couldn’t be a better example for these late august days than the new Summertime Variations , Fazil Say’s transcription of the famous aria from George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess .
The musical language of Say’s compositions...
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This year, the Young Euro Classic 2009 Festival includes a performance of Improvisations for Jazzband and Orchestra by Mátyás Seiber and Johnny Dankworth by the German Federal Jazz Orchestra and the German Federal Youth Orchestra in Berlin, on August 23rd. This concert will kick off these two ensembles’ tour, which takes them to South Africa via the German cities of Bonn and...
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This years Stavanger International Music will feature the Norwegian premiere of the original version of Gavin Bryars touching Cadman Requiem by renowned vocal group The Hilliard Ensemble. The work was composed in spring 1989 in memory of the composer’s sound engineer and friend Bill Cadman who was killed in the Lockerbie air crash in December 1988.
The listener is...
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On the occasion of Heinz Holliger’s 70th birthday earlier this year, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Thierry Fischer will presents his orchestral work (S)irat(ó) at the BBC Proms on 4th August.
The piece was composed between summer 1992 and spring 1993 and was commissioned by the Swiss Festival Orchestra on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The world premiere...
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Celebrating both John Casken's 60th birthday and the International Year of Astronomy the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra will open their BBC Prom performance with Casken's iconic work, Orion over Farne conducted by Andris Nelsons in his much anticipated Prom debut.
The 20 minute work was commissioned by the BBC in 1984 and its richly coloured writing for large orchestra is truly worthy...
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On the 22nd of July 2009, the BBC Proms present the world premiere of Ryan Wigglesworth's first Proms commission, The Genesis of Secrecy , performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis. The concert celebrates the 800th anniversary of the founding of Cambridge University, where Wigglesworth was until recently a lecturer and fellow at Corpus Christi College, and will be broadcast...
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Manchester born composer Joe Duddell will take the stage this week with award winning rock band Elbow, the Hallé orchestra and the Manchester Youth Choir in a unique collaboration that will be one of the highlights of the Manchester International Festival. Taking songs that span Elbow's highly successful career, Duddell has orchestrated, extended and rewritten the band's music to incorporate...
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2009 marks Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s 200th birthday, and to celebrate, the Ludwigsburger Castle Festival 2009 will present eight songs and a fragment of the romantic Master on June 25th at the Ordensaal at the Residenzschloss. Aribert Reimann arranged these pieces, which draw upon stories by Heinrich Heine, for string quartet and soprano. With Reimann’s intermezzos composed to fill...
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Dubairische Tänze was composed as part of the project "into …" initiated by the Ensemble Modern, the Siemens Arts Program and the Goethe Institute. Connected to this project, for which several composers visited citys like Dubai, Istanbul or Johannesburg for one month, researching cultural backgrounds, Jörg Widmanns Dubairische Tänze came to being, and will be presented...
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Scorched , for Jazz Trio and Orchestra, is a collaborative work by the British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and the American Jazz guitarist John Scofield. The same trio that premiered the work in 2002 now will come together again on stage: John Scofield on guitar, John Patitucci on bass, and Peter Erskine on drums. They will perform it again with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, who also premiered...
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The world premiere of Rodio Shchedrin’s Lithuanian Saga takes place on May 13 th at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater, in Vilnius, Lithuania, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of chief conductor Valery Gergiev.
Shchedrin characterizes his work in its subtitle: “Symphonic Fresco for Orchestra,” and refers,...
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