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05 La Biennale di Venezia. No ‘universal exhibition of music’ without UE, 1 première, 10 concerts.
17 Sir Harrison. 70th birthday celebration for Harrison Birtwistle in London continues: with the Birtwistle Games.
29 First don't forget to stuff your faces ... "Mahagonny” celebrates 75 years of scandal and success.
30 Schreker. Out of Copyright. Copyright ends, interest grows. Full worklist inside!
Arvo Pärt Honoured academically Featured prominently Listened to worldwide Æstonishing Arvo
newsletter 04/04 • autumn 2004
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NEWS Board of Directors — 4 UE Website — 4 FESTIVALS La Biennale di Venezia — 5 - 6 Settembre Musica Torino — 7 - 9 Zaterdag Matinee, Degenerate Music — 10 - 11 Lucerne Festival — 12 - 13 Klangspuren Schwaz — 14 - 15 COMPOSERS Birtwistle — 16 - 17 Pärt — 18 Halffter — 19 Baltakas — 20 Boulez — 21 Berio — 22 Rihm — 23 Sawer — 24 Mahler / Schnyder — 25 Panufnik — 25 Wilson — 26 Haas — 27 Stockhausen — 28 Sotelo — 28 Weill — 29 Schreker — 30 Janacek — 31 Schönberg — 31
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REDISCOVERIES Foerster - 32 Braunfels - 32 REVIEWS Baltakas - 33 Cerha - 33 Staud - 34 Dallapiccola - 34 ANNIVERSARIES — 36 - 37 WORLD PREMIERES — 38 - 39 NEW RELEASES — 40 - 41 NEW ON CD + DVD — 42 - 43 WORKLIST Schreker — 44 - 46
you are holding in your hands the first issue of the new-look UE Newsletter. Since 1996, we've been updating you four times a year on our composers and information on our current publishing activities. Universal Edition's Newsletter and website support and reinforce the partnership between music-makers, performing arts organisations and UE. In addition to the already familiar sections, each Newsletter will now contain an appendix with a worklist of a particular composer's oeuvre. The present, autumn issue (September to November 2004) features the yet-to-be-rediscovered and already revived works of Franz Schreker. We hope that our new, readerfriendly Newsletter will continue to stimulate your curiosity about UE composers. The Editors
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LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
‘Universal exhibition of music’ The Venice Biennale has always been a showcase of excellence. The 2004 Biennale concludes with the 48th International Festival of Contemporary Music (14-23 October 2004). Giorgio Battistelli (photo), artistic director of this year's Biennale, has selected works by 55 composers from 26 countries for performance. Battistelli, a composer of international repute, has moulded the festival into a kind of universal exhibition of the music of our times
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with composers being offered the orchestra as an instrument. Eight ensembles will be performing in total 20 concerts. The prestigious, festive opening concert on 14 October in the newly renovated hall of the Teatro La Fenice will feature the Italian première of Arvo Pärt's Como cierva sedienta for soprano and orchestra, with Bernhard Kontarsky conducting the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice and soprano soloist Patricia Rozario. This will be followed by an impressive series of territorial premières of works from the UE catalogue: Johannes Maria Staud's Black Moon (14th), Beat Furrer's nuun (14th), Harrison Birtwistle's Endless Parade (19th), Vykintas Baltakas' Poussla (20th), David Sawer's Piano Concerto (21st), Luciano Berio's Stanze (22nd), Wolfgang Rihm's La lugube gondola (23rd), and Georg Friedrich Haas' Wer wenn ich schriee, hörte mich... (14th). Finally, Licht/ung, commissioned from Ian Wilson by the Biennale, will receive its world première on 17 October. Johannes Debus will conduct the Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona. Information: www.labiennale.org 5
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V E N E Z I A LAM U S I C A ILM O N D O DIRETTORE GIORGIO BATTISTELLI gio. 14 ottobre - ore 18.00
Teatro Malibran
KLANGFORUM WIEN MUSICHE DI G. F. HAAS, J. M. STAUD, B. FURRER
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ORCHESTRA E CORO DEL TEATRO LA FENICE
mer. 20 ottobre - ore 21.00
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ORCHESTRA DELLA TOSCANA MUSICHE DI J. L. HERVÉ, I. FEDELE Y. MARESZ, V. BALTAKAS
gio. 21 ottobre - ore 21.00
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MUSICHE DI A. PÄRT, O. NEUWIRTH, L. NONO
ORCHESTRA DELL’ARENA DI VERONA
gio. 14 ottobre - ore 22.30
MUSICHE DI F. INCARDONA, P. FURLANI D. SAWER, I. NILSSON
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KLANGFORUM WIEN MUSICHE DI S. SCIARRINO
ven. 22 ottobre - ore 18.00
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ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DEL FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA
ORQUESTA DE LA COMUNIDAD DE MADRID
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MUSICHE DI J.M. SÁNCHEZ-VERDÙ, G. ERKOREKA F. ROMITELLI, L. DE PABLO
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ORQUESTA DE LA COMUNIDAD DE MADRID
MUSICHE DI J. GOMELSKAYA, I. ZEBELJAN E. SAMMOUTIS, N. KODJABASHIA
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ORCHESTRA SINFONICA NAZIONALE DELLA RAI MUSICHE DI S. BELLON, K. SAARIAHO, L. BERIO
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MUSICHE DI A. POSADAS, H. KYBURZ, F. GUERRERO
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CONCERTI DI MUSICA ELETTRONICA
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ORCHESTRA DELL’ARENA DI VERONA
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MUSICHE DI M. PINTSCHER, I. WILSON, R. VACCA, H.W. HENZE
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ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DEL FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA
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ASKO ENSEMBLE sab. 23 ottobre - ore 20.00
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MUSICHE DI S. SOLOVIC, V. TARNOPOLSKY, K. GLOWICKA, A. PEÇI
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MUSICHE DI B. DEAN, H. BIRTWISTLE, G. VERRANDO, M. A. TURNAGE
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SETTEMBRE MUSICA
Optical illusions in Turin Over the past few years, Enzo Restagno and Roman Vlad have succeeded in focussing the attention of the musical world on Turin during the month of September. Restagno and Vlad are the creative minds behind the Settembre Musica festival, which surpasses all other Italian music festivals in terms of diverse cultural origins, styles and historical periods - viewed more closely, the festival appears as an optical illusion, offering not a diffuse image but a cleverly conceived, harmonious concept capable of offering almost any music lover something surprising or delectable. The traditional emphasis of the festival is on contemporary music, with a composer at its centre whose oeuvre receives representative treatment. In 2004, this composer is Arvo Pärt. Enzo Restagno involved Pärt closely in the festival's programming. Numerous performers requested by the composer (Hilliard Ensemble, Tõnu Kaljuste, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier, Xenia Ensemble, etc.) will be appearing.
This collaboration over several months also offered the opportunity to produce a book on Arvo Pärt, which Enzo Restagno will present on 7 Sep. It is based on an extensive conversation with Restagno during the summer of 2003, and also contains several important contributions by reputable Pärt experts (including Leopold Brauneiss, Paul Hillier, Jordi Savall, Armin Brunner and Helga de la Motte). Over the course of seven concerts (6 - 12 September 2004), the major works of Pärt's most recent period will be heard; several of these will be receiving their first performances in Italy: Lamentate, In Principio, Wallfahrtslied, and Most Holy Mother of God.
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Arvo Pärt September 6-12, 2004 six free concerts and a panel with the composer
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai Tallin Chamber Orchestra Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Hilliard Ensemble Xenia Ensemble Tõnu Kaljuste Paul Hillier Momo Kodama Te Deum Miserere Stabat Mater De profundis Lamentate Sinfonia n. 1 In principio Kanon Pokajanen ....
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Settembre Musica will be holding a memorial concert on 25 September to commemorate Luciano Berio, a friend of the festival for several years whose work was often at its centre. Pierre Boulez and Ensemble Intercontemporain, along with soloists Luisa Castellani and Christophe Desjardins, will interpret three of Berio's key works: Chemin II for viola and 9 instruments, Différences for 5 instruments and tape and Folk Songs for mezzo-soprano and 7 instruments. Boulez' Dérive 2 will be heard in the concert's second half. Weill and Brecht are also loyal guests in Turin. On 15 September, Ensemble Modern under HK
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Gruber will visit the city as part of its Dreigroschenoper Tour (subsequent performances in Rimini, Gütersloh, Essen and Vienna). This concert performance of Die Dreigroschenoper will, of course, be based on the new Critical Edition. The Arditti Quartet will be heard on 16 September in Turin with a Harrison Birtwistle programme: Birtwistle's meditations on Paul Celan, Pulse Shadows. A detailed programme can be found at: www.comune.torino.it/settembremusica
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Entartete Musik
Symphonic music
Chamber music
Operas
44 concerts • Concertgebouw Amsterdam • September until June
Information: 00 31 35 6775048 info@zaterdagmatinee.nl www.zaterdagmatinee.nl
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ZATERDAG MATINEE
Amsterdam's homage to the vilified This coming season, Jan Zekveld will be dedicating his prominent, traditional concert series at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw (known as the Zaterdag Matinee) to so-called degenerate music. It begins on 18 September 2004 with a concert performance of Franz Schreker's opera Der ferne Klang and will end on 4 June 2005 with Arnold Schönberg's Erwartung. The masterpieces programmed reveal the absurdity and tragedy of a historical era which, after all, ended not all that long ago. The series will see the combination of Alexander Zemlinsky's one-acter Der Zwerg with Schreker's pantomime based on the same subject: Der Geburtstag der Infantin (13 Nov); Schreker and Zemlinsky will be heard again on 28 May, together with the introduction and prologue from Walter Braunfels' opera Die Vögel and Karol Rathaus' ballet Der letzte Pierrot. Kurt Weill will be represented by Berlin Requiem (11 Dec), Egon Wellesz with two works (including the UE piece Vorfrühling for orchestra on 20 Nov). Rediscoveries will also be heard, including Hans Krása's early Vier Orchester-
Der ferne Klang, 1917 (Richard Tauber and Eva van der Osten) lieder (12 February), Hans Gál's Von ewiger Freude for voices, choir and instruments (2 Oct) and Wilhelm Grosz' Achtung, Aufnahme! (26/3). Parallel to this series, contemporary music has also been programmed: numerous works by Berio combine to form a portrait of the composer; Boulez will conduct his own Domaines (26 Feb), and Rihm's Sphäre um Sphäre will be heard opposite Bruckner's Eighth (11 September 2004). 11
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lucerne festival academy 2005
lucerne festival academy pierre boulez artistic director master class for string quartets walter levin / helmut lachenmann August 12 – 19, 2005
lucerne festival academy orchestra pierre boulez principal conductor ensemble intercontemporain instrumental tutors August 20 – September 9, 2005
master class in conducting pierre boulez artistic director
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Application deadline: January 15, 2005
w w w. l u c e r n e f e s t i v a l . c h Phone: 0041 (0)41 226 44 47/49 Fax: 0041 (0)41 226 44 60 Mail: academy@lucernefestival.ch
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turies, in close co-operation with Boulez himself, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and the Conservatory of Music Lucerne.
LUCERNE FESTIVAL
Lucerne Festival Academy The theme at Lucerne this year is Freedom, and a new project, the Lucerne Festival Academy, aims 'to instil a deeper appreciation for the music of the 20th and 21st centuries in musicians and audiences alike, to strengthen the position of this music in the present day, and to continue to direct our gaze toward the future'. Fittingly, Pierre Boulez is the figure who has been invited as artistic director to launch this exciting new venture. Since 28th August (until 16th September), 120 highly talented young artists have been studying and performing selected works from the 20th and 21st cen-
The Academy thus has at its disposal the best and most experienced teachers available in the field of contemporary music. Boulez, for example, is holding a masterclass for young conductors, and Sir Harrison Birtwistle, who is featured at the festival in honour of his 70th birthday, is working alongside students from the Festival Academy. The culmination of this collaboration is a performance workshop to include a selection of his chamber works. Other Birtwistle works featured during the festival are Earth Dances (played by the Festival Academy Orchestra and conducted by Pierre Boulez on 16 September) and his three major ensemble works Tragoedia, Secret Theatre (14 Sept) and Ritual Fragment. (Susanna M채lkki directs Ensemble Intercontemporain on 29 August 2004). Information: www.lucernefestival.ch
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FESTIVALPROGRAMM 10.9. Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck · GAIDA Ensemble · Dirigent · O. Elts · Violine · P. Kopatchinskaja · Trompete · S. Stoianov · G. Ligeti · Z. Kodály · V. Baltakas · ÖE · O. M. Zykan · UA 11.9. Vytautas Landsbergis · Vykintas Baltakas · Gespräch · GAIDA Ensemble · Dirigent · V. Baltakas · Violine · I. Arditti · Sopran · N. Pschenitschnikova · V. Baltakas · UA · K. Lang · UA · R. Šerkšnyté · UA 12.9. Windkraft Tirol · Dirigent · K. de Roo · Alt · N. Stutzmann · S. Gubaidulina · UA · F. Schreyer · UA · W. Rihm · E.-S. Tüür · O. M. Zykan · ZYKAN MUSIK REDEN · Arditti Quartet · G. Ligeti · V. V. Jurgutis · O. Narbutaité · UA · A. Szöllösy 14.9. Stipendiaten des Ensemble Modern · Dirigent · K. J. Edusei · Schlagzeug · R. Ogawa · S. Pollkötter · Klavier · H. Heinmaa · J.-Y. Song · KH Stockhausen · M. Lindberg · A. Fabian 16.9. Beat Furrer · Jannis Kounellis · Gespräch · Übersetzung · E. Schwaiger · Chordos Quartett · R. Šerkšnyté · ÖE · Th. Amann · UA · O. Rajewa · UA · H. Seidl · UA 17.9. Gunter Schneider hört Beat Furrer · Klangforum Wien · Dirigent · B. Furrer · B.Furrer · UA 18.9. Beat Furrer hört György Kurtág · Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie Konzert · Dirigent · F. Ollu · G. Kurtág · KH Stockhausen 19.9. EU-Kommissar Franz Fischler · Vortrag · László Darvasi · Lesung · M. Knapp · Einführung· Márta und György Kurtág · Klavier · Játékok 22.9. Rujana Jeger · Lesung · Sabine Gruber · Einführung 23.9. Georg Friedrich Haas hört Wolfgang Rihm · Minguet Quartett · Kurator · Wolfgang Rihm · W. Rihm · J. Olsen · UA · M. Illés · UA · J. Motschmann · UA 24.9. Slowind · the next step · Posaune · V. Globokar · V. Globokar · B. Turel · UA · V. Globokar · U. Rojko · L. Vrhunc · V. Globokar · H. Delago · UA 25.9. Ensemble Modern · Dirigent · P. Eötvös · Cello · E. Böcker · Flöte · D. Wiesner · Klarinette · R. Diry · Sprecher · O. Ebrahim · Trompete · V. Garvie · Klangregie · N. Ommer · Peter Eötvös 26.9. Swarovski Musik Wattens · Dirigenten · F. Schieferer · V. Globokar · Sprecher · F. Mitterer · W. Pirchner · V. Globokar KINDERPROGRAMM 7.8. Hör- und Komponiernachmittag 4.9. Hör- und Komponiernachmittag 5.9. Workshop · Ensemble „Musik zum Anfassen“ 5.9. Konzert · Ensemble „Musik zum Anfassen“ 10.9. Probenbesuch · Windkraft Tirol 22.9. Probenbesuch · Minguet Quartett 12.9. Konzert · Windkraft Tirol BACKSTAGEPROGRAMM 10.9 Generalprobenbesuch mit Reinhard Schulz · Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck 10.9. Klangspuren Eröffnung 11.9. Hörspaziergang mit Otto M. Zykan 11.9. Mitternachtsjause mit V. Baltakas und V. Landsbergis 12.9. Essen mit Arditti Quartet 14.9. IEMA-Besuch mit Gunter Schneider 14.9. Hörspaziergang · Spanferkel-Essen 15.9. IEMA-Besuch mit Gunter Schneider 18.9. Pilz- und Kräuterwanderung 25.9. Stadthörspaziergänge mit A. Ritter, H. Schlögl und M. Heubacher-Sentobe 26.9. Mittagessen mit Swarovski Musik Wattens · Besuch der Prometheuskuppel 26.9. Abschlussfeier mit Aki Kaurismäkis „Total Balalaika Show“ Klangspurengasse 1/Ullreichstr. 8a · A 6130 Schwaz T +43 5242 73582 · F +43 5242 7358220 · www.klangspuren.at · info@klangspuren.at
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KLANGSPUREN SCHWAZ
Europe grows together Klangspuren Schwaz, Tirol, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2004, has developed over the years into a representative festival for contemporary music. This year, as always, the leading team of Klangspuren Maria-Luise Mayr, Peter Paul Kainrath and Reinhard Schulz, will feature the music of specific countries or regions alongside a wide spectrum of new Austrian compositions. The festival's concert venues remain unusual, including the cattle auction arena in Rotholz, Binder Wood in Jenbach and Swarovski Crystal Worlds. And this year's broad programme of supplementary activities includes listening walks, rehearsal visits, composing with children and much more. Lithuania's Vykintas Baltakas is featured with a world première and further works (10 - 11 Sep, see Baltakas article). The Minguet Quartet will present two string quartets by Wolfgang Rihm, who will introduce three students with works commissioned by the festival.
Georg Friedrich Haas, to whom the 2005 Klangspuren will be dedicating a personal portrait, has already begun the piece Ritual for 3 wind orchestras and 12 large drums, the première of which will be presented by Klangspuren at the Tirolean Provincial Exhibition in July 2005 in an open-air performance in the mountainous landscape of Galtür, Tirol. Information: www.klangspuren.at
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Birtwistle A Celebration of Harrison Birtwistle 20 Oct - 11 Nov 2004
ENDYMION
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Wed 20 Oct PR 7.30pm Kawai Shiu conductor* Melinda Maxwell oboe, Helen Tunstall harp Claire Booth soprano, Andrew Watts counter-tenor Bach (arr. Birtwistle)Three Cantata Arias Birtwistle Nenia, The Death of Orpheus* Birtwistle Linoi Kawai Shiu Quartet Desire (World premiere) Birtwistle Orpheus Elegies
Thu 4 Nov RFH 7.30pm Christoph von Dohnányi conductor Philip Pickett / New London Consort Joanne Lunn soprano, Michael George baritone David Roblou organ/virginals John Dowland His Delight – Mirth and Melancholy Birtwistle The Shadow of Night Dowland In darkness let me dwell Birtwistle Night’s Black Bird (London premiere)
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Thu 28 Oct QEH 7.45pm David Atherton conductor Paul Silverthorne viola, Mark van de Wiel clarinet Birtwistle Ritual Fragment Scelsi Kya Birtwistle Silbury Air Feldman The Viola in My Life II Birtwistle Secret Theatre
Sat 6 Nov QEH 7.45pm Pierre-André Valade conductor Nicolas Hodges piano, London Sinfonietta Voices Birtwistle The Axe Manual Birtwistle ...agm... Birtwistle Theseus Game
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Tue 9 Nov RFH 7.30pm BBC Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins conductor John Daszak Kong, Rebecca von Lipinski Pearl Stephen Richardson, Richardson , Roderick Williams, Williams , Claire Booth & Susan Bickley
Sun 31 Oct RFH 7.30pm Christoph von Dohnányi conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Birtwistle Antiphonies Birtwistle Earth Dances
ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC WIND ORCHESTRA & BIG BAND Sun 31 Oct RFH 6pm Birtwistle Panic plus Big Band Jazz
ARDITTI QUARTET NASH ENSEMBLE Tue 2 Nov QEH 7.45pm Martyn Brabbins conductor conductor, Claron McFadden soprano Birtwistle Pulse Shadows
PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD piano Wed 3 Nov QEH 7.45pm Birtwistle Harrison’s Clocks Nos. 2, 3, 4 & 5 Messiaen Pieces from ‘Catalogue d’o iseaux’ PLUS WORKS BY Ravel, Bartók & Ligeti
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Birtwistle The Second Mrs Kong (London premiere, concert staging)
BBC SINGERS & CHOIR OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY Thu 11 Nov Westminster Abbey 7.30pm Stephen Layton conductor conductor, James O’Donnell director/organ Royal Academy of Music Brass Ensemble Birtwistle Sonance 2000 Tudor Anthems by Byrd Byrd,, Taverner & Tye Birtwistle Motets from The Last Supper Birtwistle Tenebrae David Messiaen Messe de la Pentecôte Pierre de Manchicourt Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus Plus talks, a study day and an exhibition of Harrison Birtwistle’s drawings
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Birtwistle Games in London A total of 10 concerts between 20th October and 11th November will mark the extraordinary musical legacy of Sir Harrison Birtwistle, in celebration of his 70th birthday.
ber; the early work Précis will form part of an epic piano recital by Aimard on 3rd November; and there will be a second concert by the Philharmonia on 4th November.
A festival conceived in part by the composer himself, audiences will be in October able to hear Endymion perform his Orpheus-inspired works, including Linoi and Nenia, the Death of Orpheus (20th October); the London Sinfonietta perform two of the works commissioned by them - Ritual Fragment and Secret Theatre - alongside Silbury Air (28th October); and finally the huge energy of Earth Dances being paired with the piano concerto Antiphonies (sol. PierreLaurent Aimard) in a concert by the Philharmonia (c. Christoph von Dohnányi) on 31st October.
The weekend will offer a study afternoon on The Second Mrs Kong (at which Birtwistle will be one of the speakers) as well as another concert given by the London Sinfonietta which will include the subtle and tantalising ...agm... (both events on 6th November). On 9th November the London première of the fascinating, multi-layered opera The Second Mrs Kong will take place in a new concert staging.
Then, in November there will be 7 concerts in 9 days: Pulse Shadows (Arditti Quartet / Nash Ensemble / Claron McFadden / Martyn Brabbins) can be heard on 2nd Novem-
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Æstonishing Arvo This is, of course, Arvo Pärt. His oeuvre is at the centre of a whole series of important concert events this musical autumn. And without a doubt, Italy is the central location. Recently admitted to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia as an honorary member, Pärt is ‘featured composer’ at the Settembre Musica Turin (see report on pp. 7-9 of this issue). The opening of the renowned Biennale di Venezia with a performance of Arvo Pärt's Como cierva sedienta (for soprano and orchestra) on 14 October 2004 is yet another indication of the Italian musical scene's admiration for the composer. 18
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Interest in Pärt's music is not limited to Italy, of course. An Arvo Pärt Festival is to take place from 20-24 October in Groningen/Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. This festival will be staged by the Noord Nederlands Orkest and its artistic director Marcel Mandos. The event's title is Æstonishing Music - music from Estonia juxtaposed with the music of Arvo Pärt. Several important Pärt works will be given their first performances in the Netherlands on this occasion, including Lamentate (for piano and orchestra), In Principio (for choir and orchestra) and Wallfahrtslied (for male choir and string orchestra). The countless performances this autumn will also include the German première of Lamentate at the Berlin Philharmony (Deutsches SO, c. Simone Young, Alexei Lubimov, piano).
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Spanish Sounds For the 100th birthday of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Cristóbal Halffter - Composer-inResidence of the orchestra - was invited to compose a thoroughly Spanish piece. Halffter's ear was caught by Isaac Albeniz' piano cycle Iberia. Enrique Fernández Arbós, former chief conductor of the orchestra and a friend of Albeniz’, had orchestrated 5 of the 12 pieces after Albeniz' death, and these number among today's most popular Spanish orchestral works. Halffter decided to work on the piece Eritaña. He attempted not simply to orchestrate it, but to rework the piano part in order to give the orchestra the role of the main instrument. The world première of Eritaña for orchestra takes place on 30 Dec 2004 at Madrid's Teatro Real
under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. November 14th will see another Halffter première: the University of Michigan recently commissioned Halffter to write Triada for violin, clarinet and piano, which will be presented to audiences by the Verdehr Trio at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Adagio en forma de rondó for orchestra, written in the wake of the appalling terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 and premièred by the Vienna Philharmonic, will have its German première on 10 September 2004. Semyon Bychkov, who also led the work's world première, will conduct the WDR SO at the Cologne Philharmonie.
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Lieder without voice ‘Europe grows together’. This quotation comes from the festival programme's introduction and refers to this year's emphasis: the Tirolean festival Klangspuren Schwaz will be featuring music from the new EU member states. Alongside works by Zoltán Kodály and György Ligeti, the festival's very first concert on 10 September will feature the revised version of Vykintas Baltakas' Poussla for soloist ensemble and orchestra, a piece with an unmistakable Lithuanian folk music influence. The events continue with a discussion between the composer and Lithuania's former prime minister, 20
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musicologist Vytautas Landsbergis, followed by a concert with the Gaida Ensemble conducted by Baltakas: a new addition to the composer’s cycle of Lieder with and without voice, still in progress, will be premièred, preceded by Das Lied for piano and tape as well as anderes Lied. Double for soprano and instruments (11 September). Baltakas, whose musical theatre work Cantio made waves at the Munich Biennale in May 2004, has been commissioned to write two further songs by the Hamburgbased festival 'das neue werk' (world première in February 2005) and the 2005 Witten Festival of New Chamber Music.
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THROUGHOUT EUROPE
Essential Boulez The title stands for five concerts by the London Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Boulez, with both his own works and those that have inspired him. The series will place his Dérive 2 opposite Mahler's Seventh, and combine his own Notations I-IV and VII with Wolfgang Rihm's violin concerto Gesungene Zeit (soloist: Anne-Sophie Mutter) and Béla Bartók's Four Orchestral Pieces (B&H). These programmes will be toured throughout Europe. Boulez will also visit several festivals - such as those in Edinburgh and London, with works including sur Incises - as well as Turin's Settembre Musica (Dérive 2 with the EIC). Emilio Pomárico will lead Klangforum Wien in a performance of Improvisations I and II at Berlin's KonzertHaus, Matthias Pintscher will introduce Pli selon pli to Stuttgart audiences (with Julie Moffat, soprano), and Peter Rundel will present sur Incises in Lille with the EIC just after performing Dérive 1 with the London Sinfonietta. The Symphonieorchester Münster under Rainer Mühlbach will interpret Éclat, and students will perform Domaines at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris. 21
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Luciano encore! The new concert season makes an impressive case for the immense value of Luciano Berio's artistic legacy to international musical life. A large number of concert organizations have made space for works by Berio in their seasons' programming. The space available here allows us to mention but a few of these important performances; the memorial concert to be given by Pierre
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Boulez and Ensemble Intercontemporain on 25 September as part of the Settembre Musica Torino is described separately on page 7 of this issue. The series of performances featuring Berio's last work, Stanze, continues into this autumn: following its second London performance within a 5-month period (at the PROMS on 28 August), the piece will receive its American première on 8 and 9 Oct in Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh under David Robertson, with baritone Sanford Sylvan). Great excitement, of course, precedes the Italian première of Stanze at the Venice Biennale on 22 October (see also p. 5). Dietrich Henschel, who sang the solo part at the work's world première in Paris, will also be heard in Venice. He will be joined on stage by the Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI conducted by Lothar Zagrosek. The Austrian première of Stanze will follow during the Wien Modern festival on 12 November: Bertrand de Billy will conduct the Vienna RSO, with Roman Trekel singing the solo part.
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from Strasbourg to Venice In response to a commission of the Musica Festival, Wolfgang Rihm is composing a work based on a text of Heraclitus for soprano solo, Ensemble Accroche note and Les percussions de Strasbourg. The percussionists also figure in the choral work Raumauge (SWR Vokalensemble / Marcus Creed, 19 Sep). This programme and Reinbert de Leeuw's concert of 2 October with La lugubre gondola / Das Eismeer, both reflect artistic director Frank Madlener's intent to highlight the artistic relationship between Rihm and Luigi Nono. The numerous, almost daily performances of other works by Rihm further underline his status as ‘featured composer’.
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The same goes for Munich, where Unbenannt IV for orchestra with organ will receive its German première at a musica viva concert on 29 Oct (Leo van Doeselaar, Bavarian RSO, Lothar Zagrosek). The Munich ChO is to play a concert devoted entirely to the oeuvre of the composer, who will be introducing the programme (25 Sep, Pinakothek der Moderne, c. Christoph Poppen). The ARD Competition in Munich will also see the world première of the Quartettstudie for string quartet on 16 or 17 September. Drei Hölderlin-Gedichte will be given their première on 11 Aug in Bad Reichenhall, as will the songs Eins und doppelt on 8 Oct in Ludwigshafen. The Venice Biennale has programmed La lugubre gondola / Das Eismeer for 23 October. Musikfabrik NRW will appear in Poland with the cycle Chiffre (Bytom and Katowice, 27 and 28 Nov). 23
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Mirror Sword Jewel Following on from the very successful world première by musikFabrik of David Sawer's latest ensemble work Rebus, comes a new work for two pianos, which will receive its world première at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival on 27th November. Written specifically with the pianists Rolf Hind and Nic Hodges in mind, the composer has entitled his new piece Mirror Sword Jewel. In Japanese history, a mirror, a sword and a jewel were three treasures handed down from ruler to ruler as symbols of the virtues the nation should possess: the mirror symbolising truth, the sword courage and strength, and the jewel 24
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compassion. These three qualities permeate the piece and define the nature of three different types of duet: reflection (Mirror), opposition (Sword) and unison (Jewel). Before this première, however, Rolf Hind will again be the soloist in Sawer's Piano Concerto, this time for the Italian première on 21st October, when the Orchestra dell' Arena di Verona will be conducted by Paul Mann as part of the Venice Biennale. Information: www.labiennale.org Finally, the Dutch première of Songs of Love and War will take place in Amsterdam on 2nd November 2004, when the Schönberg Ensemble and Nederlands Kamerkoor will be conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw. The work will then be given further performances in Enschede on 5th and Groningen on 6th November.
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Earthly mortality and the Revelation The Orchestra of the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona opens its autumn season on 9 and 10 September with Gustav Mahler's largescale ‘Symphony’ based on Hans Bethges' translations of Chinese lyric poetry known as Das Lied von der Erde. Sebastian Weigle will conduct, with soloists Johan Botha and Deborah Polaski. In 2000 Daniel Schnyder was asked by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra to compose The Revelation of St. John for soprano, baritone, choir and orchestra. The commission was specific indeed: the work was to be written for the same forces as Ein Deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms, thus becoming a counterpart to the elder work. The new piece was premièred in 2001 to great acclaim. On 19 November 2004, Barcelona will see the work's Spanish première (Orquesta de Gran Teatro del Liceu, c. Sebastian Weigle, 19 - 21 November 2004).
PANUFNIK
Letters from Burma in Dorset Roxanna Panufnik's Letters from Burma (12'), for oboe and string quartet, receives its world première on 2 and 3 Oct 2004. The oboist Douglas Boyd will be joined by the Vellinger String Quartet. Inspired by the eponymous book by Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi - comprising 52 letters on life in Burma - the work, commissionned by the Dorset Summer Music Society, draws on a modal folk song characterized by portamenti and microtonal inflections.
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WILSON
Negro negro elegía The fruits of Ian Wilson's works will be borne this autumn, with three major works premièred in three different cities. The piano trio, Negro negro elegía, the 4th part of Unterwelt (a series of 7 chamber works which allude to the Orphic legend), was inspired by Robert Motherwell's iconic series of dramatic black and white paintings entitled Elegies to the Spanish Republic. Negro negro elegía will be premiered by the Haydn Trio of Eisenstadt in Vienna on 10th October at the RadioKulturhaus. This work echoes some of the horrors and frustrations Wilson felt during many world events last year. Licht/ung, commissioned by the Venice Biennale and inspired by photographs taken 16 years after the Nagasaki atomic bomb disaster by Japanese photographer, Shomei Tomatsu, will be premièred by the Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona and conducted by Johannes Debus, at the Venice Biennale on 17th October 2004.
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HAAS
Autumn Georg Friedrich Haas, whose works occupy an increasingly important place on international concert programmes, will be played for the first time by the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris on 13 Oct. The EIC will perform the French premières of …Einklang freier Wesen… and Monodie. On 18 Sep, Ensemble 88 presents the Belgian première of tria ex uno, and Klangforum Wien will take Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich… along to the Biennale in Venice. Haas was invited by Germany's ARD to compose a solo flute piece for the ARD Competition. Finale will be premièred by the laureates on 16 or 17 September 2004 in Munich.
His Cello Concerto, commissioned by musica viva and premièred on 9 July in Munich, has been very positively received by music critics: With his Cello Concerto, Georg Friedrich Haas has brought forth a truly great work. (Gabriele Luster, Münchner Merkur) With his Cello Concerto (played with compelling intensity by Clemens Hagen), Haas abducted his listeners into a hitherto unknown world of overtones - a journey to the most remote regions of sonic sensibility and a soft blending of conventional melodicism with fuzzy, micro-tonal friction. (Rüdiger Schwarz, AZ Munich)
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STOCKHAUSEN
A modern classic Some of the compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen to be heard soon in Berlin, Paris and Vienna have a performance history of over half a century. Kontra-Punkte, for example, which is listed in the composer's catalogue of works as No. 1, was composed in 1952/53 (on the programme of Klangforum Wien under Friedrich Cerha on 19 Oct in Berlin). The Piano Pieces I-XI, which Benjamin Kobler will be performing on 11, 12 and 13 Sep at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, were composed between 1952 and 1956. It has been 40 years since Mikrophonie I., No. 15, written for tamtam, 2 microphones, 2 filters and potentiometer, was composed and premièred in Brussels (EIC, in Paris on 24 Sep). The same year also produced Mixtur, also to be heard in a Paris concert of the EIC - but in the scaleddown 1967 version for orchestra, sine wave generators and ring modulators (which bears the number 16 1/2). Conductor: Jonathan Nott. All these works, as well as the composer's accompanying texts, are valuable documents of postwar composing history. And they haven't lost nothing of their original freshness.
SOTELO
Artemis In response to a commission by the BBC and the WDR, Mauricio Sotelo composed his second string quartet Artemis, to be premièred on 24 September in Manchester. Sotelo dedicated this piece to the Artemis Quartet, which is the 2003-2005 BBC Artist-in-Residence. The work's German première takes place on 26 Sep at the Funkhaus in Cologne. In a second version of the string quartet, Sotelo has added the voice of a cantaor; this version will be premièred on 27 October 2004 with flamenco singer Arcangel in the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid.
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WEILL
First don’t forget to stuff your faces... Otto Klemperer wasn't the only one who found Bertolt Brecht's libretto for Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny too daring. He was supposed to have conducted the work's première at Berlin's Kroll Oper, but withdrew at the last minute; the première finally took place a year later on 9 March 1930, under Gustav Brecher in Leipzig. The anticipated scandal erupted with all its attendant fury. ”Toward the end, open tumult broke loose. Brecher somehow managed to conduct the work through to the endat which point there began a fourhour, embittered debate…" wrote Stuckenschmidt of the première. These days, such a libretto is hardly able to provoke a scandal; enthusiasm for the work's ingenious score, however, remains undimmed. With out a doubt, Mahagonny numbers among the most important dramas in the history of music theatre. Off to Mahagonny! Just in time for its 75th anniversary in 2005, the opera has been programmed by several venues: in the wake of the successful Nuremberg production (July 2004), the Staats-
theater Darmstadt will present its own new production on 22 and 24 October 2004 as a double première (stage direction: Philipp Kochheim, musical direction: Raoul Grüneis), with 9 more performances to follow until January 2005. In February 2005 the Stadttheater in Pforzheim will mount a production, as will Dresden's Semperoper in May 2005. Further productions are in the works, and we'll be keeping you informed. 29
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FRANZ SCHREKER 1878-1934
Out of Copyright In the years following the First World War, Franz Schreker's oeuvre held a dominant position in Central European opera house programming. Following subsequent decades of neglect, the last few years have seen an international Schreker renaissance which, in 2004 alone, brought us highprofile revivals of Der Schatzgräber (Frankfurt), Der ferne Klang (Berlin), Die Gezeichneten (Stuttgart), countless concerts and a new production of Irrelohe at the Vienna Volksoper (stage direction: Olivier Tambosi, première on 16 October). In December, Vienna's Jewish Museum will feature Schreker in a major exhibition entitled "Grenz-
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gänge - Grenzklänge: Franz Schreker and his composition class". More on this in the Newsletter's next issue… Although Schreker's 70-year period of copyright protection expires this year, two new publishing projects have been initiated to stress this composer's significance: ■ the first complete edition of Schreker's Lied-production, containing altogether 50 songs - 21 of which have not yet been published; ■ an edition of the Festwalzer und Walzerintermezzo for orchestra. This work was composed in 1908 and is currently being reconstructed by Christopher Hailey based on newly discovered sources (available in early 2005). Pages 44-46 contain a full worklist of Schreker's oeuvre. All details on the forces required for each work, as well as their availability, can be found on the UE website.
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LEOS JANÁCEK, 1854 - 1928
Unparalleled Renaissance 2004 has seen the musical world commemorate the 150th birthday of the great Moravian composer Leos Janácek - but in truth, every year is a Janácek year. His operas, a welcome challenge for opera companies all over the world, have been experiencing an unparalleled renaissance. Jenufa is probably the most popular (in Warsaw, Brno, Toulouse and Barcelona), to be followed in the months thereafter by The Cunning Little Vixen (new productions in Düsseldorf, Kiel and Chicago) and The Makropoulos Case (Braunschweig and Moscow). From the House of the Dead will see its Bonn première, as will The Excursions of Mr. Broucek in Gera. Concerning The Glagolitic Mass, conductors can chose between the original version edited by Paul Wingfield and the composer's final version (soon in Singapore). Sinfonietta will be performed this autumn in four cities (Stuttgart, Bonn, Brno and London), the rhapsody Taras Bulba in Brno, Geneva and Lausanne. Among the opera suites, the one from The Cunning Little Vixen seems to hold a special attraction (23-24 November in Montreal).
SCHÖNBERG
Ten Waltzes The successful world première of Arnold Schönberg’s Waltzes for String Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival in August 2004 (with Leonidas Kavakos conducting the Camerata Salzburg) will be followed by the piece’s Swiss première. The Tonhalle Orchestra under David Zinman will perform these ten attractive, pleasing works by the young Schönberg (composed between 1890 and 1900 and found in Schönberg's estate) at the Tonhalle in Zurich (9, 12, 13, 14 and 15 October 2004). 31
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BRAUNFELS
Wexford 2 Walter Braunfels composed the original version of his Prinzessin Brambilla in 1909 at the age of 24. Of his later 1931 version, which Ireland's Wexford Festival will also give at the Wexford Festival Opera on 16 October, he wrote: FOERSTER
Wexford 1 The Wexford Festival will give the opera Eva by Joseph Bohuslav Foerster, premièred in 1899 in Prague, another chance to gain popularity in the West (première: 15 October 2004). It has received periodic performances in its composer's Czech homeland, but was last performed abroad in 1925. Foerster took his inspiration from an early drama of Gabriela Preissová, whose Její pastorkyna formed the basis for Janácek's Jenufa. The plot is more closely related to Katia Kabánová, and the music is of strong lyrical quality.
Here, for the first time, an attempt was made to escape the compelling power of Richard Wagner's overwhelming genius, via a grotesque thumbing of the nose at all that was tragic or pathetic. But the truly youthful thing about it was that I wasn't even really conscious of my internal resistance to Wagner, whom I loved with a passion I thought I was offering just an occasional parody of Richard Strauss …. in one fell swoop, the pathetic scenes were decimated and replaced by short pieces necessary for the development, the orchestra was reduced to one fourth its size, and the score was completely re-written, although it did retain its original spirit. What remained were the over-confident and grotesque moments of the original work - but shortened, so that Princess Brambilla, in operatic form as well, had become what E.T.A. Hoffmann called his novella: a Capriccio.
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Cantio The press had much to say about Vykintas Baltakas' chamber opera Cantio (Munich, 18-21 May 2004): Baltakas is an enormous talent; he knows exactly what he wants and what he can justify musically - and he doesn't succumb to convention. Turbulent music theatre with congenial stage direction by Oskaras Korsunovas.(Reinhard Schulz, NMZ) Cantio was one of the most appealing séances in the Biennale's history. (Hans Klaus Jungheinrich, Frankfurter Rundschau) As a contribution to the discourse on opera's future, Cantio definitely has its qualities. (Gerhard Rohde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
CERHA
Der Rattenfänger Friedrich Meyer-Oertel's fascinating production of Friedrich Cerha's Der Rattenfänger at the Vienna Festival on 11-13 June was every bit as successful as the one at the Staatstheater Darmstadt (conductor: Stefan Blunier). Even just the review headlines make clear its outstanding impact: Weighty seduction through and through (Der Standard), Riveting and Powerful (Salzburger Nachrichten), A Pied Piper you'd like to have hang around a while (Kurier), Fascinating total work of art (Tiroler Tageszeitung), Seductive power endures unbroken (Kleine Zeitung). As long as there are composers like Friedrich Cerha, we shouldn't be all that worried about the future of the genre; we need simply to take the few operas Cerha has produced and play them over and over again, writes Gert Korentschnig in the Kurier. A riveting opera. (László Molnár, Salzburger Nachrichten) 33
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Berenice in Munich and Vienna Press reviews of Berenice (May 04): This introduction is so chillingly beautiful that it could hardly ever be surpassed - even if Staud's sonic inventiveness and talent for imaginative instrumentation do seem to be inexhaustible. (Eleonore Bühning, FAZ). Musically, Staud has opened up considerably compared to his earlier works. Particularly in the moments when Berenice sings, he approaches the realm of entertainment music, tango, blues and jazz. These are not employed in the post-modern sense of a musical-linguistic collage, but function as a lascivious, soft mass of immediate, superficial, sensuous attraction. (Reinhard Schulz, SZ). His openness is notable, and his approach is non-dogmatic. A delicate tango here, a bluesy musical ballad there, creepily floating glissandi, eerily abstract cantilenas. Not to mention a wonderful musical stalactite cavern of the orchestra, of noise-like sounds from tape, of jazz from the brass. And lots of percussiveness to go around. (Ljubisa Tosic, Der Standard) In Staud's universe, word and sound achieve unity …. The result is musical theatre in the most literal sense. (Peter Jarolin, Kurier) 34
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DALLAPICCOLA
Volo di notte in Frankfurt Press reviews of Volo di notte by Luigi Dallapiccola at the Opera Frankfurt, 6 - 19 June 2004: This 'night flight' shows the susceptibility even of critical minds to the heroic ideology of the decade between futurism and fascism. The flight director might give up his life, but the idea of the night flight will prevail - so close your eyes and off we go. (Dietmar Polaczek, SZ) …an appealing, accessible and theatrically conceived score, brought to life in all its plasticity by the Frankfurter Museumsorchester under Martyn Brabbins. (Elisabeth Schwind, NZZ)
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Anniv. of Death Birthday Anniv. of Death Birthday Birthday Birthday Birthday Birthday Birthday Anniv. of Death Birthday Birthday
Eugen d'Albert † 03 March 1932 David Bedford * 04 August 1937 Morton Feldman † 03 September 1987 Michael Gielen * 20 July 1927 Zoltán Kodály * 16 December 1882 Gian Francesco Malipiero * 18 March 1882 Joseph Marx * 11 May 1882 Gösta Neuwirth * 06 January 1937 Thomas Daniel Schlee * 26 October 1957 Othmar Schoeck † 08 March 1957 Karol Szymanowski * 06 October 1882 Julian Yu * 02 September 1957
Birthday Birthday Birthday Anniv. of Death Birthday Birthday Birthday Anniv. of Death Birthday Birthday Birthday Birthday Birthday Birthday Birthday Birthday
Gilbert Amy * 29 August 1936 Béla Bartók * 25 March 1881 Richard Rodney Bennett * 29 March 1936 Bertolt Brecht † 14 August 1956 Earle Brown * 26 December 1926 Francis Burt * 28 April 1926 Friedrich Cerha * 17 February 1926 Gottfried von Einem † 12 July 1996 Michael Finnissy * 17 March 1946 Mauricio Kagel * 24 December 1931 György Kurtág * 19 February 1926 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart * 27 Jan 1756 Steve Reich * 03 October 1936 Dmitri Schostakowitsch * 25 Sep 1906 Karl Weigl * 06 February 1881 Hans Zender * 22 November 1936
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Theodor Berger * 18 May 1905 Luciano Berio * 24 October 1925 Pierre Boulez * 26 March 1925 Cristóbal Halffter * 24 March 1930 Vic Hoyland * 11 December 1945 Arvo Pärt * 11 September 1935 Gunther Schuller * 22 November 1925 Eric Zeisl * 18 May 1905
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Rudolf Barshai * 28 September 1924 Sir Harrison Birtwistle * 15 July 1934 Grzegorz Fitelberg * 18 October 1879 Beat Furrer * 06 December 1954 Francis Miroglio * 12 December 1924 Karol Rathaus † 21 November 1954 Johannes Maria Staud * 17 August 1974 Ian Wilson * 26 December 1964
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GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS Finale for flute solo laureates of the ARD-Competition 16 or 17 September 2004 · Munich/D CRISTÓBAL HALFFTER Triada for violin, clarinet and piano Verdehr-Trio 14 November 2004 · Phillips Collection, Washington/USA Eritaña for Orchester Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, c. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos 30 December 2004 · Teatro Real, Madrid/E ROXANNA PANUFNIK Letters from Burma for oboe and string quartet Douglas Boyd, ob, Vellinger String Quartet 02 October 2004 · Summer Music Society, Dorset/GB WOLFGANG RIHM Quartettstudie for string quartet laureates of the ARD-Competition 16 or 17 September 2004 · Munich/D Piece for soprano and ensemble, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Accroche Note 19 September 2004 · Festival Musica Strasbourg/F Eins und doppelt Five Lieder for baritone and piano Peter Schöne, Bar, Olga Monakh, pno 08 October 2004 · Ludwigshafen/D DAVID SAWER Parthenope for viola solo laureates of the ARD-Contest 16 or 17 September 2004 · Munich/D Mirror Sword Jewel for 2 pianos Rolf Hind, Nic Hodges, pno 27 Nov 2004 · Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival/GB MAURICIO SOTELO Artemis String Quartet No. 2 Artemis Quartett 24 September 2004 · Bridgewater Hall, Manchester/GB 38
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MAURICIO SOTELO Artemis 2nd version for string quartet and cantaor Artemis Quartett, Arcangel, cantaor 27 October 2004 · Auditorio Nacional de Música Madrid/E
IAN WILSON Negro negro elegía for violin, cello and piano (Unterwelt, part 4) Haydn Trio Eisenstadt 10 October 2004 · Radiokulturhaus Vienna/A Licht/ung for orchestra Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona, c. Johannes Debus 17 October 2004 · Biennale di Venezia/I Work for bass recorder and piano version of Spillaert’S Beach Ian Wilson, bass rec 13 November 2004 · London/GB
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LUCIANO BERIO Musica Leggera for flute, viola, cello and tamburin UE 32745 DAVID BROOKER String Play for Beginners for flexible string ensemble (piano ad. lib.) Score and parts UE 21231 ROXANNA PANUFNIK A Wind in a Rooks Haven for mezzosoprano and flute UE 70127 ARVO PÄRT Fratres for viola and piano UE 32624 MUSIC FOR GUITAR - SELECTED EASY PIECES for two guitars, CD included UE 32769 PLAY ALONG CHRISTMAS · Recorder - for soprano- or alto recorder (piano, guitar ad. lib.) CD included UE 32694 · Flute (piano, guitar ad. lib.) CD included UE 32693 · Violin (piano, guitar ad. lib.) CD included UE 32692 WORLD MUSIC JUNIOR - CHRISTMAS · for piano solo UE 32671 · for guitar solo UE 32672 ·
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RICHARD GRAF
World Music ChristmasEnsemble Score & CD UE 32712 Parts UE 32713 Music for Christmas from around the world. What better theme is there for your Christmas concert? Richard Graf has selected some of the most beautiful Christmas songs from around the world and presented them in player-friendly, easy arrangements. The lyrics to the songs are included for singing along. Each piece also has information about its origins and the Christmas customs in the land from which it was derived. The songs are a contrasting mix - some we know and some less familiar. Contents include: O Tannenbaum (Germany); We Wish you a Merry Christmas (Great Britain); Silent Night (Austria); Jingle Bells (USA); and more from France, Spain, Argentina, Puerto Rico and Italy.
The CD, enclosed with the ensemble and "play-along" books, provides demonstration performances of the pieces as well as minus one tracks for joining in.
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BÉLA BARTÓK The Wooden Prince, The Miraculous Mandarin Pannon Philharmonic Orchestra, c. Zsolt Hamar Inspirácio DL CD 225-226 ALBAN BERG Lulu Christine Schäfer, Kathryn Harris, London Philharmonic c. Andrew Davis, production: Graham Vick, Glyndebourne 1996 Warner DVD 0630-15533-2 LUCIANO BERIO Sequenza VIII, Chemins IV, Corale, Folk Songs Francesco D'Orazio, Hansjörg Schellenberger, Alda Caiello, etc. c. Luciano Berio (Madrid 2001) ORF und CD AMN001 LEOS JANÁCEK The Cunning Little Vixen, Sinfonietta, Katja Kabanová, Taras Bulba, Sárka Sir Charles Mackerras, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Supraphon CD cpo 99 640-2 LEOS JANÁCEK The Makropoulos Case Anja Silja, Kim Begley, Victor Braun, London Philharmonic Orchestra, c. Andrew Davies, prod: Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Glyndebourne 1995 Warner DVD 0630-14016-2 ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD The Piano Music Der Schneemann Sonata No. 1, Piano Trio op. 1 Martin Jones, pno Nimbus/Naxos 4 CDs NI 5705/8 ZOLTÁN KODÁLY Duo op. 7, ERWIN SCHULHOFF Duo Renaud Capuçon, vln, Gautier Capuçon, vlc Virgin/EMI CD 5 45586 2 ARVO PÄRT Baltic Voices I Which was the son of... Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, c. Paul Hillier Harmonia Mundi HMU CD 807311 (T01) WOLFGANG RIHM String Quartets Vol 2 (Nos. 5 & 6) Minguet Quartett col legno COL CD 20212 (T01) FRANZ SCHREKER Kammersymphonie ERNST KRENEK Violinkonzert op. 29 Musikkollegium Winterthur, Hanna Weinmeister, vln, c. Heinrich Schiff Farao CD B 108014 KAROL SZYMANOWSKI Mythes Isabelle Faust, vln, Ewa Kupiec, pn harmonia mundi HMU CD 901793
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IAN WILSON from the book of longing Hugh Tinney, pno, Catherine Leonard, vln RVR Riverrun CD 65
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ARVO PÄRT Berliner Messe, Fratres, Cantus, Mozart-Adagio Moscow virtuosi, Vladimir Spivakov Capriccio CD 67 079
ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG Die Jakobsleiter Deutsches S-O Berlin, c. Kent Nagano harmonia mundi HMU CD 801821
ALEXANDER NIKOLAJEV TSCHEREPNIN Magna Mater op. 41 Singapore Symphony Orchestra, c. Lan Shui BIS / Classic Center CD 1247 ANTON WEBERN 5 Sätze op. 5, 4 Stücke für Violine und Klavier op. 7, 6 Bagatellen op. 9, 3 kleine Stücke für Cello und Klavier op. 11, Streichtrio op. 20, Streichquartett op. 28 Schönberg Quartett, Sepp Grotenhuis, pn Chandos / Codaex CD 10083 ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY Die Seejungfrau Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, c. Antony Beaumont Chandos CHAN CD 10138
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OPERA Der ferne Klang . 140’ Die Gezeichneten 150’ Irrelohe 165’ Der Schatzgräber 145’ Der Schmied von Gent 135’ Der singende Teufel 210’ Das Spielwerk und die Prinzessin (original version) 100’ Das Spielwerk 100’
1903-1910 1911/1913-1915 1919-1922 1915-1918 1929-1932 1924/1927-1928 1908; 1909-1912 1908-1912/1920
DANCE RELATED WORKS Festwalzer und Walzerintermezzo for orchestra (available in spring 2005) Der Geburtstag der Infantin for chamber orchestra based on the story by Oscar Wilde (original version) Suite for large orchestra "Der Geburtstag der Infantin" Spanisches Fest for chamber orchestra based on the story by Oscar Wilde Ein Tanzspiel (Rokoko) for orchestra 4 Stücke im alten Stil Tanz-Suite - Dance-Suite for piano for 4 hands "Geburtstag der Infantin" Valse lente for small orchestra Der Wind for violin, clarinet, horn, violoncello and piano after a poem by Grete Wiesenthal
1908 8’ 1908-1910 30’ 1908/1923 20’ 1908/1923-1924 30’ 1908/1909 15’ 1909 12’ 1908 5’ 1909 10’
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CONCERT WORKS Chamber Symphony for 7 winds, 11 strings, harp, celesta, harmonium 1916 piano, timpani and percussion, for piano arranged by Ignaz Strasfogel 24’ Ekkehard op. 12 Symphonic overture for large orchestra 1902/1903 and organ (ad lib.) 14’ Gebet der Agnes op. 10 from the opera "Flammen" 1901/1902 for soprano and orchestra 3’30’’ Gesang der Irmgard op. 10 from the opera "Flammen" 1901/1902 for soprano and orchestra 4’ 5 Gesänge 1909 for low voice and piano (original version) 20’ for low voice and orchestra 1909/1922 for low voice and chamber orchestra arranged by Gösta Neuwirth 1976 Himmelfahrtslegende from the opera "Der Schatzgräber" for tenor and orchestra Ungarische Rhapsodie Nr. 2 (Franz Liszt 1811-1886) 1847 for large orchestra arranged by Franz Schreker (1933) 11’ Intermezzo op. 8 1900 3rd movement from "Romantische Suite" for string orchestra 6’30’’ Kleine Suite 1928 for chamber orchestra 20’ 26 Lieder (21 unpublished) for voice and piano (planned release December 2004) 15 Lieder op. 2, op. 4 and op. 7 for voice and piano 2 Lieder auf den Tod eines Kindes op. 5 before 1898 for medium voice and piano 12’ 2 lyrische Gesänge for high voice and piano 1923 based on "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman Nachtstück for orchestra 1906-1907 Interlude from the 3rd act of the opera "Der ferne Klang" 14’ Phantastische Ouverture op. 15 1904 for large orchestra 10’
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CONCERT WORKS (cont.) Romantische Suite op. 14 for orchestra Schlussgesang der alten Liese for alto and orchestra from the opera "Das Spielwerk" Schwanensang op. 11 for mixed choir and orchestra Symphonisches Zwischenspiel for large orchestra from the opera "Der Schatzgräber" Vom ewigen Leben for soprano and orchestra (based on "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman) for soprano and chamber orchestra (arranged by Gösta Neuwirth (1976)) Vorspiel zu einem Drama for large orchestra “Die Gezeichneten” Vorspiel zu einer großen Oper for large orchestra “Memnon” Vorspiel zur Oper “Das Spielwerk” for large orchestra Vorspiel zur Oper “Die Gezeichneten” for large orchestra Wiegenlied der Els for soprano and orchestra from the opera "Der Schatzgräber"
1903 27’30’’ 1912 5’ 1902 12’ 1915-1918 10’ 1923/1927 20’
1913 22’ 1933 21’ 1920 5’ 1913 9’ 1920 4’
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