Arvo Pärt - Universal Edition · Arvo Pärtto know the music of ... Gruber will visit the city as part of its Dreigroschenoper Tour (subse-quent performances in …

05 La Biennale di Venezia. No ‘universal exhibition of music’without UE, 1 première, 10 concerts.

17 Sir Harrison. 70th birthday cele-bration for Harrison Birtwistle in Londoncontinues: 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 PärtHonoured academically - Featured prominently - Listened to worldwide - Æstonishing Arvo

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NEWSBoard of Directors — 4UE Website — 4

FESTIVALSLa Biennale di Venezia — 5 - 6Settembre Musica Torino — 7 - 9Zaterdag Matinee,Degenerate Music — 10 - 11Lucerne Festival — 12 - 13Klangspuren Schwaz — 14 - 15

COMPOSERSBirtwistle — 16 - 17Pärt — 18Halffter — 19Baltakas — 20Boulez — 21Berio — 22Rihm — 23Sawer — 24Mahler / Schnyder — 25Panufnik — 25Wilson — 26Haas — 27Stockhausen — 28Sotelo — 28Weill — 29Schreker — 30Janacek — 31Schönberg — 31

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REDISCOVERIESFoerster - 32Braunfels - 32

REVIEWSBaltakas - 33Cerha - 33Staud - 34Dallapiccola - 34

ANNIVERSARIES — 36 - 37

WORLD PREMIERES — 38 - 39

NEW RELEASES — 40 - 41

NEW ON CD + DVD — 42 - 43

WORKLISTSchreker — 44 - 46

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LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA

‘Universal exhi-

bition of music’

The Venice Biennale has alwaysbeen a showcase of excellence. The2004 Biennale concludes with the48th International Festival of Con-temporary Music (14-23 October2004). Giorgio Battistelli (photo),artistic director of this year's Bien-nale, has selected works by 55 com-posers from 26 countries for per-formance. Battistelli, a composer ofinternational repute, has mouldedthe festival into a kind of universalexhibition of the music of our times

with composers being offered theorchestra as an instrument. Eightensembles will be performing intotal 20 concerts. The prestigious,festive opening concert on 14 Oct-ober in the newly renovated hall ofthe Teatro La Fenice will feature theItalian première of Arvo Pärt'sComo cierva sedienta for sopranoand orchestra, with Bernhard Kon-tarsky conducting the Orchestradel Teatro La Fenice and sopranosoloist Patricia Rozario. This will befollowed by an impressive series ofterritorial premières of works fromthe UE catalogue:

Johannes Maria Staud's BlackMoon (14th), Beat Furrer's nuun(14th), Harrison Birtwistle's EndlessParade (19th), Vykintas Baltakas'Poussla (20th), David Sawer's PianoConcerto (21st), Luciano Berio'sStanze (22nd), Wolfgang Rihm's Lalugube gondola (23rd), and GeorgFriedrich Haas' Wer wenn ich schriee, hörte mich... (14th). Finally,Licht/ung, commissioned from IanWilson by the Biennale, will receiveits world première on 17 October.Johannes Debus will conduct theOrchestra dell'Arena di Verona.Information:www.labiennale.org


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gio. 14 ottobre - ore 18.00Teatro MalibranKLANGFORUM WIENMUSICHE DI G. F. HAAS, J. M. STAUD, B. FURRER

gio. 14 ottobre - ore 20.00Teatro La FeniceORCHESTRA E CORO DEL TEATRO LA FENICEMUSICHE DI A. PÄRT, O. NEUWIRTH, L. NONO

gio. 14 ottobre - ore 22.30Sala Rossi (Teatro La Fenice)KLANGFORUM WIENMUSICHE DI S. SCIARRINO

ven. 15 ottobre - ore 20.00Teatro MalibranORQUESTA DE LA COMUNIDAD DE MADRIDMUSICHE DI J.M. SÁNCHEZ-VERDÙ, G. ERKOREKAF. ROMITELLI, L. DE PABLO

sab. 16 ottobre - ore 20.00Teatro MalibranORQUESTA DE LA COMUNIDAD DE MADRIDMUSICHE DI A. POSADAS, H. KYBURZ, F. GUERRERO

dom. 17 ottobre - ore 20.00Teatro MalibranORCHESTRA DELL’ARENA DI VERONAMUSICHE DI M. PINTSCHER, I. WILSON, R. VACCA, H.W. HENZE

lun. 18 ottobre - ore 20.00Teatro Piccolo ArsenaleORCHESTRA SINFONICA DEL FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIAMUSICHE DI S. SOLOVIC, V. TARNOPOLSKY, K. GLOWICKA, A. PEÇI

mar. 19 ottobre - ore 21.00Teatro MalibranORCHESTRA DELLA TOSCANAMUSICHE DI B. DEAN, H. BIRTWISTLE, G. VERRANDO, M. A. TURNAGE

mer. 20 ottobre - ore 21.00Teatro MalibranORCHESTRA DELLA TOSCANA MUSICHE DI J. L. HERVÉ, I. FEDELEY. MARESZ, V. BALTAKAS

gio. 21 ottobre - ore 21.00Teatro MalibranORCHESTRA DELL’ARENA DI VERONAMUSICHE DI F. INCARDONA, P. FURLANI D. SAWER, I. NILSSON

ven. 22 ottobre - ore 18.00Teatro Piccolo ArsenaleORCHESTRA SINFONICA DEL FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIAMUSICHE DI J. GOMELSKAYA, I. ZEBELJAN E. SAMMOUTIS, N. KODJABASHIA

ven. 22 ottobre - ore 20.00Teatro alle TeseORCHESTRA SINFONICA NAZIONALE DELLA RAIMUSICHE DI S. BELLON, K. SAARIAHO, L. BERIO

ven. 22 ottobre - ore 23.00Capannone del Petrolchimico, MargheraMARTUX_M / PAN SONICCONCERTI DI MUSICA ELETTRONICA

sab. 23 ottobre - ore 18.00Teatro Piccolo ArsenaleASKO ENSEMBLEMUSICHE DI M. VAN DER AA, P. VIR L. FRANCESCONI, G. LIGETI

sab. 23 ottobre - ore 20.00Teatro MalibranORCHESTRA DEL TEATRO LA FENICEMUSICHE DI M. LINDBERG, W. RIHM, T. DUN, F. TAMURA

sab. 23 ottobre - ore 23.00Capannone del Petrolchimico, MargheraMASS / FRAME / RICHIE HAWTINCONCERTI DI MUSICA ELETTRONICA

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SETTEMBRE MUSICA

Optical illusions

in Turin

Over the past few years, EnzoRestagno and Roman Vlad havesucceeded in focussing the atten-tion of the musical world on Turinduring the month of September.Restagno and Vlad are the creativeminds behind the Settembre Musi-ca festival, which surpasses allother Italian music festivals interms of diverse cultural origins,styles and historical periods - view-ed more closely, the festival appe-ars as an optical illusion, offeringnot a diffuse image but a cleverlyconceived, harmonious concept ca-pable of offering almost any musiclover something surprising or de-lectable.

The traditional emphasis of the fe-stival is on contemporary music,with a composer at its centrewhose oeuvre receives representa-tive treatment. In 2004, this com-poser is Arvo Pärt. Enzo Restagnoinvolved Pärt closely in the festi-val's programming. Numerous per-formers requested by the compo-ser (Hilliard Ensemble, Tõnu Kaljuste, Estonian PhilharmonicChamber Choir, Paul Hillier, XeniaEnsemble, etc.) will be appearing.

This collaboration over severalmonths also offered the opportuni-ty to produce a book on Arvo Pärt,which Enzo Restagno will presenton 7 Sep. It is based on an extensi-ve conversation with Restagno du-ring the summer of 2003, and alsocontains several important contri-butions by reputable Pärt experts(including Leopold Brauneiss, PaulHillier, Jordi Savall, Armin Brunnerand Helga de la Motte).

Over the course of seven concerts(6 - 12 September 2004), the majorworks of Pärt's most recent periodwill be heard; several of these willbe receiving their first performan-ces in Italy:Lamentate, In Principio, Wall-fahrtslied, and Most Holy Mother ofGod.


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September 6-12, 2004six free concerts and a panel

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Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RaiTallin Chamber Orchestra

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber ChoirHilliard EnsembleXenia Ensemble

Tõnu KaljustePaul Hillier

Momo Kodama

Te DeumMiserere

Stabat MaterDe profundis

LamentateSinfonia n.1In principio

Kanon Pokajanen....

phone +39.011.4424777 • www.comune.torino.it/settembremusica

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Settembre Musica will be holding amemorial concert on 25 Septemberto commemorate Luciano Berio, afriend of the festival for severalyears whose work was often at itscentre. Pierre Boulez and EnsembleIntercontemporain, along with soloists Luisa Castellani and Christophe Desjardins, will inter-pret three of Berio's key works:Chemin II for viola and 9 instru-ments, Différences for 5 instru-ments and tape and Folk Songs formezzo-soprano and 7 instruments.Boulez' Dérive 2 will be heard in theconcert's second half.

Weill and Brecht are also loyalguests in Turin. On 15 September,Ensemble Modern under HK

Gruber will visit the city as part ofits Dreigroschenoper Tour (subse-quent performances in Rimini, Gü-tersloh, Essen and Vienna).This concert performance of DieDreigroschenoper will, of course, bebased on the new Critical Edition.

The Arditti Quartet will be heardon 16 September in Turin with aHarrison Birtwistle programme:Birtwistle's meditations on PaulCelan, Pulse Shadows.

A detailed programme can befound at:www.comune.torino.it/settem-bremusica


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Entartete Musik

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ZATERDAG MATINEE

Amsterdam's

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vilified

This coming season, Jan Zekveldwill be dedicating his prominent,traditional concert series at Am-sterdam's Concertgebouw (knownas the Zaterdag Matinee) to so-cal-led degenerate music. It begins on18 September 2004 with a concertperformance of Franz Schreker'sopera Der ferne Klang and will endon 4 June 2005 with Arnold Schön-berg's Erwartung. The master-pieces programmed reveal the ab-surdity and tragedy of a historicalera which, after all, ended not allthat long ago. The series will seethe combination of AlexanderZemlinsky's one-acter Der Zwergwith Schreker's pantomime basedon the same subject: Der Geburts-tag der Infantin (13 Nov); Schrekerand Zemlinsky will be heard againon 28 May, together with the intro-duction and prologue from WalterBraunfels' opera Die Vögel andKarol Rathaus' ballet Der letztePierrot. Kurt Weill will be repres-ented by Berlin Requiem (11 Dec),Egon Wellesz with two works (in-cluding the UE piece Vorfrühlingfor orchestra on 20 Nov). Redisco-veries will also be heard, includingHans Krása's early Vier Orchester-

lieder (12 February), Hans Gál's Vonewiger Freude for voices, choir andinstruments (2 Oct) and WilhelmGrosz' Achtung, Aufnahme! (26/3).Parallel to this series, contempora-ry music has also been programm-ed: numerous works by Berio com-bine to form a portrait of the com-poser; Boulez will conduct his ownDomaines (26 Feb), and Rihm'sSphäre um Sphäre will be heard op-posite Bruckner's Eighth (11 Sep-tember 2004).

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Phone: 0041 (0)41 226 44 47/49Fax: 0041 (0)41 226 44 60Mail: [email protected]

Application deadline: January 15, 2005

2005

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pierre boulez artistic director

master class for string quartets walter levin / helmut lachenmannAugust 12 – 19, 2005

lucerne festival academy orchestrapierre boulez principal conductorensemble intercontemporain instrumental tutorsAugust 20 – September 9, 2005

master class in conducting pierre boulez artistic directorAugust 31 – September 3, 2005


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LUCERNE FESTIVAL

Lucerne Festival

Academy

The theme at Lucerne this year isFreedom, and a new project, theLucerne Festival Academy, aims 'toinstil a deeper appreciation for themusic of the 20th and 21st centuriesin musicians and audiences alike, tostrengthen the position of thismusic in the present day, and tocontinue to direct our gaze towardthe future'.

Fittingly, Pierre Boulez is the figurewho has been invited as artistic director to launch this excitingnew venture. Since 28th August(until 16th September), 120 highlytalented young artists have beenstudying and performing selectedworks from the 20th and 21st cen-

turies, in close co-operation withBoulez himself, Ensemble Intercon-temporain, and the Conservatoryof Music Lucerne.

The Academy thus has at its dispo-sal the best and most experiencedteachers available in the field ofcontemporary music.Boulez, for example, is holding amasterclass for young conductors,and Sir Harrison Birtwistle, who isfeatured at the festival in honourof his 70th birthday, is workingalongside students from the Festi-val Academy. The culmination ofthis collaboration is a performanceworkshop to include a selection ofhis chamber works.

Other Birtwistle works featuredduring the festival are Earth Dances(played by the Festival AcademyOrchestra and conducted by PierreBoulez on 16 September) and histhree major ensemble works Tragoedia, Secret Theatre (14 Sept)and Ritual Fragment. (SusannaMälkki directs Ensemble Intercon-temporain on 29 August 2004).Information:www.lucernefestival.ch


FESTIVALPROGRAMM10.9. Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck · GAIDA Ensemble · Dirigent · O. Elts · Violine · P. Kopatchinskaja · Trompete · S. Stoianov · G. Ligeti · Z. Kodály · V. Baltakas · ÖE · O. M. Zykan · UA11.9. Vytautas Landsbergis · Vykintas Baltakas · Gespräch · GAIDA Ensemble · Dirigent · V. Baltakas · Violine · I. Arditti · Sopran · N. Pschenitschnikova · V. Baltakas · UA · K. Lang · UA · R. Šerkšnyté · UA12.9. 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. Szöllösy14.9. Stipendiaten des Ensemble Modern · Dirigent · K. J. Edusei · Schlagzeug · R. Ogawa · S. Pollkötter · Klavier · H. Heinmaa · J.-Y. Song · KH Stockhausen · M. Lindberg · A. Fabian16.9. Beat Furrer · Jannis Kounellis · Gespräch · Übersetzung · E. Schwaiger · Chordos Quartett · R. Šerkšnyté · ÖE · Th. Amann · UA · O. Rajewa · UA · H. Seidl · UA17.9. 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 Stockhausen19.9. EU-Kommissar Franz Fischler · Vortrag · László Darvasi · Lesung · M. Knapp · Einführung·

Márta und György Kurtág · Klavier · Játékok22.9. Rujana Jeger · Lesung · Sabine Gruber · Einführung23.9. Georg Friedrich Haas hört Wolfgang Rihm · Minguet Quartett · Kurator · Wolfgang Rihm · W. Rihm · J. Olsen · UA · M. Illés · UA · J. Motschmann · UA24.9. Slowind · the next step · Posaune · V. Globokar · V. Globokar · B. Turel · UA · V. Globokar · U. Rojko · L. Vrhunc · V. Globokar · H. Delago · UA25.9. 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

KINDERPROGRAMM7.8. Hör- und Komponiernachmittag4.9. Hör- und Komponiernachmittag5.9. 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

BACKSTAGEPROGRAMM10.9 Generalprobenbesuch mit Reinhard Schulz · Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck 10.9. Klangspuren Eröffnung11.9. 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 Prometheuskuppel26.9. Abschlussfeier mit Aki Kaurismäkis „Total Balalaika Show“

Klangspurengasse 1/Ullreichstr. 8a · A 6130 Schwaz T +43 5242 73582 · F +43 5242 7358220 · www.klang spuren.at · [email protected]

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KLANGSPUREN SCHWAZ

Europe grows

together

Klangspuren Schwaz, Tirol, which iscelebrating its 10th anniversary in2004, has developed over the yearsinto a representative festival forcontemporary music. This year, asalways, the leading team of Klang-spuren Maria-Luise Mayr, PeterPaul Kainrath and Reinhard Schulz,will feature the music of specificcountries or regions alongside awide spectrum of new Austriancompositions.

The festival's concert venues re-main unusual, including the cattleauction arena in Rotholz, BinderWood in Jenbach and SwarovskiCrystal Worlds. And this year'sbroad programme of supplemen-tary activities includes listeningwalks, rehearsal visits, composingwith children and much more.

Lithuania's Vykintas Baltakas is featured with a world premièreand further works (10 - 11 Sep, seeBaltakas article).

The Minguet Quartet will presenttwo string quartets by WolfgangRihm, who will introduce three stu-dents with works commissioned bythe festival.

Georg Friedrich Haas, to whom the2005 Klangspuren will be dedica-ting a personal portrait, has alrea-dy begun the piece Ritual for 3wind orchestras and 12 largedrums, the première of which willbe presented by Klangspuren atthe Tirolean Provincial Exhibition inJuly 2005 in an open-air perfor-mance in the mountainous lands-cape of Galtür, Tirol.Information: www.klangspuren.at


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BirtwistleA Celebration of Harrison Birtwistle20 Oct - 11 Nov 2004

ENDYMIONWed 20 Oct PR 7.30pmKawai Shiu conductor*Melinda Maxwell oboe, Helen Tunstall harpClaire Booth soprano, Andrew Watts counter-tenorBach (arr. Birtwistle)Three Cantata AriasBirtwistle Nenia, The Death of Orpheus*Birtwistle LinoiKawai Shiu Quartet Desire (World premiere)Birtwistle Orpheus Elegies

LONDON SINFONIETTAThu 28 Oct QEH 7.45pmDavid Atherton conductorPaul Silverthorne viola, Mark van de Wiel clarinetBirtwistle Ritual FragmentScelsi KyaBirtwistle Silbury AirFeldman The Viola in My Life IIBirtwistle Secret Theatre

PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Sun 31 Oct RFH 7.30pmChristoph von Dohnányi conductorPierre-Laurent Aimard pianoBirtwistle Birtwistle AntiphoniesAntiphoniesBirtwistle Birtwistle Earth DancesEarth Dances

ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSICROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSICWIND ORCHESTRA & BIG BANDWIND ORCHESTRA & BIG BANDSun 31 Oct RFH Sun 31 Oct RFH 6pm6pmBirtwistleBirtwistle PanicPanic plus Big Band Jazzplus Big Band Jazz

ARDITTI QUARTET ARDITTI QUARTET NASH ENSEMBLETue 2 Nov QEH 7.45pmTue 2 Nov QEH 7.45pmMartyn Brabbins Martyn Brabbins conductorconductor, Claron McFadden Claron McFadden sopranosopranoBirtwistle Birtwistle Pulse ShadowsPulse Shadows

PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD pianopianoWed 3 Nov QEH 7.45pmWed 3 Nov QEH 7.45pmBirtwistle Birtwistle Harrison’s Clocks Nos. 2, 3, 4 & 5Harrison’s Clocks Nos. 2, 3, 4 & 5Messiaen Messiaen Pieces from ‘Catalogue d’oiseaux’Pieces from ‘Catalogue d’oiseaux’PLUS WORKS BYPLUS WORKS BY Ravel, Bartók Ravel, Bartók && LigetiLigeti

PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Thu 4 Nov RFH 7.30pmChristoph von Dohnányi conductorPhilip Pickett / New London ConsortJoanne Lunn soprano, Michael George baritoneDavid Roblou organ/virginalsJohn Dowland His Delight – Mirth and MelancholyBirtwistle The Shadow of NightDowland In darkness let me dwell Birtwistle Night’s Black Bird (London premiere)

LONDON SINFONIETTASat 6 Nov QEH 7.45pmPierre-André Valade conductorNicolas Hodges piano, London Sinfonietta VoicesBirtwistle The Axe ManualBirtwistle ...agm...Birtwistle Theseus Game

THE SECOND MRS KONGTue 9 Nov RFH 7.30pmBBC Symphony OrchestraMartyn Brabbins conductorJohn Daszak Kong, Rebecca von Lipinski Pearl Pearl Stephen RichardsonStephen Richardson,, Roderick WilliamsRoderick Williams,,Claire Booth Claire Booth && Susan BickleySusan Bickley

Birtwistle Birtwistle The Second Mrs KongThe Second Mrs Kong (London premiere, concert staging)(London premiere, concert staging)

BBC SINGERS BBC SINGERS && CHOIR OF CHOIR OF WESTMINSTER ABBEYWESTMINSTER ABBEYThu 11 Nov Westminster Abbey 7.30pmThu 11 Nov Westminster Abbey 7.30pmStephen Layton Stephen Layton conductorconductor, James O’Donnell James O’Donnell director/organdirector/organRoyal Academy of Music Brass EnsembleRoyal Academy of Music Brass EnsembleBirtwistle Birtwistle Sonance 2000Sonance 2000Tudor Anthems Tudor Anthems by by ByrdByrd,, Taverner Taverner && Tye Birtwistle Birtwistle Motets from The Last SupperMotets from The Last SupperBirtwistle Birtwistle Tenebrae DavidTenebrae DavidMessiaen Messiaen Messe de la PentecôteMesse de la PentecôtePierre de Manchicourt Pierre de Manchicourt Missa Veni Sancte SpiritusMissa Veni Sancte Spiritus

Plus talks, a study day and an exhibition of Plus talks, a study day and an exhibition of Harrison Birtwistle’s drawingsHarrison Birtwistle’s drawings

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SIR HARRISON

Birtwistle Games

in London

A total of 10 concerts between20th October and 11th Novemberwill mark the extraordinary musi-cal legacy of Sir Harrison Birtwistle,in celebration of his 70th birthday.

A festival conceived in part by thecomposer himself, audiences willbe in October able to hear Endymion perform his Orpheus-in-spired works, including Linoi andNenia, the Death of Orpheus (20thOctober); the London Sinfoniettaperform two of the works commis-sioned by them - Ritual Fragmentand Secret Theatre - alongside Silbury Air (28th October); and finally the huge energy of EarthDances being paired with the pianoconcerto Antiphonies (sol. Pierre-Laurent Aimard) in a concert by thePhilharmonia (c. Christoph vonDohnányi) on 31st October.

Then, in November there will be 7concerts in 9 days: Pulse Shadows(Arditti Quartet / Nash Ensemble /Claron McFadden / Martyn Brab-bins) can be heard on 2nd Novem-

ber; the early work Précis will formpart of an epic piano recital by Ai-mard on 3rd November; and therewill be a second concert by thePhilharmonia on 4th November.

The weekend will offer a study af-ternoon on The Second Mrs Kong(at which Birtwistle will be one ofthe speakers) as well as anotherconcert given by the London Sinfo-nietta which will include the subtleand tantalising ...agm... (bothevents on 6th November).

On 9th November the London pre-mière of the fascinating, multi-lay-ered opera The Second Mrs Kongwill take place in a new concertstaging.


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AUTUMN FESTIVALS

Æstonishing Arvo

This is, of course, Arvo Pärt. His oeuvre is at the centre of a wholeseries of important concert eventsthis musical autumn. And withouta doubt, Italy is the central loca-tion.

Recently admitted to the Accade-mia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia asan honorary member, Pärt is ‘fea-tured composer’ at the SettembreMusica Turin (see report on pp. 7-9of this issue).

The opening of the renowned Biennale di Venezia with a perfor-mance of Arvo Pärt's Como ciervasedienta (for soprano and orche-stra) on 14 October 2004 is yet an-other indication of the Italian mu-sical scene's admiration for thecomposer.

Interest in Pärt's music is not limi-ted to Italy, of course. An Arvo PärtFestival is to take place from 20-24October in Groningen/Leeuwar-den, the Netherlands. This festivalwill be staged by the Noord Neder-lands Orkest and its artistic direc-tor Marcel Mandos. The event'stitle is Æstonishing Music - musicfrom Estonia juxtaposed with themusic of Arvo Pärt. Several impor-tant Pärt works will be given theirfirst performances in the Nether-lands on this occasion, includingLamentate (for piano and orche-stra), In Principio (for choir and or-chestra) and Wallfahrtslied (formale choir and string orchestra).

The countless performances thisautumn will also include the Ger-man première of Lamentate at theBerlin Philharmony (Deutsches SO,c. Simone Young, Alexei Lubimov,piano).


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HALFFTER

Spanish Sounds

For the 100th birthday of the Or-questa Sinfónica de Madrid,Cristóbal Halffter - Composer-in-Residence of the orchestra - was in-vited to compose a thoroughly Spa-nish piece. Halffter's ear wascaught by Isaac Albeniz' piano cycleIberia. Enrique Fernández Arbós,former chief conductor of the or-chestra and a friend of Albeniz’, hadorchestrated 5 of the 12 pieces afterAlbeniz' death, and these numberamong today's most popular Spa-nish orchestral works.Halffter decided to work on thepiece Eritaña. He attempted notsimply to orchestrate it, but to re-work the piano part in order to givethe orchestra the role of the maininstrument. The world première ofEritaña for orchestra takes place on30 Dec 2004 at Madrid's Teatro Real

under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.

November 14th will see anotherHalffter première: the University ofMichigan recently commissionedHalffter to write Triada for violin,clarinet and piano, which will bepresented to audiences by the Verdehr Trio at the Phillips Collec-tion in Washington, D.C.

Adagio en forma de rondó for or-chestra, written in the wake of theappalling terrorist attacks on theWorld Trade Center on 11 Septem-ber 2001 and premièred by theVienna Philharmonic, will have itsGerman première on 10 September2004. Semyon Bychkov, who alsoled the work's world première, willconduct the WDR SO at the Cologne Philharmonie.


baltakas

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BALTAKAS

Lieder without

voice

‘Europe grows together’. This quo-tation comes from the festival pro-gramme's introduction and refersto this year's emphasis: the Tirole-an festival Klangspuren Schwazwill be featuring music from thenew EU member states.

Alongside works by Zoltán Kodályand György Ligeti, the festival'svery first concert on 10 Septemberwill feature the revised version ofVykintas Baltakas' Poussla for solo-ist ensemble and orchestra, a piecewith an unmistakable Lithuanianfolk music influence.

The events continue with a discus-sion between the composer and Lithuania's former prime minister,

musicologist Vytautas Landsbergis,followed by a concert with theGaida Ensemble conducted by Baltakas: a new addition to thecomposer’s cycle of Lieder with andwithout voice, still in progress, willbe premièred, preceded by Das Liedfor piano and tape as well as ande-res Lied. Double for soprano and in-struments (11 September).

Baltakas, whose musical theatrework Cantio made waves at theMunich Biennale in May 2004, hasbeen commissioned to write twofurther songs by the Hamburg-based festival 'das neue werk'(world première in February 2005)and the 2005 Witten Festival ofNew Chamber Music.


boulez

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THROUGHOUT EUROPE

Essential Boulez

The title stands for five concerts bythe London Symphony Orchestraunder Pierre Boulez, with both hisown works and those that have in-spired him.

The series will place his Dérive 2opposite Mahler's Seventh, andcombine his own Notations I-IVand VII with Wolfgang Rihm's violin concerto Gesungene Zeit(soloist: Anne-Sophie Mutter) andBéla Bartók's Four Orchestral Pieces(B&H). These programmes will betoured throughout Europe.

Boulez will also visit several festi-vals - such as those in Edinburghand London, with works includingsur Incises - as well as Turin's Set-tembre Musica (Dérive 2 with theEIC). Emilio Pomárico will leadKlangforum Wien in a performanceof Improvisations I and II at Berlin'sKonzertHaus, Matthias Pintscherwill introduce Pli selon pli to Stutt-gart audiences (with Julie Moffat,soprano), and Peter Rundel will pre-sent sur Incises in Lille with the EICjust after performing Dérive 1 withthe London Sinfonietta. The Sym-phonieorchester Münster underRainer Mühlbach will interpretÉclat, and students will performDomaines at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris.


berio

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BERIO

Luciano -

encore!

The new concert season makes animpressive case for the immensevalue of Luciano Berio's artistic le-gacy to international musical life. Alarge number of concert organiza-tions have made space for worksby Berio in their seasons' program-ming.

The space available here allows usto mention but a few of these im-portant performances; the memo-rial concert to be given by Pierre

Boulez and Ensemble Intercontem-porain on 25 September as part ofthe Settembre Musica Torino isdescribed separately on page 7 ofthis issue.

The series of performances featu-ring Berio's last work, Stanze, conti-nues into this autumn: followingits second London performancewithin a 5-month period (at thePROMS on 28 August), the piecewill receive its American premièreon 8 and 9 Oct in Pittsburgh (Pitts-burgh Symphony Orchestra,Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburghunder David Robertson, with bari-tone Sanford Sylvan).

Great excitement, of course, prece-des the Italian première of Stanzeat the Venice Biennale on 22 Oct-ober (see also p. 5). Dietrich Henschel, who sang the solo partat the work's world première inParis, will also be heard in Venice.He will be joined on stage by theCoro dell'Accademia Nazionale diSanta Cecilia and the OrchestraSinfonica della RAI conducted byLothar Zagrosek.

The Austrian première of Stanzewill follow during the Wien Modern festival on 12 November:Bertrand de Billy will conduct theVienna RSO, with Roman Trekel sin-ging the solo part.


rihm

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RIHM

from Strasbourg

to Venice

In response to a commission of theMusica Festival, Wolfgang Rihm iscomposing a work based on a textof Heraclitus for soprano solo, En-semble Accroche note and Les per-cussions de Strasbourg. The per-cussionists also figure in the choralwork Raumauge (SWR Vokalen-semble / 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 FrankMadlener's intent to highlight theartistic relationship between Rihmand Luigi Nono. The numerous, al-most daily performances of otherworks by Rihm further underlinehis status as ‘featured composer’.

The same goes for Munich, whereUnbenannt IV for orchestra withorgan will receive its German pre-mière at a musica viva concert on29 Oct (Leo van Doeselaar, BavarianRSO, Lothar Zagrosek). The MunichChO is to play a concert devotedentirely to the oeuvre of the com-poser, who will be introducing theprogramme (25 Sep, Pinakothek derModerne, c. Christoph Poppen).

The ARD Competition in Munichwill also see the world première ofthe Quartettstudie for string quar-tet on 16 or 17 September.

Drei Hölderlin-Gedichte will begiven their première on 11 Aug inBad Reichenhall, as will the songsEins und doppelt on 8 Oct in Lud-wigshafen. The Venice Biennalehas programmed La lugubre gon-dola / Das Eismeer for 23 October.Musikfabrik NRW will appear in Po-land with the cycle Chiffre (Bytomand Katowice, 27 and 28 Nov).


sawer

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SAWER

Mirror Sword

Jewel

Following on from the very suc-cessful world première by musik-Fabrik of David Sawer's latest en-semble work Rebus, comes a newwork for two pianos, which will re-ceive its world première at theHuddersfield Contemporary MusicFestival on 27th November.

Written specifically with the pia-nists Rolf Hind and Nic Hodges inmind, the composer has entitledhis new piece Mirror Sword Jewel.In Japanese history, a mirror, asword and a jewel were three trea-sures handed down from ruler toruler as symbols of the virtues thenation should possess: the mirrorsymbolising truth, the sword cou-rage and strength, and the jewel

compassion. These three qualitiespermeate the piece and define thenature of three different types ofduet: reflection (Mirror), opposition(Sword) and unison (Jewel).

Before this première, however, RolfHind will again be the soloist in Sa-wer's Piano Concerto, this time forthe Italian première on 21st Oct-ober, when the Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona will be conductedby Paul Mann as part of the VeniceBiennale.Information:www.labiennale.org

Finally, the Dutch première ofSongs of Love and War will takeplace in Amsterdam on 2nd No-vember 2004, when the SchönbergEnsemble and Nederlands Kamer-koor will be conducted by Reinbertde Leeuw. The work will then begiven further performances in En-schede on 5th and Groningen on6th November.


mahler /schnyder panufnik

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PANUFNIK

Letters from

Burma in Dorset

Roxanna Panufnik's Letters fromBurma (12'), for oboe and stringquartet, receives its world premièreon 2 and 3 Oct 2004. The oboistDouglas Boyd will be joined by theVellinger String Quartet. Inspiredby the eponymous book by Burmese dissident Aung San SuuKyi - comprising 52 letters on life inBurma - the work, commissionnedby the Dorset Summer Music Society, draws on a modal folk songcharacterized by portamenti andmicrotonal inflections.

MAHLER / SCHNYDER

Earthly mortali-

ty and the

Revelation

The Orchestra of the Gran Teatrodel Liceu in Barcelona opens its au-tumn season on 9 and 10 Septem-ber with Gustav Mahler's large-scale ‘Symphony’ based on HansBethges' translations of Chineselyric poetry known as Das Lied vonder Erde. Sebastian Weigle will con-duct, with soloists Johan Botha andDeborah Polaski.

In 2000 Daniel Schnyder was askedby the Milwaukee Symphony Or-chestra to compose The Revelationof St. John for soprano, baritone,choir and orchestra. The commis-sion was specific indeed: the workwas to be written for the same for-ces as Ein Deutsches Requiem by Jo-hannes Brahms, thus becoming acounterpart to the elder work. Thenew piece was premièred in 2001to great acclaim. On 19 November2004, Barcelona will see the work'sSpanish première (Orquesta deGran Teatro del Liceu, c. SebastianWeigle, 19 - 21 November 2004).


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WILSON

Negro negro

elegía

The fruits of Ian Wilson's works willbe borne this autumn, with threemajor works premièred in threedifferent cities.

The piano trio, Negro negro elegía,the 4th part of Unterwelt (a seriesof 7 chamber works which alludeto the Orphic legend), was inspiredby Robert Motherwell's iconic se-ries of dramatic black and whitepaintings entitled Elegies to theSpanish Republic.

Negro negro elegía will be premie-red by the Haydn Trio of Eisenstadtin Vienna on 10th October at theRadioKulturhaus. This work echoessome of the horrors and frustra-tions Wilson felt during manyworld events last year.

Licht/ung, commissioned by the Venice Biennale and inspired byphotographs taken 16 years afterthe Nagasaki atomic bomb disaster by Japanese photographer,Shomei Tomatsu, will be premièredby the Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona and conducted by JohannesDebus, at the Venice Biennale on17th October 2004.

Wilson's third première is a versionof Spilliaert's Beach for bass recor-der and piano, which was appa-rently suggested by a bass recorderplayer also named Ian Wilson! Thiswill take place on 13th November inLondon.


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HAAS

Autumn

Georg Friedrich Haas, whose worksoccupy an increasingly importantplace on international concert pro-grammes, will be played for thefirst time by the Ensemble Inter-contemporain in Paris on 13 Oct.The EIC will perform the Frenchpremières of …Einklang freierWesen… and Monodie.

On 18 Sep, Ensemble 88 presentsthe Belgian première of tria ex uno,and Klangforum Wien will takeWer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich…along to the Biennale in Venice.

Haas was invited by Germany'sARD to compose a solo flute piecefor the ARD Competition. Finalewill be premièred by the laureateson 16 or 17 September 2004 in Munich.

His Cello Concerto, commissionedby 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 atruly great work. (Gabriele Luster,Münchner Merkur)With his Cello Concerto (playedwith compelling intensity by Clemens Hagen), Haas abducted hislisteners into a hitherto unknownworld of overtones - a journey tothe most remote regions of sonicsensibility and a soft blending ofconventional melodicism withfuzzy, micro-tonal friction. (RüdigerSchwarz, AZ Munich)


stockhausen/sotelo

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STOCKHAUSEN

A modern classic

Some of the compositions by Karl-heinz Stockhausen to be heardsoon in Berlin, Paris and Viennahave a performance history of overhalf a century.Kontra-Punkte, for example, whichis listed in the composer's cata-logue of works as No. 1, was com-posed in 1952/53 (on the program-me of Klangforum Wien under Friedrich Cerha on 19 Oct in Berlin).The Piano Pieces I-XI, which Benjamin Kobler will be perfor-ming on 11, 12 and 13 Sep at theHaus der Berliner Festspiele, werecomposed between 1952 and 1956.It has been 40 years since Mikro-phonie I., No. 15, written for tam-tam, 2 microphones, 2 filters andpotentiometer, was composed andpremièred in Brussels (EIC, in Parison 24 Sep).The same year also produced Mix-tur, also to be heard in a Paris con-cert of the EIC - but in the scaled-down 1967 version for orchestra,sine wave generators and ring mo-dulators (which bears the number16 1/2). Conductor: Jonathan Nott.All these works, as well as the composer's accompanying texts,are valuable documents of post-war composing history. And theyhaven't lost nothing of their origi-nal freshness.

SOTELO

Artemis

In response to a commission by theBBC and the WDR, Mauricio Sotelocomposed his second string quar-tet Artemis, to be premièred on 24September in Manchester. Sotelodedicated this piece to the ArtemisQuartet, which is the 2003-2005BBC Artist-in-Residence. The work'sGerman première takes place on 26Sep at the Funkhaus in Cologne.

In a second version of the stringquartet, Sotelo has added the voiceof a cantaor; this version will bepremièred on 27 October 2004with flamenco singer Arcangel inthe Auditorio Nacional de Músicain Madrid.


weill

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WEILL

First don’t

forget to stuff

your faces...

Otto Klemperer wasn't the onlyone who found Bertolt Brecht's li-bretto for Aufstieg und Fall derStadt Mahagonny too daring. Hewas supposed to have conductedthe work's première at Berlin's KrollOper, but withdrew at the last mi-nute; the première finally tookplace a year later on 9 March 1930,under Gustav Brecher in Leipzig.The anticipated scandal eruptedwith all its attendant fury. ”Towardthe end, open tumult broke loose.Brecher somehow managed to con-duct the work through to the end-at which point there began a four-hour, embittered debate…" wroteStuckenschmidt of the première.These days, such a libretto is hardlyable to provoke a scandal; enthusi-asm for the work's ingenious score,however, remains undimmed. Without a doubt, Mahagonny numbersamong the most importantdramas in the history of music theatre.Off to Mahagonny!Just in time for its 75th anniversaryin 2005, the opera has been pro-grammed by several venues: in thewake of the successful Nurembergproduction (July 2004), the Staats-

theater Darmstadt will present itsown new production on 22 and 24October 2004 as a double première(stage direction: Philipp Kochheim,musical direction: Raoul Grüneis),with 9 more performances to fol-low until January 2005.In February 2005 the Stadttheaterin Pforzheim will mount a produc-tion, as will Dresden's Semperoperin May 2005. Further productionsare in the works, and we'll be keeping you informed.


schreker

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FRANZ SCHREKER 1878-1934

Out of

Copyright

In the years following the FirstWorld War, Franz Schreker's oeuvreheld a dominant position in Cen-tral European opera house pro-gramming. Following subsequentdecades of neglect, the last fewyears have seen an internationalSchreker renaissance which, in2004 alone, brought us high-profile revivals of Der Schatzgräber(Frankfurt), Der ferne Klang (Ber-lin), Die Gezeichneten (Stuttgart),countless concerts and a new pro-duction of Irrelohe at the ViennaVolksoper (stage direction: OlivierTambosi, première on 16 October).In December, Vienna's Jewish Mu-seum will feature Schreker in amajor exhibition entitled "Grenz-

gänge - Grenzklänge: Franz Schre-ker and his composition class".More on this in the Newsletter'snext issue…Although Schreker's 70-year periodof copyright protection expires thisyear, two new publishing projectshave been initiated to stress thiscomposer's significance:■ the first complete edition of

Schreker's Lied-production, con-taining altogether 50 songs - 21of which have not yet been pu-blished;

■ an edition of the Festwalzer undWalzerintermezzo for orchestra.This work was composed in 1908and is currently being recon-structed by Christopher Haileybased on newly discovered sour-ces (available in early 2005).

Pages 44-46 contain a full worklistof Schreker's oeuvre. All details onthe forces required for each work,as well as their availability, can befound on the UE website.


janacek / schönberg

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LEOS JANÁCEK, 1854 - 1928

Unparalleled

Renaissance

2004 has seen the musical worldcommemorate the 150th birthdayof the great Moravian composerLeos Janácek - but in truth, everyyear is a Janácek year. His operas, awelcome challenge for opera com-panies all over the world, havebeen experiencing an unparalleledrenaissance.

Jenufa is probably the most popu-lar (in Warsaw, Brno, Toulouse andBarcelona), to be followed in themonths thereafter by The CunningLittle Vixen (new productions inDüsseldorf, Kiel and Chicago) andThe Makropoulos Case (Braun-schweig and Moscow). From theHouse of the Dead will see its Bonnpremière, as will The Excursions ofMr. Broucek in Gera. ConcerningThe Glagolitic Mass, conductors canchose between the original versionedited by Paul Wingfield and thecomposer's final version (soon inSingapore). Sinfonietta will be per-formed this autumn in four cities(Stuttgart, Bonn, Brno and London),the rhapsody Taras Bulba in Brno,Geneva and Lausanne. Among theopera suites, the one from The Cun-ning Little Vixen seems to hold aspecial attraction (23-24 Novemberin Montreal).

SCHÖNBERG

Ten Waltzes

The successful world première ofArnold Schönberg’s Waltzes forString Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival in August 2004 (with Leonidas Kavakos conducting theCamerata Salzburg) will be follo-wed by the piece’s Swiss première.The Tonhalle Orchestra underDavid Zinman will perform theseten attractive, pleasing works bythe young Schönberg (composedbetween 1890 and 1900 and foundin Schönberg's estate) at the Tonhalle in Zurich (9, 12, 13, 14 and 15October 2004).


rediscoveries

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BRAUNFELS

Wexford 2

Walter Braunfels composed theoriginal version of his PrinzessinBrambilla in 1909 at the age of 24.Of his later 1931 version, which Ireland's Wexford Festival will alsogive at the Wexford Festival Operaon 16 October, he wrote:

Here, for the first time, an attemptwas made to escape the compellingpower of Richard Wagner's over-whelming genius, via a grotesquethumbing of the nose at all thatwas tragic or pathetic. But the trulyyouthful thing about it was that I wasn't even really conscious of myinternal resistance to Wagner,whom I loved with a passion - I thought I was offering just an occasional parody of RichardStrauss …. in one fell swoop, the pathetic scenes were decimated andreplaced by short pieces necessaryfor the development, the orchestrawas reduced to one fourth its size,and the score was completely re-written, although it did retain itsoriginal spirit. What remained werethe over-confident and grotesquemoments of the original work - butshortened, so that Princess Brambil-la, in operatic form as well, had be-come what E.T.A. Hoffmann calledhis novella: a Capriccio.

FOERSTER

Wexford 1

The Wexford Festival will give theopera Eva by Joseph Bohuslav Foer-ster, premièred in 1899 in Prague,another chance to gain popularityin the West (première: 15 October2004).

It has received periodic perfor-mances in its composer's Czech homeland, but was last performedabroad in 1925. Foerster took his inspiration from an early drama ofGabriela Preissová, whose Její pastorkyna formed the basis for Janácek's Jenufa. The plot is moreclosely related to Katia Kabánová,and the music is of strong lyricalquality.


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reviews

CERHA

Der Rattenfänger

Friedrich Meyer-Oertel's fascina-ting production of Friedrich Cerha'sDer Rattenfänger at the Vienna Fe-stival on 11-13 June was every bit assuccessful as the one at the Staats-theater Darmstadt (conductor: Ste-fan Blunier). Even just the reviewheadlines make clear its outstan-ding impact:

Weighty seduction through andthrough (Der Standard), Rivetingand Powerful (Salzburger Nachrich-ten), A Pied Piper you'd like to havehang around a while (Kurier), Fasci-nating total work of art (Tiroler Ta-geszeitung), Seductive power endu-res unbroken (Kleine Zeitung).As long as there are composers likeFriedrich Cerha, we shouldn't be allthat worried about the future of thegenre; we need simply to take thefew operas Cerha has produced andplay them over and over again,writes Gert Korentschnig in the Kurier.A riveting opera. (László Molnár,Salzburger Nachrichten)

BALTAKAS

Cantio

The press had much to say aboutVykintas Baltakas' chamber operaCantio (Munich, 18-21 May 2004):

Baltakas is an enormous talent; heknows exactly what he wants andwhat he can justify musically - andhe doesn't succumb to convention.Turbulent music theatre with con-genial stage direction by OskarasKorsunovas.(Reinhard Schulz, NMZ)

Cantio was one of the most appea-ling séances in the Biennale's history. (Hans Klaus Jungheinrich,Frankfurter Rundschau)

As a contribution to the discourseon opera's future, Cantio definitelyhas its qualities. (Gerhard Rohde,Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)


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reviews

STAUD

Berenice in Mu-

nich and Vienna

Press reviews of Berenice (May 04):This introduction is so chillingly beautiful that it could hardly everbe surpassed - even if Staud's sonicinventiveness and talent for imagi-native instrumentation do seem tobe inexhaustible. (Eleonore Bühning, FAZ). Musically, Staud has opened up con-siderably compared to his earlierworks. Particularly in the momentswhen Berenice sings, he approachesthe realm of entertainment music,tango, blues and jazz. These are notemployed in the post-modern senseof a musical-linguistic collage, butfunction as a lascivious, soft mass ofimmediate, superficial, sensuous at-traction. (Reinhard Schulz, SZ). His openness is notable, and his approach is non-dogmatic. A delicate tango here, a bluesy musi-cal ballad there, creepily floatingglissandi, eerily abstract cantilenas.Not to mention a wonderful musi-cal stalactite cavern of the orche-stra, of noise-like sounds from tape,of jazz from the brass. And lots ofpercussiveness to go around. (Ljubi-sa Tosic, Der Standard)In Staud's universe, word and soundachieve unity …. The result is musicaltheatre in the most literal sense.(Peter Jarolin, Kurier)

DALLAPICCOLA

Volo di notte

in Frankfurt

Press reviews of Volo di notte byLuigi Dallapiccola at the OperaFrankfurt, 6 - 19 June 2004:

This 'night flight' shows the suscep-tibility even of critical minds to theheroic ideology of the decade bet-ween futurism and fascism. Theflight director might give up his life,but the idea of the night flight willprevail - so close your eyes and offwe go. (Dietmar Polaczek, SZ)

…an appealing, accessible and thea-trically conceived score, brought tolife in all its plasticity by the Frank-furter Museumsorchester underMartyn Brabbins.(Elisabeth Schwind, NZZ)



anniversaries

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2007

75th Anniv. of Death Eugen d'Albert † 03 March 193270th Birthday David Bedford * 04 August 193720th Anniv. of Death Morton Feldman † 03 September 198780th Birthday Michael Gielen * 20 July 1927125th Birthday Zoltán Kodály * 16 December 1882125th Birthday Gian Francesco Malipiero * 18 March 1882125th Birthday Joseph Marx * 11 May 188270th Birthday Gösta Neuwirth * 06 January 193750th Birthday Thomas Daniel Schlee * 26 October 195750th Anniv. of Death Othmar Schoeck † 08 March 1957125th Birthday Karol Szymanowski * 06 October 188250th Birthday Julian Yu * 02 September 1957

2006

70th Birthday Gilbert Amy * 29 August 1936125th Birthday Béla Bartók * 25 March 188170th Birthday Richard Rodney Bennett * 29 March 193650th Anniv. of Death Bertolt Brecht † 14 August 195680th Birthday Earle Brown * 26 December 192680th Birthday Francis Burt * 28 April 192680th Birthday Friedrich Cerha * 17 February 192610th Anniv. of Death Gottfried von Einem † 12 July 1996

60th Birthday Michael Finnissy * 17 March 194675th Birthday Mauricio Kagel * 24 December 1931

80th Birthday György Kurtág * 19 February 1926250th Birthday Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart * 27 Jan 1756

70th Birthday Steve Reich * 03 October 1936100th Birthday Dmitri Schostakowitsch * 25 Sep 1906125th Birthday Karl Weigl * 06 February 188170th Birthday Hans Zender * 22 November 1936


anniversaries

37

2005

100th Birthday Theodor Berger * 18 May 190580th Birthday Luciano Berio * 24 October 192580th Birthday Pierre Boulez * 26 March 192575th Birthday Cristóbal Halffter * 24 March 1930

60th Birthday Vic Hoyland * 11 December 194570th Birthday Arvo Pärt * 11 September 193580th Birthday Gunther Schuller * 22 November 1925

100th Birthday Eric Zeisl * 18 May 1905

2004

80th Birthday Rudolf Barshai * 28 September 192470th Birthday Sir Harrison Birtwistle * 15 July 1934125th Birthday Grzegorz Fitelberg * 18 October 187960th Birthday Beat Furrer * 06 December 195480th Birthday Francis Miroglio * 12 December 192450th Anniv. of Death Karol Rathaus † 21 November 195430th Birthday Johannes Maria Staud * 17 August 197440th Birthday Ian Wilson * 26 December 1964


world premières

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GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS Finale for flute sololaureates of the ARD-Competition16 or 17 September 2004 · Munich/D

CRISTÓBAL HALFFTER Triada for violin, clarinet and pianoVerdehr-Trio14 November 2004 · Phillips Collection, Washington/USAEritaña for OrchesterOrquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, c. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos30 December 2004 · Teatro Real, Madrid/E

ROXANNA PANUFNIK Letters from Burma for oboe and string quartetDouglas Boyd, ob, Vellinger String Quartet02 October 2004 · Summer Music Society, Dorset/GB

WOLFGANG RIHM Quartettstudie for string quartetlaureates of the ARD-Competition16 or 17 September 2004 · Munich/DPiece for soprano and ensemble, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Accroche Note19 September 2004 · Festival Musica Strasbourg/FEins und doppelt Five Lieder for baritone and pianoPeter Schöne, Bar, Olga Monakh, pno08 October 2004 · Ludwigshafen/D

DAVID SAWER Parthenope for viola sololaureates of the ARD-Contest16 or 17 September 2004 · Munich/DMirror Sword Jewel for 2 pianosRolf Hind, Nic Hodges, pno27 Nov 2004 · Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival/GB

MAURICIO SOTELO Artemis String Quartet No. 2Artemis Quartett24 September 2004 · Bridgewater Hall, Manchester/GB


world premières

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IAN WILSON Negro negro elegía for violin, cello and piano (Unterwelt, part 4)Haydn Trio Eisenstadt10 October 2004 · Radiokulturhaus Vienna/ALicht/ung for orchestra Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona, c. Johannes Debus17 October 2004 · Biennale di Venezia/IWork for bass recorder and pianoversion of Spillaert’S BeachIan Wilson, bass rec13 November 2004 · London/GB

MAURICIO SOTELOArtemis 2nd version for stringquartet and cantaorArtemis Quartett, Arcangel,cantaor27 October 2004 · AuditorioNacional de Música Madrid/E


new releases

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LUCIANO BERIO Musica Leggera for flute, viola, cello and tamburinUE 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 fluteUE 70127

ARVO PÄRT Fratres for viola and pianoUE 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·


new releases

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RICHARD GRAF

World Music

Christmas-

Ensemble

Score & CD UE 32712

Parts UE 32713

Music for Christmas from aroundthe world. What better theme isthere for your Christmas concert?

Richard Graf has selected some ofthe most beautiful Christmassongs from around the world andpresented them in player-friendly,easy arrangements.

The lyrics to the songs are includedfor singing along. Each piece alsohas information about its originsand the Christmas customs in theland from which it was derived. Thesongs are a contrasting mix - somewe know and some less familiar.

Contents include: O Tannenbaum(Germany); We Wish you a MerryChristmas (Great Britain); SilentNight (Austria); Jingle Bells (USA);and more from France, Spain, Ar-gentina, Puerto Rico and Italy.

The CD, enclosed with the ensem-ble and "play-along" books, provi-des demonstration performancesof the pieces as well as minus onetracks for joining in.


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BÉLA BARTÓK The Wooden Prince, The Miraculous MandarinPannon Philharmonic Orchestra, c. Zsolt HamarInspirácio DL CD 225-226

ALBAN BERG LuluChristine 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 SongsFrancesco 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, SárkaSir Charles Mackerras, Czech Philharmonic OrchestraSupraphon CD cpo 99 640-2

LEOS JANÁCEK The Makropoulos CaseAnja Silja, Kim Begley, Victor Braun, London Philharmonic Orchestra,c. Andrew Davies, prod: Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Glyndebourne 1995Warner DVD 0630-14016-2

ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD The Piano Music Der SchneemannSonata No. 1, Piano Trio op. 1 Martin Jones, pnoNimbus/Naxos 4 CDs NI 5705/8

ZOLTÁN KODÁLY Duo op. 7, ERWIN SCHULHOFF DuoRenaud Capuçon, vln, Gautier Capuçon, vlcVirgin/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 Quartettcol legno COL CD 20212 (T01)

FRANZ SCHREKER KammersymphonieERNST KRENEK Violinkonzert op. 29

Musikkollegium Winterthur, Hanna Weinmeister, vln,c. Heinrich SchiffFarao CD B 108014

KAROL SZYMANOWSKI MythesIsabelle Faust, vln, Ewa Kupiec, pn harmonia mundi HMU CD 901793


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ALEXANDER NIKOLAJEV TSCHEREPNIN Magna Mater op. 41Singapore 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. 28Schönberg Quartett, Sepp Grotenhuis, pn Chandos / Codaex CD 10083

ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY Die SeejungfrauCzech Philharmonic Orchestra, c. Antony BeaumontChandos CHAN CD 10138

EUGEND’ALBERT Die schwarzeOrchidee Philharmo-nisches Orche-ster Augsburg,c. Rudolf PiehlmayerAMR CD 391

IAN WILSONfrom the bookof longingHugh Tinney,pno, CatherineLeonard, vlnRVR RiverrunCD 65

ARVO PÄRTBerliner Messe, Fratres, Cantus, Mozart-Adagio Moscow virtuo-si, Vladimir SpivakovCapriccio CD 67 079

ARNOLDSCHÖNBERGDie JakobsleiterDeutsches S-OBerlin, c. KentNagano harmoniamundi HMU CD801821


OPERA

Der ferne Klang . 1903-1910 140’Die Gezeichneten 1911/1913-1915 150’Irrelohe 1919-1922 165’Der Schatzgräber 1915-1918 145’Der Schmied von Gent 1929-1932 135’Der singende Teufel 1924/1927-1928 210’Das Spielwerk und die Prinzessin (original version) 1908; 1909-1912 100’Das Spielwerk 1908-1912/1920100’

DANCE RELATED WORKS

Festwalzer und Walzerintermezzo for orchestra 1908(available in spring 2005) 8 ’Der Geburtstag der Infantin for chamber orchestra 1908-1910based on the story by Oscar Wilde (original version) 30’Suite for large orchestra 1908/1923 "Der Geburtstag der Infantin" 20’Spanisches Fest for chamber orchestra 1908/1923-1924 based on the story by Oscar Wilde 30’Ein Tanzspiel (Rokoko) for orchestra 1908/19094 Stücke im alten Stil 15’Tanz-Suite - Dance-Suite for piano for 4 hands 1909"Geburtstag der Infantin" 12’Valse lente 1908for small orchestra 5’Der Wind for violin, clarinet, horn, violoncello and piano 1909after a poem by Grete Wiesenthal 10’

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CONCERT WORKS

Chamber Symphony for 7 winds, 11 strings, harp, celesta, harmonium 1916piano, timpani and percussion, for piano arranged by Ignaz Strasfogel 24’Ekkehard op. 12 Symphonic overture for large orchestra 1902/1903and organ (ad lib.) 14’Gebet der Agnes op. 10 from the opera "Flammen" 1901/1902for soprano and orchestra 3’30’’Gesang der Irmgard op. 10 from the opera "Flammen" 1901/1902for soprano and orchestra 4’5 Gesänge 1909 for low voice and piano (original version) 20’for low voice and orchestra 1909/1922for low voice and chamber orchestra arranged by Gösta Neuwirth 1976Himmelfahrtslegendefrom the opera "Der Schatzgräber" for tenor and orchestra Ungarische Rhapsodie Nr. 2 (Franz Liszt 1811-1886) 1847for large orchestra arranged by Franz Schreker (1933) 11’Intermezzo op. 8 1900 3rd movement from "Romantische Suite" for string orchestra 6’30’’Kleine Suite 1928for 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 piano2 Lieder auf den Tod eines Kindes op. 5 before 1898for medium voice and piano 12’2 lyrische Gesänge for high voice and piano 1923based on "Leaves of Grass" by Walt WhitmanNachtstück for orchestra 1906-1907 Interlude from the 3rd act of the opera "Der ferne Klang" 14’Phantastische Ouverture op. 15 1904for large orchestra 10’


CONCERT WORKS (cont.)

Romantische Suite op. 14 1903for orchestra 27’30’’Schlussgesang der alten Liese for alto and orchestra 1912from the opera "Das Spielwerk" 5’

Schwanensang op. 11 1902for mixed choir and orchestra 12’Symphonisches Zwischenspiel for large orchestra 1915-1918from the opera "Der Schatzgräber" 10’Vom ewigen Leben 1923/1927for soprano and orchestra 20’

(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 1913“Die Gezeichneten” 22’Vorspiel zu einer großen Oper for large orchestra 1933“Memnon” 21’Vorspiel zur Oper “Das Spielwerk” 1920for large orchestra 5’Vorspiel zur Oper “Die Gezeichneten” 1913for large orchestra 9’Wiegenlied der Els for soprano and orchestra 1920from the opera "Der Schatzgräber" 4’

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UNIVERSAL EDITION

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