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June 2009 2009/2 Andriessen 70th celebrations Jenkins Events honouring 's 70th include an Amsterdam day of concerts on 6 June, Included in this issue: plus features in London and New York. signs for Chin On 6 June the major Amsterdam music leads a round-up of organisations join together to salute Louis new Andriessen on his 70th birthday, with long term three concerts led by Reinbert de Leeuw. Boosey & Hawkes has purchased Karl The programmes survey the breadth of his Jenkins Music Ltd, including the copyrights music from early modernist scores such as to the popular Adiemus series and The Nocturnen, through Vermeer Pictures - the Armed Man: a Mass for Peace, and has orchestral suite drawn by Clark Rundell from signed a new long-term publishing Andriessen’s Writing to Vermeer - to agreement with Karl Jenkins for future works. the Dutch premiere of The Hague Hacking, a new written for the two team The relationship between Karl Jenkins and of the Labèque Sisters. Boosey & Hawkes began in 1996, when Jenkins chose a classical home for his first International celebrations have included a publishing agreement following the launch of feature by Music in Main in Vancouver, Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary. With its ethnic where Andriessen’s complete music for vocal sounds, percussion and invented string quartet was performed by the young Adams Francesca Patella language, Adiemus topped classical and Moscow-based RusQuartet. The group ‘pop’ charts around the world, gaining 17 new String Quartet and studied these works in Banff under the Photo: City Noir gold or platinum album awards. Schoenberg Quartet who have just released for the dance style of a techno-descended The 2009/10 season brings the first US In 2000 The Armed Man saw Jenkins all the quartets on a new Attacca Babel house music, high speed and heavy on the performances of Andriessen’s Dante-inspired reinventing himself as a large-scale choral disc. In London, the BBC Proms includes , and the score is characteristic in its opera La Commedia, in the Los Angeles , returning to his the UK premiere of The Hague Hacking extensive use of hocketing techniques. Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series roots while preserving the ethnic influences (17 August) and a late-night performance of (13 April) and at Carnegie Hall in New York “The Dutch composer uses two pre-existing characteristic of his earlier works. The Armed De Staat (28 August), and the London (15 April) as part of the composer’s residency melodies, one, ‘a once-popular sing-along song Man has firmly established itself as one of Sinfonietta Live label is planning a CD which also features a new work for Bang on a about the city of The Hague’, and the other, Liszt’s the most successful large-scale choral works release with De Staat and De Snelheid. Hungarian Rhapsody No.2, which entered his Can and a performance of De Staat of our time, with The Hague Hacking was commisioned by the consciousness not through direct knowledge of conducted by . over 500 for the Labèque the score, but through a Tom and Jerry cartoon In honour of the composer’s 70th Boosey performances, in Sisters and premiered under the baton of called The Cat Concerto, in which our heroes play a cat and mouse game with it… The whole piece & Hawkes is releasing a study score of more than 20 Photo: Margaretta Mitchell Esa-Pekka Salonen on 16 January. The title has a chiselled quality, bright and brittle and Andriessen’s string quartets including countries. The works of the work alludes to the Dutch slang (hakkû) sculpted out of rock.” The Orange County Register Garden of Eros and …miserere… that have followed, including , Birtwistle & Maxwell Davies Stabat Mater and Te at 75 Deum, are also moving rapidly into Glanert Stravinsky in Cannes the repertoire. Jenkins is planning a invites them to stay at her new villa in Gloria for first Shoreless Garches and, as the composer works on performance by the retouches of The Rite of Spring for a Paris Photo: Eric Richmond/ArenaPAL Really Big Chorus of River revival, a mutual attraction gathers force. over 2,000 choristers at the Royal Albert Hall ’s new Coco Chanel and is based on in July 2010. orchestral work, Shoreless the novel Coco & Igor by Chris Greenhalgh Jenkins is a best-selling composer, both in River (Fluß ohne Ufer), and directed by Jan Kounen. Mads terms of his EMI Classics recordings and of receives its first Mikkelsen, whose credits include Le Chiffre his publications, with over 67,000 scores of performances this summer in the Bond movie Casino Royale, stars as The Armed Man sold to date. Beyond the at the Cologne Philharmonie the composer and Coco Chanel is played by concert sphere, Boosey & Hawkes has Van der Aa Photo: Iko Freese (19 June) and the BBC Anna Mouglalis, the actress and model actively promoted his catalogue to the film Christianne Stotijn sings Proms (19 August). The 25-minute score is a associated with Karl Lagerfeld and the and advertising sectors. Recent international Spaces of Blank prestigious four-way commission between Chanel fashion house. Boosey & Hawkes campaigns have included Lynx, Johnnie WDR Cologne, Royal acted as music supervisor for the new film Walker, Tourism New South Wales and Amsterdam, National Symphony and in addition to The Rite of Spring the Sky TV. Orchestra Washington and the BBC Proms, Eurowide Productions Photo: score for the movie includes a wealth of Karl Jenkins is currently completing a illustrating Glanert’s growing international Stravinsky – the man and the music – took Stravinsky’s music. concerto for euphonium virtuoso David reputation as an orchestral composer, as centre screen at the Cannes Film Festival in In the UK, Birmingham recently completed its Childs for premiere at the Welsh Proms in well as a leading creator of new . May, with the premiere of Coco Chanel and epic four-year IgorFest journeying through Cardiff on 25 July. In addition to the Igor Stravinsky selected as the festival’s Semyon Bychkov conducts both Stravinsky’s complete output, the result of a orchestral version, arrangements are planned finale. The new biopic explores the performances of Shoreless River, with the unique collaboration between the City of for brass band and wind band. His next EMI relationship between the haute couture icon WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne and Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, album is a Christmas-based collection, due and the Russian composer. Central to the the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London. As Birmingham Royal Ballet and other leading for release this autumn. film is The Rite of Spring: Chanel is he revealed recently on BBC Radio 3’s CD arts organisations in the region. The mesmerised by the scandalous premiere in Visit our Audio Visual website for a new ten- Review, his interest in Glanert’s music was composer’s ballets form a central focus at 1913, and seven years later is introduced by minute web documentary of Karl Jenkins sparked by a performance of Theatrum the 2009 BBC Proms, with his 11 Diaghilev to Stravinsky, now a penniless talking about his life and music: Bestiarum in Cologne. That work’s blending of danceworks from The Firebird to Agon émigré living in Paris with his family. She www.boosey.com/av contemporary idioms with subtle references to spread throughout the season. the musical past fascinated orchestra and conductor so much that they swiftly added it to recording sessions for Shostakovich’s tenth symphony for Avie (AV 2137). Bychkov couples Glanert again with Shostakovich at Reich wins Pulitzer Prize the first performances of Shoreless River, this time the eleventh symphony. has won Reich has recently completed 2x5 for five in opera, and John Adams joins last year’s The title of the new orchestral work is linked his first Pulitzer Prize musicians and tape, or 10 live musicians, winner Carlisle Floyd. to Glanert’s forthcoming opera The Wooden for the 2007 work, which receives its premiere at the Ship (Das Holzschiff), based on the first novel Double , Manchester International Festival on 2 July. Harrison Birtwistle is winner of the 2008 in the Shoreless River trilogy by the radical commissioned by and Bang on a Can gives the first performance at Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for German playwright and novelist Hans Henny currently exclusive to a sell-out concert at the Manchester Chamber-Scale Composition for his string Jahnn. The composer often views orchestral . The Velodrome, in a programme where Reich is quartet The Tree of Strings. The work was works as ‘musical laboratories’ for his 22-minute piece was paired with legendary German electronic composed for the Arditti Quartet and has operas, where he can develop techniques premiered in March band . A new is been toured by the group to six countries and explore dramatic moods while last year and has scheduled for premiere this December by to date. employing different music: just as Glanert’s been toured by the Amadinda in Budapest. group to the USA, James MacMillan has won the 2009 Shoreless River is related to The Wooden Photo: Wonge Bergmann Ship, so Theatrum Bestiarum was his UK, , John Adams has received the 2009 Ivor Novello Award for Classical Music in development ground for his opera Caligula. and Australia. Scored for two each National Endowment for the Arts Opera recognition of his achievement as a The Wooden Ship, which charts a disturbing of , , vibraphones, , Honor for Composition for his outstanding composer. The Ivors have honoured voyage into the inner psyche, receives its and , Double Sextet can be contribution to opera in the United States. excellence in British music writing for over premiere at the Nuremberg State Opera in played either with twelve musicians or with Now in its second year, the NEA Opera 50 years, and are judged and presented by October 2010, directed by Johann Kresnik. six playing against a recording of themselves. Honors is the highest award the US bestows British songwriters and . discusses her new Concerto for the BBC Proms and the Currier Sheng Concerto with first performances in Tokyo and Los Angeles. How do you explore the exploited in terms of solo because I believe every new piece has to have an relationship between soloist and playing. I was therefore all the individual voice in the midst of all these bewilderingly time traces orchestra in your new concertos? more fascinated when I heard different possibilities. In order to develop as a Two recent works by The is antithetical to Wu Wei for the first time in musician, it’s necessary to face different kinds of Sebastian Currier, under his my other concertos. While in the , as he introduced me to music, whether from non-European or even popular new contract with Boosey & concertos for and piano, in the great virtuosic possibilities music cultures. But that doesn’t change the fact that Hawkes, are high profile the Double Concerto, and in my and multi-faceted nature of this I’m a composer grown within a culture of concertos exploring the new Sheng Concerto I was seeking instrument. Unlike its Korean contemporary classical music. interplay of time. Traces is to merge the solo instrument and and Japanese counterparts, the premiered by the Berliner Your residency with the Seoul Philharmonic since the orchestra into a single virtuoso Chinese sheng – which is more Philharmoniker and harp 2006 has taken you back to your native city. How do super-instrument, here it’s all about than 4000 years old – has been soloist Marie-Pierre you see contemporary music in Korea developing? the competitive tension between developed into a highly versatile Langlamet conducted by It is a paradoxical situation. On one hand, musical the soloist and the orchestra. The instrument. Because of the key Donald Runnicles on 18 education is nowadays extremely prestigious in South ‘aura’ of the cello was the initial mechanisms it has the potential December, and Time Korea and there are many world-class musicians. nucleus and forms the basis of the for chromaticism, microtones, Machines is a new violin However, musical knowledge is limited to certain music, so the whole structure of chords, polyphony, clusters… At concerto for Anne-Sophie areas and epochs of repertoire and to the worship of the piece is thus ’carried’ by the times, it can sound like Mutter for premiere in New

a few ‘stars’. The need for education (and also the Photo: Leah Reid cello. However, the orchestra and the York in the 2010/11 season. thirst for it) is enormous. For instance, we have just responds to it in an antagonistic instrument is capable of the done the Korean premieres of Webern’s op.10 and In his programme note for Time Machines Currier way. This antagonism is much eeriest of sounds and of many pieces by Messiaen, not to mention later 20th explains how music can be viewed as nothing but stronger than in traditional explosive power. Despite the century classics. In total, we’ve programmed in the time and air: “Clearly the form of a piece is how it Classical-Romantic concertos; extreme possibilities, I think you

Photo: Eric Richmond/ArenaPAL last three years 60 Korean and 30 Asian premieres. unfolds in time. On a smaller scale, melodic or one could even speak of a have to be careful to preserve There is a genuine opportunity to do pioneering work. rhythmic gestures are made of a series of events ’psychological warfare’ between the very nature of the sheng, not moving forward in time. Even pitch is a product of soloist and orchestra. The handling of the orchestral to destroy the essence of the instrument. time: a pitch is created form a periodic oscillation, the instruments is varied, ranging from spotlit individuals Unsuk Chin You’ve largely avoided integrating Eastern less the time of each oscillation, the higher the pitch. to different fleeting formations and collective acts. Cello Concerto (2006-09) instruments within your Western contemporary commissioned by the BBC This extends to timbre as well, since the tone colour idiom. Why and how did your view change on this? You’ve described the role of the cello soloist as akin 13 August 2009 (world premiere) of an instrument is dependent on its overtones and to an illusionist. Does this relate to your love of smoke I’m very interested in using non-European overtones are simply vibration patterns at set time Royal Albert Hall, BBC Proms, London and mirrors? instruments in a ‘Western’ context. However, I feel proportions to a fundamental tone. The rest is air…” Alban Gerhardt/BBC Scottish Symphony In my cello writing, I often ask the soloist to disguise a great deal of respect for the achievements of Orchestra/Ilan Volkov In each of the seven movements of the the nature of the instrument so the perception can be non-European musical cultures, so I’ve been wary Currier examines a different way in which music blurred. I try to explore the boundaries of the cello’s of mixing things together which have completely Sheng Concerto (2009) unfolds in time. For instance in delay time, “the entire expressivity and to broaden the definition of different heritage lines. After all, you can’t decide on commissioned by Suntory Hall International Programme, fabric of orchestral textures is nothing but a ‘expression’. Therefore I also use special playing one day to take a few Eastern and Western ZaterdagMatinée, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonie Essen reverberation, a resonance, of the violin’s lyrical line: techniques and call for unusual timbres, including instruments by random and write interesting music. 28 August 2009 (world premiere) not a note sounds that wasn’t first formulated in the noises and rasping sounds. For me, this actually To find out what synthesis is possible, one needs Suntory Summer Music, Tokyo violin before being reflected in myriad ways serves the expressivity by suggesting new meanings. good reasons – and time, so that the development Wu Wei/Tokyo Symphony/Kazuyoshi Akiyama throughout the orchestra”. And in entropic time, the The unique artistry of Alban Gerhardt inspired me is organic, or the result will be cheap. 9 October 2009 (US premiere) ordered presentation of the material “gives way to immensely. Not only his solo part but also the For me, the idea to write a Sheng Concerto was Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles more chaotic elements, as the theme itself is gradually orchestral parts are often characterized by extreme not to pursue a mixture of ‘East’ and ‘West’. Wu Wei/Los Angeles Philharmonic/ dissembled”. virtuosity, by the idea of the instrumentalists being I always simply try to compose my own music, pushed to the edge. The harp concerto Traces extends the exploration of time to music history Between the violin and cello concertos you itself. The middle three of the five composed your first opera, Alice in movements in some way resemble a Wonderland. Has your work with singers standard concerto, but with fed into the melodic and emotional capacity “fragments of past structures making of your writing for instrumental soloists? ephemeral appearances. This is hardly Alice in Wonderland is – due to its subject new concertos surprising, since there has probably (and the operatic genre) – worlds apart the premiere was part of a Turnage never been a piece of music written that doesn’t owe from my other music, but I have written vocal works focus at the unorthodox Old Fruitmarket its form and content largely to its predecessors, the with affection since the beginning of my career. For Turnage venue. The work was written for German difference here is simply that this lineage is being me, part of the fascination in vocal writing lies in the flautist Dietmar Wiesner, who has celebrated.” The outer movements contain traces of possible morphing of the vocal soloists into collaborated closely with the composer this material: the opening looks forward with instrumentalists. Obviously there are parallels between Beckett’s on Ensemble Modern projects including shrouded fragments floating by and in the finale the intrinsic character of the cello and vocal music, Greek and Blood on the Floor. “traces emerge and recede into shadows from farther and the cello is less abstract an instrument than piano mouth “…a work shot through with menace… while back in time”. or violin. I see no sense in denying the nature of the The world premiere of Mark-Anthony the fluttering lines of the suggest mental instrument, in denying the very emotion which this instability, Turnage uses the orchestra to Currier has collaborated closely over the years with instrument evokes in the composer/listener. In any Turnage’s new , Five Image: BBC Scottish SO project the emotional undercurrents… The both concerto soloists. Anne-Sophie Mutter case, when I write a new piece I fully explore its Views of a Mouth, took on an heart of the work is the shadowy passacaglia, whose commissioned Aftersong for violin and piano and associated genre, its background, its possibilities, unexpected theatrical dimension in Glasgow in April. minatory power comes from its scoring for throbbing bass premiered it at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival its limits… This set of five etudes for amplified solo flute and wind and piano.” The Guardian in 1994. Night Time for solo harp, Crossfade for two orchestra was inspired by Samuel Beckett’s “It’s a work that reveals a wealth of introspective sensitivity harps and Broken Minuets for harp and string Your new Sheng Concerto is written for a wind melodrama Not I, and leading exponent Fiona Shaw as well as Turnage’s typically head-on brutalism, ranging instrument that can readily play both melody and orchestra were written for Marie-Pierre Langlamet happened to be in town and agreed to perform the from the languid alto flute movement to the piercing who has performed the three works extensively. chords. Has this influenced your approach? melodrama as a prelude to Turnage’s work. The eruptions of the piccolo cadenza…” The Scotsman I’ve been fascinated by the sheng for many decades. movement titles of the concerto refer to the play, and Turnage’s recent violin concerto Mambo, Blues and The sheng is used in Korean music but it is not the amplified flute part is largely a non-verbal setting of Tarantella has been performed by Christian Tetzlaff this the texts, which in Not I are delivered by the spotlit season in London, Stockholm and Toronto. A new mouth as a high velocity stream of consciousness song-cycle A Constant Obsession, setting English hinting at past traumas. texts on the theme of love, was commissioned by the Rouse The Scotsman described how the Turnage flowed Wigmore Hall for Mark Padmore and the Nash “invitingly in the direct wake of Shaw’s dazzling verbal Ensemble and premiered in March. Turnage is concerto showpiece”, turning “a potentially fascinating evening currently composing an opera commissioned by The American composer Christopher into an unmissable one”. The concerto was Royal Opera in London, to a libretto by Richard Rouse has made something of a commissioned by the BBC for the BBC Scottish Thomas about the life of Anna Nicole Smith. It is due speciality of writing concertos, Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov and for premiere in the 2010/11 season. and the most recent in the series of nine, an , was premiered in February by the Minnesota Orchestra and its principal oboe Basil Reeves, Chen Lang Lang concerto Photo: Christian Steiner conducted by Osmo Vänskä. Qigang Chen’s new concerto for fundamental technique in Beijing opera, as well as in A further performance, celebrating Rouse’s 60th piano virtuoso Lang Lang, the Western classical music, so by adopting this form birthday year, takes place in Aspen on 19 July with first concert work under his new Chen has created a work that can happily cross the Summer Festival Orchestra conducted by David agreement with Boosey & frontiers, as well as challenge Lang Lang’s brilliance. Robertson. Whereas some of Rouse’s concertos are Hawkes, receives its premiere in shaped by an overt programme, the Oboe Concerto New York on 28 October. In 2008 Qigang Chen was Director of Music for the is abstract, follows the traditional three movement Commissioned by Carnegie Hall Olympics Opening Ceremony in Beijing, when his format, and aims to explore the composer’s view of for its Ancient Paths, Modern song You and Me was performed at the end of the

the instrument as generally “genial and romantic”. Photo: Liu Hui Voices festival celebrating ceremony by British Sarah Brightman and Chinese culture, the work’s first performance features Chinese male vocalist Liu Huan to an estimated A new orchestral commission by Rouse features in the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson audience of 100,000 in the stadium, and several Alan Gilbert’s first season at the helm of the New Thomas and the Chinese premiere is planned for billion worldwide via TV. The melody became an York Philharmonic. Zhizn, whose title is the Russian Spring 2010. instant classic, with Mobile reporting 10 million word for ‘life’, is premiered by the orchestra at Lincoln downloads during the first month after release. Center on 10 February 2010. Rouse’s orchestral Chen describes the new 15-minute concerto as “a ballet score has just been released on a theme and variations with a twist” based on a well- This year, Chen has returned to his more familiar new disc conducted by Grant Llewellyn (BIS 1644). known Beijing opera melody, Er Huang yuan ban. Er composing role, with plans for new works including a Photo: Gera Theater/Stephan Walzl v Jointly commissioned by Ballet and the Huang is one of the principal aria types originating in joint commission from the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Pavel Haas’s opera Sarlatán (The Charlatan), in its German , the work was choreographed by Anhui province in eastern China, characterised by a Radio France and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for premiere production at the Gera Theater in March. The Peter Martins and has been performed since in strong and stable melody associated with thoughtful the 2011-12 season. Chen’s music will be the focus 1937 tragicomic work was revived thanks to a recording in concert by Marin Alsop in Aspen and by Leonard moods, whereas Yuan Ban indicates a medium of a composer feature at the EXPO in Decca’s Entartete Musik series and a staging at the Slatkin in Detroit. tempo for active story-telling. Melodic variations are a Spring 2010. Wexford Festival in 1999. The St Lawrence String controlled restlessness yields Quartet gave the premiere to tremendous fervency, from of John Adams’s new Adams the ‘ghostly’ elements of the String Quartet in January first part to the second, with its ascending lines that rise

as part of the Juilliard Photo: John Batten

String Quartet and shimmer like heat off a Photo: Hanya Chlala 75th birthdays FOCUS! Festival in New highway…Adams at his most 15 July 2009 8 September 2009 York. This is Adams’s first gripping, and the St. Birtwistle Maxwell Davies full work for the classic Lawrence players gave the The Corridor on tour St Magnus Festival genre, though it does work a fierce, go-for-broke A new music theatre double bill combining The The festival founded by Maxwell Davies follow John’s Book of reading.” Mercury News Corridor, to a libretto by David Harsent, and includes Psappha performing The Lighthouse, Image Alleged Dances, Birtwistle’s arrangement of Dowland songs and Reflection Shadow and Kettletoft Inn [Chester] combining quartet with Next season brings first laments, Semper Dowland, semper dolens, opens the (19-24 Jun). performances of Adams’s electronics. Aldeburgh Festival (12-18 Jun) and travels to the City of London Festival Commissioned by The new orchestral work, City Southbank Centre in London (6-7 Jul) and the Photo: Rachel Papo 75th birthday feature includes London premiere of the Juilliard School, Stanford Noir. The work was Bregenz Festival (31 Aug/1 Sep). commissioned to inaugurate Gustavo Dudamel’s era String Trio (25 Jun), Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise at Lively Arts and The Banff Centre for the St Lawrence Cheltenham Festival St Paul’s Cathedral (30 Jun), and the world premiere Quartet, the 30-minute work is being toured as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on 8 October, as well as Adams’s appointment as Birtwistle’s new meditations on poems by Rilke, of piano pieces Three Sanday Places (1 Jul). extensively in North America. It crossed the Atlantic to Bogenstrich for , cello and piano, receives its and Germany in March and further Creative Chair of the orchestra for the next three Festival years. First European performances are by the UK premiere with Roderick Williams, Adrian Brendel Within its Scottish theme, the festival celebrates European performances are in March 2010 at Cité de and Till Fellner (5 Jul). la Musique in Paris and the Barbican in London. London Symphony Orchestra under Adams at Cité Max’s 75th with Symphony No.5 and Orkney Nonesuch will record the String Quartet this autumn. de la Musique in Paris and the Barbican in London BBC Proms Wedding conducted by Paul Daniel, coupled with a next March, alongside the new String Quartet. The Two 75th concerts at the BBC Proms include a late- MacMillan 50th tribute (16 Aug). “…one of his most brilliant and Dutch premiere in the ZaterdagMatinee series at the night programme by the London Sinfonietta featuring BBC Proms Concertgebouw follows in November 2010. Verses for Ensemble and Silbury Air [UE] (4 Aug) and The Royal Albert Hall is the centre of celebrations on inventive masterworks” Mercury News John Adams writes: “City Noir was inspired by a Act II of The Mask of Orpheus [UE] (14 Aug). the birthday itself, with Daniel Hope in Violin Concerto “Like a perpetuum mobile, motion sweeps through the parts: reading of the Black Dahlia chapter in Kevin Starr’s Lucerne Festival No.2 [Chester] and a late-night programme of it hums and purrs on the stage. The Canadians play the Embattled Dreams, a book that traces the history of Concerts at the Lucerne Festival including the Swiss Mackay Brown choral settings including Solstice of work as a scherzo with few points of repose. Electrified, like Los Angeles ‘noir’ culture during the 1940s and premiere of The Tree of Strings with the Arditti Quartet Light and Westerlings (8 Sep). music which is in a constant current. The lively, rhythmically- 1950s. The ‘feeling tone’ of the newspaper articles, (29 Aug) and a new chamber work featuring Heinz charged, wild style of playing suits the 20-year-old ensemble, pulp fiction, movies and film music of the era Holliger (15 Sep). NMC releases the premiere CD of Taverner, drawn for which Adams has written the perfect work.” Ruhr Nachrichten suggested a symphonic work that might view the Orchestral CD from a 1997 BBC Symphony Orchestra radio “A stunner…the piece boasts all the attributes audiences strange sensibility of ‘noir’ through the refracted lens NMC plans a new CD with three premiere recordings, recording by Oliver Knussen (Nov). The BBC Scottish have come to associate with Adams’ best music… Its of modern orchestral sound and structure.” The Shadow of Night, Night’s Black Bird and The Cry Symphony Orchestra’s 75th tribute includes a concert of Anubis, featuring the NDR Sinfonieorchester performance of Taverner conducted by Martyn conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi. Brabbins (8 Nov). Schwertsik Fanferlizzy returns Contemporary Anniversaries 2010 Mark-Anthony Turnage 50th 10 June… Kurt Schwertsik 75th 25 June… Detlev Glanert 50th 6 September… Kurt Schwertsik’s fantasy Schwertsik’s new full-evening 2011 Unsuk Chin 50th 14 July … Helmut Oehring 50th 16 July… Qigang Chen 60th 28 August … chamber opera The Wondrous ballet, Kafka Amerika, is premiered Steve Reich 75th 3 October… Brett Dean 50th 23 October Tale of Fanferlizzy Sunnyfeet in Linz on 10 October, with To see a full list of composer birthdays visit www.boosey.com/anniversaries enjoyed a welcome revival at choreography by Jochen Ulrich Wuppertal Opera in January. As and the Bruckner Orchester reported in Die Deutsche Bühne conducted by Dennis Russell The three composers on the new scheme launched by the new production by Aurelia Davies. The composer’s Emerging Eggers captured the essential fascination with the 1920s and Boosey & Hawkes in New York have enjoyed a blend of “fairy-tale elements and ’30s permeates the score, with successful first year. parody in the lively staging, which characteristic underpinning of Composers was enthusiastically received by blues and foxtrot, matching the Oscar Bettison the audience.” The Westfälische period of Kafka’s fragmentary Bettison’s largest-scale work, breaks down into spells of static grief, with violins Rundschau noted how “Kurt novel. The new ballet follows upon O Death, scored for six players and issuing broken cries over shuddering double-bass Schwertsik has written captivating a series of dance collaborations electronics, received its European drones.” Following the successful premiere and illustrative music that is often with Johann Kresnik, exploring the premiere in The Hague last month, discussions are underway about a string orchestra finely spun , and personalities and creative worlds of performed by Ensemble Klang. version of Within Her Arms, and further orchestral

other times blazing jazz… it was Frida Kahlo, Picasso, Pasolini and Photo: Antonio De Stefano Bettison has worked closely with the commissions. allowed to blossom opulently and Nietzsche. ensemble since his residency in the city while with charm”. Recent Schwertsik premieres have studying with Louis Andriessen. The work is highly Du Yun

Fanferlizzy Sunnyfeet, premiered Photo: Wuppertal Opera/Michael Hörnschemeyer included a new concerto for Colin characteristic of the composer with its industrial Musica Nova in Helsinki featured the in Stuttgart in 1983, is based on a Fanferlizzy Sunnyfeet at Wuppertal Opera Currie scored for and sonorities and evolving rhythmic cycles. music of Du Yun in February, including tale by Clemens von Brentano in strings. Entitled Now you hear me, now you don’t, the the Finnish premieres of her ensemble Anna Clyne works Impeccable Quake and By…of, which a loutish prince overthrows the King of work received first performances in February with the Clyne’s new work for the strings of the Lethean. Scandalia. Fanferlizzy directs the magical and surreal Scottish Ensemble on a Scottish tour and at the Los Angeles Philharmonic was events necessary to return the country to its old Wigmore Hall, and the Swedish premiere is planned premiered under the baton of Esa- Photo: Denise Anderson Last year Du Yun received a number of prosperity. The work has been staged in Germany, by the strings of the Norrlands Opera. Next year brings Pekka Salonen in April. Within Her composition awards, from Chamber Music America for Austria, the UK and Netherlands, and the a new BBC commission for an orchestral work to Arms was described by the New a work for narrator and string quartet for the iO Quartet,

Transformation Scenes from the opera have proved precede Mahler’s Symphony No.1 to be premiered in Photo: Denise Anderson Yorker as “a fragile elegy for fifteen from Meet the Composer and UCross Residency for a successful in concert, most recently in die reihe’s January in Manchester, and a Schwertsik Resonances strings; intertwining voices of lament bring to mind new work for Moving Theater, and a Live Music for anniversary tribute to Schwertsik at the Konzerthaus in focus in February by the Royal Northern College of English Renaissance masterpieces of Thomas Tallis Dance Award from the American Music Center for a Vienna, conducted by HK Gruber. Music and BBC Philharmonic. and John Dowland, although the music occasionally collaborative work with ICE and Moving Theater.

Prokofieff Queen of Spades Prokofieff’s music for the Tchaikovsky’s operatic Queen of Spades can be version. However, as the heard again thanks to a Pushkin centenary of 1937 new symphonic suite approached, all three arranged by Michael projects were halted as Berkeley. He initially Stalin increasingly adapted the music for a favoured works glorifying new ballet, Rushes – the state. Fragments of a Lost Story, Whereas Prokofieff had premiered last year at The adapted his film music for Royal Ballet in London in Lieutenant Kijé into an choreography by Kim orchestral suite, with the Brandstrup starring Carlos Queen of Spades he Acosta and Alina Cojocaru. opted for arranging the The first recording of the thematic material into new new 32-minute concert works including Symphony suite has just been released No.5 and Piano Sonata on Chandos (CHAN 10519) No.8. At the point when he with Neeme Järvi stopped work on the film, the Royal 24 numbers were Scottish National Orchestra,

Photo: Bill Cooper completed, 20 of them and the work is now Laura Morera and Carlos Acosta in Rushes - Fragments of fully orchestrated. Michael available on hire for a Lost Story at The Royal Ballet (April 2008), choreographed Berkeley has shaped this orchestral programming. by Kim Brandstrup to music from Prokofieff's Queen of material into a four A new supplement to the Boosey & Hawkes Opera The Queen of Spades Spades, arranged by Michael Berkeley. movement suite, Catalogue has just been published, featuring over 60 was one of three Pushkin-related projects Prokofieff orchestrating and elaborating where necessary. The opera and music theatre additions since 2004, undertook soon after his return to the Soviet Union, sequence follows the drama, through Herman’s including major stageworks by Adams, Birtwistle and “The score locates itself sensuously and voluptuously between together with incidental music for theatre obsessive pursuit of the three card formula to Glanert, plus the latest releases in the Offenbach Martin‡ and Stravinsky, Janá÷ek and Weill, expressionism and productions of Boris Godunov and Eugene Onegin. guarantee his gambling success, his opportunistic Edition Keck and the Cherubini critical edition. street ballad. 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A new CD sampler is Montréal/ L’Envol d’Icare and Cantique d’Amour for December. available exploring the Analekta AN 2 9944 Igor Markevitch, though later famed as a conductor, music of American Michael Daugherty started his career as an enfant terrible composer composer Steven Sunset Strip catapulted into the limelight by Serge Diaghilev. Born Mackey. “Composing Janá™ek Ned Rorem in Kiev, his family fled Russia and moved to Paris literally means putting Lions (A Dream) where he studied piano from the age of nine with together” says Mackey, Christopher Rouse Alfred Cortot and composition from 14 with Nadia opera suites who has cast his net of Friandises Boulanger. At the age of 16 he was commissioned by Naxos has recently launched a influences wide, Branford Marsalis Quartet/ Diaghilev to write a which was series of recordings of new embracing early music, North Carolina Symphony Orchestra/Grant Llewellyn premiered at Covent Garden in 1929. He rapidly Janá÷ek orchestral suites, orchestral classics and hard rock. BIS 1644 found himself in the 1930s at the centre of Parisian arranged from the operas by Over 20 tracks offer an hour’s journey through musical life encircling the Ballets Russes, with a series Peter Breiner, who conducts Mackey’s output from his boisterous early works Brett Dean of works combining Russian constructivism, neo- the New Zealand Symphony featuring the composer as electric guitarist, through Testament/Etudenfest/ classicism and experimental features including Orchestra. The first release a variety of chamber and orchestral scores, to Game Over/Shadow Music/ microtones and novel orchestration. However, all was focuses on Jen‡fa and the his recent violin concerto for Leila Josefowicz, Between Moments to be swept away by the Second World War, and a Excursions of Mr Brou÷ek (8.570555) and the second Beautiful Passing. Tasmanian Symphony schism in his creativity that prompted his shift from Kát’a Kabanová and The Makropulos Affair Orchestra/ composing to conducting. (8.570556). The third for future release will feature The For a copy of the new sampler please contact Sebastian Lang-Lessing Cunning Little Vixen and From the House of the Dead. [email protected] ABC 476 3219 Le Paradis Perdu is Markevitch’s most ambitious The six new suites, all around a half-hour duration, are score, completed at the age of 22 at the midpoint of Eugene Goossens available on hire from Boosey & Hawkes (some his composing career, lasting 50 minutes and scored Symphony No.1 territorial restrictions may apply). for three soloists, chorus and orchestra. The French Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/Richard Hickox text is the composer’s own, clearly inspired by Milton’s Philip Kennicott discussed the first disc in his Aldwych House, 71-91 Aldwych, Chandos CHSA 5068 Paradise Lost, and focusing on Eve’s seduction and Gramophone column admitting that “they are a new London WC2B 4HN Olga Neuwirth her eating from the Tree of Knowledge. The music is guilty pleasure. Why guilty? Because in general I don’t Telephone: +44 (0)20 7054 7200 Music for Film filled with chaste eroticism, drawing fascinating endorse this sort of thing… But I can make an Promotion email: [email protected] including parallels with its exact contemporary, Stravinsky’s exception for these Janá÷ek suites… The obsessive Hire email: [email protected] miramondo multiplo/ Perséphone. The first performance at the Queen’s Hall repetition, the nervous energy, the strange shadings Website: www.boosey.com/composers No more secrets, in London in 1935 saw Markevitch stepping in for his and dark harmonies, the proto-minimalist effects are David Allenby Editor David J Plumb ARCA PPSTD Designer Printed in England no more lies indisposed teacher Hermann Scherchen, conducting the main reason we love his music, which sounds Kairos 0012772 2DVDs the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with convincingly modern and folksy at the same time. soloists including Hughes Cuénod. Breiner’s skilful arrangements retain all of that delight.” Ned Rorem Piano Works Vol.2 “In this remarkable and substantial work, Markevitch’s “…a splendid disc. The extracts are expertly chosen by Recalling/Eight Etudes/ Song biggest, not unrelated to Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, the Peter Breiner… are nicely varied in character and pace, and statuesque severity of pace and mood is offset by are conducted by him with passion and sympathetic & Dance continually evocative scoring, marmoreal harmonies, and understanding… for a minimal outlay the music delivers Thomas Lanners gamelan-influenced motivic repetition.” BBC Music Magazine treasure upon treasure.” Gramophone Centaur CRC2980