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February 2012 2012/1 Adams spring premieres Jenkins The Peacemakers Los Angeles and San Francisco play host to two John Adams Karl Jenkins conducted Choir and The Really Big premieres: The Gospel According to the Other Mary and the world premiere of The Chorus, with violinist Included in this issue: Absolute Jest for string quartet and . Peacemakers, for chorus Chloë Hanslip, Britten and orchestra, at Lucy Crowe and the New choreography of in New York London Symphony The Prince of the Pagodas on 16 January. The hour- Orchestra conducted long work draws on texts by the composer in Tokyo by a range of iconic (EMI 509990-843782-2). figures who have extolled Vocal scores of The peace and tolerance, Peacemakers will be including Mahatma published by Boosey & Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Hawkes to tie-in with the Mother Teresa and Martin new CD. Luther King, and The most recent Jenkins promises to be a major choral work is Songs of the Earth, to be addition to the choral repertoire alongside premiered by the BBC National Orchestra and the composer’s much-performed The Armed Chorus of Wales and Welsh County Youth Man: A Mass for Peace and Requiem. Choirs in Cardiff on 4 March. The 30-minute The Carnegie Hall performance was score was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 as presented by Distinguished Concerts part of Music Nation which counts down to the International New York, and launched a London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Jenkins Lindberg second Global Sing for Peace campaign describes how “I turned to ancient Greece, Interview on which will run throughout 2012. In May birthplace of the original games, and Greek Piano Concerto No.2 Jenkins conducts the UK premiere tour of mythology for inspiration and for how the Photo: Matthew Imaging The Peacemakers visiting Bridgewater Hall in Greeks perceived the creation of Earth. For text premiere in New York John Adams with Gustavo Dudamel Manchester (19 May), the Royal Festival Hall I have used my own ‘mythical’ language, first The latest large-scale work by John Adams, and orchestra, commissioned by the San in London (20), St David’s Hall in Cardiff used in the Adiemus project.” (23) and Symphony Hall in Birmingham (27). created during his tenure as Creative Chair Francisco Symphony and Carnegie Hall, and Following its successful premiere of Jenkins’s of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is a new featuring the St Lawrence String Quartet The EMI Classics recording of The Gloria in 2010, The Really Big Chorus has full-evening oratorio. The Gospel According which has extensively toured the composer’s Peacemakers is released internationally in commissioned a second score for chorus and to the Other Mary is premiered on 31 May 2008 String Quartet. The premiere in San March, bringing together the combined choral orchestra. The 20-minute work, which again under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel at Francisco on 15 March is conducted by forces of the Rundfunkchor Berlin, City of explores Greek classical themes, is premiered Walt Disney Concert Hall. Based on the Michael Tilson as part of his Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Youth at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 8 July. New Testament stories of Lazarus and American Mavericks series, with the Jesus’ Passion and incorporating orchestra touring in its centennial season to contemporary American poetry, the work Chicago, Ann Arbor and New York. Absolute takes a fresh approach to the combination of Jest, which draws upon the energy of the materials that the composer pioneered so Beethovenian scherzo, will be heard in Turnage successfully in El Niño. for the first time in 2013, including a Glanert in London performance by the London Symphony The text for the Gospel is compiled by Glanert’s newest opera, Solaris, based on Choreographic collaborations Orchestra conducted by Adams at the Adams’s long-time collaborator Peter Sellars the visionary sci-fi novel by Stanislav Lem, is including Undance premiere Barbican next January. in London and, as with El Niño, the oratorio is intended premiered at the Bregenz Festival on 18 July. to co-exist as a work for the concert hall and The first London staging of Adams’s The The production by Moshe Leiser and Patrice the stage. The Gospel will be premiered in a Death of Klinghoffer by Tom Morris, opening Caurier is conducted by Markus Stenz. In the concert version, and returns to Los Angeles at English National Opera on 25 February, is orchestral sphere, Glanert’s new homage to in a staged production by Sellars in Spring a co-production with the Metropolitan Opera Brahms for the BBC Scottish Symphony 2013 followed by an international tour. for its 2014/15 season. Nixon in China, Orchestra is unveiled in Glasgow on 22 The work is commissioned by the LA which celebrates its 25th anniversary this March under the baton of Donald Runnicles. Philharmonic with the Barbican, Lincoln year, receives two major productions: a new Last month brought a tour of Insomnium by Center, Lucerne Festival, Zaterdag Matinee staging by Chen Shi-Zheng at the Théâtre du the German Youth Orchestra and the US at the , and Châtelet in Paris in April, and San Francisco premiere of Shoreless River from the National Cité de la Musique in Paris. Opera’s presentation in June of Michael Symphony in Washington. Cavanagh’s production first seen at March brings the world premiere of Absolute Vancouver Opera. Jest, Adams’s new work for string quartet A new production of ’s opera MacMillan Caligula, a powerful exploration of totalitarian Choral news including new politics based on the play by Albert Camus, Gloria marking Coventry New at boosey.com opens on 25 May at English National Opera Cathedral’s 50th year in London. Though Glanert is one of the Spanish website most widely performed German operatic Boosey.com has recently expanded with a new website area providing enhanced online composers of his generation, this new services for the Spanish-speaking community worldwide. This coincides with Boosey & Hawkes production by Benedict Andrews is the first in New York taking over direct representation of the catalogue in Central and South America staging of any of his full-evening operas in (excluding Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela where Barry Editorial remains the agent). the UK. The London performances For further information contact [email protected]. introduce a new English translation by Commissions > www.boosey.com/espanol Amanda Holden, the cast is led by Peter The Royal Philharmonic Society and the Coleman-Wright, and ENO forces are Britten-Pears Foundation have announced a conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth. Caligula series of major co-commissions to mark was premiered in Frankfurt and Cologne in Britten’s centenary and the RPS’s 2006 and recorded for Oehms Classics. bicentenary in 2013. Six leading international composers have been commissioned to To view the Spanish The opera starts at the point when the write works for different ensembles that website, scan the code Emperor Caligula’s sister and lover Drusilla is below with your reflect the range of Britten’s compositional smartphone. Download dying. After hiding himself for three days he the scan app from output, including symphony orchestra, www.i-nigma.com returns, unhinged, into a chilling new clarity children’s choir and with piano. of understanding. He announces that he will marry the moon and launches a regime of The commissions include a new ensemble terror upon his courtiers. He sets out to work by Magnus Lindberg to be premiered prove that he is the only free human, by the Birmingham Contemporary Music destroying all around him until he is truly Group and a new song-cycle by Harrison alone and ready to claim immortality. Birtwistle, setting texts by David Harsent, written for Mark Padmore and Till Fellner. Glanert describes how “Camus understood The six works will be premiered and Online Scores Web documentaries the nature of the dictator, that his total performed nationally and internationally The Online Scores area launched last year is The latest video composer profiles added to freedom breeds terror. He is not a madman during 2013. proving highly popular, offering a free library the Audio Visual area are of HK Gruber, but rather an intelligent, rational creature A new Britten 100 website is due to be soft of full scores for immediate online viewing. filmed in Vienna, and David Del Tredici in who skilfully experiments with human launched by the BPF in April, including an celebration of his 75th birthday in March. beings, just like Hitler or Stalin. And the The number of scores has grown to over horrific truth is that we understand him, overview of centenary performances, with 600, with recent additions linked to the A documentary on Kurt Schwertsik follows in because we all have the capacity to become the full site going live to the public on centenaries of Markevitch (2012), Britten the coming months, joining the videos such a monster. Even in a small provincial Britten’s birthday 22 November, one year (2013) and Panufnik (2014) plus a collection featuring Michel van der Aa, Andriessen, town, an ideological devil like Caligula could ahead of the centenary itself. Please contact of major Stravinsky works. Birtwistle, Carter, Jenkins and Reich. appear. As he cries out, when murdered: us with your performance plans by emailing > www.boosey.com/onlinescores > www.boosey.com/av ‘I am still alive’.” [email protected]. Britten Thirteen Diversions Lindberg Piano Concerto No.2 Christopher Wheeldon In the lead-up to the Britten centenary in 2013 choreographers Magnus Lindberg’s new concerto for Yefim Bronfman is premiered How does the soloist’s material reflect the piano’s have been exploring the balletic potential of the composer’s by the on 3 May, conducted by Alan Gilbert. unusual ability to cover both the vertical and horizontal orchestral music. Christopher Wheeldon selected Britten’s dimensions? Diversions for piano (left hand) and orchestra for his recent Twenty years have passed since your How does being a yourself Of all instruments, the piano can provide everything dancework Thirteen Diversions, unveiled at American first piano concerto. What prompted a influence your writing? without the need of the orchestra: chords and Theater last season. Its success has prompted an immediate return to the genre? For me, writing for the piano is a direct, melodies, percussive and lyrical writing. So it is revival with four performances at the Metropolitan Opera I always had in mind the idea of physical activity. So, I didn’t want to definitely the leading voice, stating material or House in New York between 24 and 26 May. returning to write another piano approach the work in an abstract way, providing rapid passage work, with the orchestra in “Mr Wheeldon responds vividly to its theme-and-variations concerto, but I was first occupied with almost ignoring the characteristics of the pursuit. An extreme case of this would be the Lisztian construction… His choreography throughout is full of handsome a series of concertos for other instrument. The span of the piano idea of the concerto, but I haven’t gone that far. geometries and refreshing contrasts, its energies beautifully instruments: cello, and violin. repertoire is overwhelming compared to I haven’t sought extreme virtuosity as an ambition focused… its changes of mood are sharp, its pas de deux are It was when I got to know pianist other instruments and comes with a lot of for the solo part, but rather hope the virtuosity is stellar, its corps ensembles are spatially impressive and everything Yefim Bronfman in New York that baggage. I worked through a lot of styles transmitted instead through the music as a whole. As is chic.” New York Times things came together. It seemed the when performing as a pianist, including in the Ravel left hand concerto, where there are only ideal situation that the work should be ten years playing in a keyboard duo, and eight minutes of tutti in the entire work, I haven’t been Christopher Wheeldon’s new Britten ballet Thirteen Diversions at Amer the last major commission under my Photo: Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL had to get to grips with pieces by Cage, afraid to let the soloist play alone. When together, I’ve residency with the New York Philharmonic, as Stockhausen, Berio and Zimmermann. I don’t believe had to be careful of balance with such a large I wanted to write a half hour concerto with full it is easy or even fruitful any more for a composer to orchestra, making sure the solo texture is symphony orchestra and I had got to know Yefim’s invent a completely new universe for the instrument differentiated from that of the ensemble. special pianistic world and the players in the but, rather, the complexity of pianistic history needs to How does the concerto relate to traditional three- New choreo orchestra. be absorbed into a personal language. I’ve tried to movement expectations? achieve this, not through post-modern style-hopping, Your first piano concerto explored the French by Christopher Wheeldon, David Bintley, Kr but rather through a structure that creates a tension Though the concerto runs continuously, there are sensibility of Ravel and Debussy: is this the territory of between different modes of expression. three clear sections, which evolved naturally during your second? composition. The first presents everything in The first concerto was written for Paul Crossley, What is the relationship between the soloist and the expository fashion, the second is a contrasting slow an outstanding exponent of the music of Ravel, orchestra? movement with cadenza, and the third is a more Debussy and Messiaen, so those composers In my first piano concerto, the constellation of possible direct, straightforward finale. The sections are bound inevitably shaped that soundworld. Yefim Bronfman relationships is explored, so in the first movement there together because they all use the same material, but also plays French music, but is equally associated is a traditional classical dialogue, in the second an the later movements are not traditional variations of with the more muscular works of Bartók and extreme opposition between soloist and orchestra, and the first. As in the Clarinet Concerto you’ll hear Prokofieff, and the Romanticism of Rachmaninoff, in the third the orchestra wins the battle subsuming the recognisable, exclamatory motives, almost like so the second concerto needed to have wider- soloist into becoming an orchestral instrument. characters in a drama. The tension and structure ranging roots. If the first concerto looks to Ravel’s However, as I’ve progressed through the cello, clarinet comes from the journeys and points of arrival and G major concerto, the second is closer in spirit to and violin concertos I’ve developed a much less rigid departure, with blurs and blends of identity as I his left hand concerto. I also wanted the new work approach. In the new concerto, the piano leads with its explored in GRAFFITI. to survey my own pianistic experience, from Kraft in own world and the interaction with the orchestra is Do you have any plans to add the new concerto to the mid-’80s through Related Rocks to the present. more about how the material itself is communicated. your repertoire, as you did with the first? When I wrote the first piano concerto I had no plans to perform it, but then ten years later I accepted the challenge and took a taste of my own medicine. It’s Chapela Bernstein the same here. Who knows what happens in the Wonderful Town tour future – perhaps I may come to regret making it so Magnetar in LA demanding! That’s why, at present, I’m more than 31 March sees the curtain go up on a new happy to have it safely under the expert fingers of production of Bernstein’s Wonderful Town, combining Yefim Bronfman. three Manchester companies: The Royal Exchange Theatre, The Hallé Orchestra and The Lowry arts

Lindberg Photo: Rosalie O’Connor centre. The cast is headed by Connie Fisher, star of Piano Concerto No.2 (2010-12) 25’ London’s West End production The Sound of Music, and musical forces are conducted by Mark Elder. Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Following the Manchester run, the production tours Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam throughout the UK until 7 July, visiting 12 cities and and Gothenburg Symphony Ginastera amounting to 87 performances in all. This April sees 3-5 May 2012 (world premiere) Wonderful Town receive its Russian premiere in a , New York Moscow production conducted by Wayne Marshall. Yefim Bronfman/New York Philharmonic/Alan Gilbert Concierto 2012 is the 50th anniversary of Bernstein’s West Side Story and celebrations include screenings of the Argentino Photo: Uwe Arens classic 1961 film accompanied by live orchestra at the Johannes Moser, electric cello soloist in Chapela’s MAGNETAR Royal Albert Hall in London between 22 and 24 June. Not heard since its premiere over The re-mastered film is shown in high definition with Gruber 75 years ago, ’s Mexican composer Enrico Chapela, as noted by the the original vocals and dialogue, while the Royal Concierto Argentino returned to the Los Angeles Times, “has many musical sides that he Philharmonic Concert Orchestra is conducted by Northwind concert stage in December with integrates without any apparent sense of conflict. He Jayce Ogren. This follows similar events at the pianist Barbara Nissman, providing has played guitar in a heavy metal band. He has the centrepiece of the Viva

Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Photo: Booseyprints.com studied advanced musical electronics in Paris and last summer, with a cheering crowd of 22,000, and Pictures Ginastera! festival at the University of applied the uncanny harmonic concepts of the French Michigan. The two later piano concertos are widely with the New York Philharmonic and Chicago The premiere of HK Gruber’s spectralists to his work. He also retains his Symphony Orchestra last autumn. performed but the earlier work, written in 1935 when connection to more conventional Mexican music.” newest orchestral work, the composer was only 19, has remained almost This year is also the 40th anniversary of Bernstein’s Northwind Pictures, proved to completely unknown. Written for Hugh Balzo, This composer summary was prompted by the world Mass, and Kristjan Järvi conducts the stagework be the highlight of his Ginastera withdrew the concerto after its first premiere of Chapela’s MAGNETAR, a new electric following his acclaimed recent recording on Chandos. residency at the Grafenegg performance but a manuscript copy was discovered cello concerto for Johannes Moser, premiered by the The Adelaide Festival stages a new production on Festival in September. Further recently by Barbara Nissman in the Fleischer Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel in 9/10 March, with Jubilant Sykes repeating his role of the performances followed rapidly Collection in . Nissman gained permission October. The work is co-commissioned by the City of Celebrant, and further performances under Järvi are in Bucharest with the from the composer’s widow Aurora Nátola-Ginastera Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the São Paulo Photo: Lucerne Festival planned in Europe. Wayne Marshall was conductor for a Tonkünstler Orchestra at the to perform and record the work. Symphony Orchestra, with performances in the UK revival of Candide in Boussard’s production at Georges Enescu Festival and in Tallinn as part of an and Brazil following in future seasons. the Schillertheatre in Berlin last autumn and for a new all-Gruber programme at the NYDD Festival. The new Themes found in Concierto Argentino hint at works that followed shortly after in Ginastera’s young career, MAGNETAR’s title comes from the pulsars or neutron staging at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome last month. work received its first performance in the UK this including melodies that appear in the ballet Panambí stars that are the most magnetic phenomena in the month with the composer conducting the BBC (1934-36), Three Argentine Danzas (1937) and universe. The electric cello produces its sounds via Philharmonic Orchestra in Manchester. Suite des Danzas Criollas (1946). Throughout the work electromagnetism and Chapela has derived the Latin-infused dance tunes can be heard, together with pitches for the soloist from data collected by astro- “An orchestral tableau romantic melodies and bravura piano writing. The physicists from three magnetars. The cello part skilfully conceived with reintroduction of the Concierto Argentino provides combines sounds from an effects patcher, including fascinating contexts for the composer’s development delay, granulation, and spectral freeze, to create its Die Presse great vitality…” at this early age and for his later piano works. otherworldly soundscape. In 2010 Alberto Ginastera: A Research and Following an opening movement that features a Northwind Pictures draws upon music from Gruber’s Information Guide by Deborah Schwartz-Kates was cadenza that represents according to the composer a modern fairy-tale opera der herr nordwind, setting a published by Routledge, providing the first English- magnetar’s “quiet and peaceful times” and a second text by HC Artmann, which was premiered at the language resource for Ginastera studies in movement that “falls into a cool jam”, the third Zürich Opera in 2005. Rather than being an operatic preparation for his centenary in 2016. movement, entitled Brutal “bursts from nowhere into a suite, the composer describes the 25-minute single- fully distorted e-cello that leads into a brutal riff, that movement work as “closer in spirit to a symphonic gradually builds up to the giant final flare”. Reviewing poem, as Stravinsky’s Chant du Rossignol is related the premiere, MAGNETAR was described by Musical to his opera The Nightingale”. Gruber’s selection of music which can also be fun, which surmounts all America as “…an ebullient, wide-ranging work that music focuses on the most illustrative sections of the boundaries between tonality and the avant-garde.” Kurier gleefully embraces a range of genres – everything opera, hence the ‘pictures’ of the title, including the from movie music to jazz to rock-and-roll and much stormy entrance of Mr North Wind, dance sequences, A new percussion concerto by Gruber, written for more…” the preparation of the feast at the monastery and the Martin Grubinger and entitled into the open…, is due battle of the baseball thugs. for premiere at the Vienna Konzerthaus in October. “A major e-cello concerto… rich in jazz, rock, and Latin- American influences, and quotations, that are seamlessly “Gruber makes use not only of simple motifs from the opera; Frankenstein!! continues to attract high profile integrated… For 25 minutes, Chapela charts a riveting he has created an independent, highly effective piece. The performances, with the New York Philharmonic and narrative of sounds that create their own reality of love, wind machine turns, the thunder sheet resounds, there are Berliner Philharmoniker in recent months and at the excitement, and drama ... The crowd roared.” jazzy insertions, big trumpeting winds and an excellent cello Bregenz Festival this summer. Gruber’s 70th birthday Strings Magazine solo… Gruber is on his best form as we know it, creating is celebrated in January 2013. Britten The Prince of the Pagodas David Bintley “The evening’s success was the world premiere of Christopher Britten’s only original ballet score was The Prince of the Wheeldon’s Thirteen Diversions… Like the lighting and the Pagodas, a full-evening three-act work composed in costumes, Mr Wheeldon’s choreographic tableau alternates in 1956 for the Royal Ballet in London. A new physical and emotional emphasis to match the changing sensibility choreography by David Bintley was greeted with a of the music… the images on stage are constantly transforming standing ovation at its opening night in Tokyo last and continually stunning.” Ballet-Dance.com October, effectively returning the score to its Far East Wheeldon’s earlier Britten ballet, VIII, using the composer’s origins. The Japanese premiere staging at the New Frank Bridge Variations was created for Hamburg Ballet in National Theatre, featuring the Tokyo Philharmonic 2001 where it was combined in a triple bill with John Orchestra conducted by Paul Murphy, was a co- Neumeier’s Voice of the Night set to Serenade and production between National Ballet of Japan and Jirví Kylián’s classic Forgotten Land danced to Sinfonia da Birmingham Royal Ballet, who will present the new Requiem. Another version of the Frank Bridge Variations to production in the UK in 2014. become a staple of the repertoire is ’s choreography for . David Bintley’s version combines an updated plot with all-new choreography, relocating the outer acts to Japan. The visual world of the new staging draws rican Ballet Theater inspiration from the Japanese ukiyo-e paintings by Kuniyoshi, providing the nightmarish creatures encountered by the Princess as she journeys to Pagoda Land in the central act. This imagery complements Britten’s score which incorporates the ography gamelan sonorities and tonalities that made such an impact on him when travelling to East Asia in 1955/56 rzysztof Pastor & Wayne McGregor and coloured many of his later works. Kenneth MacMillan’s 1989 choreography of The Prince of the Pagodas, in which the role of Princess Rose was first danced by the young Darcey Bussell, is revived by the Royal Ballet in London in June 2012. Photo: Hidemi Seto This and the Birmingham staging in January/February David Bintley’s new choreography of Britten’s The Prince of the Pagodas for the National Ballet of Japan 2014 provide balletic bookends around the Britten centenary in 2013. “With this new ballet Krzysztof Pastor has given his homeland a precious gift: an epic ballet indelibly stamped Turnage Undance with a Polish identity. Henryk Górecki, a composer who Wayne McGregor Górecki writes in the vernacular of , was Pastor’s obvious And the rain will pass… choice and the music for the three sections has, as well, a A pioneering three-way collaboration between spiritual resonance, neatly balancing the universal with the Krzysztof Pastor composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, choreographer national. Situated between the ideological power blocks of Wayne McGregor and visual artist Mark Wallinger The music of Henryk Mikolaj– Górecki, combining folk- fascism and communism, Poland has endured more than its created Undance, premiered at Sadler’s Wells in style energy with monumental pathos, has proved fair share of tragedy… as the people and stories emerge London in December. Wallinger’s starting points were popular with leading choreographers around the from the flow of history the ballet finds its rhythm and drives Richard Serra’s Compilation of Verbs and the human inexorably onward.” Dance Europe world, but its Polish roots have found particular motion studies of photographer Eadweard resonance in the danceworks of Krzysztof Pastor. His Other Górecki works choreographed by Pastor J. Muybridge, leading Turnage to create an eight- new full evening ballet, And the rain will pass…, using include Third Symphony for the Great Theatre Ballet movement score built from pairs of action verbs. Górecki’s Beatus Vir, Quasi una fantasia and Kleines in (1994) and the Harpsichord Concerto in Muybridge’s mesh grid appears as a barrier between Requiem für eine Polka, was premiered at Polish Moving Rooms for Dutch National Ballet (2008). the live dancers on the front stage and Wallinger’s National Ballet in March last year to acclaim with Notable Górecki have also been created by desynchronised film of the same dancers behind. further performances this season. Dance Europe Mats Ek (Pointless Pastures, She Was Black and A described it as “a work of major importance: a fusion “The relationship between dance and music is lucid. Sort Of), Hans van Manen (Polish Pieces), Lucinda Turnage’s brilliantly coloured, and stridently rhythmic score of dance, music and drama that marks a coming of Childs, , Nils Christe and Johann Inger. has distinct sections. Within each are moments of lovely, age for the company”. graphic accord with the choreography: a slow plangent loop And the rain will pass… at of melody that drives a sequence of wheeling arm movements, a thick cluster of rhythms that accompany an elaborate wrestling duet…” The Guardian “Turnage has responded with a score that is highly varied in Carter new song-cycles texture and colour. Themes are introduced, laid open, symmetrically flipped, and reduced to single shafts of sound Two new song-cycles by Elliott A birthday concert at the 92nd Street Y, organised that hang blade-like in the air… a playful collaboration Carter were premiered in New by cellist Fred Sherry with a top-notch roster of brimming with ideas.” The Observer York concerts to celebrate his musicians, included the world premiere of Ballet is forming an increasing strand of Turnage’s 103rd birthday in December. A Sunbeam’s Architecture. Commissioned by the activities. Last summer saw a new Wayne McGregor As the New York Times reported, Berlin Staatskapelle and , the choreography of Blood on the Floor at the Opéra Three Explorations is “a substantial European premiere is planned for 2013. The New

Photo: Meredith Heuer Bastille in Paris. In July Turnage’s new ballet score for new song-cycle, built on stanzas York Times described the work as “an inventive, Alastair Marriott and Christopher Wheeldon will be from T S Eliot’s Four Quartets”, scored for , urgent 12-minute work for tenor and a 19-piece unveiled by The Royal Ballet at Covent Garden as part winds and brass, and “couched in a rugged but instrumental ensemble, which sets six poems by of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Other ballets inviting harmonic language. Usually it is hard to say e e cummings, offering Mr Carter’s astute take on featuring music by Turnage include Heinz Spoerli’s exactly how or where Mr Carter has rounded the the elusive, seemingly fanciful words… At the end Peer Gynt (Scherzoid and Crying Out Loud), in the edges of what was once a forbidding style, but here Mr Carter basked in an ovation and listened as the repertoires of Zürich Ballet and the Staatsballet Berlin, it is clear: the vocal line, though chromatic, is supple musicians played and sang Happy Birthday, with and From All Sides choreographed by Jorma Elo for and shapely, and responsive to Eliot’s involved, some interpolated bursts of Carterian instrumental

Photo: Ewa Krasucka Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. introspective text.” complexity.”

of the grass, leapt up to the treetops and set entire forests aflame, before the flutes – spread out over stage and Dean gallery – sowed the seeds of a more beautiful world.” Dagens Nyheter Fire Music “The ominously rumbling introduction creates the sensation that something terrible is coming this way, a feeling that is Brett Dean’s new orchestral work, enhanced by an electric guitar solo. The combination of Fire Music, was premiered in large orchestra and three instrumental groups distributed around the auditorium builds a sonic topography that Stockholm in November, reinforces the drama of the piece.” Svenska Dagbladet providing a highlight of the Tonsättarfestival at the “Dean doesn’t stop at the ashes and smoke – the very Konserthuset. In his most devastation – but studies the role of fire in Australia’s history, in the smoking rituals of the aborigines and other extensive retrospective to date, traditional ceremonies. He often takes this kind of dramatic Photo: Ravi Deepres the five concerts saw Dean historical event as the departure point of his compositions, Undance, music by Mark-Anthony Turnage, choreographed by Wayne McGregor at Sadler’s Wells Photo: Mark Coulsen perform in multiple roles – as but then lets the music take over on the strength of its own composer, violist and conductor – with the Royal inherent logic.” Arbetarbladet Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and chamber musicians. Fire Music receives its Australian premiere on 24 February as a new dancework by Graeme Brett Dean Total Immersion day Murphy with Australian Ballet giving performances in Panufnik DVD guide Melbourne and Sydney. On 17 March the UK 17 March 2012 Barbican, London The Adam Mickiewicz Institute has Also within the box is a booklet by premiere by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and David 11.00 am 3.00 pm released a new guide to Andrzej Beata Boleslawska-Lewandowska, in Robertson forms part of the Total Immersion day of Intimate Decisions Bliss Brett Dean viola Screening of film of Panufnik’s music, Between English and Polish, including biographical Dean’s music at the Barbican in London. Australian Opera production 1.00 pm Emotion and Intellect, which is an notes on Panufnik, essays on his music, and Polysomnography 8.00 pm invaluable resource in the notes on the recorded works on the “… a fascinating, effective Voices of Angels Testament preparations for the composer’s accompanying CD. The disc includes Wolf-Lieder The Lost Art of Letter Writing* centenary in 2014. The box complete recordings of Symphony No.10, piece, brilliantly performed.” Jenevieve Moore soprano Carlo*(new version) contains a documentary film by Tragic Overture, Violin Concerto, Lullaby Svenska Dagbladet Guildhall Chamber Ensemble Fire Music* Brett Dean Renaud Capuçon violin Krzysztof Rzaczynski in which the and Sinfonia Sacra. BBC Singers composer’s son Jeremy retraces “Fire Music is inspired by the bushfires that ravaged BBC Symphony Orchestra Australia a couple of years ago. It is possible, of course, to his father’s footsteps, including archive footage of For a copy of the Panufnik guide, and a sampler CD David Robertson his momentous return to Warsaw in 1990 extricate this image from the musical experience, but * UK premiere exploring the composer’s entire output, contact otherwise it was not difficult to hear how the fire took hold after 36 years. [email protected] A new German-language book on the music of Mackey Chin update Unsuk Chin, entitled Im Spiegel der Zeit, has New Stumble Unsuk Chin’s opera Alice in Wonderland receives its been published (Schott Publications fourth staging this summer, opening in St Louis on 978-3-7957-0760-6). 13 June. James Robinson’s US premiere production The contents include 15 Art Songs by American Composers to Grace Photo: Jane Richey follows those by Achim Freyer in Munich (also released These vocal albums with CD on DVD by Unitel), Mira Bartov in Geneva and Helen introductions by Kent The first performance of Steven Mackey’s new piano Nagano and George are ideal for recitalists and Malkowsky in Bielefeld. A new reduced orchestration singing students, including concerto Stumble to Grace was described in the will be heard for the first time, commissioned by Opera Benjamin, an interview by St Louis Post-Dispatch as “a real tour-de-force” for its Stefan Drees with Chin music by Argento, Bernstein, Theatre of Saint Louis, featuring double woodwind and Copland and Rorem soloist Orli Shaham at its premiere in September. more modest brass, percussion and string forces. This talking about her youth in Conducting the St Louis Symphony, David Robertson makes Alice in Wonderland readily performable in South Korea, articles by High voice “made it all seem like absolute fun”, presenting “the smaller opera houses. the composer on Ligeti and a selection of her scores, 978-1-4584-1045-0 £15.99 well-prepared world premiere of an important new plus a range of commentaries and interviews. The Low voice January brought the first performances of the book as a whole provides an informative survey of work”. – 978-1-4584-1046-7 £15.99 expanded version of Chin’s Gougalon, now with six Chin’s output from Acrostic-Wordplay (1991) through Whereas Mackey’s much-admired violin concerto v movements and a duration of 25 minutes, featuring to her sheng concerto Su (2009). 15 Art Songs by British Composers Beautiful Passing focused on the end of life, his piano the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Susanna Mälkki This season has seen the launch of Chin’s new role including Britten, Finzi, Quilter and Vaughan Williams concerto looks at the earliest years, finding a musical in Paris and Cologne. 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