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October 2013 2013/3 Adams Maxwell In his new concerto fuses classical Included in this issue: masters – I never considered the saxophone saxophone with recollections of Stan Getz and an alien instrument… Fortunately I met Tim Davies Andriessen McAllister, who is quite likely the reigning Interview about new Charlie Parker. master of the classical saxophone, an artist orchestral work Mysteriën who while rigorously trained is also aware of the tradition.” Timothy McAllister has described how he hears “the thread of the saxophone as the ‘point man’ for some rather challenging, polyrhythmic orchestral writing throughout – the sax is the center of the architecture rather than simply being a detached personality out

in front of the ensemble… the scope of the Photo: Martin Lengemann concerto – close to 30 minutes – makes for a physically demanding work, and, easily, the most important work for saxophone in this young century.” Ebb of Britten “Adams has thrown down the gauntlet with a solo line which demands speed, flexibility, musicality Grimes on the beach, and, above all, stamina to keep going with barely Winter in cinemas, on disc a bar’s rest… the Sharks and the Jets morphed ’s new Concert overture: into a restless riff, while muted and Ebb of Winter is premiered by the Scottish piccolos summoned the ghost of Stravinsky’s Chamber in Glasgow City Halls on Rite of Spring. But the most beautiful moments 8 November conducted by Oliver Knussen, were all Adams, from the brain-addling cross- with a performance the following day in rhythms of the final movement to the delicate interplay between solo saxophone and .” Edinburgh. The work was commissioned for Sydney Morning Herald the SCO’s 40th anniversary season and John Adams with Timothy McAllister at the Sydney House for the Saxophone Concerto’s premiere. “Compared to the ’s often celebrates the close association between subdued, dark-robed instrumentation, the new orchestra and . John Adams’s tour of Australia in August, Alsop and the Saint Louis Symphony under concerto has an appealing blend of bright colours Maxwell Davies recalls how he was conducting the Sydney and Melbourne David Robertson. The South American and astringency. Saxophonist Timothy McAllister commissioned in the late 1980s to compose Symphony , unveiled his new premiere is planned by the Orquestra was the outstanding soloist, channelling Stan the series of 10 Strathclyde , Getz in the smooth lyrical passages. In the concerto written for the virtuosic talents of Sinfonica Do Estado De São Paulo and dates “writing for and working with the leaders of saxophonist Timothy McAllister. The for European performances are scheduled relentless, bebop-like figurations – stunningly executed – it recalled the frenetic solos of Charlie each section, and conducting performances Chin programmes also included the first Australian from summer 2014 onwards. Parker, Cannonball Adderley and .” of these works not only in Scotland, but also performances of his Violin Concerto with Leila The Australian Featured composer in Adams writes in his programme note about in Europe and America. It is a great privilege, Josefowicz, who has played the work over Stockholm festival how he grew up “hearing the sound of the with this history, to be invited to write a work 100 times around the world. Nonesuch is recording the Saxophone saxophone virtually every day – my father had Concerto with Timothy McAllister, the Saint for the SCO’s fortieth birthday, as a vote of The Saxophone Concerto travels homeward played alto in swing bands during the 1930s Louis Symphony and David Robertson, for thanks for a wonderful musical experience to the USA this autumn with performances by and our family record collection was well future release coupled with which with them in the past, and also as a vote of the Baltimore Symphony conducted by Marin stocked with albums by the great jazz also includes a prominent solo for McAllister. confidence in their glorious future.” Scored for chamber orchestra, the new 15-minute work relates to the shift of seasons experienced in the Scottish islands where the composer has made his home Rorem since 1970: “I wrote this piece in the ‘Ebb of Górecki late works Winter’, and spring was just starting to come in. The weather and the climate in A collection of late works by The fourth symphony does Orkney changed day by day when I went at 90 Henryk Mikolaj- Górecki is in not emulate the distinct Doyen of American out for a walk with my dog. The piece is a Turnage preparation for premiere and character of its vocal reaction to the Orkney climate and song and publication over the coming predecessor, the New concerto and celebrated diarist, influenced by Orkney folk music.” US premieres seasons. The Polish composer celebrated Symphony of is 90 on left a number of scores, both Sorrowful Songs, but The premiere of Ebb of Winter acts as an 23 October, heralding large and small, compositionally rather reflects the upbeat to the celebrations in 2014 for the performances of his complete but unperformed at composer’s musical composer’s 80th birthday. Next year sees vocal magnum opus the time of his death in journey as a whole while the completion of Naxos’s re-releases of on both sides of the November 2010. paying homage to his Maxwell Davies discs originally on the Collins Atlantic. Evidence of fellow-Polish composer Classics label, with repertoire including Photo: Christian Steiner Górecki’s Symphony No.4 Things Not Seen Alexsander Tansman Strathclyde Concerto No.10, Seven in (Tansman Episodes) receives builds a full evening of song from a sequence (1897-1986). As Górecki Nomine, Stone Litany and The Beltane Fire. its premiere on 12 April 2014 of 36 settings of the composer’s favourite scholar Adrian Thomas Boosey and Hawkes has recently released by the London Philharmonic poets from Auden to Yeats, scored for four notes, “although it appears study scores of three of the Orkney Saga Orchestra conducted by solo and offering an ideal showcase not to quote from series and Seven Skies of Winter in its Andrey Boreyko at the Royal for a quartet of singers. The Curtis Institute in Tansman’s music, Górecki Hawkes Pocket Score series. Festival Hall. Performances by Photo: Gerry Hurkmans Philadelphia and the London Song Festival in does make use of a co-commissioners the Los To explore Maxwell Davies’s music in Covent Garden both present the work on the musical theme based on his name. This Angeles Philharmonic and the Zaterdag preparation for his 80th birthday visit: birthday itself and its German premiere is purely instrumental work relates closely to the Matinee series at the Concertgebouw in www.boosey.com/max80. given by the vocalists of the RIAS that he wrote in the 1980s Amsterdam follow in the 2015/16 season. Kammerchor in Berlin next March. and ‘90s, with its reflective intimacy and The symphony was complete in short score extrovert dance impulses.” Rorem’s new Shakespeare setting for mezzo, with detailed annotations of orchestration double bass and piano, How Like a Winter, is and dynamics, as was the composer’s usual A large-scale collection of choral Church premiered at the Concertgebouw in practice. The orchestral score, with Songs underway at the time of the Amsterdam on 29 October by Christianne prominent obbligato roles for piano and composer’s death, many dating from the and Rick Stotijn and Joseph Breinl, tours in organ, has been realised from the particell by mid-1980s, is now available for the Netherlands and Belgium, and travels to Górecki’s son Mikolaj,- also a composer, performance. Essentially simple in style, Cologne in the New Year. Northwestern following his father’s instructions and these choral adaptations of church melodies University near Chicago honours its alumnus employing an extensive knowledge of his are scored for unaccompanied mixed with a Ned@90 series of events on orchestral works and instrumentation. voices. The extant cycle of 20 Church 10-11 October, the New York Festival of Songs was premiered in June by the Song presents a Ned is Ninety programme in Rorem’s volumes of diaries, flamboyant and Cracow Singers conducted by Wlodzimierz the presence of the composer at Merkin Hall shockingly candid about his peers, track his Siedlik, released on CD by Dux Records, on 5 November, and the BBC National musical and social life from Paris and New and will soon be published for sale. Orchestra of Wales performs Eagles on York in the 1950s to his later home in 19 November in Cardiff. Works for and orchestra, currently in Nantucket, while his memoir Knowing When preparation, include a 15-minute setting of the The Royal Mint has announced a new 50p coin Earlier highlights in the 90th year have to Stop charts his life as a young man, Kyrie for SATB chorus, percussion, piano and commissioned to mark Benjamin Britten’s included Evelyn Glennie introducing the Mallet offering vivid portraits of Bernstein, , , and an hour-long cantata centenary on 22 November 2013. Concerto to Hong Kong and a further Paul Bowles and Truman Capote. An ideal honouring Saint Adalbert for soprano and This first British coin to feature a composer, production of Rorem’s successful Thornton introduction to Rorem’s writings is The Ned baritone soloists, chorus and orchestra. For designed by Tom Phillips with a textual quote Wilder opera Our Town in Central City Rorem Reader, summed up by in further information about these Górecki works from the Serenade, will enter full circulation so Colorado, taking the performance count to as “one of the wisest and and their availability for performance please that Britten will be in pockets throughout the UK. over 75 since its premiere in 2006. wittiest composer books ever published”. contact [email protected]. Andriessen Mysteries MacMillan ’s new orchestral work, combining spiritual and wordly reflections, The Death of is premiered by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra on 3 November. Oscar How have you structured Mysteriën? song setting. This seemed to tie things together for Stéphane Denève led a Each movement is headed by an inscription drawn me and offer a way forward. I imagined my father’s three-way commission for from Thomas a Kempis’s chapter headings and voice saying: “Louis, go ahead and write the piece”. James MacMillan’s most offers a musical interpretation of the title. The first The work employs, surprisingly, a largely traditional recent orchestral work, The looks at the vanities of the world, with colliding symphony orchestra. Death of Oscar, premiered musical lines illustrating how busy we all think we Yes, this isn’t my normal ‘terrifying 21st century by the Stuttgart Radio are. The second examines the misery of mankind orchestra’, but the Concertgebouw was flexible saying Symphony Orchestra in with a litany of hocketing broken chords. The third there was a core of 26 musicians and I could use 8 or July. First performances in is a central plea for exploring “what truth 9 extra instruments. This convinced me that I could the USA and UK are speaks from inside without the noise of words”, write a piece aware of the orchestra’s tradition but planned by the Seattle while the next reveals the ordeal of a true lover, remaining true to myself. I’ve employed an orchestra Photo: Philip Gatward Symphony next April and drawing upon my father’s song. Then a movement with half a plus extra colours from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in a future pits slow brass against fast strings, reflecting soprano sax, low , three harps – one of which season, all with Denève conducting. The ten-minute Thomas a Kempis’s perceived contradiction is detuned – two , and plate chimes. orchestral work is a miniature tone poem, drawing Photo: Francesca Patella between the natural instinct to do bad things and The Concertgebouw concert celebrates the hall’s 125 upon the legend of the bardic poet Ossian and the Your new orchestral work, Mysteriën, grew from the the God-given gift of grace. The final sixth years, a period that spans from to death of his son Oscar. devotional writings of Thomas a Kempis. How did you movement, opening with a sad lamentation your own premiere. How do you as a composer view first come across his texts? on death, provides something of a cathartic As well as Stéphane Denève’s musical this orchestral journey? It was thanks to my father who had a copy of Thomas epilogue. collaborations with MacMillan while Music Director A lot of the late Romantic repertoire doesn’t grab me. a Kempis’s The Imitation of Christ. Kempis lived most of the RSNO, they both shared the experience of Commissioned for the Royal Concertgebouw It is only from about 1912 that I reconnect and of his life in a monastery in Zwolle, not far from Utrecht sitting for portrait busts created by the Scottish Orchestra, does this mean peace has finally broken understand things again. There remain big challenges where I grew up, and his writings were important to sculptor Alexander Stoddardt. MacMillan became out? Around 1960 you were protesting against the for orchestras. Some are always the same, such as my father who set them in a number of songs. One in aware of Stoddardt’s project to create a Concertgebouw’s orchestral programming! economic crises and how the state withdraws from particular I remember hearing in the house as a small monumental sculpture of The Death of Oscar, I still have my views on the current cultural-political the funding of the arts – there isn’t a real difference in child and this has found its way into Mysteriën, at half to be carved from a Scottish granite hillside in the scene and the repertoire that is programmed, but that respect between the gangsters of the 1930s and speed as if a glimpse of a distant memory. Western Highlands, and this inspired the current the time seemed right to compose for the those of today. I hope for a future with adventurous score for Denève to conduct. A mystical side to your music, as also heard in Concertgebouw. Joel Fried, the orchestra’s artistic orchestras, not afraid of musical experiments. Hadewych or De Tijd, offers a complete contrast to director, was insistent over three years that he In the legends of Ossian, his son Oscar challenged your punchy, motoric style. Where do you draw your wanted a piece for the 125th anniversary of the hall the High King Cairbre to single combat and, though Andriessen victorious, died of his wounds and was mourned by spiritual roots? and the orchestra. I started thinking about the Mysteriën (Mysteries) his father and lover. These tales collected by James My family upbringing was interesting and unusual in orchestra’s complicated relationship with earlier for orchestra (2013) 30’ that it combined traditional Catholic principles with a generations of Dutch composers, including Macpherson in the 18th century have long been more liberal, artistic world. To illustrate this interface, Diepenbrock and Vermeulen as well as my father, Commissioned by the Royal Concertgebouw subject of hot debate about their authenticity, but when my father played an organ improvisation after and how musical life was controlled by conductors Amsterdam for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra what is not in doubt is the massive influence they Mass in Utrecht, many of the believers got up and left, such as Mengelberg. Some years ago a novel by on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of both hall had on perceptions of Scottish and Celtic culture, while another crowd of music-lovers arrived at the Erik Menkveld appeared about Diepenbrock and and orchestra particularly overseas – admired by political figures church to listen. In terms of my own music, the Vermeulen titled Im grossen Schweigen (The Grand 3 November 2013 (world premiere) such as Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson and spiritual and serene was always there as a strand, Silence), named after Diepenbrock’s Nietzsche Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Mariss Jansons inspiring Romantic artists from Mendelssohn in but it had to take a back seat when I was protesting Fingal’s Cave to Goethe in Werther. against the establishment, writing for MacMillan’s ten-minute score opens slowly and outdoor musicians such as De Volharding – smooth darkly, building a mood of mythical lamentation with and beautiful music just wouldn’t have worked then. horns sounding the threnody above low strings and Do you view the philosophical aspect of Thomas a Turnage tolling drums and harp. The central fast section is Kempis as more important than the Christian? militaristic, perhaps recalling Oscar’s final battle, with For me, philosophy, mysticism or theatre are all things Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new at the BBC Proms this summer, is performed by the trumpet derived from the opening theme, that stimulate creativity and merge to become rather piano concerto for Marc-André and on 3 October, and increasingly jagged elaborations. The closing close – whether their manifestations be Hamlet, Hamelin is premiered at and his urgent, folk-imbued Speranza is played by the section sees a return to the slow tempo with the cor Medea or the conception of God. So the ideas in De Doelen in Rotterdam on Boston Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding on Anglais presenting the unadorned, sorrowful melody Thomas a Kempis’s book can sit happily alongside 10 October with Yannick 24 October – both US premieres. above simple string accompaniment. not only St Augustine, but also secular writers I’ve Nézet-Séguin at the helm of the drawn upon such as Plato and Lao Tse. I see the six Turnage’s recent engagement with the world of dance MacMillan’s recent concertos continue to attract Rotterdam Philharmonic. continues with a new Ashley Page ballet Subterrain attention, with the Violin Concerto toured to six sections of Mysteriën as a sequence of similarly- Though he has written much proportioned frescoes, in a religious setting but coupling Turnage’s music with Aphex Twin. countries by , the Concerto Photo: Philip Gatward for keyboard within chamber depicting worldly scenes even to the point of the The Rambert production is premiered at Sadler’s receiving its Australian premiere last month with configurations, the concerto is Wells in London on 22 October, travels to Bath, Nicholas Daniel, and Piano Concerto No.3 painter including the guys who built the church and Turnage’s largest-scale foray into piano writing to date. commissioned the art. and then in early 2014 to Woking, Aberdeen and championed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet and returning As the composer says: “Though I was never a top- Newcastle. Turnage’s acclaimed collaboration with to Scotland this month after 17 overseas level pianist, it is the instrument I played most and Wayne McGregor and Mark Wallinger, Undance, performances. The next concerto to be premiered is probably have always felt closest to. I knew I wouldn’t which returned to Sadler’s Wells in June, tours to a new work for violist Lawrence Power, to be write a grand concerto like Beethoven’s Emperor or Edinburgh and Belfast this autumn with unveiled by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Brahms’s second concerto but, writing for a brilliant Random Dance Company. Vladimir Jurowski on 15 January. Rachmaninoff pianist like Marc-André Hamelin, I’ve tried to provide enough challenging things, even within a fairly orchestrated compact 20-minute piece. The catalogue of Rachmaninoff “The title of the opening movement, Rondo-Variations, works with orchestra is swelled sounds positively classical and rather decorative, but with a number of attractive this is a little misleading because the material really arrangements of his piano and undergoes continual variation as it moves forward, like vocal works. Long established in in most of my pieces. It doesn’t become over-florid, the repertoire is Respighi’s 1930 like Liszt – which isn’t really me – but there are plenty Britten Peter Grimes on the beach version of five of the composer’s of tricky things for the fingers in other respects. The Etudes-tableaux, and arrangers, central movement, Last Lullaby for Hans, was Photo: Boosey & Hawkes many of whom are also composed immediately I heard Staged at Aldeburgh Festival, June 2013, by Tim Albery “an open-air production that fought had died – it was completed in short score by the time conductors, have continued to be drawn to create CD release by Signum, conducted by Steuart Bedford “a remarkable and surely unrepeatab new orchestrations. of the funeral and then fully orchestrated afterwards. It‘s a straightforward tribute because I wanted it to be Film by Margaret Williams screened in over 70 UK cinemas “Grimes’s disappearance towards th Boosey & Hawkes is soon to publish Corneliu direct, simple and lyrical. The last movement, Dumbraveanu’s orchestration of the Variations on a A Grotesque Burlesque, is meant to be fun and moves DVD future release Theme of Corelli, scored for small orchestra with from an opening with hints of Brahmsian finger double woodwind. This arrangement has been patterns, to something much jazzier and closer to programmed regularly by Neeme Järvi, most recently piano.” last year with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in an all-Rachmaninoff programme, and can be heard on his Next month sees the premiere of Turnage’s Erskine, a 1994 Chandos recording with the Detroit Symphony concertante work for jazz drummer and orchestra Orchestra. Kazushi Ono and Kristjan Järvi have also written for Peter Erskine who has collaborated closely scheduled performances this season. with the composer on such works as Blood on the Floor and Fractured Lines. The new ten-minute score Other recent additions to the Boosey & Hawkes has been commissioned for a jazz-themed Rachmaninoff catalogue have been José Serebrier’s programme by the Orchestra of the Beethovenhalle in new version of Vocalise, offering a chamber orchestra Bonn on 9 November conducted by Stefan Blumier. alternative to the composer’s own, as featured on his Co-commissioner the Philharmonic will Warner Classics album. Ten Rachmaninoff songs present the US premiere in a future season. transcribed in 1963 for voice and orchestra by Vladimir Jurowski (senior) were revived in Sweden in 2011 Turnage is much in evidence in the USA, with the conducted by his son Michail, and a song from the recent first American staging of his opera Anna Nicole collection is programmed by Andris Nelsons with the presented by the BAM Next Wave Festival and New Tonhalle Orchestra. Pieces from the Six Morceaux York City Opera. The Richard Jones production, seen op.11 were recently transcribed by Arkady Leytush first at The Royal Opera in London, featured Sarah Joy and orchestrated versions of Suite No.2, originally for Miller in the title role, with Rodney Gilfry, Robert two pianos, are available from both Dumbraveanu and Brubaker and Susan Bickley, conducted by Steven Sloane. Turnage’s Beethoven tribute Frieze, premiered Leytush. Photo: © Robert Workman Britten dances anew Dean Dramatis personae

Festival in June presented Britten Dances, a A highlight of ’s residency at the rhythmically trenchant first movement and a monologue-like second, Dean pulls out all the programme of Britten-inspired works which, as The Grafenegg Music Festival in Austria this summer was the world premiere of his new stops in the final part, cross-fading from Guardian commented, “exposed the vibrancy and quotations to his own material, in a manner colour of his music”, with Kim Brandstrup’s new trumpet concerto for Håkan Hardenberger, Dramatis personae. The Tonkünstler akin to , to create a collage-like Ceremony of Innocence being selected by The clash of sounds and times.” Der Standard Independent as the highlight of the celebration: Orchestra conducted by John Storgårds gave the first performance and those by Dean’s -winning violin “Set to the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, it the co-commissioners follow, with the concerto The Lost Art of Letter Writing echoes the ambiguities of Britten’s in fresh, Danish National Radio Symphony is released on disc by BIS in the coming musical dance, with strong video design by Leo Warner… Photo: Mark Coulsen weeks, performed by Frank Peter Working with dancers from Britain’s Royal Ballet, Orchestra and Storgårds (3 October), City Brandstrup takes the theme of lost and corrupted of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Andris Zimmermann with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra innocence, central to so many Britten works. In a white Nelsons (29 May 2014) and Leipzig Gewandhaus conducted by Jonathan Nott. Also on the disc are suit, watching younger dancers at play, Edward Watson Orchestra and Nelsons (3 July 2014). The Australian Testament and Vexations and Devotions with looks like Aschenbach in Death in Venice, dreaming of lost premiere is planned by the Sydney Symphony Gondwana Voices and the BBC Symphony youth. The dancing in the fizzing early movements is Orchestra next October, again with Hardenberger Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Martyn joyfully fluent, with Watson foreshadowing the music’s as soloist. Brabbins and David Robertson (BIS 2016). later darkness… In a shivery sequence, the young dancers return, but now looking like mocking ghosts of what The trumpet concerto’s title, Dramatis personae, Dean is composing a new work scored for string Watson saw the first time.” The Independent refers to the different characters the composer quartet and soprano to be toured by the Britten associates with the solo instrument. Cast in three Sinfonia next May. premieres the latest The Richard Alston Dance Company presents an movements, the concerto opens with a depiction of in Dean’s cycle of ‘homage etudes’ for piano at Walt all-Britten programme as part of the Barbican’s the Fall of a Superhero, drawing equally upon comic Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on 25 February, two-week celebration of the composer in strip scenarios and classical tales of heroism. The a tribute to Brahms. November. New danceworks by Alston set to the trumpet is the mythical leader struggling against the Hölderlin Fragments and join his existing antagonistic proletariat. The second movement, choreographies of Les Illuminations and Lachrymae, Soliloquy, has the hero alone with his thoughts, with live accompaniments by the Britten Sinfonia offering a more mellow, reflective interlude. The final directed by Pekka Kuusisto. Following on the recent movement, The Accidental Revolutionary, sees the Photo: Rob Marrison revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s Royal Ballet Glanert in composer focusing on the coincidental aspects of choreography of The Prince of the Pagodas, Ceremony of Innocence choreographed by Kim Brandstrup heroism. The comic model is Charlie Chaplin’s film Birmingham Royal Ballet presents the UK premiere Modern Times, in which the protagonist finds himself Benjamin Britten’s centenary has seen a renewed of David Bintley’s new choreography. First staged Amsterdam unexpectedly leading a band of striking workers. focus on the dancing qualities of his oeuvre, with by the National Ballet of Japan in 2011, the Detlev Glanert is in the productions of his ballet The Prince of the Pagodas production tours to Manchester, Birmingham, “Dean sees the relationship between soloist and orchestra spotlight in Amsterdam over as similar to that of the hero and the world; the conflict and and existing danceworks alongside new Plymouth and the London Coliseum between the coming months with a choreographies set to his music. The Aldeburgh January and March. collaboration between a leading figure and the masses characterises the classic, three-part work. After a concert performance of his opera Caligula, and the premiere of his new work for “In approaching this project, the challenge has been to the Royal Concertgebouw preserve Bernstein’s intentions for the soundworld and Orchestra. The composition the drama of his music, using a radically scaled-down of Frenesia for the RCO forms Bernstein in Berlin Photo: Iko Freese/DRAMA orchestra of 18 musicians. This chamber ensemble will part of Glanert’s house Berlin presents its largest-ever celebration of the and a substantial amount of the A Quiet not encompass the sheer volume and overwhelming composer role with the orchestra, and the 20-minute music of in November when the Place material was cut to ‘make room’ for force of the full orchestration, but it instead has a score is unveiled at the Concertgebouw on 23 January Konzerthaus presents a series encompassing the incorporation of the entirety of Trouble Photo: Susech Batah/DG transparency, and an intimacy, that is appropriate to under the baton of Xian Zhang. Further performances opera, orchestral and chamber concerts, family in Tahiti as a flashback. This version was the opera’s themes and its characters, and that allows by co-commissioners are planned by the Gürzenich events and films. The series is launched on 8 finalized for performances in Vienna in 1986, which for a different perspective on Bernstein’s score. The Orchestra in Cologne with Markus Stenz next June, November with Ivan Fischer conducting suites from Bernstein recorded for Deutsche Grammophon. music of A Quiet Place is tremendously powerful, and by the Sydney Symphony and Saint Louis and On the Town together with the representing Bernstein at his most complex and Symphony Orchestras with David Robertson. Serenade for violin and orchestra. Wayne Marshall “While the Vienna version is definitive, The Leonard daring, and it is my hope that this new chamber conducts the symphonies Age of Anxiety and Bernstein Office has always felt that a smaller, shorter Frenesia was written to complement the RCO’s tribute version will provide audiences with a new insight into Kaddish, and is soloist in an organ programme version of the opera, using a reduced chamber to Richard Strauss in his 150th anniversary year. Bernstein’s theatrical and musical genius.” including improvisation on Bernstein themes. The orchestration, would allow for an alternate, more Glanert describes how “when you hear the start of a composer’s daughter Jamie Bernstein will be intimate experience of this very personal work. In addition to the Konzerthaus series, Berlin also hosts work like Ein Heldenleben you are struck by the strong attending the festivities and joins Sebastian Knauer in This new chamber version would not include Trouble a new production by Barrie Kosky of West Side Story muscular gesture and the way it energises the a programme exploring the personalities in the in Tahiti, and would restore some of the very fine at the Komische Oper. This new German version direction of the music. I wanted my new work to have Anniversaries for piano. music that was cut from the Houston version, opens on 24 November with over 20 performances a similar opening gesture, here wild and frenetic – including full arias for Sam and François. running through the season. hence the title Frenesia – which could act as a The culmination of the Bernstein series is the premiere resource for what follows. This richness is contrasted on 27 November of a new chamber version of his final with material which is an example of the ‘musica opera A Quiet Place, with leading povera’ that I’m currently exploring, stripped bare, . Through productions in Houston down to small melodic cells. and Vienna in the 1980s the work evolved into a full- Höller Hamburg focus length three-act opera, with the complexity of “Frenesia as a whole could be considered an anti- Bernstein’s later style surrounding his earlier jazzy makes a visit to Moscow, causing havoc but assisting Heldenleben, not in any critical or satirical sense, but one-act opera Trouble in Tahiti. The editor of the new the redemption of a writer and his lover. The work was rather because the piece is against the traditional version, Garth Edwin Sunderland, notes how “the premiered at the Paris Opera in 1989 in a production Romantic view of grand heroism, which I think is no dramatic structure of the work was significantly altered, by Hans Neuenfels, staged at the Cologne Opera, longer possible after historic events leading to 1945. recorded for Oehms Classics, and last month received It will hopefully demonstrate a different sort of power, a new production by Jochen Biganzoli at the Hamburg as exemplified by the sound of the orchestra in the State Opera, conducted by Marcus Bosch. Höller’s Concertgebouw, with brilliant violins, a special quality score, like the novel, operates on many levels, in the winds, and a sense of opening out a volume combining lyrical writing of Bergian intensity, colourful beyond the space in the hall.” orchestration, sophisticated electronics, and a time- Glanert’s Caligula, based on the play by Camus, travelling aspect, not least in the Grand Ball of Satan. receives its Dutch premiere in the Zaterdag Matinee A suite from the opera, Margarita’s Dream, for series on 14 December. The concert performance at soprano, orchestra and electronics is also available for the Concertgebouw features the Netherlands Radio performance. Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Markus Photo: Jörg Landsberg Stenz, who conducted the double premiere of the The Master and Margarita at Hamburg State Opera York Höller’s new orchestral work, Voyage, is the elements and won” The Times premiered by the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra under work at the Frankfurt and Cologne Operas in 2006. The South American premiere of Caligula follows on ble achievement” With the premiere of his and a new Pierre-André Valade in April, with a German premiere staging of his opera The Master and Margarita, York by the Gürzenich Orchestra and Markus Stenz the 1 April at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, in the he all-too-audible sea was heartbreaking” Daily Telegraph Höller is currently receiving a special focus in following month. Höller’s 70th birthday is celebrated in Benedict Andrews production seen at English National Hamburg. The Cello Concerto was written for Adrian January 2014. Opera in 2012. Brendel and the first performance is part of a special Höller portrait concert on 15 November by the NDR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alejo Pérez. The programme also includes Holler’s Sphären, which won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award, and music by the Unsuk composer’s teacher Bernd Alois Zimmermann. The Cello Concerto grew from Höller’s earlier Chin Mouvements for cello and piano, which had been in Stockholm premiered by Adrian Brendel. This prompted the composer to expand the work with full orchestral Tonsättarfestival at the Konzerthuset 14-17 November 2013 accompaniment. Höller’s output includes a special emphasis on concertos which explore the refraction of 14 November, 18.00 16 November, 15.00 ideas between an individual and a larger group. The Rocana / Su* / Scenes from Alice in Wonderland* Violin Concerto / Concerto for Cello and Orchestra* / first of his two piano concertos was premiered by Wu Wei, sheng/Sally Matthews, sop/Jenni Bank, mez/ Scenes from Alice in Wonderland Peter Donohoe and championed by Daniel Royal Stockholm Philharmonic/Susanna Mälkki Viviane Hagner, vln/Alban Gerhardt, vlc/Sally Matthews/ Jenni Bank/Royal Stockholm Philharmonic/Susanna Mälkki Barenboim, and the second entitled Pensées employs 15 November, 19.00 a MIDI grand piano and electronics. The double Piano Concerto / Allegro ma non troppo 17 November, 15.00 concerto Widerspiel pits two pianos against orchestra, Sunwook Kim, pft/Jonny Axelsson, perc/ Graffiti* / Gougalon* / Double Concerto while the trumpet concerto Fanal exchanges signals Norrköping Symphony Orchestra/Antony Hermus Dimitri Vassilakis, pft/Samuel Favre, perc/ between soloist and ensemble. KammarensembleN/Staffan Larson

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