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Composers diana burrell Concerto for Violin with Singer Notes of premières of new works run from three months and Three Ensembles (première) – 15 June London, before to three months following publication of this issue, Christ Church, Spitalfields (Spitalfields Festival)/ i.e. from 1 April to 30 September 2009. There is therefore Trinity College of Music Contemporary Music a three-month overlap between issues, and omissions and Group. late news for the three ‘following’ months of the current issue will be picked up in the three ‘prior’ months of the jonathan dove There Was a Child (première) – next. News of more distant forthcoming premières is given 2 May Norwich, St Andrew’s Hall / Mary Plazas more briefly; full details will be found in subsequent issues. (sop), Toby Spence (ten), City of Birmingham thomas adès Symphony Orchestra, Norwich Festival Chorus, Lieux Retrouvés (première) – 21 June Hewett School Choir c. David Parry. Piano Quintet Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh Festival / Steven Isserlis (première) – 13 June London, Wilton’s Music Hall (vlc), composer (pno). (Spitalfields Festival) Schubert Ensemble. kalevi aho The Bells, Concerto for saxophone quartet and orchestra (première) – 23 April Helsinki / brian elias Doubles (première) – 16 May London, Rascher Quartet, Helsinki PO c. John Storgårds. Barbican / BBC Symphony Orchestra c. Jirˇi Beˇlohlávek. julian anderson Fantasia (UK première) – 19 June Aldeburgh Festival / Pierre-Laurent Aimard (pno), anders eliasson Quo Vadis (première) – 15 May BBC Symphony Orchestra c. George Benjamin. Stockholm / Michael Weinius (ten), Swedish Radio Shir Hashirim (première) – 10 August Tanglewood Choir, Swedish Radio SO c. Johannes Gustavssohn. Festival, Tanglewood Music Centre Orchestra. The Comedy of Change (première) – 9 September shiva feshereki insistent distortions (première) – Amsterdam, Concertgebouw / Asko Ensemble c. 12 July Cheltenham Festival / National Youth Wind Oliver Knussen. Ensemble, National Youth Chamber Orchestra c. louis andriessen The Hague Hacking (European Philip Scott. première) – 6 June Amsterdam, Concertgebouw, dai fujikura ATOM (première) – 7 April Tokyo, 70th Birthday concert / Katia & Marielle Labèque Suntory Hall / Yomiuri Nippon Symphony (pnos), Asko & Schoenberg Ensembles c. Reinbert de Orchestra c. Tatsuya Shimono. Leeuw; (UK première) – 17 August London, Royal Albert Hall Proms / same soloists, Philharmonia detlev glanert Fluss ohne Ufer (Shoreless River) Orchestra c. Esa-Pekka Salonen. (première) – 19 June Cologne, Philharmonie / tom arthurs And Distant Shore (première) – WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln / Semyon Bychkov; 31 August London, Cadogan Hall Chamber Music (UK première) – 19 August London, Royal Albert Proms / Aronowitz Ensemble. Hall Proms / BBC Symphony Orchestra c. Semyon Bychkov. richard rodney bennett Lilliburlero Variations (première of orchestral version) – 26 July London, philip glass Symphony No. 7 A Toltec Symphony Royal Albert Hall Proms / BBC Philharmonic c. (UK première) – 12 August London, Royal Albert Tecwyn Evans. Hall Proms / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra judith bingham and Chorus c. Dennis Russell Davies. See and Keep Silent (première) – 10 April Cambridge, King’s College / BBC Singers c. alexander goehr Stephen Cleobury. Manere (UK première) – 12 July Cheltenham Festival / Nash Ensemble. sir harrison birtwistle The Corridor (première) – 12 June Aldeburgh Festival / Elizabeth Atherton howard goodall Wide World (première) – 23 June (sop), Mark Padmore (ten), London Sinfonietta Gateshead, The Sage & London, Barbican (live link- c. Ryan Wigglesworth. Bogenstrich (UK première) up) / Massed primary choirs from North East, LSO – 5 July Cheltenham Festival / Adrian Brendel, Till Youth Choir, members of Northern Sinfonia & LSO Fellner, Roderick Williams. c. Tim Redmond.

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philip grange Cloud Atlas (première) – 12 July david matthews String Quartet No. 11 (première) Cheltenham Festival / National Youth Wind – 17 June London, St Jude’s Hampstead Garden Ensemble, National Youth Chamber Orchestra c. Suburb / Carducci Quartet. Philip Scott. sir peter maxwell davies Three Sanday Places jonathan harvey Sringara Chaconne (première) (première) – 1 July London, St Mary-le-Bow, – 22 April Montreal, University / Nouvel Ensemble Cheapside (City of London Festival) / Shai Wosner Modern c. Lorraine Vaillancourt. (pno). Violin Concerto No. 2 (UK première) stefan heucke liszt – 8 September London, Royal Albert Hall Proms / new version of Concerto pathé- Daniel Hope (vln), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra c. tique for 2 pianos and large orchestra, with cadenza composer. by Heucke (première) – 8 April Stuttgart, Beethoven- Saal / Andreas Grau, Götz Schumacher (pnos), michael nyman The Musicologist Scores (première) Stuttgart PO c. Gabriel Feltz. Der selbstsüchtige Riese – 25 August London, Royal Albert Hall Proms / The Michael Nyman Band c. composer. (première) – 19 April Schwerin, Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater / Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle c. tarik o’regan The Ecstasies Above (UK première) Judith Kubitz. – 7 May Brighton, The Dome / Brighton Festival heinz holliger (S)irató (UK première) – 4 August Chorus, Brodsky Quartet c. James Morgan. London, Royal Albert Hall Proms / BBC National paul patterson Viola Concerto (première) – 13 Orchestra of Wales c. Thierry Fischer. May Hampstead and Highgate Festival / Sarah-Jane toshio hosokawa Chant for cello and orchestra Bradley (vla), Springfest Orchestra c. George Vass. (première) – 30 April Cologne, Philharmonie / steve reich 2 x 5 (première) – 2 July Manchester, Rohan de Saram (vlc), WDR Sinfonietorchester c. Velodrome / Bang on a Can. Emilio Pomárico. Cloud and Light (UK première) – 24 July London, Royal Albert Hall Proms / Mayumi iris ter schiphorst Dislokationen (première) – Miyata (sho¯), Orchestre de Lyon c. Jun Märkl. 3 July Munich, Herkulessaal / Christoph Grund michael jarrell (pno), Bavarian Radio SO c. Martyn Brabbins. Sillages (première of expanded dieter schnebel version) – 3 August London, Royal Albert Hall Haydn-Destillate for piano trio Proms / Emanuel Pahud (fl), François Leleux (ob), (première) – 30 April Eisenstadt, Schloss Esterházy / Paul Meyer (cl), BBC National Orchestra of Wales c. Haydn Trio Eisenstadt. Theirry Fischer. valentin silvestrov Symphony No. 5 (UK oliver knussen Cleveland Pictures (première) – première) – 22 April London, Royal Festival Hall 6 May Cleveland, Ohio / Cleveland Orchestra c. / London Philharmonic Orchestra c. Vladimir composer; (UK première) – 7 August London, Royal Jurowski. Albert Hall Proms / BBC Symphony Orchestra c. augusta read thomas Violin Concerto No. 3, composer. Juggler in Paradise (première) – 9 September London, john mccabe Trio for oboes and cor anglais Royal Albert Hall Proms / Frank Peter Zimmermann (Erinnerung) (première) – 6 June Manchester, Bridge- (vln), BBC Symphony Orchestra c. Jirˇí Beˇlohlávek. water Hall / Sarah Francis & others. Woefully Arrayed mark-anthony turnage Five Views of a Mouth (première) – 11 August Hereford, St Francis Xavier (première); From All Sides (European première) – Church / Stile Antico. Songs of the Garden (première 18 April Glasgow, The Old Fruitmarket / Dietmar of orchestral version) – 13 August Hereford Cathe- Wiesner (fl), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra dral / Carys Lane (sop), Philharmonia c. Adrian c. Ilan Volkov. Out of the Black Dust for bras ensem- Partington. Les Martinets Noirs (UK prem ière) – ble and percussion (première) – 25 May Berlin / 14 August Hereford Cathedral / Orchestra of the Members of the Berlin Philharmonic. Turnage is Swan c. David Curtis. Study No. 12 (Sonata) composing an opera for The Royal Opera in London, (première) – 31 August London, Cadogan Hall based on the story of Anna Nicole Smith. Chamber Music Proms / Ailish Tynan (pno). unsuk chin Cello Concerto (première) – 13 August james macmillan From Ayrshire (première) – 2 July London, Royal Albert Hall Proms / Alban Gerhardt London, St Lukes / Nicola Benedetti (vln), LSO (vlc), BBC Scottish SO c. Ilan Volkov.

Players. edgard varèse (d. 1965) Étude pour Espace (arr. chou colin matthews Violin Concerto (première) – wen-chung) (première) – 14 June Amsterdam, 30 September Symphony Hall, Birmingham / Leila Holland Festival / Asko-Schönberg Ensemble, Josefowicz (vln), CBSO c. Oliver Knussen. Cappella Amsterdam c. Peter Eötvös.

ryan wigglesworth The Genesis of Secrecy Books Received (première) – 22 July London, Royal Albert Hall (A listing in this column does not preclude a review in a Proms / Choirs from combined Cambridge Colleges, future edition of Tempo) BBC Symphony Orchestra c. Sir Andrew Davis. adrian williams Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981): a life unfinished by John String Quartet No.4 (première) Tilbury. Copula Books, £45.00 (hardback), £30.00 – 28 August Presteigne Festival / Carducci String (paperback). Quartet. ian wilson Roger Sessions: A Biography by Andrea Olmstead. Double Trio for 3 jazz and 3 classical Routledge, £29.99. musicians (première) – 4 April Marlay Park House / Cathal Roche (sax), Mia Cooper (vln), Cliona Doris American Muse: The Life and Times of William Schuman (hp), Richard O’Donnell (vib), Daniel Bodwell (db), by Joseph W. Polisi. Amadeus Press, $32.95. Stu Ritchie (drums). Stations (première of com- Dane Rudhyar. His Music, Thought and Art by Deniz plete cycle) – 9 April Belfast, Queen’s University / Ertan. University of Rochester Press, £40.00 / Matthew Schellhorn (pno). $80.00. john woolrich The Night will not draw on (première) Music in America 1860-1918. Essays, reviews and – 1 May Eisenstadt / Eisenstadt Haydn Trio. Whitel’s Remarks on Critical Issues selected, prepared and Ey (première) – 6 May Peterborough, Cathedral / introduced by Bill F. Faucett. Pendragon Press Britten Sinfonia. Falling Down (première) – 24 July Monographs & Bibliographies in American Music Birmingham, Symphony Hall / CBSO c. Andris Number 19, £32.00. Nelsons. Capriccio (première) – 10 August London, Cadogan Hall Chamber Music Proms / Scottish Music in Terezin (1941–45) by Joza Karas (Second Ensemble c. Jonathan Morton. Edition, 2009). Pendragon Press, £32.00. benjamin yusupov Cello Concerto (UK première) – Busoni and the Piano. The Works, the Writings, and the 22 April London, Royal Festival Hall / Misha Maisky Recordings by Larry Sitsky (Second Edition, 2009). (vlc), London Philharmonic Orchestra c. Vladimir Pendragon Press, £24.00. Jurowski. Lord Berners, composer, writer, painter by Peter Dickinson. Boydell Press, £25.00. The Way We Listen Now by Bayan Northcott. Plumbago Books, £40.00. Cardus, celebrant of beauty by Robin Daniels. Palatine Books, £25.00.

contributors Edward Venn is Lecturer in Music at Lancaster University. His recent work includes the book The Benjamin Skipp is Junior Research Fellow in Music Music of Hugh Wood published by Ashgate. at St Peter’s College, Oxford and Lecturer in Music at Lady Margaret Hall. Under the guidance of Paul Conway is a freelance writer and music critic, Professor Jonathan Cross, he is in the final stages of specializing in 20th-century and contemporary doctoral research on the development and reception British music. He has reviewed for Tempo since 1997 of minimalism and post-minimalism. and The Independent since 2000 and has provided Deniz Ertan is the author of Dane Rudhyar: His Music, sleevenotes for Lyrita, Dutton and Nimbus discs and Thought, and Art (Boydell & Brewer, 2009), and of programme notes for The Proms, Edinburgh and articles on Carl Ruggles and medieval Ottoman Spitalfields Festivals. music (for American Music and Journal of Asian Music). Recently she worked with first-hand materials at John Wheatley is an architect and, having been elected the Newberry Library of Chicago as a Short-Term Freeman of the City of London, became Master of Fellow, focusing on American music journalism the Company of Chartered Architects from 1990 to (1908-23). This research project is funded generous- 1991. He is an enthusiastic committee member of the ly by the Leverhulme Trust for the next two years. London Sinfonietta, writes reviews on modern/new Deniz has taught at the Universities of Manchester music for Tempo and, since his article ‘The Sound of and Nottingham. Architecture’ appeared in October 2007 (Vol. 61 No. 243), has become engaged in a programme of illus- Ian Snedden is a mature student at Edinburgh trated lectures, uniting music with architecture and University studying for a BMus degree. He was a the Sussex Downs. career civil servant – awarded an OBE in 2001 – and retired in 2005. In the late 1960s he worked under Martin Anderson, after 20 years in economics, writes David Johnson’s father (the late Sir Ronald Johnson on music for a variety of publications, including The CB) then Head of the Scottish Home and Health Independent, International Record Review, International Department. Piano and Pianist in the UK, Fanfare in the USA and Lee Johnson has just retired as a professor at the Klassisk in Norway. He publishes books on music as University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His Toccata Press; his CD label, Toccata Classics, was present contribution is the most recent extension inaugurated in 2005. of an interest that goes back to ‘Form and Value in Music: Geometry and the Fugue’, an appendix to his Jill Barlow is a freelance writer, music critic and pian- 1982 University of Toronto Press book on geometry, ist, based in the St Albans and London area. After nature, and form. eight years as weekly music critic for the St Albans Observer she has now moved on to specialize more in Malcolm Miller is a musicologist and pianist, currently covering contemporary music and has reviewed for Associate Lecturer at the Open University, Director Tempo since 1999. of the ‘Forum for Israeli Music’ of the Jewish Music Institute, SOAS, University of London, lecturer Robin Maconie is currently completing Notes from the at Huron University (USA) and the City Lit. He is Event Horizon: A Modern Philosophy of Music. His text- editor of Arietta, Journal of the Beethoven Piano book The Way of Music: Aural Training for the Internet Society of Europe, and a contributor to a wide vari- Generation is published by Scarecrow Press. ety of jounals. Peter Dickinson is an Emeritus Professor of the Jeff Dunn is a freelance writer and critic for San Universities of Keele and London. There are sever- Francisco Classical Voice. He holds a B.A. in music al CDs of his music available and his books include and a Ph.D. in geologic education. A composer of studies of Lennox Berkeley, Aaron Copland, John piano and vocal music, he is a member of National Cage and Lord Berners. As a pianist he had a long Association of Composers, USA and president of partnership in international concerts, broadcasts and Composers Inc., a Bay Area organization that spon- recordings with his sister, the mezzo-soprano Meriel sors new chamber music and concerts. Dickinson. Christian Carey is an Assistant Professor of Music Composition, History, and Theory at Westminster Rodney Lister, composer-pianist, lives in Boston, Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. He Massachusetts, and teaches at the New England has written about Carter, Babbitt, Shapey, and Conservatory and at Boston University. Somewhere Wuorinen for Tempo, Musicworks, Signal to Noise, and To Get To, a CD of his recent music, was released in other publications. 2005 by Arsis Audio.

Ceri Owen is writing a Doctoral thesis on Vaughan in the USA and Europe. His special interests include Williams and Modernity at Magdalen College, Symbolism circa 1900, 20th-century German and Oxford, funded by the AHRC. She has written a English songs and contemporary folk singers. Master’s thesis on English Music at the University of Cambridge, and following postgraduate study at the Bernard Hughes is a composer living in London. He Guildhall School of Music and Drama, is also active recently received his PhD in Composition and forth- as a pianist and song accompanist. coming projects include a major new commission from the BBC Singers. Richard Causton studied with Param Vir, Roger Marsh, Jeremy Dale Roberts and Edwin Roxburgh, Colin Clarke studied music theory and analysis at and also studied in Italy as a result of winning the King’s College, London under Arnold Whittall Royal College of Music’s 150th annual Mendelssohn and V. Kofi Agawu. He contributes to a wide vari- Scholarship. His works have been widely performed ety of journals, including Fanfare and Classic Record in the UK and abroad. He is completing a large-scale Collector. ensemble work commissioned by the Birmingham Bret Johnson is a practicing solicitor. His main musi- Contemporary Music Group. cal activities are as an organist and choir director, and John Fallas is a freelance writer specializing in con- he regularly contributes articles for leading journals temporary music. He has written CD booklet notes and newspapers on American music. for a number of labels, contributed to New Grove online, and is currently preparing an article on the Guy Rickards is a regular contributor to a vari- music of Gerald Barry. ety of periodicals, including Gramophone, Tempo, International Piano and Nordic Sounds. He is the author Peter Palmer has contributed to numerous music peri- of two biographical studies (Hindemith, Hartmann odicals since 1971 as well as New Grove and MGG. He and Henze and Jean Sibelius, both for Phaidon Press) was founding editor of The Bruckner Journal. He has and is engaged on a life-and-works study of Harold undertaken translation work for music publishers Truscott.