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February 2013 2013/1 Reich Britten in Beijing ’s new ensemble work, with first performances in Included in this issue: The Britten centenary sees the composer’s drawings, resulting in a spectacular series of the UK and US in March, draws inspiration from songs by music celebrated worldwide including many animal lanterns handcrafted in Shangdong van der Aa Radiohead. works receiving territorial premieres, from Province. The production used the biblical Interview about his new 3D song through to reworkings by Stravinsky. South America to Asia and the Antipodes. tale of Noah to explore contemporary film Sunken Garden “It was not my intention to make anything like As an upbeat to this year’s events, the first ecological concerns. Through a series of ‘variations’ on these songs, but rather to Britten opera was staged in China with a educational projects, Noye’s Fludde provided draw on their harmonies and sometimes Noye’s Fludde collaboration between an illustration of man’s struggle with the melodic fragments and work them into my Northern Ireland Opera, the KT Wong environment and the significance of flood own piece. As to actually hearing the original Foundation and the Beijing Music Festival. mythology to both Chinese and Western cultures. songs, the truth is – sometimes you hear First staged in Belfast Zoo last summer as them and sometimes you don’t.” part of the Cultural Olympiad, Oliver Mears’s Overseas Britten highlights in 2013 include

Photo: Wonge Bergmann Reich encountered the music of Radiohead production transferred in October to Beijing as territorial opera premieres in Brazil, Chile, following a performance by Jonny part of the UK Now Festival. The KT Wong Israel, Turkey, Japan and New Zealand and Radio Rewrite, Steve Reich’s new ensemble Greenwood of at the Foundation’s aim is to foster innovative cross- a major Britten in Moscow festival with work, is premiered at the Royal Festival Hall Sacrum Profanum festival in Krakow: “It was cultural collaboration between China and the , four concerts by the Russian in London on 5 March, travelling with the a great performance and we began talking. wider world and this was reflected in the National and an exhibition at the London Sinfonietta to Birmingham, Brighton I found his background as a violist and his Britten staging. Members of the Belfast cast Pushkin Museum. Centenary series were and Glasgow (6-9 March). The all-Reich present active role as a composer extremely joined the Children and Young Women’s recently announced by Carnegie Hall in Adams programme opens with the composer in interesting… When I returned home I made it Chorus of the China National Symphony New York and by . The Gospel According to , and also includes Electric a point to go on line and listen to Orchestra, the New Talent School and In the UK all 14 of Britten’s major operas will Counterpoint and recent works 2x5 and Radiohead’s music and two songs stuck in members of the China Philharmonic Orchestra the Other Mary toured to be performed, including the Aldeburgh Double , conducted by Brad Lubman. my head… The first, third and fifth conducted by Nicholas Chalmers. Europe by Dudamel Festival’s staging of Peter Grimes on the Radio Rewrite is co-commissioned by the movements of Radio Rewrite are fast and Designs were inspired by the Reeves beach, and a new Gloriana directed by London Sinfonietta and Alarm Will Sound, based on Jigsaw Falling into Place and the Collection of zoological and botanical Richard Jones at The Royal Opera. which gives the first US performances at second and fourth are slow and based on Stanford Live (16 March) and in St Louis Everything in its Right Place.” Noye’s Fludde in its Chinese premiere at the Beijing Music Festival (18 March). The 20-minute work is scored Reich continues to be a central composer for for a classic Reich line-up of paired winds, contemporary dance. Rosas performs Anne vibes and , plus string quartet and Teresa De Keersmaeker’s choreography of electric bass. more than 30 times this season Reich describes how in Radio Rewrite he including future dates in Berlin, Amsterdam, references songs by Radiohead, viewing this Paris and London with musicians from Ictus. in the continuing tradition of composers Reich is composer in residence with the using “pre-existing music (folk or classical) as Dutch National Youth Orchestra this summer material for new pieces of their own”, from with repertoire including Music for 18 Birtwistle Renaissance settings of the L’homme armé Musicians, Three Movements and . The Moth premiered by Netherlands Chamber Choir Jenkins Mass for Peace Karl Jenkins’s The Armed the Stabat Mater remains an Man: A Mass for Peace is set Eastertide favourite, travelling this to feature prominently through year to Sweden, France, Germany the decade as we and Switzerland in concert and commemorate the centenaries appearing in a staged version in of the start and end of the Majorca. His children’s opera Eloise First World War (2014, 2018), receives new productions in Photo: K T Wong Foundation the 75th and 80th Hamburg, St Gallen and Cologne anniversaries of the outbreak this season. Amsterdam Paris Lyon Copenhagen Stockholm of the Second World War • • • • • Karl Jenkins is currently composing (2014, 2019) and the 70th •Oslo •Hamburg •Berlin •Düsseldorf •Barcelona the latest addition to his best-selling anniversary of the end of •Madrid •Milan •Florence •Lucerne •Salzburg Kats-Chernin Photo: EMI/Rhys Frampton Adiemus series and future projects hostilities (2015). Jenkins’s •Vienna •Moscow •St Petersburg •Istanbul New instrumentations for include a new 40-minute choral Mass based powerful work, commissioned by the Royal Jerusalem Tel Aviv Cape Town Beijing Monteverdi operas in Berlin on themes of healing. • • • • Armouries, not only describes the horrors of •Tokyo •Sydney •Wellington •Santiago war but offers the hope of peace as an end For further repertoire linked to the war •Bogotá •São Paulo •Brasilia •Buenos Aires to armed conflict. commemorations, including Jenkins’s •Los Angeles •Boston •New York For the Fallen and music by Adams, Britten, The Armed Man has established itself as the Finzi, Panufnik and Reich please visit For full details of international and UK centenary highlights most frequently programmed new work for www.boosey.com/warandpeace. visit www.britten100.org. choir and orchestra of recent decades, with over 1200 performances to date since its premiere in 2000, equating to 100 per year. In addition to the hour-long original with full orchestra, versions are also available with (1908-2012) ensemble, brass band or concert band. Carter in memoriam A film is available for screening with live performance, combining vivid imagery with historic footage, and a shorter 30-minute Tributes continue to flow for Elliott Carter Premieres of Carter’s final choral suite with orchestra can also be sung. who died on 5 November in New York at the compositions include Instances – The composer conducts The Armed Man at ripe age of 103. Aptly described as the an eight-minute work for chamber the Royal Albert Hall in London on 28 April, “Methuselah of American Composers” orchestra – on 7 February by the (Bloomberg), Carter’s musical journey Seattle Symphony and Ludovic

together with his equally popular setting of Centre photo: Misha Donat the Requiem. Next year’s commemoration embraced friendship with pioneers including Morlot, with a further performance includes a special Sing UK project in Spring Charles Ives, neo-classical studies with at the Tanglewood Festival in August. Carter in the1940s, 1980s and 1960s 2014 which will culminate in The Armed Man Nadia Boulanger, the unfolding of a new Daniel Barenboim pays tribute to Carter in in London featuring 600 young voices from modernist aesthetic in the 1950s, a Berlin on 8 April with the European premiere Birmingham Contemporary Music Group at schools in the UK and youth from sequence of radical masterworks, and an of A Sunbeam’s Architecture with the CBSO Centre on 10 March, and the France, Belgium, Germany and Poland, Indian Summer of late compositions. Rolando Villazón, and the German premiere world premiere of Epigrams for trio and of the Concertino for Bass and together with the Philharmonia Orchestra. A memorial concert is planned to take place UK premieres of Dialogues II and the String Chamber Orchestra with the Staatskapelle Visit www.sing.uk.org. at the Juilliard School in New York in early Trio are within an Aldeburgh Festival tribute Berlin at the Konzerthaus. Jenkins’s most recent work The Peacemakers, May, with performers most closely on 22 June. which topped the UK specialist classical connected to the composer uniting in Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Colin Currie are Two new recordings of Carter charts last year and enjoyed sell-out celebration. A book is being prepared for piano and percussion soloists in the French have joined the discography: Alisa Weilerstein performances on tour, has been rapidly publication linked with the concert, as a joint premiere of the complete Two Controversies performs the with Barenboim taken up by choirs around the world, with project by Carter’s publishers Boosey & and a Conversation on 22 February at the and the Staatskapelle Berlin on her debut first performances in South Africa and Hawkes and G.Schirmer. This will combine Salle Pleyel in Paris with the Orchestre disc for Decca (0289 478 2735) and Eddy Germany over the coming months. His the first fully comprehensive worklist with a Philharmonique de Radio France and Jukka- Vanoosthuyse is soloist in the Clarinet Songs of the Earth received its US premiere collection of tributes and memories from Pekka Saraste. Oliver Knussen conducts the Concerto with the Brussels Philharmonic and at Carnegie Hall with DCINY in January and major artists. UK premiere of the Double Trio with the Paul Meyer on Aeon (AECD1230). van der Aa Sunken Garden Adams Michel van der Aa discusses his new 3D film opera, a collaboration with novelist David Mitchell. Other Mary Sunken Garden is your first work to use 3D film – how effectively than usual thanks to the planned film. The has your relationship with the medium developed? storyline and characters grew organically, and then tours I’ve kept abreast of developments in 3D technology the text was boiled down to its essentials – what ’s full-evening Passion oratorio, but I didn’t set out to create a 3D opera. It was only David calls “thickening the gravy”. The Gospel According to the Other Mary, receives its when the scenario for Sunken Garden evolved that it Mitchell has a distinctive story-telling style of stage premiere on 7 March at Walt Disney Hall in Los became clear that 3D would be locked into the DNA splintered narratives and elusive common links. Is this Angeles before embarking on an international tour to of the libretto. The main protagonist in the story is a true of the new opera? London, Lucerne, Paris and New York. film-maker who is producing a documentary about a Yes. There are three inter-related levels in Sunken series of missing persons. When his project gathers As with his Nativity oratorio El Niño, the new work Garden. In simplest terms the opera is a whodunit funding from a mysterious patroness of the arts, he co-exists for stage or concert performance, and the investigating the disappearances, what happened to has the financial resources to explore the most cutting premiere production is by Adams’s long-time the missing persons and solving the mystery of who edge technology, inevitably 3D. collaborator , creator of the work’s was behind the crime. The second level deals with the libretto. Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles I’ve been very careful that the 3D elements remain film-maker Toby and the technical process of making Philharmonic, who gave the oratorio’s concert functional and fully integrated with the requirements of the film which opens and closes the opera. The third is premiere in Los Angeles last May. A further concert the drama, so the first part is purely in 2D and it is more abstract and inhabits the dreamlike occult world performance is scheduled this summer in Amsterdam only in the second part, when we find ourselves in the of the sunken garden, pitched between life and death. in the Zaterdag Matinee series at the Concertgebouw sunken garden, that the 3D comes into play. It conducted by Markus Stenz. creates a new dimension here – a fictional space with Is there a similar splintering in the roles of the singers a heightened level of interaction between the live on and off film? The oratorio tells the story of Mary Magdalene, the performers, the physical stageset and the 3D film. There are three ‘live’ singers on stage, a and Raising of Lazarus and the Crucifixion, ending with two sopranos, and two singers on film plus actors and Mary encountering Jesus before the empty sepulchre. Who have been the most inspirational models for you extras. I decided that the characters shouldn’t cross It places the Biblical narrative in contemporary times, in the worlds of music or film? from one medium to the other as in some of my earlier employing poetry and texts by writers including Musically it would be a combination of Bach, stageworks, not only for practical reasons, but Dorothy Day, Louise Erdrich, Primo Levi, Rosario Stravinsky, Ligeti, Radiohead, dance music and much because with 3D the live singers can be integrated Castellanos and June Jordan. The San Francisco else. For the new opera’s visual world I’ve responded inside the visual envelope in a way that wasn’t possible Chronicle noted how “it serves as a reply to Bach’s particularly to the dark, bizarre feel of David Lynch’s before. So it is a compact cast, allowing more space Passions in much the same way that El Niño did for films and Kobo Abe’s books. However, I’m also interesting and diverse dialogue. When we first made for character development through arias than was Handel’s ” and the interested in a more humanist side that you can see contact I discovered he’d seen my earlier opera After possible in After Life. When we reach the sunken described how “the composer has put everything he in the documentary style of After Life and The Book of Life and liked it. I wasn’t expecting him to be garden my aim was that we understand the characters knows into this score about the final days of Christ, Disquiet, which is perhaps closer to Michael Haneke interested in writing a libretto but learnt he was and already care about them. which means he includes some of the most stunning, whose films such as the recent Amour I admire. I like already engaged in thinking how text could be What creative challenges and discoveries have you probing, questing music of his career”. their naturalism and gently touching approach which combined with music on stage. So, there were a lot made working on the new opera? add up to something much more powerful. Overall I of surprising synchronicities here, and when we finally It has stretched me in some interesting ways, partly guess I’d be classed as an omnivore as I take in met in person we immediately clicked. everything, from blockbuster to arthouse. due to the greater freedom the storyline offered me. How did you and David Mitchell develop the libretto? The musical style has had to range more widely than How did your ideas for the visual world develop We had about 10 meetings and I found David a in any of my earlier pieces, from contemporary music alongside the music? genuinely open-minded partner who was happy to sounds through to pop songs for the female singer For me the visual framework comes very early in the allow me great freedom and space for the staging. on film. There are choruses and refrains in some of process. The film script was created alongside the We started off trying to define what for us makes a her music, you can hear dance beats on the so they co-existed from the onset. good libretto, and how it could exist on a number of electronic soundtrack, and I’ve used analogue Similarly there were abstract visual ideas that I knew

poetic levels. For instance some conversational texts synthesizers within the ensemble for the first time. Photo: Matthew Imaging would be central, even before my first meeting with work better spoken, whereas other intimate texts cry Generally the idiom is more direct and overtly John Adams with Gustavo Dudamel librettist David Mitchell and before the text came into out to be sung. Then we defined the subject matter melodic, closer to Spaces of Blank and Up-close being. An early stage of our collaboration was deciding by agreeing what we would like to see more of on than my earlier music, offering the possibility to reach Adams which aspects would exist within the film and which stage, something Noir-ish, which could work more out to a broader audience. The Gospel According to the Other Mary would be communicated by the sung or spoken text. Passion Oratorio (2011-12) 120’ What made you think that David Mitchell would be an van der Aa Commissioned by the , ideal librettist for the project? Sunken Garden Lincoln Center (New York), Barbican (London), I’d read Cloud Atlas and all his other books and was Cité de la Musique/Salle Pleyel (Paris), Schwemmer film opera (2011-13) 110’ Lucerne Festival, NTR ZaterdagMatinee (Amsterdam) a great fan. I loved his formal approach, his sense of Libretto by David Mitchell (E) theatre, and his skill at crossing genres and creating Kelley O’Connor/Tamara Mumford/Russell Thomas/ Treasure Island 2S,Bar; cl.bcl—tpt.trbn— Los Angeles Philharmonic/LA Master Chorale/ analogue synthesizers—perc—strings Frank Schwemmer’s success at creating new operas Gustavo Dudamel/Peter Sellars director 4 channel soundtrack; 2D and 3D film for young people that appeal across the age divide, Photo: Marco Borggreve 7/8/10 March 2013 Walt Disney Concert Hall, from children through teenagers to parents, continued 12-13,15-20 April 2013 (world premiere) Los Angeles (stage premiere) Chin with the world premiere in Zürich in November of Die Barbican Theatre, London 16 March Barbican, London Schatzinsel based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic /André de Ridder Graffiti Treasure Island, with a libretto by Michael Frowin. This 20 March KKL Konzertsaal, Lucerne 3-4,6-9 June 2013 (Dutch premiere) was the first youth opera commissioned by Andreas 23 March Salle Pleyel, Paris Stadsschouwburg, Holland Festival, Amsterdam Homoki, Zürich’s new director, and as noted in the 27 March Lincoln Center, New York travels Amsterdam Sinfonietta/André de Ridder Neue Zürcher Zeitung he “demonstrated that you can 8 June 2013 Concertgebouw, Amsterdam Unsuk Chin’s new chamber appeal to the youngest audiences with themes and Future performances at: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra/ orchestra work Graffiti is set to novelties appropriate to their age. And the fact that this Toronto Luminato Festival and Opéra de Lyon Markus Stenz doesn’t merely rely on high-tech, computer games and

travel across three continents Photo: Weonki Kim in the coming year. Following its Harry Potter fantasy can do no harm.” premiere in the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green “Schwemmer’s music is entirely at the service of the story Umbrella series on 26 February, Gustavo Dudamel and the text: strongly pointed towards a dramatic interplay of tours the work to the Barbican in London on 14 instrumental colours, it accompanies the stage events and in Turnage Cello Concerto March. Further performances are scheduled by the quieter moments can lead directly to nightmarish and musikFabrik in Cologne on 9 June and by the atmospheric painting, with harmonics on the strings and Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new Cello Concerto for Paul Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa in Japan in January stormy noises in the woodwinds… The opera’s success is Watkins was premiered at De Singel in Antwerp in 2014. Chin’s association with the Los Angeles that it communicates to the young audience without either October with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic cloying cuteness or wagging fingers.” Neue Zürcher Zeitung Philharmonic over the past 15 years has included the conducted by Edo De Waart. The Finnish premiere US premieres of Acrostic-Wordplay, Cantatrix A second production of Treasure Island opens at the followed last month with the Tampere Philharmonic v Sopranica and of her sheng concerto Su in Theater Erfurt in May. Robin Hood, Schwemmer’s Orchestra and Hannu Lintu, and the UK premiere is Dudamel’s opening season. earlier youth opera, commissioned by Homoki when on 7 February with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic director of the Komische Oper in Berlin, continues to Orchstra under the baton of Vasily Petrenko. The The phenomenon of Street Art, with its multi-layered travel widely. With over 70 performances to date it Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra gives the concerto its textures and its protest against commercialisation, has received further productions for Deutsche Oper German premiere on 20 June, conducted by homogenisation and mass media, provided stimulus for am Rhein and in Karlsruhe, and Oslo plays host to its Andris Nelsons. the 30-minute score. Rather than mindless graffiti, it was Norwegian premiere in the original staging in March. Watch a new Turnage web documentary by scanning the code the most original forms of Street Art, full of skill, creativity Cast in five movements, the concerto capitalises on and wit, that Chin has responded to. She has also Oliver Widmer in Treasure Island at Zürich Opera the expressive flavour of Paul Watkins’s playing, Speranza. Daniel Harding conducts the London sought to capture in her score the way the art effectively something the composer had been attracted to over Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican, and future destabilises expectations. The composer describes how many years of hearing the cellist in his chamber works performances are planned by the co-commissioning “the music shifts quickly and unexpectedly between and confirming him as ideal soloist for the work. The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Swedish Radio primitivism and refinement, complexity and orchestral forces are reduced from those of Turnage’s Symphony Orchestra. Each of the five movements of transparency. It calls for great agility, virtuosity and other string concertos, with double woodwind only, Speranza is headed by the word for ‘hope’ in a constant changes of perspective from the musicians; modest brass and restrained percussion, allowing the different language, from Arabic, through German, Irish each instrument is being treated as a soloist.” solo line to emerge from the texture. and French to Hebrew, and the 45-minute work surveys a positive, often-extrovert, journey of The Royal Opera in London has announced the “Turnage opted for a transparent style with a lyrical role for transformation. commissioning of Chin’s second opera, Alice Through soloist Paul Watkins whose sonorous warm sound and the Looking Glass, to be premiered in the 2018/19 sweeping melodic feeling served the music well… The Turnage’s opera Anna Nicole receives its German composer’s skill as an orchestrator was admirably premiere at Dortmund Opera on 27 April in a new season. This follows upon the success of Alice in demonstrated with beautiful sound combinations in the Wonderland, staged in Munich, Geneva, Bielefeld and staging by Jens-Daniel Herzog conducted by Jac van orchestra… A surprising highlight was the striking chamber Steen, and the US premiere is planned for autumn Saint Louis, with a new production planned by Welsh music-like duet movement between the cello and horn.” National Opera for 2017. The new Alice opera at De Standaard this year. The Royal Opera in London revives the Covent Garden will again be composed to a libretto by original Richard Jones production to launch its the composer in collaboration with David Henry As well as the UK premiere of the Cello Concerto in 2014/15 season and has announced new operatic Hwang, offering a personal interpretation of Lewis Liverpool, 7 February also brings the world premiere commissions for the composer and a staging of of Turnage’s new large-scale orchestral work Carroll’s classic book. Photo: Judith Schlosser/Zürich Opera Greek in the run up to 2020. Kats-Chernin Monteverdi operas Shostakovich Orango returns Barrie Kosky launched his that the world is far away. And for that reason, such Music from Dmitri and as an anti-Communist tenure as director of the strange sounds were very important for us. This global Shostakovich’s unfinished international press baron. He is Komische Oper in Berlin with reimagining doesn’t only employ classical instruments satirical opera Orango finally betrayed and sold to a bold productions of but has allowed us to use quite different elements, so receives its UK premiere in Soviet circus and displayed to Monteverdi’s three great operas that Monteverdi is as enriched as possible.” London on 16 May with Esa- the Moscow masses. Rather in new arrangements by Elena Pekka Salonen conducting than Orango being a monster, Kats-Chernin. The season’s first the Philharmonia Orchestra at Shostakovich cunningly paints Photo: Bridget Elliot “…startling and utterly night offered ‘Orpheus, the Royal Festival Hall. This him in the Prologue as the Odysseus and Poppea’ at a single, marathon twelve- appropriate new colours…” follows its first performance in most human creature on hour sitting and the productions were broadcast live Financial Times 2011 by Salonen and the Los stage, surrounded by a wild on German television. Kats-Chernin realised the Angeles Philharmonic and an circus of depravity. soundworld for each opera at a distance from its “Like Kosky, Kats-Chernin is a stylistic all-rounder, who acclaimed recording by the “…a parodic farrago of cabaret, responds to Monteverdi’s musical structure in an intelligent Baroque origins, with Orpheus resounding to Balkan, same forces for Deutsche operetta and military music. way, transforming it in tonal terms and condensing it through Arab and African colours, Odysseus spiced with Grammophon. Snippets of the composer’s ballet daring cuts. She achieves this by using an exotic, colourful, tango flavours, and Poppea employing pop idioms could be heard too, but odd assortment of instruments – the basso continuo is and closing the final lovers’ duet with a lone electric Originally planned as a three- what rang out most strongly was overlaid with strange tone colours and additive notes which, act opera for the Bolshoi a sense of fearlessness. Hearing guitar. similar to blue notes, load the harmony atmospherically. And Theatre, Orango was abandoned by Shostakovich the aborted Orango is like getting an uncensored look inside so, early Baroque operas become multi-cultural musical Kats-Chernin described how the music for the project after the 32-minute Prologue, perhaps due to the Shostakovich’s musical mind just before, following his events which nevertheless don’t disown their creator developed, moving the dramas into a contemporary, librettists not delivering the remainder of the text, or denunciation by Stalin in 1936, politics infected every aspect Monteverdi for a single moment.” Deutsche Bühne globalised context: “Monteverdi himself was very perhaps because of the increasing political risk of a of his career.” Opera interested in other worlds, and that was sparked by A further performance of the Monteverdi trilogy is plot poking fun at many aspects of Soviet society and journeys. Odysseus is about journeys, and the fact scheduled at the Komische Oper on 5-7 July. “The score is full of breezy numbers in Shostakovich’s most culture. overtly popular idiom, and its trenchant wit and seriousness of satirical purpose leave you wishing more of it had Monteverdi’s Orpheus in Elena Kats-Chernin’s instrumentation at the Komische Oper in Berlin “… in Shostakovich’s tartest, survived.” tangiest circus style…” Manchester plays host in March to performances of San Francisco Chronicle Cheryomushki, Shostakovich’s musical comedy set in a new 1950s high-rise housing estate on the outskirts Orango disappeared for 70 years until a vocal score of Moscow. The RNCM production, staged by Stefan of the Prologue was rediscovered in a Moscow Janski and conducted by Clark Rundell, employs the archive in 2004. Gerard McBurney was invited by the ensemble version by Gerard McBurney and the composer’s widow, Irina Shostakovich, to orchestrate English translation by David Pountney. the score, matching the instrumentation to that of the Latest publications in the Shostakovich New contemporary Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Collected Works are a full score and reduction of The Orango of the title is the result of cross-breeding Cello Concerto No.2 and a collection of the between apes and humans. The original three-act composer’s works for voice and orchestral including a scenario took the hybrid creature on successful careers number of rarities. For a full list of scores in the edition as a First World War solider, a wheeler-dealer in Paris visit www.boosey.com/shop. Rouse Clyne Heimdall’s Prince of Photo: Komische Oper/DRAMA Photo: Tod Rosenberg Photo: Jeffrey Herman Clouds Christopher Rouse’s new trumpet concerto for Anna Clyne’s Prince of Clouds was described in the Chicago Symphony principal Christopher Martin Chicago Tribune as “the first concerto she’s ever Birtwistle Dean enjoyed a successful premiere in December, with composed, and it’s a winner”. This double concerto Musical America describing it as “a concerto I would by the British-born, US-resident young composer was Moth Requiem choral happily hear again and one that virtuoso written for violinists Jennifer Koh and Jaime Laredo will surely want to play… [Martin’s] technical and sets the soloists against a string orchestra, command was literally breath-taking. He nailed the building upon her experiences writing the string

Harrison Birtwistle’s new Photo: Mark Coulsen ensemble work Within Her Arms. Prince of Clouds work for twelve female premieres composer’s huge, exposed leaps and tight, lightning- was a four-way commission by the Iris Orchestra, singers, three harps and fast passage work with eloquence and ease.” Rouse Brett Dean has composed two new scores for chorus Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Curtis Institute of alto , The Moth characterises the trumpet part as a clarion call to a and orchestra which jump the lifespan from Music and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, with Requiem, was premiered world on the brink of destruction, drawing on Norse conception to death: The Annunciation and The Last performances in March in Philadelphia, Washington in Amsterdam in October mythology when Heimdall’s blasts on his trumpet will Days of Socrates. The St Thomas Boys Choir in and New York and a recording planned by the conducted by Reinbert de announce the onset of Ragnarok. Leipzig celebrated its 800th anniversary with a Cedille label. Leeuw. The 20-minute commission from the city’s Bach Archive and Dean’s “…the premiere of Heimdall’s Trumpet was an evocation of work was written to resulting work, The Annunciation, was premiered at Armageddon, the moment when the god Heimdall “A string orchestra enfolds the violinists in limpid textures that set off a continuous series of dialogues between the celebrate the 75th the Thomaskirche with members of the Gewandhaus summons gods and humans for one final battle …the 20- minute concerto was a deftly paced ride to the edge of the soloists. Those dialogues alternate lyrical materials with

Photo: Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL anniversary of the Orchestra on 22 December with a further sections made up of terse, choppy, staccato figures… Netherlands Chamber abyss… Rouse shapes his compositions with purpose. This performance on Christmas Day. is not a work that alternates between frenzy and quiet simply What struck me particularly about the 15-minute piece was Choir and was co-commissioned by the Danish the ethereal quality of Clyne’s harmonies and the way her National Vocal Ensemble and BBC Radio 3. The BBC The festive 25-minute work combines verses from to show off the orchestra’s myriad colors, its ability to handle tricky rhythms, or to keep listeners off-balance… there melodies took radiant flight over those harmonies… This is Singers have recorded the work for future release on Numbers with three poems by Australian writer music one can listen to again and again and find new things Graeme William Ellis which explore themes of light seems to be emotional reason behind every note. Whether the Signum label along with The Ring Dance of the the querulous, jittery flutters of the solo trumpet or the quietly to appreciate each time. Prince of Clouds will no doubt be Nazarene and other Birtwistle choral music. and love, following the star, experiencing the Nativity ecstatic lyricism of serene winds and hovering strings, we taken up by other star violinists.” Chicago Tribune and praising the newborn Messiah. Triple symbolism Birtwistle’s interest in moths dates back to his feel that this musical journey is taking us somewhere we “…as in Clyne’s affecting Within Her Arms, her astringent is embedded in the score, with references to the want to go.” Musical America edge and tension firmly avoid the sentimental and teenager years when he was fascinated by their Three Kings and the Trinity and supported by three- mysterious existence and understated beauty. The lachrymose... Prince of Clouds is wrought with Clyne’s part divisions in the SATB choral writing and within characteristic craft and care, and offers the composer’s Moth Requiem explores a loss of childhood dreams the chamber orchestra’s , horns, and “… hold on to the roller brand of reflective introspection that is consistently and the evanescence of life. As well as a list of moth (plus harp and double basses). attractive.” Chicago Classical Review names – Scopula Immorata, Depressaria coaster and enjoy the ride…” Discipuncetall etc – the text includes at its centre The Chicago Tribune Clyne’s orchestral Night Ferry, a sonic portrait of Moth Poem by Robin Blaser, librettist for Birtwistle’s voyages both natural and psychological, received its opera The Last Supper. This poem was prompted by “Count Heimdall’s Trumpet as another Rouse success. Not first European performance in January. The Times Blaser tracing eerie nighttime sounds in his house to a all of the American composer’s works for soloist and reviewed the performance at the Barbican in London orchestra are outright display pieces but this trumpet with the BBC Symphony conducted by Andrew moth caught under the lid of a piano, touching the concerto melds solo pyrotechnics against a dramatic strings in its efforts to escape. Litton, noting how “this is a composer who deserves symphonic tapestry in especially graceful and compelling to flourish”. The latest commission under her Chicago fashion.” Chicago Classical Review Birtwistle’s vocal scoring recalls the multi-stranded Symphony Orchestra residency, entitled As Sudden female chorus in The Last Supper, with the voices Rouse has started his two-season residency with the Shut and scored for three sopranos, chamber split into two six-voiced choirs, while the moth’s New York Philharmonic and the first major new score ensemble and tape, is premiered in the orchestra’s nervous agitation is realised through the distinctive is a concert-opener, Prospero’s Rooms, to be MusicNOW series on 25 February. John Zorn's scoring for alto flute and harps. The fragmented Latin premiered on 17 April and toured in May to Istanbul,

The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David Tzadik label has released Blue Moth, the first album of texts evoke memories of distant hieratic rites, at key Zürich, Munich, Dresden and Vienna under the baton Clyne's music. points coming into focus with fierce outbursts, Simon Rattle conducts the premiere of Dean’s The of Alan Gilbert. combining to conjure up an unusual and highly Last Days of Socrates on 25 April with the individual Requiem. Rundfunkchor Berlin and Berliner Philharmoniker The Japanese premieres of Birtwistle’s Concerto for joined by bass-baritone John Tomlinson in the role of and Orchestra and Exody take place in May the philosopher. This 35-minute cantata, again with within the Composium festival at Tokyo Opera City, text by Graeme William Ellis, is co-commissioned by where he is judge for the Toru Takemitsu the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Melbourne Composition Award. This summer’s Salzburg Festival Symphony Orchestra. After a prelude appealing to the presents Birtwistle as featured composer, with six goddess Athena, the central movement sees concerts including the Austrian premiere of the violin Socrates standing trial with a double chorus accusing concerto and a new staging of Gawain conducted by him of corrupting the city’s youth and following his Ingo Metzmacher. own gods. The philosopher defends his right to an enquiring mind and freedom of speech, but the votes Plans are underway for celebrations of Birtwistle’s are cast and he is condemned to death. The final 80th birthday in 2014 including international opera movement depicts Socrates drinking from the

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