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February 2009 2009/1 Dean wins 2009 Grawemeyer by Peter Carey, and were sung in Liverpool Included in this issue: by baritone Peter Coleman-Wright who will Carter take the lead role of the adman Harry Joy on New works celebrate his stage in Australia, Germany and the UK. Photo: Boosey & Hawkes 100th birthday Songs of Joy, like Dean’s orchestral work The 50th anniversary of Bohuslav Martinu˚’s Moments of Bliss, whets the appetite for death on 28 August 1959 brings a focus on performances of the complete opera: his music around the world, led by “Brett Dean is an Australian composer who is to celebrations in the Czech Republic. Events music what Sidney Nolan is to painting, in that he are being co-ordinated under the banner of can create a distinctive Australian landscape that Martinu˚ Revisited by the Martinu˚ Foundation is, at the same time, absolutely his own. The in Prague. sound is exotic, full of insect life - whining and rasping - the musical weather ominous… These All the major Czech and opera three arresting songs describe a disturbed, companies have planned features on Martinu˚ psychological landscape… The music also, in the 2009/10 season and his music

Photo: Heather Betts remarkably, managed to bring out the dark, unsafe provides the main theme for the Czech Brett Dean, Simon Rattle and Peter Coleman-Wright at the premiere of Songs of Joy in Liverpool humour you find in Carey’s novels, and the Philharmonic ’s programme. The Brett Dean has won the 2009 Grawemeyer Visit www.boosey.com/av to hear music orchestra was able to convey agitation, menace Prague Spring festival will be dedicated in and a yearning for reprieve. On the evidence of 2009, and partly in 2010, to Martinu˚’s oeuvre Award for Music Composition for his violin from the award-winning and listen this taster, the opera of which these songs form Schwertsik concerto The Lost Art of Letter Writing, to Dean discussing the work. and the international contexts for his music. Interview about percussion part should be extraordinary when it opens in The National Museum will hold an extensive premiered in 2007. Granted annually by the Sydney in 2010.” The Observer and Rattle premieres Songs of Joy exhibition on the composer’s life and work University of Louisville, this is the world’s “Dean’s songs - eerily atmospheric or punchily most prestigious composition prize, worth Dean’s new work for baritone and orchestra, and the Bohuslav Martinu˚ Centre in his native sardonic in Kurt Weill style - strike me as the best town of Poli÷ka will be inaugurated in April. $200,000, and Brett Dean is its first Australian Songs of Joy, was premiered under the things he has written. Setting pungent lyrics by winner. Dean’s The Lost Art of Letter Writing baton of Simon Rattle on 2 October with the Amanda Holden, and superbly sung by the The National Theatres in Prague and Brno was selected from a field of 145 entries Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. baritone Peter Coleman-Wright, they made me have programmed important Martinu˚ stage worldwide, and the Grawemeyer’s prize The three songs are drawn from Dean’s eager to hear the whole opera when it has its works including Julietta and the Plays of Mary. announcement describes the concerto as “a forthcoming opera Bliss, based on the novel premiere in 2010.” The Times Highlights outside the Czech Republic include: wonderful solo vehicle that also contains Ji‰í B†lohlávek conducting Julietta with the terrific writing for orchestra”. BBC Symphony Orchestra and Magdalena Brett Dean writes of his reaction on winning Ko¬ená in the title role at the Barbican (29 the award: “The writing of music is a solitary March); the New York Philharmonic and Alan process, and one spends a lot of time Composers in association Gilbert in performances of Symphony No.4 immersed in one’s own internal sound world. Boosey & Hawkes composers are much in demand for roles with (Apr/May); works programmed by leading A prize is an acknowledgement that one’s leading orchestras and venues, including three recent US appointments. orchestras in Berlin, Vienna, Dresden, Paris and Brussels; opera performances at the Van der Aa work is not only being heard, but appreciated Magnus The Book of Disquiet: in the big, wide world outside of one’s own 2011. A new commission from Lindberg will Budapest Spring Festival, Zürich Opera and be the first music Gilbert conducts as Music music theatre premiere studio. But I can think of no prize which Lindberg Garsington Opera; and a special Martinu˚ represents a more significant New York Philharmonic Director at his Lincoln Center gala on 16 festival in Basel (Oct-Nov). September, and the celebratory concert- acknowledgement of this kind than the The launch of Alan Gilbert’s For full information visit www.martinu.cz Grawemeyer Award. To read the names of era at the helm of the New opener will be toured to Asia in October and the award’s previous winners, and to know York Philharmonic also Europe in early 2010. that my own work will stand alongside the heralds the appointment of Performances over the two seasons of the work of these legendary musicians that I Magnus Lindberg as residency include a large-scale orchestral admire so greatly, is a humbling and moving Composer-in-Residence for commission and the US premiere of the

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Only occasionally does the marimbist play Kresnik I never guessed how he might use my music. chords with multiple sticks – in most of the I could picture a person walking from left to right but movements the chords are spread horizontally and in the final ballet he might fall from a great a height, or Turnage the melody creates the harmony as in my other crawl or be dragged across the stage. Kresnik Mambo, Blues & Tarantella (2007) works. I decided on the soloist only playing constantly surprises and delights me in how the for Christian Tetzlaff marimbaphone rather than lots of instruments as I music combines with the dance to create something Mark Anthony Turnage’s new don’t subscribe to the ‘kitchen sink’ school of else. I’m collaborating with Jochen Ulrich on Kafka violin concerto for Christian percussion. I compose differently to Cage or Varèse, Amerika and he has provided a detailed scenario Tetzlaff, Mambo, Blues & as I prefer the clarity when the percussion colours which sticks largely to the fragmentary events in Tarantella, was featured in the have definite pitches. That said I am not prejudiced Kafka’s novel though, like all choreographers, I know London Philharmonic’s opening against ‘noises’ in everyday life. he will transform the narrative and my music into concert of the season on 24 physical theatre. Viennese music and traditions are often sensed in September, conducted by your music. Is there a whiff of the coffee-house in Vladimir Jurowski and recorded How is the early 20th century American setting of the for future release on the LPO Divertimento Macchiato, your recent work for Håkan Kafka ballet portrayed musically? Hardenberger? Live label. Tetzlaff also I haven’t consciously quoted American music, performed the concerto with During my youth in Vienna I remember suffering a Photo: Alexandra Vosding because there are Americanisms embedded into my the Royal Stockholm surfeit of divertimenti, which were stale-smelling neo- style, like the blues and foxtrots that underpin popular Photo: Karl Kleemayr classical pieces written after the war in the earnest Philharmonic Orchestra in October and its co- music. Anyway, Kafka seems to have a very odd view commissioners the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in The Viennese composer spirit of Gebrauchsmusik. So I was reluctant to write a of America. It is only in the final scene about the Divertimento and only got beyond this by returning to November. The work is characteristically bracing and discusses his recent concertos Nature Theatre of Oklahoma that I feel a glimpse of a sinewy in its Latin dance-tinged outer movements, an antique Italian world for the movement headings fantasy America. Even though the organisation of the for Colin Currie and Håkan and tempo indications. After the premiere, my wife demonstrating Turnage’s reinvention of the concerto theatre is wrapped up in distinctive Kafkaesque red genre through his distinctive soundworld. Hardenberger and his new Christa suggested adding Macchiato to the title and tape, there is an unusual sense of optimism here, the this seemed perfect to me, as it captured an ironic open-ending chiming with the modernist view of the “…there’s no doubting this is a significant addition to the ballet, Kafka Amerika. repertoire. Accessible, tough and unmistakably Turnage, it image of modern so-called ‘designer coffee’ – more fragment as a reaction to reality. The flavour of the The title of your new marimba concerto for Colin Starbucks than Old Vienna. has a blatantly classical shape, setting out like a baroque jig, novel’s era is there in my music, because it with lots of arresting staccato gestures and complex Currie, Now you hear me, now you don’t, could be a permeates all my works. I remain nostalgic about the Is there a different approach writing a concerto for a rhythms, before moving on to a moody slow movement and metaphor for the elusive quality in much of your ’20s and ’30s of the last century - the great beginning familiar instrument such as the trumpet, as opposed a final dance of obsessive nerve and energy. A stunning music. Why have you favoured the fleeting, everyday for the modern arts that I can still sense in everyday piece - and a stunning premiere performance from Christian to your ‘Cinderella’ instruments including alphorn, ‘music in the air’? life around me - though I’m less confident about what Tetzlaff.” Financial Times guitar, double bass or timpani? When I was searching for a basic strategy as an those decades in the 21st century might bring... No, the challenge is largely the same: how to create “Unusually, in the energetic outer movements, the composer artist, John Cage was very important to me. He treats the violin as quasi-percussion, with jagged-edge described how you can listen to everyday sounds – suitable music for the instrument. As a composer, for multiple stopping and wild rhythmic abandon. The slow in the street, in nature, in conversations. I agree with each new piece, I am a little like a nervous flier – a Schwertsik Blues movement is a serene oasis of calm at the heart of the Cage that we are people that live in the air, and this is successful airplane landing is one you can walk away Now you hear me, now you don’t (2008) work. This is a notable addition to the concerto repertory. the medium for transmitting the soundwaves that we from. There are compositional decisions and many of for marimbaphone and strings The solo part was thrillingly played by the dedicatee, understand as music. At Darmstadt I liked his Zen- these may be made subconsciously. Michael Frayn 3-8 February, Scottish tour (world premiere) Christian Tetzlaff, a rare champion of new music among elite inspired spiritual view on life and he reinvigorated my summed this up in The Human Touch, describing 11 February, Wigmore Hall, London contemporary violinists.” Sunday Times interest in the Dada movement. how a choice is made whether to spread marmalade Colin Currie/Scottish Ensemble “The stimulus for each of the three movements is plain from or honey on the bread at breakfast. He remembered the titles, but it is equally typical of Turnage that the mambo, Divertimento Macchiato (2007) having picked up the marmalade but there was a blues and tarantella form only springboards for ideas that are What drew you towards Dadaist figures such as Satie for trumpet and orchestra and Schwitters? blind spot in awareness of the decision itself. I do developed and transmuted into something more complex, Satie always intrigued me. As a student I learned remember one conscious decision to stick to the pure 23-26 April, Scottish tour (UK premiere) while retaining the traits of the original… The mambo builds up an explosive head of steam, reinforced by lots of about him as an icon in the development of avant- trumpet sound, apart from one passage where the Håkan Hardenberger/ Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Kristian Järvi syncopation from the percussion. Throughout, the solo violin garde music, but when I listened to his works they mute goes on. As a horn player, writing for the line makes phenomenal demands, but Tetzlaff performed it didn’t seem to lead towards modernism. Then I finally trumpet was not difficult for me, and I didn’t need to Kafka Amerika (2008) with terrific bravura and a panache that went beyond mere understood his whole aesthetic and the life behind it. discuss many technical things with Håkan, whereas Ballet with choreography by Jochen Ulrich negotiation of the notes to find the real nub of the music’s Schwitters also appealed to me: he was rejected by writing a concerto for violin with its distracting 10 October, Linz (world premiere) exuberant spirit.” Daily Telegraph the Berlin branch of Dadaists because they thought repertoire of special effects is a different matter. Bruckner Orchester/Dennis Russell Davies he was too petit-bourgeois. But I liked the way he transformed his apartment into a work of art in its Mackey own right. This seemed to match Satie’s ‘poor’ life, Beautiful Passing (2008) and gave me solace as an alternative to the complex, for Leila Josefowicz science-led world of Darmstadt. Similarly, Cage Steven Mackey ventured into treated the commercial aspect of composition as Carter new emotional territory with his secondary and focused on seeking a unity of violin concerto, Beautiful existence as an artist. His gentle, ironic humour was Passing, written for Leila anticipated by Haydn, whose largely unglamorous life at 100 Josefowicz who performed it I aspire to. Carter made his way back to his seat, Mr. Barenboim on both sides of the Atlantic What is the relationship between the marimba and the and Mr. Levine, who had asked him to write the piece last autumn. The BBC strings in the new concerto? for the occasion, stood at the edge of the stage Philharmonic gave the world The marimba is often in the foreground as a concerto applauding.” premiere in Manchester on 24 October under Juraj Valcuha, soloist, but at other times is subsumed into a “Mr. Carter wrote the 17-minute piece, for piano and background role with the string instruments – hence and David Robertson orchestra, just last year, at 98. In fact, since he turned 90, Photo: Leilajosefowicz.com conducted the Saint Louis the title of the concerto, Now you hear me, now you Mr. Carter has poured out more than 40 published works, an extraordinary burst of creativity at a stage when most Symphony in three performances in November. people would be making peace with mortality. His first opera “Mackey’s new 20-minute concerto for violin and orchestra had its premiere in 1999. He produced 10 works in 2007 goes into regions of darkness, restlessness and inner resolve and six more this year.” New York Times not usually associated with his music, arising directly from When Interventions was premiered in Boston, the the experience of watching his strong-willed mother Vivier Boston Globe described the new score and the approach death - the title is taken from her last words to him. Nothing in the violin writing is too obviously determined audience’s enthusiastic reaction: “They were by that context, or by the stock of tempting violinistic clichés. applauding the world premiere of Carter’s new work It contends, asserts, floats and flickers, but entirely on Berlin for piano and orchestra but they were, on a more Mackey’s own stylistic terms… Some starry composers basic level, applauding the man himself, who has have produced violin concertos in recent years. Given the persisted decade after decade in writing music as choice, Mackey’s is the one whose acquaintance I would revival most like to renew.” Daily Telegraph freshly imaginative as it is fiercely modern, often with “Canadian Claude Vivier, who an energy and wit unmatched by composers half “Some past Mackey pieces have tumbled out like Charles

attracted attention during his Photo: J A Billard his age.” Ives mixed with Jimi Hendrix and a Bugs Bunny soundtrack. This was a weightier, more penetrating creation…[though] lifetime and was acknowledged as a significant “As you might expect in a Carter work, the traditional model the rambunctious Mackey’s still there… Sliced into two parts composer by György Ligeti, fell into obscurity after his of the Romantic is tossed out the window in separated with a woozy cadenza, the concerto proceeds in murder in 1983. Now he’s back.” So wrote the favour of something more fractured and, quite purposefully, battle formation until the two sides achieve dialogue, Berliner Zeitung of the wave of interest for the Photo: Carnegie Hall more even-handed in the interplay between soloist and Elliott Carter's birthday, with James Levine at Carnegie Hall compromise and calm. Whether clinging to lyric sighs or composer in Berlin, with a new CD on the Karios orchestra. Cast in one movement roughly 15 minutes long, drifting through eerie harmonics, Josefowicz stood her the music is full of surprisingly lyrical string writing - by label, his orchestral work Orion performed in the Elliott Carter celebrated his 100th birthday on ground heroically. The orchestra rejoiced just as much in Carter’s standards - with frequent interruptions from the Mackey’s diverse, enticing soundscape. A life-affirming work Ultraschall Festival, and an entire concert of his music 11 December by attending a Carnegie Hall concert piano, which then holds court with pointy, eruptive figuration and a satisfying premiere.” The Times by the Kammerensemble Neue Musik in its ‘outsiders’ including the New York premiere of his new or big, iridescent chords. Two independent trios help series. Interventions, featuring two of the world’s leading negotiate between orchestra and soloist. The final flourish is Other violin concertos premiered this decade include: uncharacteristically brash - and life-affirming.” Boston Globe Berlin also played host to the long awaited world musicians who have championed his works. Daniel Jenkins Sarikiz (2008) Barenboim was piano soloist and the Boston premiere of Vivier’s chamber orchestra work Deva et Carter’s recent , commissioned by the for Marat Bisengalierv Symphony Orchestra was conducted by James Asura, given by ensemble unitedberlin on 8 October Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, Levine, appearing together again following the work’s Lindberg Violin Concerto (2006) conducted by Andrea Pestalozza. Dating from 1972, Berliner Philharmoniker and the Boston Symphony for Lisa Batiashvili world premiere in Boston on 4 December. the 15-minute work is a battle between light and dark Orchestra, receives its European premiere in Berlin on elements, spread in polychoral style between four Dean The Lost Art of Letter Writing (2006) The New York Times described how, after the 11 June with Emmanuel Pahud as flautist and the for Frank Peter Zimmermann quartets – two identically scored wind quintets, a performance, “Mr. Carter slowly rose amid the cheers Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Daniel string quintet and a brass quintet. The title relates to and applause, and with the aid of a friend, made his Barenboim. Carter’s new Ezra Pound song-cycle, On Daugherty Fire and Blood (2003) for Ida Kavafian Vivier’s journey of self-discovery into Asia: Deva and way to the stage. Mr. Barenboim took his arm and Conversing with Paradise, is unveiled at the Asura are ancient Indian gods representing the spirits helped him up the steps. A mock cake adorned with Aldeburgh Festival on 20 June with the Birmingham Adams The Dharma at Big Sur (2003) of darkness and the characters of light, whose piano keys and musical notes, topped with a sparkler, Contemporary Music Group conducted by Oliver for Tracey Silverman (electric violin) wrestling can be seen to symbolise the composer’s was wheeled out. The orchestra broke into “Happy Knussen. Carter plans to attend the premieres in Chin Violin Concerto (2001) personal creative struggle. Birthday,” with the audience singing along. After Mr. Berlin and Aldeburgh. for Viviane Hagner Birtwistle on stage Opera for Youth Ideas for developing young people’s interest in opera range from new stageworks “Birtwistle has composed a work to Stephen Plaice’s libretto which almost seamlessly follows on from the febrile eroticism with children’s roles, to theatrical projects with youth choir. of those freely atonal works by the Viennese modernists around 1910… a finely-tensioned atmosphere of feeling and Machover Skellig (2008) Bernstein Mass (1971) caressing, quivering and panting for 90 minutes… Literally a Tod Machover’s new children’s opera, Skellig, based music which reveals the culture of formed speech in order to on the award-winning novel by David Almond, was lead back into the pre-literate, the biological.” Berliner Zeitung premiered at The Sage in Gateshead in November. The 2008 Settembre Musica festival presented a When a young boy discovers a celestial being – part concert performance of Birtwistle’s millennial drama ethereal, part earthy - in his garage, he undertakes a The Last Supper in Milan and Turin with the London journey of discovery about the fragility of life, in a work Sinfonietta conducted by Elgar Howarth, drawing which proved “the medium more than suitable for the praise for its collective dramatic power as well as the latest storytelling for young people” (Glasgow Herald). beauty of its quiet instrumental interludes: “Tod Machover has set Skellig to an 90-minute score that Photo: Hiroko Masuike/NYTimes/Redux Leonard Bernstein’s Mass, which he conceived as “a “The Last Supper well illustrates Birtwistle’s talent for the blends sophisticated 360-degree electronics and stage, his multi-faceted, rounded style and his sensibility in conventional instruments, resourceful choral effects and theatre piece for singers, players and dancers”, has in communicating through music without intellectualised attractive neoclassical tunes. Done with a light touch, it’s recent years become a favourite stagework for distractions. On many occasions emotions take a grip on the music that captures the tale’s eerie essence...while being community projects. Celebrations of Bernstein’s 90th Photo: Mathias Rümmler audience, emerging from the carefully crafted and dramatic accessible and fun...” The Times birth year included October performances with the Birtwistle's The Io Passion in Berlin vocal writing (bravo to the 14 singers) and drawing new Baltimore Symphony conducted by Marin Alsop, Gough On the Rim of the World (2008-09) energy from the varied orchestral lines.” La Repubblica Jubilant Sykes as the Celebrant, and hosts of young Harrison Birtwistle’s recent stageworks are receiving UK opera companies have collaborated on a new performers in Baltimore and in New York’s Carnegie premieres in Germany, Italy and Austria this season. A new co-production of The Last Supper by Neue choral theatre work by Orlando Gough, On the Rim of Hall and Washington Heights. Following stagings at the Aldeburgh, Almeida, Oper Wien and the OsterKlang festival opens in the World, due for premiere at Glyndebourne on Huddersfield and Bregenz festivals, The Io Passion Vienna on 4 April, directed by Phillipp Harnoncourt 5 March. Gough, director of The Shout and a “The essence and achievement of Bernstein’s “Mass” have travelled to Berlin in November for a co-production by and conducted by Walter Kobéra. become clearer over time… There is nothing like young specialist in community choral projects, has worked performers to refresh older pieces. And the performance that the Berliner Kammeroper and Konzerthaus, Birtwistle’s new music theatre double bill opens the with poet Jehane Markham to create a 25-minute Marin Alsop conducted involved hundreds of young, inspired conducted by Peter Aderhold and directed by Kay Aldeburgh Festival on 12 June, as part of a feature on work for voices and chamber orchestra involving and inspiring performers.” New York Times Kuntze. the composer. The Corridor sets a libretto on an children and parents in singing and drama. The work is co-commissioned with English Touring Opera, ENO The Boosey & Hawkes catalogue also includes such “In carefully graduated cycles of action we first see the Orpheus theme by David Harsent with soloists classics as Britten’s Noyes Fludde and The Little couple going about their daily tasks. The woman falls more Baylis, Glyndebourne, Music Platform, Opera North, Elizabeth Atherton and Mark Padmore and eight Sweep, Krása’s Brundibár, and Maxwell Davies’s The and more under the spell of the legend surrounding the instrumentalists, and Semper Dowland, semper Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera and WNO MAX. moon goddess Io, who is coveted, mounted and then Three Fiddlers and The Rainbow. dolens features arrangements by Birtwistle of music transformed into a white cow by Zeus, in order to hide her Schwemmer Robin Hood (2007) For full information visit www.boosey.com/opera from Hera, the consort of the gods… The stage music, from Dowland’s Seven Tears Figured in Seven sparsely-scored for clarinet and string quartet, portrays the Passionate Pavanes. Co-commissioned by Aldeburgh cycles with enhancements, overlays and short interludes. Festival and Southbank Centre for the London The clarinet shines with fine melodic commentaries on the Sinfonietta, the double bill travels to London (6/7 July) vocal parts.” Der Tagesspiegel and the Bregenz Festival (31 July/1 August). Chapela Noctámbulos Mexican-born composer Enrico Van der Aa Photo: Monika Rittershaus Chapela, who signed with Boosey The Komische Oper in Berlin scored a hit with the & Hawkes in 2008, travelled to premiere in November of Frank Schwemmer’s Germany in September to hear the The Book of Disquiet adventure opera Robin Hood in a production by premiere of his new concerto for Andreas Homoki. The Deutsche Presse Agentur orchestra and rock trio, review described how “Schwemmer has composed Noctámbulos, by the Dresden thoroughly contemporary music which challenges Sinfoniker conducted by Olari Elts. The ebullient score children, yet nevertheless appeals to them evolved from an earlier suite Lo Nato es Neta (The emotionally.” Innate is true), exploring the possible combinations of “Robin Hood is a mixture of reality and fiction, gags and drums and electric guitars with acoustic chamber seriousness, suitable for children. Episodes from the old ensembles of the classical concerto tradition. familiar legend of Robin Hood are catapulted into a simple Composing the work saw Chapela finding unexpected living room and assume a dramatically convincing life of their correspondences between astrological charts and his own… Everyone has the greatest fun.” Morgenpost musical score. Just as planets can be seen to influence events in the stars, so the rock soloists or Valtinoni Pinocchio (2001, rev.2006) instruments emerge from the orchestra to confront or Another success at the Komische Oper has been provide counterpoints to shape the work’s musical Pierangelo Valtinoni’s operatic version of the cosmos. Pinocchio story. Originally staged in Italian in 2001, a “The evening’s strongest impression was made by revised two-act German version was presented in Noctámbulos, written by the Mexican composer Enrico Berlin in 2006, with revivals in 2008 and 2009, Chapela…The fundamental element of this work consists of amounting to 26 performances. Last year also the contrasting rhythms that evolve into a polyrhythmic brought new productions in Hamburg and Vicenza. structure. Powerful eruptions and a fascinating orchestration, This magical one-hour opera is ideal for children’s compelling ostinati and irresistible drive… The composition is opera programmes and pre-Christmas entertainments. full of refinement, which as a result of the music’s vitality is perceived as entirely natural…” Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten “The production was an immediate success with the audience (10 minutes of cheers, applause and stamping of “The wild groove of percussion, winds, and strings is feet at the end)… In his gentle music Valtinoni follows a little suggestive, at times violent... The winds jumbled the the great masters of musical fairy tales: there is much of shadowy structures in such a manner that a diffuse yearning Maurice Ravel in the sparkling piano introduction played for gentleness, which could not be obliged, spread through against the pizzicato strings…” Berliner Zeitung the audience, or for a return to more solid rhythms – here relief was possible. But then Jens Legler’s electric guitar Photo: Archipicture/Tollerian Klaus Maria Brandauer in the world premiere of Michel van der Aa's The Book of Disquiet in Linz Glanert The Three Riddles (2002/03) howled out as if the Zappa room of a 1970s museum were in flames.” Sächsische Zeitung Detlev Glanert’s two-act fairytale opera The Three Michel van der Aa’s new music theatre work, The dream. If it’s in the nature of Pessoa’s book that there can Riddles successfully combines child performers with Noctambulos received its US premiere in New York in Book of Disquiet, was the first staging in Linz’s be no resolution, there is a kind of closure here, a sense of professional singers and children’s chorus, and is January with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra Cultural Capital of Europe celebrations in January. knowing much more about the author and his alter ego than intended for audiences over the age of eight, both joined by a rock trio including Chapela on electric Following on from his opera After Life, which enjoyed we ever would otherwise.” The Guardian young and old. The story, related to Gozzi’s Turandot, guitar, conducted by Michael Christie. Chapela’s Li a sell-out run at the Holland Festival in 2006, van der is as the composer describes “one of the greatest Po, commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Aa again provides a cutting-edge integration of music, “A true ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ coming-of-age stories in our cultural history, involving is premiered in the Green Umbrella new music series live action and video, here built from the fragmentary the discovery of another world, an alien world, the on 7 April. Other Chapela projects include a new texts of Fernando Pessoa. The Portuguese poet often which captivated from discovery of emotions…” Over the past five years The work co-commissioned by the New Paths in Music cast himself in a series of distinct characters, or beginning to end.” Die Presse Three Riddles has enjoyed 80 performances in Festival - who host the premiere in New York on ‘heteronyms’, prompting van der Aa to portray 10 productions in Germany, Italy and France. 5 June - and the NYDD Ensemble in Tallinn. multiple personalities on video and soundtrack, “The world premiere of The Book of Disquiet made a surrounding the central figure of actor Klaus Maria profound impression. The composer and director Michel van Brandauer on stage, with an ensemble from the der Aa wove together text excerpts, film sequences and Bruckner Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell music into an impressive, symbolically-laden production… Davies in the pit. Brilliant in its multi-layered symbolism, Marc Warning’s stage Manchester Resonances “Van der Aa is both composer and librettist, film-maker and set has the effect of a single, great metaphor for the main Detlev James producer and, as in his previous works, the imagery is character’s attitude towards life, at odds with himself. Five circles which push into each other, then again drift apart, Glanert MacMillan enhanced by the music and vice versa. In Book of Disquiet, 24-26 February 28-30 April which brings together the two titans Fernando Pessoa and recall the planets of a universe, in the midst of which Soares circles around his existence... In van der Aa’s compositions, Klaus Maria Brandauer, van der Aa has set himself a 24 February 7.30 pm, RNCM 28 April 7.30 pm, RNCM disquiet becomes music.” Oberösterreichische Nachrichten particularly difficult task. His success is due to the subtlety Contemplated by a Portrait of a Divine Le Tombeau de Georges Roualt with which he organises all the ingredients. The music The Book of Disquiet is available in German, English Chaconne / Mahler/Skizze / Secret Room Sowetan Spring

Jennifer France, sop/RNCM New Ensemble Photo: IkoFreese/DRAMA RNCM Wind Orchestra/Brass Ensemble reflects the feelings and ideas described: at times and Portuguese language versions, and Photo: Eric Richmond/ArenaPAL melancholy, at times highly formal, but always dramatic...” performances are already planned in the Netherlands 25 February 7.30 pm, BBC Studio 7 29 April 7.30 pm, Bridgewater Hall NRC Handelsblad Nine Caricatures / Argentum et Aurum (UK premieres) MacMillan 50th birthday concert and Portugal. After Life returns to the stage in “Video screens around the actor offer filmed images of other Parergon (to the opera The Mirror of the Great Emperor) (UK premiere) The World’s Ransoming / Symphony No.3 Amsterdam in September and will travel to the Opéra Symphony No.3 (also Maxwell Davies Symphony No.5) characters mentioned in the texts: there’s a retired major, a de Lyon in March 2010. Van der Aa’s new song cycle BBC Philharmonic/Clark Rundell BBC Philharmonic/James MacMillan street-sweeper and a girl Soares dreams about after seeing her in a lithograph; he calls her Ophelia and she is portrayed for mezzo-soprano, orchestra and soundtrack, 26 February 1.15 pm, RNCM 30 April 7.30 pm, RNCM Spaces of Blank, is premiered in Amsterdam on 19 Aufbruch Cumnock Fair / Raising Sparks on film by the fado singer Ana Moura… Magically, it all RNCM Concert Orchestra/Lancelot Fuhry Carolina Krogius, mez/RNCM New Ensemble/Clark Rundell coheres: the parade of visuals, beautifully shot under Van March by Christianne Stotijn and the Royal der Aa’s direction; the musing disconnectedness of Concertgebouw Orchestra, with further performances For details of all events visit www.rncm.ac.uk Brandauer’s utterances, which create the texture of a planned by the NDR Orchestra and Radio France. Magnus Lindberg Concerto for Orchestra/ Jenkins concertos on EMI Sculpture/Campana in Aria New Esa Tepani/Finnish Radio In recent years Karl Machine, of which he became Symphony Orchestra/ Jenkins has attracted the final custodian, and that Recordings Sakari Oramo most international questing spirit is well in John Adams Ondine ODE 1124-2 attention for his choral evidence here in pieces such as Hallelujah Junction: A Nonesuch Retrospective music, so the new release La Folia, his concerto for James MacMillan marimba and orchestra, and in Nonesuch 512396 (2CDs) from EMI provides a 14 Little Pictures Quirk itself. Snap alternates American Classic different slant on his noir-ish film music in the style of Gould Piano Trio output with its focus on Elmer Bernstein with staccato DVD documentary directed by David Jeffcock Wigmore Hall Live 0026 his orchestral music flute, piano and marimba, EMI 2165829 (50999-5002352-3). recalling John Adams; Chasing Einojuhani Rautavaara Elliott Carter The London Symphony the Goose locates gestalt Complete Works for Male Voice Choir /Mosaic/ Orchestra, conducted by between salsa and quirky Talla Vocal Ensemble/YL Male Voice Choir/ chamber works the composer, performs cartoon music; the variegations Matti Hyökki/Pasi Hyökki Soloists/New Music Concerts/ five of his concertos, of Raga Religioso are well- Ondine Ode 1125 (2CDs) signalled by its pan-cultural title. Robert Aitken ranging from personal Over the Stone is a double harp Naxos 8.559614 Christopher Rouse reinterpretations of concerto commissioned by Symphony No.1/ baroque idioms, through Prince Charles, while the violin String Quartets Nos.2-4 Pacifica Quartet Clarinet Concerto/Iscariot classic concertos with a concerto Sarikiz uses Kazakh Martin Fröst/Royal Stockholm hand percussion as part of the Naxos 8.559363 virtuoso soloist pitted Philharmonic Orchestra/ against the orchestra, to the entertaining concertante accompaniment to Marat Bisengaliev’s dazzling Figments and Fragments performance, full of galloping Gypsy brio.” The Independent Alan Gilbert work Quirk, which gives the album its title. Johannes Martens Ensemble BIS CD 1386 “Karl Jenkins is a rarity among contemporary composers, Jenkins conducted the concert premiere of Sarikiz at 2L 54SACD balancing popularity with innovation, his fancy for unusual Lincoln Center in New York last month, with Marat A Nonesuch Retrospective instrumental combinations not diminishing his saleability. Like Bisengaliev as violinist, in a programme also including including Triple Duo/In Sleep, In Thunder Robert Wyatt, Jenkins paid his jazz-rock dues in Soft the US premieres of his two most recent choral Nonesuch 510893 (4CDs) scores, Stabat Mater and Te Deum. The latter 15- minute canticle setting, premiered in Liverpool last Michael Daugherty November as part of the city’s celebrations as Bay of Pigs European Capital of Culture, is scored for chorus and Manuel Barrueco/ New Oehring a small orchestra of two , strings and five Cuarteto Latinoamericano Publications percussionists. 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This volume will provide with the Deutsche material for any concert based on Symphonie- the broad theme of nature, and would be an ideal Orchester compilation for any summer’s serenade or open-air conducted by Ingo MacMillan birth to death concert. The collection includes works by Britten, Metzmacher. The James MacMillan’s two largest-scale choral works recently won the Liturgical prize in the British Finzi, Vaughan Williams and Canteloube. The performance in have just appeared on a pair of new CDs, offering Composer Awards for his ongoing series of anthology has been assembled by former King’s October was the deeply considered perspectives on birth and death, Strathclyde Motets, now numbering 11, which are Singer and choral conductor Nigel Perrin. latest instalment in and a demonstration of the composer’s skill at contemporary in idiom but succeed in being readily Oehring’s Goya- layering vocal forces, from solo, through chamber performable by local amateur choirs. Paul Spicer has Elliott Carter based cycle of Symphonia: Photo: Ali Kepenek choir to full chorus. recently updated his guide to MacMillan’s choral works, following music, with full information and advice to choral sum fluxae pretium spei Quickening, the four the orchestral GOYA I premiered in Donaueschingen directors for each work: please visit Full score movement cantata in 2007, and with a string quartet and opera still to www.boosey.com/macmillan. 979-0-051-09624-4 £59.99 come. The new 50-minute oratorio is scored for setting texts by Michael Call for two trumpets and horn chorus and orchestra with the characteristic Oehring Symmons Roberts on Score and parts 979-0-051- line-up of speaker, singer, deaf mute soloist, three the mystery of birth, 10530-4 £12.99 instrumental soloists and live electronics. can be heard on a new Chandos recording “GOYA II is an intricate, graphically eloquent oratorio... 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