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Country over world management of the Skrowaczewski is recognised as one of the great authorities on Bruckner, and his Swiss conductor Thierry Fischer, who interpretations can be heard on the Arte Nova label with the Saarlændischer Richard Goode spent his launched his first season as Principal Rundfunk Orchester where he is Principal Guest Conductor. Much critical praise summer at the Marlboro Music Festival, Conductor/ Artistic Advisor of the has been heaped on his illuminating interpretations, and a great deal of interest of which he is Co-Artistic Director with on 28 September shown by several prestigious European publications in his life-long affinity with Mitsuko Uchida, before heading off to in the Waterfront Hall, Belfast, with a Bruckner. Deeply affected by hearing a recording of a Bruckner symphony as a Tanglewood where he performed programme including Mendelssohn young child, Skrowaczewski admits to becoming obsessed by the deep Mozart’s Piano Concerto K503 with Symphony no.2 “Lobgesang” and a psychological meaning he finds in Bruckner’s music. Bernard Haitink and the Boston new work by the talented young Symphony Orchestra.This season Of his Bruckner 9 recording, Gramophone Magazine said, “the enormous care local composer Deidre Gribbin. In Goode will make two major visits to Skrowaczewski has clearly taken over the preparation of the performance results in mid-October they take both works Europe, where his solo recitals will orchestral playing of a quality and articulacy which ensembles far more famous that on tour to New York (Harlem Town include London,Vienna, Berlin, the Saarbrücken RSO would be proud to own.” Beyond affirming that Hall), to form the centrepiece of a Amsterdam, Brussels and Lisbon. He “Skrowaczewski has things to tell us about this symphony which every Brucknarian major new festival “UK with NY”. will also perform Mozart piano ought to hear”, the BBC Music Magazine declares, “there’s something special about This will bring together in concert concertos with Ingo Metzmacher and Skrowaczewski’s performance.The phrasing is wonderful, not just in the long spans, and in educational work the the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, but in the tiny expressive details – it can be gritty, even ascerbic, but there are times communities in Belfast and Harlem - a at the Halle Orchestra with Stanislaw when it speaks from somewhere very deep indeed” project whose significance will surely Skrowaczewski and with the be heightened by the recent tragic Beyond a busy conducting schedule which sees him appearing with major Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and events. A tour to Prague and the ensembles on both sides of the Atlantic as well as annual trips to Japan to Mikko Franck, as well as a tour of major second recording in a French series conduct both the NHK Symphony and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, German cities with the Academy of St for Hyperion Records complement Skrowaczewski continues to be an active and award-winning composer. Martin's and Sir Neville Marriner. an ongoing Mendelssohn cycle in the www.intermusica.co.uk/skrowaczewski.html www.intermusica.co.uk/goode.html Belfast subscription concerts. Forthcoming guest engagements include the Australian Chamber, Kanazawa Ensemble in Japan (who immediately re-invited him after his CHILINGIRIAN QUARTET – debut earlier this Summer), NDR Claus Peter Flor Hannover, Radio UNUSUAL COLLABORATIONS Chamber, Hallé Orchestra, BBC on the move Symphony, BBC National Orchestra Following the huge success of their Milhaud Quartets nos 13 & 14 – of Wales, and 5 weeks with the collaboration with the vocal group separately, as individual works, and Since his recent Figaro at La Northern Sinfonia.The Classical and Anonymous 4 last season, the together, as an octet! Monnaie, Flor has appeared with the early Romantic repertoire is a Chilingirian tour Sweden and visit the Orchestre National du Capitole de particular strength of Fischer’s – a Bremen Musikfest again with The Quartet has also embarked upon Toulouse (where he will also a new project with percussionist Pedro legacy of his days as Principal Flute Anonymous 4 in an extraordinary conduct Figaro next season), hopped Carneiro, and took a fascinating of the Chamber Orchestra of programme which ranges from a over to Montreal for one of his Medieval mass through to the work programme of works by Europe. However he is also greatly regular appearances with the written specially for the octet by John contemporary Portuguese composers in demand for his interpretations of Montreal Symphony, and made contemporary scores and major Tavener and premiered last season at to the Coimbra Festival in Portugal this several appearances with the NDR works of the 20th century; he had the South Bank Centre Tavener festival, Summer.They collaborate again in rave reviews for his appearance in The Bridegroom. November at the newly-opened Symphony in Hamburg, Bucharest Berlin last year with Ensemble OCEAN venue in London, as part of a and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. His Modern, and will conduct at the Just prior to this the Quartet joined celebration of Portuguese music, also regular visits to Holland included the Ultima Festival of contemporary forces with the Brodsky Quartet at the featuring stars from the jazz and rock Dutch Radio Philharmonic, music in Oslo for the first time this Beethovenfest to play fields. Rotterdam Philharmonic and a year. www.intermusica.co.uk/chilingirian.html return to the Royal Concertgebouw www.intermusica.co.uk/fischer.html Orchestra for a programme featuring Brahms 3.This Autumn he Varga debuts in US spends several weeks in Spain and Conductor Gilbert Varga is beginning his both the Minnesota Orchestra and St Italy, including Genova and Trieste, 4th season as Music Director of the Paul Chamber Orchestra in the US. returns to Dallas where he is Euskadi Symphony Orchestra (Basque Principal Guest Conductor for the National Orchestra) in San Sebastian. Varga is renowned for his superb Szymanowski Stabat Mater and Varga shares the post with co-Music technique and beautifully crafted and Director Christian Mandeal. Each season eclectic programming, no doubt shaped Mozart Requiem, and conducts Varga continues to find himself much in by his periods of study with Franco Beethoven 9 at the Vienna demand in both Europe and North Ferrara, Sergiu Celibidache and Charles Konzerthaus America. Besides returning to the major Bruck. www.intermusica.co.uk/flor.html capitals of Europe, this season appearing www.intermusica.co.uk/varga.html with major orchestras in Berlin and Paris, for example,Varga will make debuts with The 2001/2002 International Chamber Music Season once again brings together some of the greatest chamber music groups and instrumentalists from around the world. The season opens with the UK debut of one of the fastest rising Basel Musikmonat Ð American quartets, the Rossetti String Quartet from California. They join Jean-Yves Thibaudet for a Bamert shakes up the programme featuring two of the most popular works in the repertoire, the establishment! Dvorùák and Schumann piano quintets. Further ahead, season highlights As the culmination of a ground-breaking year of new music, including 40 include three concerts by the world premieres, in extraordinary venues throughout the city and its Emerson Quartet in celebration of surrounds, Matthias Bamert has masterminded an intense month of music- their 25th Anniversary, a duo recital making (60 concerts) in Basel as part of the Europäischer Musikmonat in by and Till Fellner, the November. As director of the whole project, Bamert has sought to shake up Ysaÿe Quartet playing the first of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ quartets, three pre-conceived ideas of who should be interested in , what sort contrasting programmes from the of classical music they should want to listen to, and where they should listen South Bank’s Associate Artists, the to it, with truly radical effect. See the website for further details: Quartet, and www.musikmonat.ch. Resident international ensembles in November are collaborations between world- the , London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Intercontemporain and renowned soloists including Tabea Klangforum Wien. Bamert will, as their Associate Guest, conduct the Royal Zimmermann and Christian Tetzlaff. Philharmonic Orchestra in Basel in a programme of Glanert (world premiere), www.intermusica.co.uk/icms.html To rke, Rihm and Turnage, before going to Madrid with them the day after for a more conventional programme. www.intermusica.co.uk/bamert.html Macmillan conducts world premiere Currie dips into video James MacMillan made his Proms with Rimsky a virtuosity in defining and Colin Currie made his London solo recital debut this summer at the conducting debut with the world combining instrumental timbres." newly-opened Bush Hall, where he will return with duo partner Sam premiere of his latest work, The Birds of (Daily Telegraph) Walton in November. A video was made featuring highlights from Rhiannon, described by one critic as "an Bush Hall including in-depth interviews and explorations of his eruptive 25-minute concerto for “MacMillan took the Welsh Mabinogion unusual and diverse repertoire. Contact Catherine Petherbridge orchestra".The work was performed as his source and used his flair as an ([email protected]) for a copy.In the early Autumn by the BBC Philharmonic, with whom orchestral colourist to full effect, helped Currie moves to larger platforms when he performs HK Gruber’s MacMillan holds the position of by water gong, (very loud) thundersheets percussion concerto Rough Music with the MDR Orchestra Leipzig Composer/Conductor. MacMillan and and rain sticks….The Manchester–based and Gruber conducting. He then flies to Dallas where he plays the the BBC Philharmonic will record the BBC Philharmonic mustered all the percussion concerto by Christopher Rouse, Der gerettete Alberich, work for Chandos this autumn. necessary character and cogency for this with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop. world premiere by its new www.intermusica.co.uk/currie.html "...boldly coloured music, dramatic Conductor/Composer.” confrontations of ideas, a powerful surge (The Observer) of momentum, and instrumental lines www.intermusica.co.uk/macmillan.html that have an independent life but gel as OPERATIC a cohesive texture... MacMillan shares HICKOX

Following his huge success in Cologne James Ehnes makes with last Spring, this summer Hickox conducted Gluck’s Orfeo in Renée Fleming, Luciano Pavarotti, and Gian-Carlo Menotti at a press conference in Spoleto breathtaking Proms debut concert at the Royal Opera House, prior to a 90th birthday Gala Concert for Menotti. Covent Garden, and as Music Director Hickox conducted and was joined by special guests The young Canadian violinist James Ehnes made a spectacular of the Spoleto Festival he celebrated Placido Domingo, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Fleming. Gian Carlo Menotti’s birthday with 6 BBC Proms debut in July. This gifted musician has played with performances of his opera The Saint of conduct the London Symphony in 2 a number of the world’s most prestigious ensembles, but Bleecker Street. He also conducted a concert performances of Hansel and nothing prepared him for the warmth of audience, or gala concert in the beautiful Piazza del Gretel. Looking further ahead, he has indeed of the 2001 British summer. Playing Prokofiev’s second Duomo in Spoleto with special guests plans for Tales of Hoffman at the Royal concerto in the heat of a sweltering , Ehnes Placido Domingo, Renée Fleming and Opera, Alcina at English National must have empathised with the dedicatee of the work Robert Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Another Menotti Opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtensk in Soetans, who premiered the work in Madrid in 1935. This was project took place in September, with a Sydney, Alexander Nevsky in concert, also a London debut for Ehnes and the critical response was as film for BBC Wales, a CD and DVD of and a semi-staged performance of enthusiastic as that of the Proms audience. The Telegraph his opera Amahl and the Night Visitors Walton’s Troilus and Cressida at the with the , to be Royal Festival Hall with the wrote, “this performance emphasised his winning combination broadcast over Christmas. He joined Philharmonia Orchestra, as part of of warm, glistening tone, supple virtuosity and subtle the CLS again at the Barbican Centre their Walton celebrations. In expressiveness”, and The Times concurred, “His technical for a performance September 2002 he will make his command was never in doubt…he found an appropriate of , subsequently debut at the with sweetness of tone and lyrical vein for the slow movement". recorded by as Billy Budd. Ehnes returns to London next March to play Mozart concerto part of their cycle of Britten operas www.intermusica.co.uk/hickox.html no. 2 at the Barbican, again with the BBC Symphony and Sir with Hickox. In December he will Andrew Davis. www.intermusica.co.uk/ehnes.html Louis Lortie in Montreal Welcoming Lortie and Beethoven will be Symphony and Marin Alsop in Daytona Simon Halsey synonymous in the minds of the and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic concert-going public of Montreal, at Hollywood Bowl, as well as Prokofiev following his all-encompassing 1 at the BBC Proms with Vänskä and the Universally regarded as one of the finest choral conductors and choir trainers in the world, Simon Halsey has recently joined Beethoven-fest with the Montreal BBC Scottish. In November he tours Intermusica for worldwide representation at a pivotal moment in Symphony this Autumn. Lortie will work his Australia, including concerts with the his career as he begins life as Chief Conductor and Artistic way through all the piano concerti, the Sydney Symphony/Markus Stenz and the Director of the Berlin Radio Choir. There he will re-kindle his triple concerto (special guest Pinchas complete Chopin Etudes in recital. In close relationship with Sir Simon Rattle, who brought him to Zukerman) and the 1st symphony December he returns home to Europe Birmingham in the 1980's to build the City of Birmingham (conducted from the keyboard), all 32 of the for concerts with the Dresden Symphony Chorus into one of the great symphonic choirs of the solo piano sonatas, AND the piano trios Staatskapelle. world. His role will also involve important projects with both the and all the sonatas for /piano with Watch this space for details of Lortie’s Deutsche Symphonie Orchester and as well as the James Ehnes and for cello/piano with Jan Berlin Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester and Marek Janowski. The Vogler. next monumental project, to follow in 2002/3… Choir has a major series of a cappella concerts at the Berlin Philharmonie and tour internationally each season. This Herculean task follows on from a www.intermusica.co.uk/lortie.html Rachmaninov concert with the London Currently also Principal Guest Conductor of the Dutch Radio Choir, Halsey continues in his role as Chief of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and guest conducts throughout Metzmacher; Nono and Henze the world. Furthermore, his recently formed choir of hand-picked professional singers from London EUROPEAN VOICES (also begin a benchmark season under exclusive management with Intermusica) performs the has long been for Ingo Metzmacher one of the most most complicated and colourful scores with unprecendented important composers of the last century and his seminal work precision and bravura. They have been engaged by Rattle for a Prometeo a major influence on his musical outlook. Returning to the number of future collaborations with both the rarely performed work after a number of years, Metzmacher gave two Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and sold-out performances with the Ensemble Modern at the Luzern took part in his concert performance of Parsifal at the BBC Festival, the beginning of a special relationship between Metzmacher Proms last year. www.intermusica.co.uk/halsey.html and the Festival that will spawn a number of major projects in the future. In September he began his Hamburg season with two huge events, the week-long Hamburg Musikfest devoted to contemporary music of which he is Artistic Director and the opening of the McCreesh Hamburg Opera's own season which began with a new production of Kavakos Henze's We come to the River. Other new productions this season Minnesota include Don Carlos, Katja Kabanova and Der Rosenkavalier. Later in thrills at the season Metzmacher makes his debuts with the London and Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and Chicago more! the Symphony and returns to the Boston Symphony following his triumph there last year as well as to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and After his debuts last Christmas at both festivals! the San Francisco Symphony and the Munich Philharmonic. The Greek virtuoso Leonidas www.intermusica.co.uk/metzmacher.html National Symphony in Washington, Kavakos made his Chicago Symphony Paul McCreesh continues to conquer debut this summer playing the Berg the US with a debut at the Minnesota concerto under Sir Andrew Davis at Haefliger’s Festive Summer Orchestra this December. McCreesh Ravinia, the orchestra’s summer has just returned from a triumphant home. He also performed the Vivaldi Four Seasons at the Hollywood Bowl. Andreas Haefliger had a busy summer tour with the Deutsche Kavakos then closed a busy season by at some of the world's major festivals. Kammerphilharmonie, where he making his third visit to the BBC He gave a stunning performance of played a programme of Gluck, Saint Proms where he moved Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto the Saens,Tchaikovsky and Mozart. Other Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles promenaders with his legendary upcoming engagements will see him Philharmonic Orchestra: "With interpretation of the gloriously lyrical abundant, resourceful technique and a conduct the Orchestre Sibelius . "This opening tone consistently clear, golden, bright and Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the of the Sibelius Violin Concerto is one of mellow, Haefliger set a standard, making orchestra at Den Norske Oper, the music's wondrous moments, and music of compelling beauty and forceful Copenhagen Philharmonic and the Kavakos’s first solo, so shyly begun, so continuity" (Los Angeles Times). Kölner Rundfunk Sinfonie. Future beautifully constrained, warmed up to Haefliger followed this with another opera engagements include a world show his magnificent sound. Kavakos performance of the Beethoven at the Piano Concerto, of which The Times has a "Whether tripping shyly through premiere staging of Handel’s Jephtha at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart festival wrote fantastic technique, and this concerto in New York and then with the the notes, thundering with bravura, or Welsh National Opera, a Magic Flute has many solo cadenzas in which to and Andrew clinging lusciously to the slow at the Royal Danish Opera and a new shine." Davis. He rounded the summer off movement's chorale, Haefliger proved production of Orlando at the with a visit to the BBC Proms in the total master of this quixotic score." (The Independent) Komische Oper Berlin. www.intermusica.co.uk/kavakos.html London with Bartók’s 3rd www.intermusica.co.uk/haefliger.html www.intermusica.co.uk/mccreesh TOURS & PROJECTS NEWS

Gatti Looking forward into history The period instrument orchestra Sir John Eliot was also a guest with triumphs world saw massive growth in the last us at the Luzern Festival this summer, Leipzig decade and interest and involvement with the pianist Robert Levin. in Verdi in authentic performance continues Programme included Mozart K491 Gewandhaus to have a large following around the and Mendelssohn’s Scottish This Verdi anniversary year has seen some world. Indeed the market in many symphony. incredible performances, none more parts of the world continues to at the Proms moving than Daniele Gatti’s Requiem at thrive, almost against the main trends the BBC Proms, only days after the Res severa verum gaudium in classical music. Intermusica is devastating events in New York. On the (Real pleasure is a serious proud to work on a regular basis night of the catastrophe itself the Royal matter) is the motto of the with three of the world’s finest Philharmonic Orchestra, Gatti and the Orchestra’s Leipzig home, and it ensembles who have had a busy few were was a real pleasure to welcome months over the summer. assembled in Gent Cathedral for a the Orchestra to London for two Requiem performance, as part of the The Venice Baroque concerts in the BBC Proms. Flanders Festival.This special concert was Orchestra joined Intermusica Extraordinary as it may seem, profoundly moving for all concerned.The earlier this year, and is represented by Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Robert Levin these concerts were also the next night, Brussels’ Palais des Beaux Arts us in much of Europe. Our first celebrate in Luzern Proms debut for the Orchestra’s rang out to the thrilling sounds of Italian project together took the Orchestra, The Director Herbert opera in concert. Don Carlos Act III and under the direction of its founder Blomstedt. As a former Aida Act II were given complete by Gatti Andrea Marcon, to the new concert Music returned to Japan after an absence of some years. Kapellmeister Mendelssohn had and his orchestra, with a cast of mainly hall in Thessaloniki, Greece and then to be represented in the Italian singers, including Roberto Christopher Hogwood onwards for two sold-out concerts in programme, and the Overture Scandiuzzi and Fiorenza Cedolins. the Istanbul Festival. Guiliano directed the Orchestra he founded and Incidental Music from Carmignola was the soloist, who can nearly thirty years ago in a series of The San Sebastian Festival also hosted Midsummer Night’s Dream also be heard with the Orchestra on concerts around Japan, the highlight Gatti and Verdi, this time the Royal of which was a Suntory Hall concert opened the first concert. Philharmonic combined with the superb their recent award- winning recordings for Sony. filmed and recorded for TV and Together with Dvorùák’s Ninth local choir Orfeon Donostiarra.This radio, broadcast by NHK. En route to Symphony this was recorded for Basque choir is one of the sensations of Japan the Orchestra stopped off to subsequent TV broadcast. the region and in spite of a difficult perform in the superb Seoul Arts Leonidas Kavakos was the schedule for the Orchestra the roof was Center.The Orchestra will next be in soloist in Sibelius’ Violin truly raised in a further performance of the Far East celebrating its thirtieth Concerto, and Mahler’s Fourth Verdi’s Requiem. anniversary in June 2003. Symphony completed the second sold-out concert.

Venice Baroque Orchestra in Istanbul Ingo Metzmacher in Bonn Dancing Freiburgers Istanbul Festival was also the scene Germany’s leading period instrument The Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra of a remarkable performance of the under its Music Director gave the closing orchestra, the Freiburg Baroque Messiah by Sir John Eliot concert of the Bonn Beethovenfest in Orchestra, made their debut at the Gardiner and his English early October. A quick trip from Hamburg, Edinburgh International Festival. Under Baroque Soloists and courtesy of DeutscheBahn, found the the direction of Gottfried von der Goltz Monteverdi Choir. Sir John Orchestra playing to an enthusiastic they gave a superlative concert in the audience. The programme included the Eliot was performing at the festival AAM and Christopher Hogwood in the Seoul Queen’s Hall, broadcast live on the Beethoven Violin Concerto (soloist for the first time and the capacity Arts Center BBC, and accompanied Amide Miller’s Shunsuke Sato) as well as classic audience in the Hagia Eireni church choreography in Ballet Freiburg’s Metzmacher repertoire - Ives Symphony was thrilled by the extraordinary production of Art of Fugue in two No. 4. clarity and vision in the performance. performances at the Festival Theatre.

Autumn preview - major tours Swiss Maestro and the Royal Valery Gergiev and the Rotterdam Philharmonic take to the road at the end of October for four concerts in consecutive days.This autumn’s Gergiev Philharmonic Orchestra festival featured the music of Shostakovich, and four of his works are taken Matthias Bamert’s relationship as on the tour, including the Piano Concerto No. 1 with Alexander Toradze and Associate Guest Conductor with the the Ninth Symphony. Starting in Vienna, the tour comes to London’s Orchestra continues to grow and bring Barbican Centre via Toulouse and Antwerp.This marks the first of many exciting new opportunities. In July they concerts under our new exclusive touring agreement with the orchestra. visited Santiago together, a return invitation after their concert there in 1999, for a Richard Hickox, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the legendary performance of Berlioz Symphonie baritone Bryn Terfel tour the UK together in November. Hickox and his Fantastique.The Orchestra was also invited award-winning orchestra visit London, Manchester, Nottingham and Reading with Bamert for his return to the Luzern in a programme which includes Finzi’s song cycle Let us Garlands Bring and Festival, which he had directed from 1992 Walton’s Symphony No. 1. until 1998. Luzern’s fabulous hall was Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra fly in to Athens for two packed to the rafters for the concert which opened with Strauss Also sprach concerts in the Megaron Concert Hall. Founder Pletnev brings an eclectic Zarathustra and closed with Holst’s Planets.November sees the Orchestra and mix of music, including Taneyev’s cantata St John of Damascus. Bamert on the road again, first visiting Basel for a concert in the Europäischer www.intermusica.co.uk/tours.html Musikmonat, and then on to Madrid for a performance in the Teatro Real. Intermusica at the BBC Proms Record Shelf A Proms season of enormous richness and variety for our artists and groups included two visiting orchestras, a major debut, a world premiere as well as a A selection of recent diverse range of artists and repertoire. Gidon Kremer's KREMERATA BALTICA performed a typically eclectic mix of works including a string releases by our artists: orchestra arrangement of the great Schubert C major Quintet. The LEIPZIG Greek virtuoso violinist Leonidas GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA under their Music Director HERBERT Kavakos has released a recording of the BLOMSTEDT gave two sold-out concerts (one of them televised) in repertoire Hindemith Violin Concerto on Chandos. that included Mendelssohn, Dvorùák, Sibelius and Mahler. The Royal Albert Hall This unaccountably neglected work is acoustics showed off to perfection the unique sound-world of the orchestra, one recorded with the BBC Philharmonic under Kavakos of the most distinctive of any orchestra today, a point much discussed by the Yan Pascal Tortelier, and this recording has been judged by many as the best currently Hindemith critics; “the playing and the mellow richness of the Leipzig sound can only be available. “Kavakos's assured technique, described as exemplary” (). LEONIDAS KAVAKOS performed effortless virtuosity and ravishing sound the Sibelius Concerto with them, immediately establishing a close rapport with bring striking panache, brilliance and both conductor and orchestra. JAMES MACMILLAN conducted the world expressive warmth to this account …. His premiere of his own "Birds of Rhiannon" with the BBC Philharmonic and The reading of the finale is tense and exciting Sixteen, a work that will surely be much performed around the world in future and he rattles off the written-out cadenza and ensuing coda with astonishing years. RICHARD HICKOX gave two Proms with his new orchestra the BBC brilliance.” The Strad National Orchestra of Wales which included a rare performance of a Rubbra Symphony coupled with Elgar 2nd Symphony and in the second concert a French Showpieces is one of several moving performance of Britten's Spring Symphony. JAMES EHNES, the significant CD’s that Canadian violinist Ehnes phenomenally gifted violinist from Canada, debuted superbly with Prokofiev's 2nd James Ehnes has released this year. It Bruch Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Davies and LOUIS was the fourth of Ehnes’ CD’s to be awarded 10 out of 10 by Répertoire LORTIE, always a popular Proms guest, sparkled in another Prokofiev work, the Magazine. “His playing, which seems to 1st Piano Concerto. ANDREAS HAEFLIGER returned to the Proms to deliver break through all technical constraints, a powerful performance of Bartok's 3rd Concerto. Finally, the LONDON makes one listen to this recording with one SYMPHONY CHORUS had no fewer than three Proms concerts this year; simple feeling: sheer pleasure”. Ehnes also Verdi with both the Halle Orchestra/ Mark Elder, and the LSO/Antonio Pappano recorded Bruch’s violin concertos 1 & 3 for and Britten with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Hickox, proving once again CBC. “alternatively reflective and passionate in the first two movements, that they are the most versatile and accomplished chorus in the land. sparkling in the finale.” Hickox Richard Hickox’ premiere recording of Vaughn Williams the original version of Vaughan Williams' Choir Notes Second Symphony gives us the first chance King’s College Choir were in recording sessions for EMI, before departing for a three to hear much music that was excised from week tour of Australia. A busy summer also saw them at the Cheltenham Festival and in the the standard revised version. The recording Netherlands.The Choir have just renewed their exclusive recording contract with EMI for a was greeted in the Sunday Telegraph as "a further seven discs. EMI have been outstanding supporters of the Choir over the years and disc of immense importance to lovers of the latest disc, Coronation Anthems, is released this month.Their second concert season in English music", and has received unanimous praise in the press. The Sunday London opens shortly at St John’s, Smith Square. Times relates that Hickox has the LSO "on The London Symphony Chorus were in three BBC Proms concerts - Britten Spring unbeatable form" and Gramophone describes the disc as "riveting listening". Lortie Symphony with Hickox, operatic excerpts with Mark Elder and Verdi’s Four Sacred Pieces with Franck Pappano and the LSO.The Chorus’ recording with Pappano and the LSO of Puccini’s Messe In May Chandos released a disc of the di Gloria has been receiving rave reviews. A quick trip to Gent for Verdi’s Requiem with music of César Franck featuring Louis Gatti was followed by recording sessions with John Adams of his opera Death of Klinghoffer. Lortie as soloist in the Symphonic Variations. "Louis Lortie is the excellent Stephen Cleobury and the BBC Singers made a short hop across the Irish Sea soloist in the Symphonic Variations, for a concert to open the Belfast Festival. A collaboration with the Irish Chamber Orchestra spontaneously poetic in the slow sections, included Handel’s Dixit Dominus. sparking and light in the scherzando finale." (Gramophone)

Just in time for Christmas Paul STAFF NEWS McCreesh and the renowned Gabrieli McCreesh Consort & Players recreate a Gabrieli We welcome Leyla Günes as Artist Manager in September. Formerly Artistic Manager of The Christmas Mass from St Mark's, Venice King's Consort, she replaces James Alexander who is leaving to take a Masters in around 1600. Cipriano de Rore's Psychotherapy.We also weclome Stephen Chamberlain in the role of assistant to Catherine magnificent seven-part Mass, Praeter rerum serium, forms the centrepiece, and is Petherbridge. surrounded by fanfares, plainchant and Left to right: Alicia Beckett, some of Giovanni Gabrieli's most expansive James Alexander, Mirjana and beautiful works. As with every other Ninkovic, Stephen Lumsden, McCreesh/Gabrieli Consort recording, this Fatma Kutuk, Alan Coates, is sure to blaze a trail and scoop significant Catherine Petherbridge, prizes. Dominique Tönnesmann, Varga Gilbert Varga made two CD releases Nick McGhee, Susie earlier this year. As part of a long term Bruch McLeod, Peter Savory, Liz Koch/Schwann project to record all the Baines, Susannah York string works by Max Bruch with the Skinner, Robert Tench, Bamberger Symphoniker, Varga coupled the Jennifer Snapes (not present Bruch Violin concertos numbers 1 & 3, with at time of photograph: Isabelle van Keulen. For BIS, Varga made Stephen Chamberlain, world premiere recordings of three trumpet Leyla Günes). works with Håkan Hardenberger as the versatile soloist. These new works were recorded with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. Kupiec Polish virtuoso pianist Ewa Kupiec Bacewicz Intermusica Artists’ Management Ltd releases a disc of piano works by Grazyna 16 Duncan Terrace, London N1 8BZ Bacewicz on the Haenssler label. Regarded Tel: 020 7278 5455 Fax: 020 7278 8434 as Poland's greatest female composer, Bacewicz described her own compositional Email: [email protected] development as a “constant evolution”. www.intermusica.co.uk These works represent Bacewicz's entire Edited by Catherine Petherbridge collection of published piano compositions and span various styles, from Neo-classicism Photo credits Alsop: Grant Leighton Gergiev, Halsey: Marco Borggreve Fischer: Clive Barda with its combination of strict form and drive Skrowaczewski: Peter Kloos ICMS: Richard Haughton Hickox: Arthur Cook Haefliger: Christian Steiner Gatti: Eric Richmond Staff: Jennifer Snapes Terfel: Andrew Eccles to short atonal sketches. Skrowaczewski Bruckner Cycle