October 2015

Jenkins Still with the Music Karl Jenkins tells of his life and passion for music in a new autobiography, while Warner Classics releases a box set of his greatest works together with the premiere recording of The Healer.

Still with the Music is the new autobiography by To tie in with the book publication, Warner Karl Jenkins, the composer of The Armed Man: Classics has released a new compilation disc A Mass for Peace and Adiemus, written with Sam (2564610053) and a box set entitled Voices Jackson and published by Elliott & Thompson (2564610051). The collection contains seven (978-1783961375). The Welsh-born composer, of Jenkins’s chart-topping discs together with recently knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours the first release of his latest work for choir and for “services to composing and crossing musical ensemble, The Healer, a for St Luke. genres”, is one of the world’s most popular and Jenkins returns to the Royal Albert Hall in widely performed living composers. His Armed London on 30 October for a concert including Man is a classical music phenomenon, with on Stabat Mater and The Armed Man, with the average two performances per week, amounting Royal Philharmonic and London to over 1800 total in 20 different countries, and a Philharmonic Choir. recording that has been in the UK Classical Album Chart for close to 600 weeks. Current composing projects include a new work for chorus and orchestra, commissioned by S4C From a modest upbringing, steeped in the Welsh to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the choral tradition and the Western musical canon, Aberfan Tragedy in October 1966, when a waste Jenkins trained as a classical musician at Cardiff tip slid down a mountainside to engulf houses University and the in and a junior school, killing 144. Jenkins is also London. He immersed himself in the 1960s jazz writing a motet for the Cantoria de la Merced from world of Ronnie Scott’s, before joining the seminal Córdoba in , who won the recent choral prog-rock group Soft Machine. He topped the competition organised by Boosey & Hawkes. record charts with Adiemus, and went on to compose some of the most performed choral Still with the Music and the new CDs are now on works of our age, including The Armed Man, sale from our Online Shop. Please visit: , Stabat Mater and The Peacemakers. www.boosey.com/StillwiththeMusic

its 2016/17 season and Turnage travels to Dutch National Górecki . Other highlights in include the Violin Concerto final legacy and in Madrid, the Two major works Harp Concerto performed The final works left by Mark-Anthony by the , unheard at Henryk Turnage receive their an all-Ginastera concert by Mikołaj Górecki’s death UK premieres at the the Polish National Radio in 2010 are joining the Bridgewater Hall Symphony, canon thanks to in Manchester this with lighting installation by performances and autumn. The Hallé the celebrated designer recordings. Following Orchestra conducted rosalie in Karlsruhe, and the its world premiere in by recently restored Concierto London in 2014, presents the Argentino in Stavanger. Symphony No.4:

Concerto on 22 performs Photo: Jerry Hurkmans Tansman Episodes has October with soloist a celebratory piano recital been performed in Los Angeles and , at Photo: Philip Gatward Marc-André Hamelin, at Kings Place in London in the International Tansman Festival in Łódź, and in who has already played the 20-minute work in the birthday month of April. Gdańsk and Kraków. Further Polish performances Rotterdam and Philadelphia. Turnage describes follow this autumn in Górecki’s home city of New discs in honour of the composing the concerto for the Canadian-born Katowice, and in Warsaw. centenary include a major virtuoso: cycle of ballets, piano Nonesuch is soon to release the first recording of “The title of the opening movement, Rondo- concertos and orchestral Symphony No.4 featuring the London Philharmonic

Variations, sounds positively classical and rather Photo: Annemarie Heinrich works recorded by the Orchestra conducted by Andrey Boreyko, together decorative, but this is a little misleading because BBC Philharmonic and with a seven-disc Górecki box set retrospective the material really undergoes continual variation ’s centenary is celebrated in Juanjo Mena for Chandos. First recordings will and the first vinyl LP release of the classic recording as it moves forward. The central movement, Last 2016 with opera and orchestral performances include Music from on Capriccio and of Symphony No.3 with Dawn Upshaw. Lullaby for Hans, was composed immediately around the world. The Argentinian-born composer Turbae from Trinity Wall Street, alongside its series Saint Adalbert is the patron saint of Poland, buried I heard had died - it’s a captured the spirit of the Pampas and the life of 15 Ginastera works planned for 2016. in Gniezno, and the composer initially embarked on straightforward tribute because I wanted it to be of the gauchos in his early works, establishing Boosey & Hawkes has been undertaking composition of his hour-long oratorio Sanctus direct, simple and lyrical. The last movement, an authentic South American compositional intensive editorial work preparing newly engraved Adalbertus in honour of his millennium in 1997. The A Grotesque Burlesque, is meant to be fun and voice. He went on to develop an expressive and scores and orchestral parts for Dances from belated premiere on 4 November forms the finale of moves from an opening with hints of Brahmsian richly coloured modern style through a series of Estancia, the Harp Concerto, Bomarzo and a 70th birthday concert in Kraków for Polish music finger patterns, to something much jazzier and concertos and orchestral scores. Despite a chain and new publications of scores of publisher PWM with the Polish National Radio closer to stride piano.” of major commissions in North America and No.2, Estudios Sinfonicós, Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jacek final years spent in Europe, the Argentinian folk Erskine, which the BBC Philharmonic performs Popol Vuh and Turbae. If you would like your Kaspszyk, with a repeat performance in Katowice. music of his youth and his vividly imagined pre- on 20 November, is a tribute to the jazz drummer Ginastera centenary performance included in our Columbian world continued to feed his creative life. Górecki’s Kyrie received its UK premiere at the Peter Erskine, a long-time collaborator with web calendar please contact: BBC’s recent Total Immersion day devoted to the Turnage. The UK premiere in Manchester The Teatro Colón in Ginastera’s native city of [email protected]. composer at the Barbican in London. conducted by John Storgårds follows Buenos Aires opens its 2016 season with a new performances in Bonn, the Hollywood Bowl, production of his opera in March, Helsinki and Bochum. Even as a teenager Turnage followed by ten concerts including performances was a fan of Peter Erskine, thanks to a passion for by the Buenos Aires Philharmonic under Enrique jazz-funk fusion, going on to write solo parts for Diemecke. Gustavo Dudamel conducts Piano Inside this issue… him in works including Blood on the Floor. Concerto No.1 internationally with Sergio Tiempo as soloist, including performances by the Los “Rather than having a soloist at the front, it’s a Angeles Philharmonic on tour to New York, concertante work with Peter Erskine sitting at London and Paris. As an upbeat to the centenary the back in what would be his typical position the Harp Concerto is performed this autumn by in a big band. He hits off the other players and the Chicago Symphony under Riccardo Muti and is also close to the percussion session. Peter’s on a tour by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales part is notated like a big band score, providing Lindberg Simpson Willems Yun & Einem to Argentina and Chile. a framework and queueing in the big moments, Interview on his new Reviews of oratorio Composer of Explore repertoire but he has a lot of freedom and is developing the In Europe a new staging of Bomarzo by Pierre concerto for Frank The Immortal William Forsythe for centenaries in piece each time he plays it.” Audi is unveiled by the Teatro Real in Madrid in Peter Zimmermann from Manchester ballets joins B&H 2017 and 2018

Lindberg Violin Concerto No.2 What is the relationship between solo and tutti Lindberg introduces his new concerto for violinist in this work? Violin Concerto No.2 Frank Peter Zimmermann, performed this season in London, It is quite complicated – somewhere between (2015) the conventional classical dialogue and a more All performances with New York, Berlin, Stockholm and Paris extreme relationship such as in Berio’s Points on Frank Peter Zimmermann 20th century it seemed the Curve to Find where all the orchestral material that composers wrote is derived from the solo part. The latter approach 9 December 2015 one definitive concerto can be limiting because the flow is one directional (world premiere) for an instrument and – I’ve pursued instead something more fluid to Royal Festival Hall, London then moved on, but if allow interchange back and forth between the London Philharmonic Orchestra/

you look further back, violin and the tutti. This opens up a wider canvas Jaap van Zweden Photo: Harald Hoffmann/Hänssler Classic composers like Bartók with space enough for a large statement, like in and Prokofieff were my Piano Concerto No.2. 14-16 January 2016 (US premiere) happy to return and Lincoln Centre, New York How much of the material grows from the nature come up with new Orchestra/Alan Gilbert of the solo instrument and how much is driven by solutions for the same the musical argument? instrument. I’m with 21-23 January 2016 (German premiere) The violin is the king of instruments with an them because I’m Philharmonie, Berlin enormous heritage, and I think when I wrote particularly drawn to the Berliner Philharmoniker/Daniel Harding the first concerto I was very conscious of this, great instruments such trying to find ‘violinistic’ figures for the solo part. as piano, violin and cello 28/29 January 2016 (Swedish premiere) For the second concerto I’m not so afraid of – I’m not interested in Berwaldhallen, Stockholm the instrument, and the material is more actively ending up having to write Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Harding derived from the harmonies and pitch patterns I’ve concertos for exotica been exploring. That said, of course, it has to be such as theremin. I’ve 19 February 2016 (French premiere) idiomatic for the instrument and I’m well aware also had healthy gaps Philharmonie, Paris I have a virtuoso at my disposal. Photo: Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL between my concertos Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France/Alan Gilbert How did the commission for Violin Concerto to allow thinking time: I want the violin line to be brilliant yet playable – No.2 come about? 20 years between my two piano concertos, I don’t want to hark back to the 1970s and '80s I first got to know Frank Peter Zimmermann 15 between those for cello, and about 10 years when composers often competed to make it and his playing in the late 1990s when we were will separate the violin concertos. impossibly difficult for their soloist. An audience Golijov at touring together in a programme conducted by doesn’t need to know how challenging the solo Jukka-Pekka Saraste. My Feria was coupled with String concertos are notoriously difficult to part is – for instance the Berg concerto is no Tanglewood a violin concerto, so I heard him at rehearsals balance. How have you tackled this with a showstopper like Paganini but remains one of and concerts, we became friends and I had in full symphony orchestra behind the soloist? the hardest in the repertoire musically as well The Tanglewood Music mind from then to write a concerto for him. When The second violin concerto certainly has bigger as technically. The ball is now in Frank Peter’s Center celebrated its 75th the London Philharmonic Orchestra asked what forces than the first, which was written for the court so I'm looking forward to discussions with anniversary season with my composition priorities might be during my Mostly Mozart festival at Lincoln Center and used him on the solo part and am perfectly open to 30 new commissioned residency we discussed a new violin concerto, a chamber orchestra with two , consider any suggested adaptation, trimming or works, including Sign of Frank Peter agreed, and this is now becoming and horns plus strings. I’ve been careful in the streamlining he thinks necessary. the Leviathan by Osvaldo a reality. new work because I know the difficulties of Golijov, given its premiere If you had top tips for a young composer balancing, though hearing a violin thankfully by the TMC Orchestra writing for orchestra, what would they be? A number of your recent concertos have been isn’t such a challenge as a cello. I’ve avoided an conducted by Stefan I’d say follow your visions and don’t worry if you the second you’ve written for the instrument. oversize orchestra, following the Bartók model Asbury. This melancholy

get some things wrong. Few composers get Sakakini Photo: Tanit Does this affect your compositional approach? with only double woodwind. This should be light 12-minute work for solo everything right first time – Ravel being the classic I’m not as cautious as some about returning for enough while still allowing me plenty of flesh and orchestra is a meditation on the exception! a second concerto. In the second half of the around the chords. biblical sea monster of his title. The Boston Globe described how the soloist, “suspended in a slow-bobbing 6/8 tide, conjures the beast’s song as well as the foghorns of its seafaring milieu. MacMillan Symphony No.4 at the BBC Proms Strings evoke waves that lap, swell, and splash, even as their unanimity of timbre underlines the and the Berkeley Symphony with Joana Carneiro. backdrop of quotations from Scots Renaissance protagonist’s isolation.” Whereas MacMillan’s three earlier symphonies composer Robert Carver’s Missa Dum Sacrum In its review of past highlights, Tanglewood also overtly employed programmatic elements, the Mysterium, played by back desk and cellos like a programmed excerpts from Golijov’s opera new 37-minute work is more abstract and elusive ghostly consort of viols.” The Scotsman Ainadamar, which was premiered at the festival in approach. in 2003 and has since travelled the world and “In one continually evolving movement, the symphony “…rhythmic exuberance… been recorded by Deutsche Grammophon. teems with striking ideas, both musical and philosophical Golijov is currently working on a new stagework (or at least historical)… The symphony’s overall message passionate, arresting commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, may be enigmatic, but its progression is crystal-clear. music.” Financial Times based on Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripedes and And my mind will long be haunted by many of its planned for premiere in the 2018/19 season. passages: the gushing fountains of polyphony for strings; Golijov highlights in the coming year include MacMillan’s Woman of the Apocalypse, part the Messiaen-style woodwind refrains; the beautiful, folk- the UK premiere of his cello concerto Azul on tone poem, part Concerto for Orchestra,

Photo: Philip Gatward inflected solo that soars upwards like a Hebrides 9 March with Eduardo Vassallo and the City receives performances in London and Berlin this fiddler in high hills; and the feeling of an ancestral modal of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and The James MacMillan’s newest orchestral work, the December, with its UK premiere at the Barbican melody often overwhelmed but never extinguished.” Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind performed first to bear the title ‘symphony’ for over a decade, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Marin The Times by the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris this was unveiled at the BBC Proms in London on Alsop who conducted the work’s world premiere month and by the Queensland Symphony in 3 August. Symphony No.4 is dedicated to “It is, as ever with MacMillan, a spiritual journey, in in 2012, and a performance at the Philharmonie Brisbane next May. Donald Runnicles in honour of his 60th birthday, this instance governed by “ritual” in its various guises in Berlin by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and the conductor led the premiere performance – “rituals of movement, exhortation, petition and joy”. and Manfred Honeck. The half-hour score is The last of the Tanglewood commissions to be with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The musical ingredients are unmistakably his: plaintive inspired by how artists through the ages, including premiered this summer was Oscar Bettison’s Further appearances of the new symphony are melodies sculpted from the world of Gregorian chant, Dürer, Rubens, Doré and Blake, have depicted the 25-minute String Quartet, praised by the Wall planned stateside by fellow commissioners the set against chattering counterpoints, densely aromatic sun-clad woman who battles the dragon in the Street Journal as “one of the festival’s most Pittsburgh Symphony under Manfred Honeck string clusters, resplendent chorales and the mystical Book of Revelation. striking works”.

Birtwistle The Cure at the Chin in Paris portrait at ’s “Both witch and woman, Medea is shown in thrall to and loss, rebirth and death, with the New York Festival d’Automne The Cure, retelling an episode from the myth her own magical power, the music’s heaving, twisting Times praising the coupling as “a double bill 9 October 2015, 20.00 of Jason and Medea, was premiered at the embrace overpowering her sense of movement. rich in dramatic power and intellectual depth… Maison de la Radio Aldeburgh Festival in June travelling on to Here one is again acutely aware of Birtwistle’s Mr. Birtwistle and Mr. Harsent have built an Cello Concerto / Piano Concerto / ’s Linbury Studio Theatre in extraordinary gift, and the way the music in his alchemically potent pairing.” Rocaná (French premieres) London. With by the composer’s frequent is often fully present to the characters: it doesn’t Isang Enders, vlc/Sunwook Kim, collaborator David Harsent, singers Mark accompany them so much as animate them. The range pft/Orchestre Philharmonique Padmore and Elizabeth Atherton, the London of musical gesture is also astonishing… with string de Radio France/Kwamé Ryan Sinfonietta conducted by Geoffrey Paterson, writing of a delicacy and fragility one wouldn’t have

and production by Martin Duncan, the hour-long associated with Birtwistle until very recently.” 10 October 2015, 16.00 Photo: Priska Ketterer stagework revealed the composer at the height of Times Literary Supplement Maison de la Radio his powers – as The Times noted, “at 80 he clearly Acrostic-Wordplay / cosmigimmicks (French premiere) / Gougalon¯ has no need of Medea’s rejuvenating potions”. “…melancholy, vivid, Yeree Suh, sop/Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam/ The review went on to describe the new opera Ed Spanjaard as “a coruscating, twisty score of intense and at exquisitely lyrical…” 27 November 2015, 18.30 times almost ecstatic sounds”. Cité de la Musique “Medea is persuaded by Jason to use her magic skills Allegro ma non troppo / Piano Etudes The Cure was staged together with , to give his elderly father, Aeson, back his youth. Again, Victor Hanna, perc/Dimitri Vassiliakis, pft Birtwistle’s earlier work focusing on the moment time is stopped in its progress. Again, a character seems when leads Euridice from the Underworld, 27 November 2015, 20.30 to cheat death, only for the promise of renewed life to turns and loses her forever. The Times described Cité de la Musique be questioned. These are issues to which Birtwistle

The Corridor as a “brilliantly expressionist score... Photo: Clive Barda/AranaPAL Double Concerto / Graffiti (French premiere) keeps coming back in a time-honoured ritual of his own.” one of Birtwistle’s most gripping vocal works.” Sebastian Vichard, pft/Samuel Favre, perc/ Financial Times Elizabeth Atherton and Mark Padmore in Harrison Both chamber operas forensically examine love Birtwistle’s The Cure at the Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble Intercontemporain/Tito Ceccherin

Gruber Bernstein On the Waterfront into the open… wrote only one film score Marlon Brando seemed to me to be giving the during his lifetime, On the Waterfront, and 60 greatest performance I had ever seen him give, years after its premiere, this classic movie starring which is saying a great deal. I was swept away by Marlon Brando is now available to be performed my enthusiasm into accepting the commission to with live orchestra. While Bernstein’s suite from write the score.” On the Waterfront has long been a favourite in the On the Waterfront Film with Live Orchestra concert hall, the new version offers the received its world premiere presentation by the opportunity to play Bernstein’s complete score, New York Philharmonic on 18 September at while the newly re-mastered 1954 film – rightly Lincoln Center in New York with David Newman regarded as one of the greatest achievements in . The work travels on for a performance the history of movie-making and winner of eight with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on

Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Photo: Lucerne Festival 23 October, conducted by Richard Kaufman. Actor and Best Director – is shown in glorious Alongside West Side Story Film with Live high definition on the big screen with the original “HK Gruber has often composed music that is Orchestra, the new version is ideal for those dialogue intact. irreverent, provocative or plain eccentric, but planning major events in the lead up to the his new percussion concerto, entitled into the On the Waterfront is the epitome of dramatic Bernstein centenary in 2018. If you’d like to open… is more serious stuff.” So wrote The storytelling, featuring an Oscar-winning present On the Waterfront and require Guardian reviewing the work’s premiere at the performance by Marlon Brando as dockworker further information please contact BBC Proms in July, going on to describe how Terry Malloy, a once-promising boxer held back by [email protected]. “Gruber’s friend, mentor and publisher David Drew crime and corruption. Set among union unrest and The original soundtrack recording of On the died during its composition – and that context mob violence on the New Jersey waterfronts, the Waterfront, lost for 60 years, has been reissued offered one way of making sense of the series of film pairs Brando with Eva Marie Saint in her first thanks to the discovery of acetates from the silences percussionist Colin Currie and the BBC film role, and stars Karl Malden and Lee J. Cobb. Columbia Pictures sessions (Intrada INT 7141). Philharmonic threw out into the auditorium, in Initially reluctant to score the film because of As BBC Music Magazine noted this historic sound the closing minutes of this performance under other obligations (as well as McCarthy era document “is essential listening for any devotee conductor John Storgårds – as if, Gruber has tensions surrounding director Elia Kazan’s co- of Bernstein’s music or, for that matter, film… said, a spirit were going out into open space.” operation with the House Un-American Activities Bernstein knew synching to a film is a specialist Committee), Bernstein changed his mind after task, but he can be heard displaying his jazzy seeing a rough cut, writing in The Joy of Music dexterity at the piano… It is without doubt one “Beautiful beats with a

how he “thought it a masterpiece of direction, and of the greatest film scores ever created.” Photos: © 1954 Columbia Pictures Industries Inc hint of swing.” Evening Standard

“The first sounds were decidedly Oriental – the sort of brass you’d hear in Peking opera – and as the orchestra Simpson reaches out to The Immortal joined gently in you sensed how subtly calculated Gruber’s soundworld was. Everything was done with a BBC Philharmonic under Juanjo Mena, transcends these light touch in this 25-minute piece, which built via a series specifics to evoke the philosophical turmoil of humanity of slow burns to some exhilarating climaxes. Currie’s in general as we cling to such concepts as love, soul and personal orchestra included everything from marimba immortality when the cold materialism of modern science and vibraphone, tuned bells and gongs, to congas and a suggests that such things are tricks of the sentimental cajón box-drum which he slapped with his bare hands… mind.” The Times The work’s conclusion focused with lovely inventiveness on the beauty of decaying sound.” The Independent “…a blazingly original Colin Currie takes into the open… to the Wien oratorio…” Modern festival in Gruber’s home city, with a performance at the Konzerthaus on 15 November with the Orchestra conducted “The paranormal effects Simpson conjures from the by Erik Nielsen. Following its success at the expansive forces are genuinely eerie. The vocalists of Bregenz Festival and Theater an der Wien, Exaudi intone and moan screeds of largely indecipherable Gruber’s operatic version of Tales from the automatic writing while baritone Mark Stone exhorts Vienna Woods receives its German premiere Myers’ anxieties on the passage from life to death in tones in a new production at the Komische Oper in of blackest despair. He is buffeted through the choral Berlin next May. maelstrom like a sceptical anti-Gerontius, who, instead of being eased towards purgatory by a team of spiritual assistants, sends panicked, fragmentary transmissions indicating terror at the lack of a welcoming committee.” Photo: Kaupo Kikkas The Guardian Mackey “Mark Simpson’s oratorio The Immortal is the The Immortalization Commission – particularly the strange Simpson’s orchestra concert-opener Israfel was most thrilling new choral work I have heard for events at the start of the 20th century when mediums in premiered earlier this year by the BBC Scottish Mnemosyne’s years. At 26, what a prospect he is.” So wrote different countries began writing down communications Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Litton, and The Times reviewing the world premiere of from the recently deceased psychical researcher Frederic next year brings the premiere of his first opera, Pool Simpson’s new 35-minute work commissioned Myers. He guarded an awful secret throughout his life: his Pleasure. The Opera North production opens by the Manchester International Festival and love for a young married woman who had cut her throat in Leeds on 28 April, touring over the following Steven Mackey’s new work premiered in July. This is the largest-scale score and then drowned herself. month to the Liverpool Playhouse and the commissioned by the to date by the young British composer and “Melanie Challenger’s stream-of-consciousness libretto Britten Studio in Snape, concluding with a run Los Angeles Philharmonic, signalled the launch of his four-year residency weaves together the anguished ‘automated’ ramblings presented by The at the Lyric Mnemosyne’s Pool, was with the BBC Philharmonic. supposedly dictated posthumously by Myers with Hammersmith in London. Lesley Garrett takes premiered under the baton “The Immortal delves into the creepy Late Victorian elliptical details of this tragic affair. However, Simpson’s the star role and the ensemble is provided by of Gustavo Dudamel on world of seances, as revealed by John Gray’s book multi-layered, swirling score, superbly realised by the Psappha conducted by Nicholas Kok. 29 May. Named after the Greek goddess of memory, whose pool of remembrance was less frequented in myths than Photo: Jane Richey the river of forgetfulness, this 40-minute orchestral Willems Ballets for Forsythe work is among Mackey’s most ambitious scores. It explores the crucial role of memory in the musical Boosey & Hawkes has signed a publishing was commissioned by Rudolf Nureyev for Paris experience of listening and recall, as described by agreement with Dutch composer Thom Willems, Opera Ballet in 1987 and featured the rising star the composer: who has been the musical muse for renowned Sylvie Guillem. Rapidly established as a classic, choreographer William Forsythe since 1985. this 25-minute work has since travelled the “Syntax and memory can work together to Under the deal, Boosey & Hawkes has acquired world. Other widely-performed ballets include create various shades of (dis)-continuity. The the copyrights in Willems’ music for over 60 The Loss of Small Detail (1991) with costumes by point is not to test your memory but rather to Forsythe ballets, including the electronic score for Issey Miyake, the second detail (1991), Herman use memory as an expressive device in order to In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated which is in the Schmerman (1992) with costumes by Gianni create unusual alchemies in the flavors of events repertoire of virtually every major ballet house. Versace, Duo (1996), Approximate Sonata (1996), and, more importantly, in the flow of events. In 66 companies in 25 countries have performed Pas./Parts (1999), and One Flat Thing, fact, Mnemosyne’s Pool is perhaps most palpably Forsythe/Willems ballets with the Paris Opera reproduced (2000). concerned with flow, that is, with various kinds of Ballet alone having danced 320 performances. motion: slow climbs, sprints, precarious balancing Recent Thom Willems highlights have included acts, quirky dances, somber marches, and of Thom Willems’ close collaboration with William performances of the full-evening Impressing course, willfully discursive zigzags in time made Forsythe has been likened to that between the Czar in Dresden, whose centrepiece In the possible by memory.” Stravinsky and Balanchine, with the new dance Middle, Somewhat Elevated was also performed theatre works they have created together marking “A dedication to complexity and a vast sense of last month in Zürich with further stagings in the a radical development in both the movement orchestral coloration are the key elements of Steven new season from Tokyo Ballet, Australian Ballet, and sound of classical ballet. Willems’ electronic Mackey’s impressive Mnemosyne’s Pool. It is in four Pittsburgh Ballet Theater and Washington Ballet. scores – characterised by subtle soundscapes, movements for full orchestra and a battery of percussion The US premiere of Pas./Parts at San Francisco insistent rhythms and urban sonorities – form an and the score alternates between glimmering reflections, Ballet follows in January, and performances of intrinsic part of the architecture of these ballets. shadowy undulations, and jagged, hard-edged Of Any If And and a new version of Approximate In the words of Forsythe himself: “Thom Willems tonalities.” San Francisco Classical Voice Sonata take place at the Paris Opera Ballet in Photo: Dresden/Ian Whalen gives you acoustic space to dance... He makes July, within a triple bill marking Forsythe’s new Mackey is currently writing a concerto for acoustic environments. We have done away with appointment as Associate Choreographer. One Håkan Hardenberger and the Swedish Chamber In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, in the Dresden the sets. We have acoustic environments.” Semperoper’s recent production of Impressing the Flat Thing, reproduced is staged in Munich, Oslo Orchestra conducted by Thomas Dausgaard, Czar, with choreography by William Forsythe and The most popular of the Forsythe/Willems and Chicago and the second detail receives intended as a pairing with Bach’s Brandenburg music by Thom Willems. ballets, In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, performances by Stuttgart Ballet in January. Concerto No.2. 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The new version of the Harry Joy suffers a life-changing heart attack. Brett Dean in Aprylle and The First Mercy, have returned to the six songs setting poetry by Paul Verlaine expand Epitaphs for string quintet catalogue in the Choral Treasury series. Chandos has released a collection of Dean’s on the colours heard in Debussy’s original with Score and parts chamber music including his two string quartets For full details, audio clips and sample pages visit piano “and what a revelation this was, with Dean’s 979-0-2025-3234-8 £47.50 and Epitaphs for string quintet with the composer www.boosey.com/choralexplorer. adventurous but respectful settings highlighting joining the Doric Quartet as violist (CHAN 10873). Kožená’s radiant top register and fine expressive The Aurora Orchestra includes Dean’s Pastoral range ().” The mezzo gives Symphony on its new ‘’ collection, tied three further performances in Prague’s Rudolfinum in with its BBC Proms performance conducted by New recordings Symphony No.1 on 18-20 November, with the Czech Philharmonic Nicholas Collon (Warner Classics 2564608223). / conducted by Robin Ticciati. Hommage à Brahms is included in Orli Shaham’s Simon Rattle Absolute Jest “Dean is a masterful orchestrator. Shimmering textures recital disc, with Dean’s three pieces composed Decca 4788354 St Lawrence String Quartet/ and evocative colours evoked an impressionist sound- for Emmanuel Ax interleaved between music by San Francisco Symphony/ Olga Neuwirth world and his vibrant setting of Chevaux de bois recalled the German master (Canary Classics CC15). Michael Tilson Thomas Torsion Debussy’s Fêtes.” The Australian In addition to Dean’s ongoing residency with the SFS 0063 Pascal Gallois “Dean’s handiwork was everywhere apparent, from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a new residency with Stradivarius STR37020 Leonard Bernstein touched-in droplets of Tears Fall in my Heart and the the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was recently Symphony No.3 ‘Kaddish’/Missa Brevis/The Lark Andrzej Panufnik twinkling percussion gracing Green, to the Baxian hint of announced, running 2016-18 and including Claire Bloom/Kelley Nassief/Washington Chorus/ Symphony No.10 Celtic melancholy in The Shadow of the Trees. Merry-go- curation of a new contemporary music series Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop London Symphony Orchestra/ round was a swirling riot, drawing a feisty response from based at Carriageworks. Dean is currently working Naxos 8.559742 Kožená. The coup de grâce however was on his second opera, Hamlet, planned LSO Live 0767 her inhabiting of a troubled soul on the verge for premiere at the Glyndebourne Harrison Birtwistle in the final song, Spleen, culminating in a Festival in 2017 under the baton of Slow Frieze//Crowd Piano Concerto/Sinfonia Sacra/ spine tingling ‘hélas’.” Vladimir Jurowski. The Shakespeare /Antonia Schreiber/Marcus Weiss/ Metasinfonia Limelight Magazine classic is adapted by Matthew Christian Dierstein/Birmingham Contemporary Paweł Kowalski/Roman Perucki/ Jocelyn, with a cast including Allan Music Group/Windkraft Tirol/Kasper de Roo/ Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra/ Four new recordings featuring Brett Clayton, Barbara Hannigan, Sarah Martyn Brabbins Ernst van Tiel/ Dean’s works are headed by the 3CD- Connolly and , and Metronome METCD1079 Łukasz Borowicz set of his opera Bliss, featuring the director Neil Armfield.. PFB 0081 Songs/Cantus Iambeus Das Neue Ensemble/ Steve Reich Stefan Asbury Music for 18 Musicians Toccata TOCC 0281 Ensemble Signal Harmonia Mundi 907608 Yun 2017 Aftersong/Clockwork/ Steve Reich / Mark-Anthony Turnage The centenary of Isang His breakthrough work in the West was Reak Entanglement Liaisons: Reimagining Sondheim for the Piano Yun in 2017 offers for orchestra, blending a post-serial idiom Yehonatan Berick/Laura Melton Anthony de Mare the opportunity to with Korean ceremonial music and displaying Albany TROY1351 ECM 2470-72 (3CD set) explore this pioneering instrumental colours resembling the East-Asian composer’s works mouth organ. His four stageworks, including which combine the Butterfly Widow composed in his prison cell, tradition of Eastern- are based on mythological subjects exploring Asian music with Taoist themes, dreams and the spirit world. In Einem 2018 Western avant-garde the 1970s and '80s he focused on concertos Gottfried von Einem’s In the post-war period his audacity was techniques. and symphonies, with highlights including centenary falls in 2018, progressively overtaken by avant-garde the Cello Concerto, Violin Concerto No.1 and prompting a celebration developments, and his carefully crafted, essentially Born near Tongyeong, Symphony No.5 for baritone and orchestra of the Austrian tonal idiom was dismissed by many, while being

Photo: Bote & Bock he studied cello and setting texts by Nelly Sachs. Angel in Flames composer whose readily embraced by singers in his sequence composition in Korea and Japan, and actively with its Epilogue employing female voices was career encompassed of highly successful operas. Among his eight opposed the Japanese occupation, leading to premiered a few months before his death in 1995. subversive early works, works for the lyric stage he produced definitive his imprisonment until the end of World War II. major operas which operatic versions of Büchner’s Danton’s Death Following the Korean War armistice in 1953 he A new documentary film, In Between – the adapted literary classics (1947) (published by ), Kafka’s taught at Seoul National University and in 1956 Composer Isang Yun in North and South Korea, for the lyric stage, (1950-52) and Dürrenmatt’s The Visit won a scholarship to study in Europe, first in Paris has been released by Accentus Music. Filmed and orchestral scores of the Old Lady (1968-70). The latter stagework, and then with Blacher and Rufer in Berlin, where on both sides of the most extreme remaining

Photo: Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien conducted by the 20th with its monstrous central mezzo role written he settled in 1964. Due to a visit to North Korea Cold War frontier, the documentary examines century’s leading maestros including Karajan, for and ever-topical themes of in 1963 he was abducted from Berlin by South the composer’s role as a bridge between Furtwängler, Bohm, Ormandy, Sawallisch, Giulini, personal revenge and the corrupting power of Korea’s Park regime in 1967 and imprisoned in incompatible ideologies and his lifelong belief Dohnányi, Ozawa and Mehta. Einem was a central money, has retained its place in the repertoire: Seoul for two years, leading to a campaign for in reconciliation. Yun is one of the few figures figure in post-war Austrian musical life, whose following the premiere at the Vienna State Opera his release by leading musicians. Returning to equally revered on both sides of the 38th parallel, achievements included the rejuvenation of the it travelled widely including to the Glyndebourne West Germany, he took citizenship and taught in with pairs of Yun Festivals and Yun Chamber with new modern repertoire. Festival and San Francisco Opera, with more Hannover and Berlin, assuming a life in exile while Orchestras in North and South, together with recentproductions at and a never neglecting his Korean roots. scholastic research in both territories. Yet there Raised in an Austrian diplomat’s family, though his collection of German houses. is no exchange of ideas across the border and natural father was a dashing Hungarian aristocrat, Yun’s music is richly ornamented, adapting each country claims to support the ‘truth’ about he settled in Berlin in 1937 to study with Hindemith Alongside his operatic works Einem was techniques from Korean traditional music such this exceptional Korean musician. at the State School of Music and soon found his commissioned by leading orchestras, including as glissando, pizzicato and vibrato, with sudden www.boosey.com/yun niche in the theatre world, earning his way as a those in Vienna, Munich, Boston, Philadelphia and dynamic shifts moulding the multiple melodies. piano repetiteur. He worked for Karajan at the Los Angeles. Works for voice and orchestra saw and Tietjen at the Bayreuth him setting texts by Hölderlin, Brecht, Hesse, and Festival and, following studies with Blacher, turned Austrian writers including HC Artmann and Lotte The refreshed look of Quarternotes signals Helen Wallace’s book Boosey & Hawkes: the to composition with his early works attracting Ingrisch. In his later years he turned increasingly a change of designer. David Plumb is retiring Publishing Story. We thank David for his many immediate acclaim. With daring metrical schemes, to chamber music, not least a sequence of five after work on 95 issues of the newsletter years of elegant typography and welcome spiky rhythmic energy and a ‘forbidden’ passion string quartets written between 1975 and his across 33 years, as well as design for our new Quarternotes designer, Anne Brady for jazz, as heard in the Concerto for Orchestra, death in 1996. numerous catalogues, brochures and of Vermillion Design Consultants, Dublin. Einem lived dangerously in the mid-1940s during www.boosey.com/einem the final years of the Nazi terror.

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