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June 2010 2010/2

converts some of Carey’s unlikable characters into more sympathetic figures.” The Australian “To his well-known skills as an orchestral Golijov , Dean has added an under-utilised Dean empathy for the voice. The sung lines drive the ’s new travels from Australia to Europe, with Included in this issue: musical and dramatic pace, underscored by Passion Andriessen performances at the Edinburgh Festival and a second production at beautifully detailed instrumental textures, wrought La Commedia in Los Angeles State Opera with an innate feeling for the expressive power of and New York instrumental timbre, watched over by counterpoint and fine motivic workmanship.” Sydney Morning Herald In addition to Edinburgh, Dean appears at festivals in multiple roles as composer, violist and conductor. Following a feature at the Risor Chamber Music Festival in Norway (22-26 June), he is resident at the Cheltenham Music Festival (6-12 July) including the UK premiere of Recollections and world premiere of Epitaphs for string quintet when he joins the Australia Quartet. For first US performances of Epitaphs in August he joins the Orion Quartet at festivals Deutsche Grammophon has released a new in Santa Fe and La Jolla. The BBC Proms

Photo: /Branco Gaica box set of Osvaldo Golijov’s La Pasión según features Amphitheatre with the Australian Turnage Peter Coleman-Wright as Harry Joy in the premiere of Brett Dean's Bliss at the Sydney Opera House San Marcos, containing a DVD of the 2008 Interview about new orchestral Youth conducted by Mark Elder Holland Festival production, plus an audio- work Hammered Out It is rare for a new opera to enjoy two Amanda Holden’s masterly distillation of Peter (30 July) and Carlo with I Fagiolini (21 August). only recording on 2CDs (477 7461 7). Both different productions in its first six months, Carey’s original novel, demand much of an versions feature singers Jessica Rivera, Biella but such is the case with Brett Dean’s Bliss, audience. Dean da Costa and Reynaldo González-Fernandez Bliss (2004-09) 147’ commissioned by Opera Australia and “Carey’s story of Harry, the advertising executive and the Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, with Opera in three acts premiered in March at the Sydney Opera who dies for nine minutes and returns to life only to conductors Robert Spano on the DVD and Libretto by Amanda Holden, House. The first staging by Neil Armfield, find his family and professional existence a living María Guinand on the CDs. The Pasión after the novel by conducted by Elgar Howarth, travelled to hell, may have been written 30 years ago, but its continues to travel widely, including recent message of the perils of materialism inherent in us Melbourne in April and journeys to the 2/4 September (UK premiere) all still resounds. The beauty of Neil Armfield’s performances in Los Angeles in April. Edinburgh Festival in September. Two weeks Festival Theatre, Edinburgh focused, flowing production… is how effortlessly “It’s easy to understand why Osvaldo Golijov’s La later a second production of Bliss by Ramin yet meaningfully it propels us into Harry’s personal Neil Armfield, director/Opera Australia/ Pasión según San Marcos received a 30-minute Gray opens at Hamburg State Opera inferno. The night belonged to Harry. Peter BBC Symphony Orchestra/Elgar Howarth ovation at its 2000 Stuttgart premiere: a transferral conducted by . Coleman-Wright, as adroit an actor as he is singer, 12/15/19/21/25 September, 2 October of the Easter story to Latin America, it’s a vibrant, takes us from darkness to light, via the paths of (German premiere) Long in gestation, the premiere of Bliss sonically colourful experience in which the native greed and insanity, with unerring brilliance of Staatsoper, Hamburg South American strains of samba, tango and salsa proved to be a red-letter day in Australian character and vocal assurance. It was as if he had Ramin Gray, director/Hamburgische Staatsoper/ contribute as much as the orchestral and choral cultural life, with an ABC Television live been singing the role for years.” The Age Simone Young elements. Prokofieff broadcast, widespread news coverage, and “Bliss is a success in every way…It’s an eclectic on stage in Berlin, an enthusiastic response from press and “The aria performances owe more to Portuguese London and Vienna mix of hard-edged modernism and expansive fado than to European classical singing. Golijov’s public alike: lyricism. And it works because Dean interweaves intention was “to present a dark Jesus, not a pale “…here is an Australian opera so secure in form these disparate elements into a seamless entity. European Jesus”, and his success is partly due to and purpose, it should, given care, live and flourish Dissonant chords and swirling textures nestle his incorporation of native styles and structures. in all cultural climates for years. This is not to say it alongside appealing melodic shards and infectious Jenkins The result is an engaging tapestry in which is necessarily an ‘easy’ work to understand. On the rhythms… [Holden’s] poetic text is an eloquent demotic forms and religious chorale combine with contrary, the technical and harmonic complexities distillation of everyday speech. By offering piquant, astringent energy.” The Independent of Brett Dean’s lyrical score, matched in words by poignant insights into their motivations, she Gloria Golijov’s opera Ainadamar was staged for Karl Jenkins’s the first time in his native land in May in a new Gloria can new production at the Teatro Argentino de fairly be La Plata in Buenos Aires, coupled with New at boosey.com described as the Ginastera’s Estancia ballet. biggest choral Join the Boosey & Hawkes community premiere of the We invite you to follow news on our via our newly launched pages on Facebook, year, with over Twitter and MySpace. 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I worked very hard with the performer and composer work, Hammered Out, receiving first performances at the librettist Richard Thomas to pare the music crosses boundaries and BBC Proms and by the . back before we reached the workshop styles with an output phase, so that everything could be stage including a growing What were the milestones in your development as an instrumentation and ‘progressive’ led. There are no long scene changes with number of works orchestral composer? modernist style, but it still sounds closer to orchestral interludes as it is a fast, mainly performable by

I had to jump in at the deep end with my first the Classical-Romantic tradition than much comic work. The orchestration can help Photo: Rob Waymen and . His Blues orchestral piece Night Dances. I was only 20 and of the music I’m interested in. I’m drawn paint local colour and character – for Symphony, commissioned and premiered by the studying with Oliver Knussen and as a wind player more to what excited me when I was 17 or instance I use a drummer and jazz trio so Atlanta Symphony this season, is his first work didn’t know a lot about the other instruments. But 18 – soul music and black gospel. So I’m I can provide Anna with hints of her Texan written solely for symphony orchestra and celebrates you have to learn through listening and it was pretty even further now from the European avant- roots, but I’ve avoided doing the whole the blues through the prism of different moments in clear what worked and what didn’t. Then I trod water garde with its distant intellectualism. For Country & Western thing. The orchestra American history. for a few years until I was appointed Composer in instance the Boulez piece explores and also plays a greater role towards the end Each of Blues Symphony’s seven movements takes a Association with the City of Birmingham Symphony elaborates surrealism, but I’m trying to be of the opera when we move from comedy blues form, exploring everything from traditional fife Orchestra, which was my real training ground. Simon real, direct and up front. to something much darker. Photo: Philip Gatward and drum to African-American spirituals to the urban Rattle was very hands on and helped me enormously Do you orchestrate your music, or is the soundscape of New York City. Marsalis gives a video with my orchestration for the , for orchestral colour there from the start? tour through several movements of the piece from his instance challenging me to be more adventurous in Turnage , in a series of films viewable on our website by my writing for the , pointing me towards Nielsen. This can differ from work to work. Here I composed Hammered Out (2009-10) 15’ the music in short score first, though even at this for orchestra selecting Audio Visual at www.boosey.com/marsalis Are there differences writing an orchestral commission stage I knew some of the lines would be for wind or 26 August (world premiere) “Blues Symphony has aroused major expectations for a as a one-off or as part of a composer residency? brass, and I could tell that the voicing of certain Gershwinian fusion of symphony and jazz by this celebrated If you have a residency you feel supported, and have chords would work well on brass. Then, rather like BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London BBC Symphony Orchestra/David Robertson trumpeter and leading figure in American music… Part more chance to make necessary changes. Even taking a vocal score, I orchestrated it fully from historical survey, part encapsulation of major jazz idioms, the more important, though, is knowing the orchestra beginning to end, almost turning it from black and 13/14 November (US premiere) Blues Symphony is nothing if not ambitious. Marsalis’s you’re writing for, and this can influence the nature of white into colour. Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles creative juices seem to flow in abundance, and when the work. For instance the Chicago Symphony has an Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra/Susanna Mälkki rhythms take hold the music offers much toe-tapping What role does the orchestra play in your forthcoming enjoyment, especially in the Ragtime and Danzón amazing blended sound, so this affected the tutti opera Anna Nicole? sections in Chicago Remains. Equally, different For other events in Turnage’s 50th birthday year visit movements.” Financial Times A danger in composing modern opera, and conductors prompt different approaches, and I’ve www.boosey.com/turnage The Blues Symphony is the second of Marsalis’s something I may have been guilty of in the past, is been fortunate working with figures like Bernard three works bearing the ‘Symphony’ title. All Rise writing concert music for the stage rather than theatre Anna Nicole is premiered at The Royal Opera in Haitink and Esa-Pekka Salonen. I really like the way (Symphony No.1), composed in 1999, incorporates music. I understand more in Anna Nicole that this London on 17 February 2011, directed by Richard the London Philharmonic plays Stravinsky under orchestra, jazz big band and choir, and Swing doesn’t work and the orchestra has to have a Jones and conducted by Antonio Pappano. Vladimir Jurowski so this made the pieces for them Symphony (Symphony No.3) receives its premiere this become much more rhythmically based. month in Berlin both in concert form and as a dance project. On 9 and 10 June Simon Rattle conducts the The title Hammered Out prompts percussive imagery. new score with the Berliner Philharmoniker and 15 Is this single-minded as in Crying Out Loud, or do you musicians of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at balance this with your lyrical side? Schwertsik night music the Philharmonie. Swing Symphony then forms the This is a driven, obsessive work throughout – it’s a basis of a dance work, choreographed by Rhys Kurt Schwertsik was much in evidence in “Nachtmusiken combines the lofty with the Beethovenian idea of exploring just one thing as far as Martin and performed by 170 Berlin schoolchildren at Manchester in January and February with a demotic in ways that are Mahlerian in spirit, it can go, like in my piece Scherzoid. It is very motoric the Arena Berlin in Treptow on 12 and 13 June. and the main middle section is underpinned by a world premiere by the BBC Philharmonic though not in its muted, spectral tone. Attractively scored, it was played with regular 4/4 dance pattern, though not in a minimalist and a two-day focus on his music at the As well as the project in Berlin, Marsalis’s European considerable finesse…” The Guardian sense which I can’t do. The percussive hammering Royal Northern College of Music. performances in June include the first events in a new comes from my interest in James Brown and ’70s Nachtmusiken was premiered under the “…a suite of occasional character pieces, an Jazz at Lincoln Center residency at the Barbican in jazz funk, influences that can be heard right back in baton of Gianandrea Noseda in the offering of fragrant Viennoiserie, evoking a London (15-20 June). Events include concerts which Blood on the Floor, but this is my most R&B work to opening concert of Manchester’s Mahler series of departed spirits. Those spectral chart the history of the American jazz orchestra, date. The dance in the middle is almost like festival, in which new commissions were presences include Janá÷ek, whose featuring Marsalis and the JLCO at the Barbican and characteristic inflections merge and mingle as multitracking against a repeating rhythmic pattern, so coupled with a cycle of the symphonies the Hackney Empire in East London. There are also shared between the BBC Philharmonic in a dream, and David Drew, the critic and family concerts, workshops, Essentially Ellington UK, it will be a real challenge to get tight playing, writer who died last summer, who is particularly from the brass, so things don’t go awry. and Hallé Orchestra. Schwertsik describes remembered in the eulogy of a quartet of and a leadership day for music teachers. Mahler as a ‘constant presence’ for a Photo: Karl Kleemayr How different is your hammering from the ‘furious , frosted by . In between an composer working in Vienna, and the new 25-minute accordion spices a bittersweet Viennese waltz, a toy march craftsmanship’ of Le Marteau sans Maître? score hints at the atmosphere of the city that would hovers between West and East Europe and the final fugue is Very different. I know Boulez said he was breaking have been familiar to Mahler at the time when he touched by a frisson of Mahler’s First Symphony.” The Times from Western tradition with the Eastern moved there to conduct and compose. The Schwertsik festivities at the Royal Northern Prokofieff ope Schwertsik’s programme note for Nachtmusiken also College of Music included student ensembles explains the nocturnal characteristics of the work, performing the Transformation-Scenes from his drawing on memories of Vienna in the 1940s. As a fantasy-filled opera Fanferlizzy Sunnyfeet, and the Monk child he hid at nighttime from the bombing raids, and song-cycle shâl-i-mâr which sets surrealist poetry by after the war loved to wander the streets during the HC Artmann. The event culminated in a concert by frequent power cuts the candlelight of city the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by friend and Weave premiere dwellers emanating from their houses onto the fellow Viennese composer HK Gruber. The Meredith Monk won a standing darkened streets. He writes: programme included Schwertsik’s recent ovation for the premiere in “Not only in the loneliness of the woods Divertimento Macchiato with trumpeter Håkan March of Weave, her new work do the secrets of the night whisper: Hardenberger as soloist, and the environmentally for two voices, chamber & metaphysical thoughts prefer to roam in the dark. conscious Irdische Klänge (Earthly Sounds) cycle, with orchestra and chorus, the latest I love to move through the night: the title work followed by Five Nature Pieces, Uluru in a series of collaborations a dreamy vision, a fragmented melody blown away...” and Mit den Riesenstiefeln (With Heavy Tread). integrating her ensemble-based

Photo: Jessie Froman vocal idiom with symphonic performance. David Robertson conducted the combined forces of the St Louis Symphony and Chorus together with members of Monk’s vocal Reich mallet quartet ensemble. The 23-minute score was co- commissioned by the LA Master Chorale who gave a In place of the composer’s usual modal harmonies, Mallet Quartet trades in the language of jazz and pop… Even the further performance in April at Disney Hall conducted Photo: The Royal Opera/Clive Barda by Grant Gershon. instrumentation has a jazzy feel to it, with the marimbas The Gambler in Richard Jones's new production at The Royal Opera in L serving as an unobtrusive rhythm section and the “Like strands of thread, melodic themes are sown into doing the solo work.” San Francisco Chronicle Prokofieff’s reputation as an opera composer may centre energized patterns… The vocal soloists start spinning the “Mallet Quartet represents Reich’s first deployment of the largely on his Love for Three Oranges, a staple basic material, which Monk has described as bell-like five-octave marimba, which has generated a lush tapestry of internationally, but over the past decade there has been a sounds, a walking theme and sonic cascades. There is no sounds at the lower end of the spectrum. The two growing reappraisal of his complete oeuvre, including the text (there rarely is in Monk’s music). Nor do these solo marimbas, conjoined with a pair of vibraphones, yield voices always sound like voices; Monk is a master of turning experimental early stageworks as well as the later operas startling cadences and sudden thematic shifts that fall on the the vocal cords into orchestral instruments. The chorus composed after his return to the Soviet Union. ear like a forest of gossiping wind chimes.” Financial Times picks up its music from the soloists, becoming an extended In an age of casino banking and sudden economic collapse body of extended vocal techniques… Monk is the super- Photo: Palace of Arts Budapest/Zsuzsa Petö The Gambler has found a new topicality with productions at seamstress of performance. Her career has been predicated with Amadinda at the premiere of Mallet Quartet 75th events in 2011 major opera houses. The Berlin Staatsoper’s 2008 staging on the fact that movement, theater, film, music, site, script The sound of mallet percussion, fusing rhythm with Plans are underway for Steve Reich’s 75th birthday are all part of a large fabric…” Los Angeles Times conducted by Daniel Barenboim has been released on DVD resonance, is one of the most recognisable colours year in 2011 with events in London, New York, Paris, by Unitel, the Suddeutscher Zeitung noting how ‘the “…voices and orchestra acting as warp and woof on the in Steve Reich’s palette and his new Mallet Quartet Stockholm, Essen and Porto. The Barbican in Prokofieff renaissance has reclaimed one of the composer’s sonic loom of Monk’s creation… Voices sound wordlessly or casts the spotlight on a quartet of two vibraphones London presents a two-day celebration in May most daring, almost ‘futuristic’ pieces from neglect – a work on nonsense syllables, sounding at times more like a and two marimbas. The work is a four-way entitled Reverberations: The Influence of Steve Reich, gamelan orchestra than singing. It’s tonal and lovely, exotic that is nothing less than ‘a discovery’. Richard Jones commission for leading percussion groups in pairing Reich works with composers who have produced The Gambler this year for The Royal Opera in and unexpected. Weave makes more imaginative use of the followed in his footsteps. The same month brings a orchestra than Monk’s earlier works, integrating the Hungary, the USA, Canada and Australia: Budapest London, conducted by Antonio Pappano, with the Observer instruments – a small orchestra dominated by a battery of Palace of Arts for Amadinda Percussion Group, 75th birthday programme at Carnegie Hall in New describing how “the story helter-skelters from start to marimbas and two - seamlessly into the whole… Stanford Lively Arts for So Percussion, NEXUS and York, bringing together ensembles closely associated finish… Snatches of melody match the vortex of It builds, then tapers, in the moment, with fascination that Synergy Percussion. Following the premiere in with Reich. Recent repertoire to be heard in both Dostoevsky’s original… the roulette wheel speaking of life holds the audience suspended.” St Louis Post Dispatch Budapest last December, Mallet Quartet has travelled cities for the first time includes Double Sextet, 2x5, itself, in which every win is another’s loss.” “At once meditative, then playful, then meditative again, to Stanford, Sydney and Toronto with future Mallet Quartet and a new work for the Kronos Weave is a feast for the soul, the ears and the eyes… While performances planned in London and New York. Quartet to be toured internationally in 2011. The The Fiery Angel was summarised at the acclaimed recent not mimicking instruments, Monk shows the world that “Both rhythm and counterpoint recede into the background, birthday month of October 2011 brings a series at Vienna production by Philipp Harnoncourt as “an opera voices are indeed instruments of their own kind. The result is replaced by a series of emphatic block chords that are Cité de la Musique in Paris and an all-Reich concert which vibrates with eroticism and esotericism, which conjures spiritually moving.” St Louis Examiner borne along on a current of busy accompaniment figures… by the London Symphony Orchestra. up religion, excess and exorcism, mysticism and hysteria” Adams Andriessen Commedia in the US has forged and the sparkling shimmer of heaven. at the movies strong cross-Atlantic links, evolving But the score’s most memorable aspect a distinctive European response to is the pounding, often lurching chord ’s recent orchestral work paid progressions that evoke different corners Photo: Pippa Patterson Photo: Iko FreeseDRAMA American minimalism in the 1970s, homage to the movie industry in a 1950s setting, and of the underworld. New York Times the tribute has been returned with two new films on and proving to be a highly general release featuring his music. Glanert &Holloway influential figure for a generation of Commedia may work best as dramatic younger US composers. So his oratorio… a spectacularly sung and The soundtrack to the Italian film I am Love (Io sono revisiting Romantics selection as Musical America’s played concert performance that made l’amore), a 10-year labour of love from director Luca Composer of the Year is a fitting a strangely exhilarating encounter with Guadagnino and actress Tilda Swinton, resounds Both Detlev Glanert and Robin Holloway have a deep tribute, coinciding with high profile the here-and-now and the beyond all Photo: Francesca Patella the more meaningful… The instrumental throughout with Adams’s music – a vital ingredient in understanding of the German Romantic repertoire, a events at Carnegie Hall in New well-spring for their original compositions and the ensemble, a few strings (no violas) and the creation of the movie. Scores featured include York and in Los Angeles. April brought the first US plenty of brass winds and percussion, belted out jazz, aced , , Fearful Symmetries, source of a series of acclaimed orchestrations. performances of his latest opera La Commedia, with difficult Stravinskyan and Minimalist rhythms and sounded, , , Glanert’s new version of Schubert’s Einsamkeit definitive interpretations guaranteed by Reinbert de when asked, touchingly tender and gloriously glittery… De and . Tilda Swinton and John Adams are (Solitude) was premiered by Carolyn Sampson and Leeuw conducting the Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble Leeuw is Virgil to Andriessen’s Dante, the perfect guide for hosting a number of red carpet screenings in the USA, the Hallé Orchestra under Markus Stenz in and Synergy Vocals, and the opera’s original cast his music.” Los Angeles Times Manchester on 18 February. This was not the short including San Francisco, Washington and New York. including Cristina Zavalloni as Dante, Claron Other highlights of the Carnegie season included the song familiar from Schubert’s Winterreise, but his McFadden as Beatrice and Jeroen Willems two-piano The Hague Hacking and John extended 20-minute setting which resembles an as Lucifer. Adams conducting De Staat, described in the New operatic scena. The Guardian described how “Andriessen has assembled a spectacularly idiosyncratic York Times as “pugnacious and exhilarating”. The US “Glanert’s orchestration, all low woodwind and libretto that draws not only on Dante’s epic tour of hell, premiere of Andriessen’s new work for Bang on a uneasy pizzicatos, is extraordinary: towards the end purgatory and paradise, but also on the Bible, works by the Can, Life, fell foul of volcanic ash disruptions, but the there is a surge in the strings that has you choking 17th-century Dutch poet Joost van den Vondel and other group has successfully toured the work to , back tears”. sources. He has reconfigured Dante’s triptych as five panels, and kept the first three in hell. Rome, Amsterdam, The Hague and Karlsruhe, with “an ingenious new orchestration…a highly dramatic future dates in Stanford and at the Barbican in treatment of a poem in which a man struggles to reconcile “…a driven, often intensely dark score that brings together starkly contrasting styles and makes the juxtapositions London. Andriessen’s Anaïs Nin, for singer Cristina the noisy turbulence of everyday life with the inescapable Zavalloni, ensemble and sampler, is premiered at the loneliness of his inner world…Though full of echoes from sound natural. Dissonant, sharp-edged woodwind and brass Schubert’s orchestral sound world — everything from chords are accompanied by almost minimalist Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena on 10 July, Rosamunde to the Great C Major Symphony — it also arpeggiation… Recorded electronic sounds, used sparingly, with future performances planned in Amsterdam and hinted, in its agitated passages, at how much Mahler took suggest the present world, the bubbling cauldrons of hell by the London . up Schubert’s lyrical threads and wove them into his own vast tapestries.” The Times Photo: Courtesy of Metrodome Distribution Tilda Swinton in I am Love, featuring music by John Adams Cologne plays host to the German premiere of Einsamkeit on 24 October and also to the premiere Rouse Schiphorst “The drama’s intensity is buoyed up by the intricate, on 21 November of Glanert’s arrangement for imposing dynamism of John Adams’s music. Guadagnino

chamber ensemble of Schumann’s valedictory Odna Zhizn Photo: Christian Steiner goose girl astutely matches scenes to specific pieces: the result is Geistervariationen, a contribution to the composer’s certainly cinema’s most inspired coupling of music and For the hardy concertgoers who braved a Manhattan Iris ter Schiphorst’s new opera for young audiences, image since There Will Be Blood… I Am Love is a deeply bicentenary. This joins Glanert’s mixed octet versions snowstorm to hear the in The Goose Girl, was premiered in February by Vienna serious film, and a seriously political one, but it’s also playful, of Brahms’s Variations on a Theme of Schumann and February, “the program’s highlight was the premiere Pocket Opera, touring to Berlin’s new Radialsystem V flamboyant and visually magnificent.” The Independent on Sunday Four Piano Pieces op.119, together with his of Mr. Rouse’s Odna Zhizn… a magical score” (New arts venue. Based on a Grimm fairy tale with a libretto orchestration and expansion of Brahms’s Four “An exquisite feast of sensual pleasures that’s almost York Times). Christopher Rouse made his name with by Helga Utz, the hour-long opera has a ‘pocket-size’ certainly the most elegant piece of cinema you’ll see this Serious Songs which has received over 50 dramatic and passionate orchestral music and his cast of four singers and an actor/dancer and was year.” The Times performances to date. new 15-minute score for Alan Gilbert’s opening praised in Die Tageszeitung for the “wit of the text, Music by Adams can also be heard on the Robin Holloway’s output includes a number of works season at the orchestra’s helm was no exception. music and staging. Though the goose girl is one of soundtrack of Martin Scorsese’s recent film Shutter that have refracted the music of Schumann into his Gilbert is a leading interpreter of Rouse’s music, the most poetic and sad of Grimms’ fairy stories, it Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The movie is own distinctive idiom. Scenes from Schumann enjoys having introduced European audiences to the was a real eye-opener that so many humorous sparks radical in its use of contemporary classical music multiple performances in Germany and Turkey in this composer’s works and recorded a pair of CDs with fly… The children showed their appreciation at the rather than a film score and includes Adams’s bicentenary year, and Fantasy-Pieces is featured at the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic for BIS. end with enthusiastic foot stamping.” Christian Zeal and Activity and Hoodoo Zephyr the BBC Proms on 28 August with the Nash In his programme note Rouse writes that Odna Zhizn alongside works by John Cage, Ligeti, Brian Eno and Ensemble. The BBC Proms also presents the world (A Life) is a “homage to a person of Russian ancestry Ingram Marshall. A 2CD set of the film’s music was premiere of Holloway’s Reliquary on 9 September, who is very dear to me.” He goes on to describe how recently released by Warner on the Rhino label with Dorothea Roschmann and the BBC Philharmonic the enigmatic score “is built around a personal (and (081227983192). conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Scored for unrevealed) code in which the letters of the alphabet mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra, this work are assigned to pitches and durations” to create a ‘encloses’ an orchestration of Schumann’s final song- work that is both “a public portrait” and something of cycle setting poems and prayers penned in exile and “a private love letter”. prison by Mary, Queen of Scots. “Against a backdrop of haunting, pianissimo strings, which eras explored move at a glacial pace, Mr. Rouse imposes short bursts of fast, angular figures, darkly mysterious contributions from lower-lying woodwinds, and sudden bursts of Clyne fortissimo brass. Eventually the strings abandon their Ivesian Photo: Die Wiener Taschenoper introspection and take up more vigorous themes of their The premiere of Iris ter Schiphorst's The Goose Girl in Vienna signs with B&H own… the real action is in the huge percussion array, which “The secret of The Goose Girl’s success is – honestly – new not only contributes shimmering effects and underpins the Anna Clyne has signed an music. Although Iris ter Schiphorst composes on the brass bursts, but also provides the connective tissue borders of tonality, she has mastered the genial trick of exclusive agreement with between the string and wind writing.” New York Times Boosey & Hawkes to represent ensuring accessibility and recognition through the repetition of individually skewed and oblique arioso phrases.” Kulturradio her existing catalogue as well as A further performance of Odna Zhizn takes place at future works. British-born and the Aspen Festival on 2 July with the Aspen Chamber “Scored for keyboard, , bass and accordion, the American-resident, Clyne Symphony. Rouse’s 15-minute concert-opener fairy tale is related by the ‘false’ goose girl in fine and merry (b.1980) has been nurtured is one of the most widely travelled orchestral fashion... All the characters are convincingly portrayed: the works of the ‘Noughties’, performed recently on a innocently trusting princess, her caring mother, the through the Emerging overbearing lady’s maid who pays the price for her social Photo: Denise Anderson Composers scheme launched Californian tour by David Robertson and the Saint Louis Symphony, and scheduled next season by the climbing, the clumsy bridegroom, his fat-bellied father and, by Boosey & Hawkes in New York and now moves to naturally, the faithful horse.” Berliner Zeitung a full publishing contract. Royal Scottish National Orchestra with Peter Oundjian. Rouse’s new String Quartet No.3 is Schiphorst has recently completed a score for seven Since the relationship with Boosey & Hawkes began premiered by the Calder Quartet next season, and instrumentalists to accompany Bun˜uel’s surrealist in 2008, Clyne’s Within Her Arms for string ensemble their performances of his two earlier quartets can be short film Un chien andalou, premiered at the Berlin was premiered on the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s heard on a new CD from E1 Entertainment. Konzerthaus in January with Ensemble Ascolta. Green Umbrella series and she has been named by London Riccardo Muti as a Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Beginning in (Neue Merker). The work has frightened many opera houses September this year and continuing for two seasons, with its fierce intensity and challenging lead soprano role, but Clyne will compose new works for the CSO, curate Maxwell Davies Sea Orpheus the new reduced scoring used at the Odeon Theatre in the contemporary music series MusicNOW, and be Peter Maxwell Davies’s new work for the Orpheus Brandenburg Concerto, I have borrowed techniques Vienna offers the opportunity for casting with lighter voices involved with outreach projects in the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, described by the New York from the Musical Offering and the Art of Fugue”. and performances in smaller theatrical venues. community to further the understanding and Times as “an engagingly virtuosic score”, was appreciation of all music. “ Davies has peppered musical inspirations with textual and “Wolfgang Suppan really knows his craft as an arranger: over long commissioned as part of a series linked to Bach’s social reference points that serve to clarify... He views the passages he succeeds in translating the shimmering music, Anna Clyne, writing of the new agreement, said: “I am Brandenburg . Specifically it is the piece as an allegory about global warming, a phenomenon conceived for large orchestra, virtually intact to a version for just 5th concerto that Maxwell Davies revisits in Sea that threatens his beloved Orkney Islands in coming sixteen musicians… With the sonic intensifications and tightenings honoured to join the Boosey & Hawkes fold. Through their Emerging Composers initiative, I was fortunate to Orpheus, with its solo flute, and keyboard pitted decades. It’s an evocative, multi-textured work well worth which the scoring for seven wind, six strings, piano and percussion repeated listenings.” Musical America allows, he turns the screw of modernism half a turn tighter still, get to know, and to work with, a wonderful team of against the tutti ensemble. The new 17-minute work without compromising the sounds.” Die Presse people who share my passion for experiencing fresh was featured on a tour of the USA culminating in a music and exploring new territory in music with concert at Carnegie Hall on 6 February, with Many of Prokofieff’s stageworks suffered a complex history dance, film and the visual arts. I look forward to an Christopher Taylor as piano soloist. of cancellations, truncated performances and enforced exciting and collaborative future.” revisions, no more so than War and Peace. So it was As well as being a tribute to the famed conductorless intriguing to experience the opera in a form returning close This season has seen Clyne featured by the Psappha orchestra, Sea Orpheus takes its name from a poem to the composer’s original intentions in the recent ensemble in the UK and Sentieri selvaggi in Italy and by George Mackay Brown, in which the Greek father of collaborative staging by The Royal Scottish Academy of the first New York performance of Within Her Arms by song and his lost Eurydice are transported to the Music and the Rostov State Rachmaninoff Conservatoire. the Metropolis Ensemble. In August she serves as a waveswept Orkney Islands. The mythical The Guardian described how “stripped of its ballast, what composer-in-residence at Cabrillo Festival of transformation is paralleled in musical terms through Maxwell Davies’s website, relaunched last year for the emerges is leaner and more muted, with some 90 minutes Contemporary Music, under the direction of Marin Maxwell Davies’s employment of the Tantum ergo composer’s 75th birthday, provides a wealth of shorn off”. The Times concluded the “original version is Alsop. Next April, Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago sacramentum Gregorian chant throughout all three information, including a comprehensive list of works, theatrically tighter, more lyrical – and a more practical Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Rewind at movements. The composer writes in his programme programme notes, over 50 audio clips, and links to proposition in these straitened times” but “missed those Carnegie Hall in New York, and Clyne’s plans include note that “this is the first time I have attempted to write purchase CDs and downloads. spine-shuddering choruses”. a new work for the London Sinfonietta. a strictly neo-Classical work, and, as well as from the Visit www.maxopus.com with Britten’s authorization, and the more recent 45- Magnus Lindberg continued minute suite arranged by Donald Mitchell and Mervyn Mano a Mano Cooke to include the gamelan music which gives the Guitar score ballet its distinctive eastern flavour. 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As The Guardian’s reviewer Koukourgi – depicted as an obese yellow pumpkin – Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited noted: “Even in his 102nd year, Elliott Carter’s The suite from Janá÷ek’s final opera, From the House for the hand of his beloved. The composer must have Aldwych House, 71-91 Aldwych, creativity shows few signs of faltering… Every piece of the Dead, includes the Overture, Pantomime and planned the work as an antidote to the revolutionary London WC2B 4HN seems charged with energy and sheer delight in its four other movements, which capture the composer’s turmoil in Paris during the 1790s, but his librettist Telephone: +44 (0)20 7054 7200 own fluent invention.” vision of hope amidst the bleakness of a Siberian Honoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier was incarcerated in Promotion email: [email protected] prison. The earlier releases in the Naxos series the Bastille and fled to Denmark. 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