MUSIC SALES CLASSICAL SEASON HIGHLIGHTS 2019–2020 COMPOSERS

Cheryl Frances-Hoad Helen Grime British composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Outi Tarkiainen signed an exclusive publishing contract its Chief Conductor Robin Ticciati premiere a In 2017 Edition Wilhelm Hansen signed with Chester Music in 2018. Premieres this new orchestral commission by Helen Grime Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen. Her latest season include a new Baudelaire setting April 16-18. At the Barbican on April 17, collaboration is with the BBC Symphony for Jess Dandy on October 23, Leila Josefowicz gives the UK premiere of Orchestra, who co-commissioned the and a new work for Carola Darwin Grime’s 2016 Violin with the BBC orchestral piece Midnight Sun Variations and string quartet on October 18. Both Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dalia with the National Arts Centre Orchestra; are under the auspices of Frances-Hoad’s Stasevska; this major addition to Grime’s Midnight Sun Variations received its world extended residency with the Oxford Lieder oeuvre captures both the ferocity and the premiere at the BBC Proms August 4 2019 Festival, which continues until 2021 and tenderness of its solo instrument. Colin under the direction of John Storgårds, who will produce a new commissioned work Currie continues to astonish audiences also conducts the piece with the Houston each year, while also exploring her existing this season with Grime’s kaleidoscopic Symphony Orchestra January 17-19, Detroit works for voice. The world premiere Percussion Concerto, which he performs with Symphony Orchestra February 21-23 and recording of Frances-Hoad’s 2018 Piano the Swedish Chamber Orchestra February St Louis Symphony Orchestra April 3-5. Concerto Between the Skies, the River and 6 and Scottish Chamber Orchestra May Tarkiainen’s The Lustful Mother, a meditation the Hills is released on Rubicon Classics 7. In America, Giancarlo Guerrero and the on motherhood scored for , piano in September, with soloist Ivana Gavric´ Boston Symphony Orchestra perform Grime’s and string orchestra, receives its world and Karin Hendrickson conducting the Limina – a recent co-commission with the premiere in Kokkola, Finland September Southbank Sinfonia. In March, a CD of Tanglewood Music Center – at Symphony 28 with soloist Aarne Pelkonen and Anna- chamber works is released on Champs Hall February 27-March 3. The Santa Fe Maria Helsing conducting the Ostrobothnian Hill Records, and includes The Whole Chamber Music Festival and Wigmore Hall Chamber Orchestra, who co-commissioned Earth Dances, performed by The Schubert have commissioned Grime to write a second the piece with the Hetta Music Festival and Ensemble of London, and My Day in Hell, String Quartet, which premieres in Summer Rauma Festivo. performed by the Gildas Quartet. 2020. Florence Price Betsy Jolas The London Symphony Orchestra Following G Schirmer’s 2018 acquisition At 93, Betsy Jolas is an unstoppable commences its season with Éclairs sur of the worldwide publishing rights to the force. Her season begins in Leipzig, with l’Au-Delà..., the awesome, final composition orchestral catalogue of Florence Price, this the world premiere of Letters from Bach- by Olivier Messiaen; Sir leads season features a wealth of performances ville September 12-13. Co-commissioned performances in Lucerne September 9, of her music across the United States. by the Gewandhaus­orchester Leipzig and Berlin September 11 and London September Highlights include The Cleveland Orchestra the Boston­ Symphony Orchestra, Letters 15. On the genesis of Éclairs, Messiaen and conductor Jahja Ling performing her is scored for large orchestra and receives wrote: ‘I imagined myself in front of a Symphony No 4 in D minor April 16-19 (with its American premiere at Symphony Hall curtain, in darkness, apprehensive about Remembering Gatsby by John Harbison November 7-12, on the same programme as what lay beyond: Resurrection, Eternity, opening the programme) and the Chicago Symphony No 12 in D minor ‘The Year 1917’ the other life.’ The piece is scored for an Symphony Orchestra performing her by Dmitri Shostakovich. Both performances orchestra of 120 musicians and musically Symphony No 3 in C minor April 23-28 with are conducted by Andris Nelsons, and the culminates Messiaen’s lifelong practice Riccardo Muti at the podium. Price was commission marks an ongoing partnership of Roman Catholicism and ornithology. the first African-American woman to have between the two orchestras, who share Messiaen’s singular Saint François her music performed by a major American ­Nelsons’s artistic leadership. Jolas’s Onze d’Assise receives two new productions in orchestra when the Chicago Symphony Lieder, a beguiling set of wordless songs for 2020: Staatsoper Hamburg presents three Orchestra gave the 1933 world premiere and orchestra,­ receives its UK Pre- performances of a new staging by Georges of her Symphony No 1 in E minor. The miere at the Barbican November 8 with so- Delnon May 15-23, with Messiaen authority composer’s interpolation of many different loist Håkan Hardenberger and Sakari Oramo conducting and Johannes African-American musical styles into her conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Martin Kränzle in the title role. Grand classical compositions was an important The Arditti Quartet gives the world premiere Théâtre de Genève concludes its season development in the history of American of Jolas’s Quatuor VIII January 14 at the in June with a new production by Adel music, and her oeuvre continues to thrill ­Philharmonie de Paris, who commissioned Abdessemed, under the musical direction of and empower in the 21st century. the piece with support from ProQuartet. Jonathan Nott. Ink Dark Moon is a new guitar concerto of , and by Joby Talbot, written for soloist Miloš is presented as a ciné-concert, with the Karadaglic´ and commissioned by BBC Radio Ensemble performing Glass’s 3. On November 28, Karadaglic´ gives the seminal, corresponding film scores. Turkish premiere of the concerto with co- Concerto and other works of hers, commissioner Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Rachel Portman premieres in Düsseldorf with Ballett am Orchestra, conducted by Diego Matheuz. On September 27 the BBC Singers and chief Rhein March 13-June 19. As the Mead The US premiere takes place May 7-9 conductor Sofi Jeannin will perform Earth Composer in Residence with the Chicago with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Song, commissioned from Rachel Portman Symphony Orchestra, Mazzoli has been conductor Mark Wigglesworth; a premiere with an original text by poet Nick Drake. A commissioned to write a suite from Orpheus recording is to be released by Decca later in plea for positive action, partly inspired by Alive; the suite is titled Orpheus Undone and the season. The closing concert of the BBC the words of climate activist Greta Thunberg, premieres April 30-May 3 under Riccardo Symphony Orchestra’s Barbican season is a Drake’s text calls for us to calmly take Muti’s direction. Tom Morris’s new Scottish semi-staged performance of Talbot’s opera stock and action. ’s acclaimed Opera production of Mazzoli and librettist , in its UK Premiere. The stellar cast education programme has commissioned Royce Vavrek’s Breaking the Waves debuted includes soprano Veronika Haller, an adaptation of Portman and librettist at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival and travels Andrew Bidlack, baritone Michael Mayes, Owen Sheers’s The Water Diviner’s Tale, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music June 26- baritone Craig Verm and the BBC Singers; to be performed in February by children 30. With Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the MET Nicole Paiement conducts and Leonard from several schools alongside soloists Orchestra in the pit, these performances Foglia directs. On June 25 Hamburg Ballet from Opera North. First commissioned foreshadow Mazzoli and Vavrek’s Lincoln presents the German premiere of The by the BBC Proms in 2007, this hour-long in the Bardo, commissioned by the Winter’s Tale, Talbot’s second full-length music theatre piece urgently calls on and premiering in the ballet score for . today’s youth to take action against climate new decade. change. Mimi and the Mountain Dragon is Philip Glass an original story by renowned author Sir Anna Thorvaldsdottir The New York Philharmonic has Michael Morpurgo. A screen adaptation by The string quartet Enigma is a new commissioned a new work from Philip Leopard Films, commissioned by BBC Music collaboration between Anna Thorvaldsdottir Glass, which premieres at their opening and BBC Learning for broadcast on BBC and the video artist Sigurdur Gudjonsson. concerts September 18-21 under Jaap van television this season, features an original Commissioned by the Spektral Quartet, Zweden’s baton; completing the programme score by Portman, recorded with the BBC the world premiere takes place at the are Knoxville: Summer of 1915 by Samuel Philharmonic and conductor Scott Dunn. The Kennedy Center October 29. Throughout Barber featuring soloist Kelli O’Hara, and screenplay is adapted by Owen Sheers and the season, Thorvaldsdottir’s orchestral selections from Romeo and Juliet by Sergei narrated by Morpurgo, and the film features favourite METACOSMOS is performed by Prokofiev. (ENO) animation by Factory Create with illustrations the Gothenburg and Boston Symphony continues its recent association with Glass by Emily Gravett. Orchestras, and by the Los Angeles with a new Netia Jones production of Philharmonic. AIÕN, her most ambitious Orphée, running November 15-29; Geoffrey Missy Mazzoli work to date, is to be presented by the Paterson conducts a cast including Nicholas Commissioned by the National Ballet Iceland Symphony Orchestra April 1, where Lester, Sarah Tynan and Nicky Spence. of Canada, Orpheus Alive is the first Thorvaldsdottir is currently Composer-in- The ENO/LA Opera production of , original ballet score from Missy Mazzoli. Residence. This fully-staged performance created in collaboration with Improbable and Choreographed by Robert Binet, its also features members of Iceland Dance directed by Phelim McDermott, travels to the scenario re-envisions the legend of Orpheus Company with choreography by Erna Metropolitan Opera November 8-December and Eurydice by casting Orpheus as a Ómarsdóttir. Thorvaldsdottir’s music 7; and J’Nai Bridges woman; the premiere performances take additionally appears in ballet productions star, and Karen Kamensek conducts. At place November 15-21 in Toronto. Dark by Staatstheater Mainz (AERIALITY) from the Philharmonie de Paris December 6-8, with Excessive Bright, another new Binet December 8, and Ballett am Rhein, Duisburg filmmaker Godfrey Reggio’s acclaimed trilogy piece set to Mazzoli’s eponymous Double (METACOSMOS) from January 10. OPERA

different languages, the opera portrays how Winter Journey NTR ZaterdagMatinee, Seattle Symphony individuals, groups of people and society as Winter Journey is a new opera by Ludovico Orchestra and Auckland Philharmonia. Dohr a whole handle trauma over time. Einaudi and librettist Colm Tóibín, performs the concerto with the NHK Feb commissioned by Teatro Massimo di 15-16, also under Järvi’s direction, and Matthew Aucoin Palermo and Teatro San Carlo di Napoli. with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Commissioned and co-produced by LA Opera The opera takes place in the desolate Orchestra April 18, with Dima Slobodeniouk and the Metropolitan Opera, Eurydice is winter of contemporary Europe, where a conducting. the new opera by 2018 MacArthur Fellow loving, nomadic family faces kindness, Matthew Aucoin. Set to a libretto by Sarah xenophobia and isolation as they flee their Gállábartnit Ruhl and adapted from her eponymous play, home country in search of a better life. Soundstreams, the leading presenter of Eurydice presents ancient mythology through Roberto Andò’s production has its world contemporary music in Canada, is to give a contemporary lens in offering the tale of premiere October 4-8, featuring a cast that the world premiere of Gállábartnit, the first Orpheus and Eurydice from the latter’s point includes Rokia Traoré, Badara Seck and opera by Britta Byström, November 13-17 at of view. Aucoin composed the title role for Jonathan Moore; Carlo Tenan conducts. Daniels Spectrum in Toronto. In this beau- soprano Danielle de Niese, who stars in the Seven Days Walking, Einaudi’s septet of tiful story about a woman’s pursuit of the premiere run alongside Rod Gilfry and Joshua monthly releases for Decca, culminates­ unknown, Byström’s music is set to Sámi text Hopkins; the world premiere performances in September 2019 with Day Seven and by Rawdna Carita Eira, whose libretto draws take place at LA Opera February 1-23 with a complete box set. Day One became the upon both Sámi myths and the everyday lives the composer conducting. Aucoin’s new com- fastest-streamed classical album of all of nomadic Nordic people. The score em- position for the Brentano String Quartet is time worldwide in its first week of release, ploys extended techniques and readymade commissioned by four American venues: The exceeding 2 million streams on release day instruments, but also bears the influence of world premiere takes place November 3 at alone. Swedish hymns, the music of Bob Marley and Union College Concert Series, with following Per Nørgård’s infinity series. Gállábartnit is performances at Carnegie Hall November 6, co-produced by Soundstreams and the Sámi Da Camera of Houston December 6 and La The Snow Queen by Hans Christian National Theatre Beaivváš in Norway, where Jolla Music Society in 2020. Andersen is a deep and intense fairy tale, it will travel at a future date. pervaded by both cold hearts and warm Avner Dorman generosity. Hans Abrahamsen and librettist GHOSTS AT VERSAILLES Die Kinder des Sultans is a new fantasy Henrik Engelbrecht have adapted the story The long-awaited French premiere of The opera for children by Avner Dorman and into the opera Snedronningen, whose world Ghost of Versailles, and librettist Ingeborg von Zadow. Based on an premiere takes place in Copenhagen at William M. Hoffman’s groundbreaking opera- original fairytale by von Zadow, the story October 13-December within-an-opera, takes place at the Palace of follows a pair of twins on a fantastical 3. The premiere production is directed by Versailles on December 4-8. Marie Antoinette­ search for their long-lost father. The Francisco Negrin, with Sofie Elkjær Jensen and Louis XVI, accompanied by Beaumarchais opera is co-commissioned by Deutsche in the lead role of Gerda; Michael Boder and his beloved characters, return home Oper am Rhein, Oper Bonn and Theater conducts. The English version of The in this new staging by Jay Lesenger, a Dortmund, who presents the world Snow Queen premieres at the Bayerische co-production of Château de Versailles premiere performances April 5-29; Anna Staatsoper in Munich December 21-January ­Spectacles and the Glimmerglass Festival, Drescher directs. On the concert stage, the 6 with an additional performance July 31. where it debuted in summer 2019. Chicago Symphony Orchestra and principal Noted Abrahamsen collaborator Barbara percussionist Cynthia Yeh give the American Hannigan stars as Gerda in this production, Innocence premiere of Dorman’s new percussion which is directed by Andreas Kriegenburg A new grand opera by pre- concerto Eternal Rhythm October 3-5, with and conducted by Cornelius Meister. On mieres in summer 2020 at the Festival d’Aix- James Gaffigan conducting and Symphony January 29-31, the Berlin Philharmonic and en-Provence in France. Co-commissioned No 8 in C minor by Dmitri Shostakovich conductor Paavo Järvi deliver the world by Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Royal Opera completing the programme. In Canada, premiere performances of a Horn Concerto House Covent Garden, Finnish National Op- Pinchas Zukerman and Amanda Forsyth give by Abrahamsen, written for the orchestra’s era and , Innocence fea- the country premiere of Dorman’s Double principal horn Stefan Dohr; the Horn tures an original libretto by renowned Finnish Concerto – a 70th birthday present for Concerto is commissioned by the Berlin writer Sofi Oksanen. Resonating with current Zukerman – with the National Arts Centre Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra, concerns of humanity and sung in several Orchestra on November 27. DANCE ORCHESTRA

Bryce Dessner On March 23, the Sydney Dance Company presents a new work by choreographer David Lang Rafael Bonacella, featuring a commissioned The Day is a new, evening-length work by Environmental Premieres score for the Australian String Quartet by cellist Maya Beiser, former New York City Last Year is a new symphony Bryce Dessner. The work will premiere at Ballet principal dancer Wendy Whelan, and commissioned by the American Composers Sydney’s Roslyn Packer Theatre followed choreographer Lucinda Childs, with music Orchestra and the New Century, Manitoba, by a tour through Australia, and marks the by David Lang. This sensory exploration and River Oaks Chamber Orchestras from second collaboration between Bonacella and of two journeys – life, and the eternal composer Mark Adamo. Inspired by Vivaldi’s Dessner. The theatrical work Triptych (Eyes of voyage of the soul that follows it – boldly Four Seasons, Adamo uses the terrors and One on Another), with music by Dessner and weaves together universal themes through hopes surrounding radical climate change inspired by the work of photographer Robert the shared language of music and dance. to drive his timely rendering of this iconic Mapplethorpe, continues its multi-year tour Following its world premiere at Jacob’s trope. Last Year features soloist Jeffrey with performances at Stanford Live October Pillow in July 2019, The Day tours to many Zeigler and receives its world premiere 3-4, Celebrity Series of Boston October venues around the world, including Carolina with the American Composers Orchestra at 30-November 3 and Cincinnati Opera in April. Performing Arts October 15, the Center for Carnegie Hall April 2; this programme also Directed by Kaneza Schaal and featuring text the Art of Performance at UCLA October features the New York Premiere of Become by Korde Arrington Tuttle, Essex Hemphill 18-19, the Joyce Theater October 22-27, the River by John Luther Adams. Become River and Patti Smith, Triptych’s compelling score Kennedy Center December 6-7, Théâtre de la receives its New Zealand premiere with is performed by vocal ensemble Roomful of Ville January 24-February 6, San Francisco Hamish McKeich and the New Zealand Teeth, Alicia Hall Moran and Isaiah Robinson, Performances February 27-28 and the ICA Symphony Orchestra November 30, and and conducted by Brad Wells. Dessner’s Boston April 23-25. Lang’s opera prisoner Adams’ 2018 In the Name of the Earth Concerto for Two Pianos, written for Katia of the state celebrates Beethoven’s 250th receives its UK premiere September 8 at and Marielle Labèque and recently released with commissioned country premieres at the the BBC Proms, with 600 singers positioned on Deutsche Grammophon alongside Barbican January 20, Bochum Symphony around the . recordings of his El Chan and Haven, Orchestra May 23, Bruge’s Concertgebouw receives its American premiere September May 27, De Doelen May 30 and l’Auditori de Beethoven 2020 20-21 with the Cincinnati Symphony Barcelona July 3. Additional performances Spire is a new score by Nathaniel Stookey, Orchestra and conductor Louis Langrée. take place at Opera Malmö June 5 and Tivoli commissioned by the Indianapolis Gardens, Copenhagen June 6. Symphony Orchestra to pair with Peter Gregson Beethoven’s First Symphony, premiering On June 18 at Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Khachaturian & Prokofiev January 10-11 with Krzysztof Urban´ski Gauthier Dance/Dance Company In his seventeenth production for American conducting. The Philadelphia Orchestra has Theaterhaus Stuttgart premieres four new Ballet Theatre (ABT), Artist in Residence commissioned Gabriela Lena Frank and adaptations of the classic ballet Swan Lake Alexei Ratmansky creates a new production composers from her Creative Academy of by four forward-thinking choreographers. set to Gayaneh, a 1939 ballet score by Aram Music to compose a series of new works for Among them is Cayetano Soto, whose Khachaturian. The story is based on the the Orchestra’s BeethovenNOW initiative, version is choreographed to a new Peter ancient romance novel Callirhoe by Chariton, elevating the context in which Beethoven’s Gregson score for string ensemble and and this production, featuring musical legacy is understood today; Yannick Nézet- electronics. The production Swan Lakes arrangements by Philip Feeney and sets and Séguin leads the world premiere of Frank’s runs through the summer at Theaterhaus costumes by Jean-Marc Puissant, premieres contribution, which is co-commissioned Stuttgart, and will tour into the following March 5-8 at the Segerstrom Center for by the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra, April season. Gregson has composed and the Arts in Costa Mesa, California, before 2-5. On August 8, 2020, leads recorded an original score to the new travelling to the Metropolitan Opera for ABT’s the National Youth Orchestra of Germany Roger Michell film Blackbird, starring Kate annual New York season. For the entirety and the World Youth Choir in the world Winslet, Sam Neill, Rainn Wilson and of the ’s June 2-7 run at the premiere of his Choral Concerto ‘Nine’, a Susan Sarandon. The soundtrack also Kennedy Center, the storied company takes prelude to Beethoven’s Choral Symphony includes selections from Gregson’s Bach on Ratmansky’s vital 2011 choreography to commissioned by BTHVN2020, the Royal Recomposed, and is to be released later in Romeo and Juliet, set to the cinematic score Philharmonic Society and the Melbourne 2019. by Sergei Prokofiev. Symphony Orchestra. ORCHESTRA

Sarah Kirkland Snider The New York Philharmonic has commissioned Sarah Kirkland Snider to compose a new orchestral work that celebrates the 100th Anniversary of A new by Nico Muhly has the 19th Amendment. Premiering under LA PHIL AT 100 been co-commissioned for Pekka Kuusisto Jaap van Zweden during the orchestra’s Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen by the Australian Chamber Orchestra and season finale weekend June 11-13, the celebrates the LA Phil’s centennial on Melbourne Recital Hall with the Saint Paul, programme also includes Harmonium by October 26, leading the commissioned Norwegian, Mahler, and Scottish Chamber and the Concerto in C minor world premiere of his Castor alongside Orchestras. The world premiere takes for Piano, Trumpet and String Orchestra its 2018 companion piece Pollux; also on place in Melbourne December 4, with by Dmitri Shostakovich, with soloists Yuja the programme is the stunning Luonnotar country premieres in Saint Paul January Wang and Christopher Martin. Snider’s by Jean Sibelius, featuring soprano 10-12, Oslo March 10 and in Scotland Hiraeth opens the New Jersey Symphony Golda Schultz. January 18-19 marks the April 22-24. Muhly’s Concerto for Two Orchestra’s season October 11-13, with world premiere of Flower Power by Julia Pianos, composed for Katia and Marielle Maestra Xian Zhang conducting and an Wolfe, another LA Phil commission that Labèque, receives its world premiere with accompanying film by Mark DeChiazza. explores the psychedelic ‘60s in the form the New York Philharmonic under Jaap van As Distinguished Guest Composer at of a concerto for the Bang on a Can All- Zweden June 4-9, and is co-commissioned the 2020 Winnipeg New Music Festival, Stars; John Adams conducts. Vista is a by the Orchestre de Paris and Dusseldorf the large ensemble arrangement of her new orchestral work by Kaija Saariaho Symphony Orchestra. The UK premiere of breakthrough song cycle Penelope receives commissioned by Susanna Mälkki for Muhly’s Organ Concerto Register takes its Canadian premiere January 27, with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, with place at London’s Southbank Centre on soloist Shara Nova and Daniel Raiskin support from the LA Phil, Oslo Philharmonic April 29, with James McVinnie as soloist conducting. In Spring 2020, Snider’s Mass and Berlin Philharmonic; Mälkki leads the LA and Yan Pascal Tortelier conducting the for the Endangered is to be released via Phil in its American premiere April 30-May 3. London Philharmonic Orchestra. Muhly and the newly-minted partnership between Music Director Gustavo Dudamel capitalises choreographer Justin Peck are collaborating New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records; on the leap year Feburary 27-29 with a focus on a new ballet scored for nine players, the recording features acclaimed British on the symphonies of Charles Ives, variably which premieres February 26-March 1 at vocal group Gallicantus under the musical pairing his innocent Third and omnipotent New York City Ballet; its European Premiere direction of Gabriel Crouch. Fourth with Dvor˘ák’s ‘New World Symphony’ takes place subsequently at Sadler’s Wells across three concerts. Other highlights in London March 18-21. Schirmer Theatrical include the American premiere of Mignon – On September 27 the Rochester Papillons by Bent Sørensen February 4 with New Wind Philharmonic premieres Prohibition, a pianist Víkingur Ólafsson and conductor Ophelia’s Tears, a concerto by Nicolas time-travelling, immersive symphonic Daníel Bjarnason, and Dudamel commencing Bacri the Chicago Symphony Orchestra experience through the dark cabarets and the centenary concerts October 24 with the commissioned for their bass clarinetist J. speakeasies of 1920s New York, Paris, Symphony No 4 by Witold Lutosławski, one Lawrie Bloom, receives its world premiere Berlin, and London. The show features of the most significant LA Phil commissions February 21-23 with Riccardo Muti the music of Josephine Baker, Marlene of the Salonen era. conducting. The 2018 Concerto by Dietrich, Rudy Vallée, Edith Piaf, Raymond The world premiere of Saariaho’s Vista takes Judith Weir is a study of both the lyrical Scott, Kurt Weill, Al Bowlly and others, place at the Helsinki Music Center March qualities and percussive capabilities of the with a stunning visual production design 30, also under Mälkki’s direction, and John composer’s own instrument. Its European that draws from European and American Storgårds conducts its second performance premiere takes place on September 27 in film and image archives. Premieres of at Oslo Concert Hall April 23. Jessica Cardiff, performed by its dedicatee Celia Heartland: The Women of Country Music, Cottis conducts the European premiere of Craig and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and Soul Men, a showcase of legendary Wolfe’s Flower Power with the Danish Radio while its London premiere takes place artists including Marvin Gaye, James Brown Symphony Orchestra March 5, and Salonen December 13 at the Barbican, with soloist and The Temptations, are to be announced brings Castor and Pollux to the New York Nicholas Daniel and the BBC Symphony in 2020. Philharmonic November 6-12. Orchestra. CHORAL

Spanish Premieres The Orchestra of Valencia has commissioned two new works from Ramón Paus: the De Profundis receives its world Milestone Birthdays premiere September 19 with soloist Yuval The BBC Philharmonic marks the 75th Gotlibovich, and renowned Spanish pianist Michael Gordon birthday of Edward Gregson in 2020, with Eduardo Fernández premieres Paus’s second For much of his childhood, Michael Gordon the February 8 premiere of his new Oboe Piano Concerto later this season; both lived in the Nicaraguan jungle. Half a century Concerto for Jennifer Galloway, taking premieres are conducted by Ramón Tebar. later, childhood memories of local flora and place at the Leeds Town Hall and to be The Community of Madrid Orchestra has fauna, alongside remembered musings on broadcast on BBC Radio 3. The release of commissioned a new work for chorus and the Sandinistas, Mayans, Aztecs and more a new Chandos symphonic brass recording orchestra from Paus: Cantata sobre fondo manifest in The Traveler’s Guide to Nicaragua. conducted by Martyn Brabbins is one of Alborán, which premieres June 20 at the This evening-length work for The Crossing many new albums celebrating Gregson Auditorio de Madrid under the direction of chorus and cellist Maya Beiser is co- this season. The City of Birmingham Víctor Pablo Pérez. The Spanish premiere commissioned by Carnegie Hall, where the Symphony Orchestra has commissioned a of...der graue Wald sich unter ihm schüttelte New York premiere takes place March 25. Trumpet Concerto from Thea Musgrave in by Benet Casablancas takes place on honor of her 90th birthday. Composed for March 9 in the Auditorium of the Reina Tarik O’Regan soloist and debuted at the Sofía Museum; Santiago Serrate conducts Continuing his association as Composer- Cheltenham Music Festival in July 2019, the the Modus Ensemble with horn soloist José in-Residence and Artistic Advisor to the Concerto travels to Birmingham October 2 Chanzá. Following its acclaimed premiere Pacific Chorale in Orange County, California, and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg October in 2018, a DVD of Casablancas’s opera Tarik O’Regan is writing a new work for the 8, with Mirga Gražinyte˙-Tyla conducting. The L’Enigma di Lea is to be released in the chorus to premiere in April 2020. Pacific LA Phil has co-commissioned the Concerto spring. Chorale also releases a portrait album of the and gives its American premiere in summer composer’s music this season, to include 2020 at the Hollywood Bowl. Sugar Plum the first commission of his residency, Facing Sugar Plum, a 15-minute romp for narrator West, a setting of Walt Whitman for choir and Scandinavian Premieres and orchestra by Lior Rosner, will be cello. A recording of O’Regan’s recent opera Symphony No 2 by 2018 Grawemeyer released on Sony Masterworks this season The Phoenix, which premiered at Houston laureate Bent Sørensen receives its world with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Grand Opera in 2019, is released on the premiere February 27-28 in Copenhagen, and conductor Scott Dunn. The music is a Pentatone label in autumn. with Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducting the set of variations based on the ‘Dance of Danish National Symphony Orchestra, who the Sugar Plum Fairy’ from Tchaikovsky’s Judith Weir co-commissioned the Symphony with the The Nutcracker. Written by Rosner and his A major new choral work by Judith Weir, Oslo Philharmonic and the Gothenburg co-storywriter Jim Lorick, Jeremy Irons will Blue hills beyond blue hills, premieres at the Symphony Orchestra. Voyages Extraordinaires narrate the first of Plum’s post-Nutcracker Barbican on October 18. Commissioned by Britta Byström is also commissioned by adventures, providing an uplifting taste of by the BBC, the piece is a setting of text the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, who Christmas. by the Scottish poet Alan Spence, inspired premieres the piece on March 25. Named by the unfolding of a year in nature. The after Jules Verne’s sequence of novels about Buddha Passion premiere features the BBC Singers – with incredible and unbelievable journeys, Voyages Buddha Passion is the critically acclaimed whom Weir is Associate Composer – and Extraordinaires bring the listeners on a six-act oratorio for multiple choruses, the Ligeti String Quartet; Sofi Jeannin fantastic musical journey, full of new sound Chinese instruments, dancer, vocal soloists, conducts. On the Palmy Beach, a song cycle worlds. The Oslo Philharmonic celebrates its and large orchestra by composer Tan Dun. commissioned by King’s Place, London, for 100th anniversary this season, and to mark The composer conducts performances with soprano Ruby Hughes, cellist Natalie Clein the occasion they have commissioned a the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale and pianist Julius Drake, premieres as part new fanfare by Rolf Wallin: Soundspeed. The di Santa Cecilia February 6-8, the NDR of the venue’s ‘Venus Unwrapped’ series orchestra performs Soundspeed throughout Elbphilharmonie Orchestra April 9 and the October 24. Soprano Ailish Tynan and the its centenary season, following its world Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France Hebrides Ensemble release a new recording premiere on August 15 2019 at the Royal April 23, with additional performances to be of Weir’s music on the Delphian label later Castle in Oslo. announced. this season. Lennox Berkeley R ichard odney Bennett Iain Bell Jeff Beal Samuel Barber Simon Bainbridge Matthew Aucoin Malcolm Arnold Craig Armstrong George Antheil R ichard Allain Louise Alenius Stephen Albert John Luther Adams John Adams Adamo Mark H ans Abrahamsen Some of our composers... 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