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 contralto Jess Dandy on October 23, Leila Josefowicz gives the UK premiere of Orchestra, who co-commissioned the and a new work for soprano Carola Darwin Grime’s 2016 Violin Concerto 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 baritone, 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. OliVieR MessiaeN 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 Simon Rattle 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 Gewandhaus orchester 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 opera 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 trumpet 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 Kent Nagano 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. JObY TalbOT Ink Dark Moon is a new guitar concerto of Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi by Joby Talbot, written for soloist Miloš is presented as a ciné-concert, with the Karadaglic´ and commissioned by BBC Radio Philip Glass Ensemble performing Glass’s 3. On November 28, Karadaglic´ gives the seminal, corresponding film scores. Turkish premiere of the concerto with co- Bass 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. Opera North’s acclaimed Opera production of Mazzoli and librettist Everest, in its UK Premiere. The stellar cast education programme has commissioned Royce Vavrek’s Breaking the Waves debuted includes soprano Veronika Haller, tenor 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 Metropolitan Opera and premiering in the ballet score for Christopher Wheeldon. 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. English National Opera (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 Akhnaten, original ballet score from Missy Mazzoli.