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February 2020

Offenbach a publishing success story The Offenbach Edition Keck, with quality performance materials and rediscovered works, spearheaded the composer’s bicentenary.

With over 600 performances utilising its editions in of audiences. And the OEK goes far beyond the 2019, the Offenbach Edition Keck enjoyed a high stage, with rediscovered concert works and profile in the composer’s bicentenary celebrations, educational publications. from Salzburg, and Cologne to Lyon and . The collaboration between Boosey & Hawkes and leading Offenbach scholar Jean- Christophe Keck has been a game-changer for Offenbach’s music over the past two decades and a major publishing success story. Surprisingly, even familiar Offenbach works lacked

full scores and authoritative performing materials, Photo: Salzburg Festival/Monika Rittershaus now provided by the OEK for such favourites as Orpheus in the Underworld, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein and La Vie parisienne. companies, conductors such as Marc Minkowski and Mark Elder, and directors including Laurent Pelly and Barrie Kosky have endorsed the edition, making it a focal point for Offenbach on stage: 2019 saw the OEK Orpheus in the Underworld reach its landmark 1000th performance.

With ardent scholarship and expert sleuthing Photo: Theater fur Niedersachsen/Jochen Quast Jean-Christophe Keck has put a series of major The Princess of Trebizond Offenbach stageworks back on the map. Theater Baden-Baden (2015) From the Romantic opera Les Fées du Rhin Theater für Niedersachsen (2019) Photo: Wiener Volksoper/Barbara Pálffy Photo: Garsington Opera/John Snelling and the opéra bouffe The Princess of Trebizond, King Carrot Barkouf through the satirical bite of Barkouf and King Opéra de Lyon (2015) Théâtre du Châtelet Paris / Rouen / Montpellier (2017-18) Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg (2018) Carrot – ever topical with today’s political turmoil – Opéra de Lille (2018) Grand Théâtre, Geneva (2017) Cologne Opera (2019) to the lyrical charms of Fantasio, the OEK has Staatsoper Hannover (2018) Opera Zuid Dutch tour (2019) widened the composer’s repertoire to the delight www.offenbach-edition.com Vienna Volksoper (2019) Garsington Opera (2019)

Trojahn Gruber joins B&H Short Stories Photo: © Dietlind Konold Photo: © National Geographic/Manu San Felix Photo: Jon Super

Leading German composer Manfred Trojahn has HK Gruber’s new symphonic suite Short Stories signed an exclusive publishing contract with Auerbach Arctica and Eve’s Lament from the Vienna Woods, drawing upon his opera Boosey & Hawkes covering his future works. Tales from the Vienna Woods, is premiered in First scores under the new agreement include Two recent works by Lera Auerbach [Sikorski] that never will grow’, providing a dedication to on 26 March within his residency with Ein Brief, an extended setting of Hofmannsthal’s explore themes of nature despoiled. Arctica saw the many women who cannot fulfil their talents the Gewandhaus . Andris Nelsons, who ‘Chandos Letter’ for baritone, string quartet and the composer collaborating with National in current society. has in recent years conducted Gruber’s Aerial orchestra with first staged performances this Geographic to create a symphonic work that and Busking, is on the rostrum and directs first month in and Vienna. In June a new conveys the vulnerable state of the Arctic region. “In Eve’s Lament the composer, in her mid-40s, US performances with the Boston Symphony orchestral work follows for the TONALi She met marine ecologist Dr Enric Sala and conjures up baroque worlds again with great pleasure Orchestra in April including a trip to Carnegie Hall. travelled to the Svalbard archipelago in the and even greater skill: fragile, floating, delicately Orchestra’s ‘BeEnigma’ project for the 2020 The new 30-minute score, cast in seven Barents Sea, and to Greenland and Iceland to gleaming, created out of somewhat skewed and dented, Beethoven anniversary year. The premiere is movements, is assembled to stand as a symphonic develop her interest in Inuit culture. yet silvery-fine elegance. Volatile, charming and quirky conducted by Christoph Eschenbach in the sequence without mirroring the opera’s narrative. Elbphilharmonie , with further glissando contortions recall the magic worlds of The resulting 45-minute score, combining Short Stories opens with the Song from the performances planned in Cologne, Tim Burton films…” Der Standard solo piano played by the composer, choir Wachau and embraces Splintered Waltzes, the and Lucerne. and orchestra, was premiered by the National “It is a bitter-sweet piece, suggestive and touching, with Nachspiel set of chorale variations, the Prayer Born in 1949, Manfred Trojahn, is one of the most Symphony in Washington last March. In 2020 solos coming from the very back of the rank-and-file and a final Polka infernale. Based on Horváth’s play successful German composers of his generation, Arctica is performed by the Oslo Philharmonic desks. This languishing lament on the rarely-played observing the disintegrated Viennese society of the known above all for his operatic works. Last on 27 February and plans are underway for electronic instrument the ondes martenot displays a late-1920s, Gruber’s opera has enjoyed stagings in March a new staging of Orest at the Vienna State a Helsinki Festival appearance this summer. wealth of motivic material which unequivocally opens Bregenz, Vienna, Berlin and Hagen. The project envisages the score being performed up both the intellectual as well as the sensual.” Opera was the fifth production of his operatic As part of his American travels in April, Gruber in each of the countries bordering the Arctic. Wiener Zeitung drama after since its premiere in 2011. conducts the US premiere of Northwind Pictures Trojahn’s extensive output encompasses almost “Auerbach has likened the piano to an Inuit spirit guide, www.leraauerbach.com with the New World Symphony in Miami. every genre, performed by renowned international presiding over a vision that leads backward from the artists and attracting numerous prizes and awards. arrival of Europeans in the Arctic to the beginning of Trojahn studied flute with Karlheinz and Gertrud time... The work came to a cataclysmic climax in a Zöller, composition with Diether de la Motte and solemn march... finally cutting off just before it reached Inside this issue… conducting with Albert Bittner. From 1991 to 2017 a satisfying resolution, leaving the opening soundworld he was Professor of Composition at the Robert in dazzled quiet, the vision ripped away.” Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf where his Washington Classical Review pupils included Matthias Pintscher, Elena Mendoza Lera Auerbach’s new 10-minute orchestral work and Anno Schreier. From 2004 to 2006 he was Eve’s Lament was composed for Marin Alsop’s President of the Deutscher Komponistenverband debut concert as Music Director of the Vienna and is a member of the Academies of Arts in Radio Symphony Orchestra in October, with its Dean Kats-Chernin Rouse Glanert Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and . US premiere the following month with the Beethoven takes Berlin stages Tributes for Total Immersion For further information on Manfred Trojahn visit: Baltimore Symphony. The score bears a subtitle a winter’s journey new children’s premiere of in London with www.boosey.com/Trojahn referring to Milton’s Paradise Lost, ‘O flowers, in new opera final symphony Bosch

Dean Piano Concerto rehears Beethoven Brett Dean introduces his new piano concerto for Jonathan Biss, I’ve been exploring how different composers have Testament’s exploration of his aural isolation. Here, written for the instrument through a series of the soloist starts from the upright piano hidden in transporting us to an Austrian village house where Beethoven ‘hommage’ etudes, not only as tributes to the the orchestra, with his muffled sound depicting struggled with family conflict and deafness. obvious keyboard composers such as Bach, Beethoven’s daily struggle to hear his music. Beethoven and Brahms but also to the later Your series of range from after Karl’s attempted suicide, to stay with his figures not typecast in this way such as Janáček, confrontational to collaborative, from brother Johann but there were soon heated Kurtág and Lutosławski. This has allowed me to programmatic to abstract. Where does the Piano arguments and the composer moved to rooms absorb different technical solutions to piano Concerto sit? in a landowner’s farmhouse. This was where he writing which have informed the Piano Concerto. Beethoven’s lonely ego and volatility play into the completed revisions to the Ninth Symphony and Your concerto is being paired with Beethoven’s confrontational side of the concerto and it errs on composed his final string quartet. He returned in ‘Emperor’. Did this influence the composition? the programmatic side because of the historic the depth of winter to Vienna in an open carriage, The work is part of Jonathan Biss’s Beethoven/5 background. While no clear narrative is intended, contracted pneumonia and died three months later. project in which he commissioned five different I’ve given biographical titles to each of the three You’ve explored Beethoven in earlier works such composers to write companion pieces to the five movements that play continuously. The scurrying as Pastoral Symphony and Testament. What Beethoven concerti, and is paired with the final opening records Beethoven’s comment when he keeps drawing you back to the composer? ‘Emperor’ Concerto on concert programmes. first heard the name of Gneixendorf: “that sounds This has a lot to do with my background as Beethoven’s magnificent edifice needed to be held like a breaking axle”. The pensive middle a performer and particularly as an orchestral at arm’s length, but his piece started creeping into movement is titled “Difficult Decisions. Must it musician. Beethoven is a colossus, so huge you my composition and was soon inhabiting it in an be?”, referring to his annotation to the final can’t ignore him, you can only go around him. unexpected way. Subconscious motivic links were quartet, and the closing Epilogue captures one of He is embedded deep in my musical life and I’ve revealed, aspects of the piano figuration came to the last decipherable utterances before his death: inevitably engaged with Beethoven in my later role the surface, and the orchestration is within the “Applause my friends, the comedy is over”. as a composer. Pastoral Symphony has more of paradigm of what Beethoven might have done. an ironic than a musical association with his Sixth Brett Dean Does the Beethoven soundworld go beyond your Photo: Bettina Stoess Symphony, whereas Testament focuses on Piano Concerto (2019) 22’ choice of chamber orchestra forces? specific biographical aspects such as his acute Gneixendorf Music – A Winter’s Journey Your new concerto has a close Beethovenian The brief for the scoring was to follow that of the loss of hearing. In addition to the Piano Concerto connection. Can you explain the subtitle ‘Emperor’ Concerto and I’ve only burst this I’ve written a solo piece for Rudolf Buchbinder’s Commissioned by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Gneixendorf Music – A Winter’s Journey? orchestration slightly by including a percussionist Diabelli 2020 project, touring in the Beethoven Orchestre National de Lyon, Symphony In 2013 I was resident composer at the Grafenegg in addition to the timpanist, and to have a flautist 250th year. Orchestra, BBC Radio 3, NFM Wrocław Philharmonic Festival and had the chance to explore Lower double on alto flute – an instrument not available and Dresden Philharmonie . I came across signs to a ‘Beethoven What’s your relationship with the piano as an in Beethoven’s time. The critical expansion is that House’ in the small village of Gneixendorf and instrument? the soloist plays on an upright piano with practice 13 February 2020 (world premiere) discovered what has to be one of the most I’m a player, so the world of strings is closer pedal as well as on the expected grand piano. Berwaldhallen, mysteriously fascinating episodes in his life. to me than that of the piano. That said I can’t Because of his hearing loss, Beethoven couldn’t Jonathan Biss/Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/ Beethoven had escaped Vienna with his nephew, compose away from a keyboard. In recent years perform the Emperor, and I wanted to follow up David Afkham

Lindberg Shadow of the Future Prokofieff Romeo and Juliet on film (1892-1923) which has always struck me with its optimism. This is despite the future in which she was to see the horrors of the Great War, and the affect upon her of tuberculosis. The expression Shadow of the Future appeals to me because of the questions it raises and the strong tension that emerges between the words ‘future’ and ‘shadow’. It is almost an oxymoron or, at the very least, an anachronistic vision of nature, the future being immaterial and therefore incapable of physically casting its shadow.” Lindberg had delved into Södergran’s poetry, written in Swedish – their shared first language – when writing the cantata Triumph to exist for choir and orchestra, which also received its Finnish premiere in the Helsinki festival. The score, setting seven of her poems, was premiered by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir under Photo: Philip Gatward Vladimir Jurowski in 2018 and has since been Last October saw a major celebration in Helsinki performed in Lisbon and Rome with its French centred on Magnus Lindberg as composer, premiere scheduled for Lille in June. conductor and pianist. The series, presented by

the Finnish Radio Orchestra across nine concerts, Photo: George Piper included the Finnish premiere of his new ensemble “…with shadows work Shadow of the Future by the Tapiola obscuring our future, Prokofieff’s Romeo and Juliet in the new BalletBoyz film with Kenneth MacMillan’s choreography. Sinfonietta. The 17-minute score was created last “It’s been an ongoing quandary: how do you put “...a fresh, dynamic take on a familiar favourite... It drags year as his most recent collaboration with the optimism seems dance on screen?” The question posed by The the story of the two households and their ancient grudge Ensemble Intercontemporain with support from essential…” Guardian was triumphantly answered by Romeo out on to the cobblestones of ‘Verona’... there is a the Fondation Meyer. Signalling a return to Magnus Lindberg and Juliet: Beyond Words, adapting Kenneth breathless immediacy to this treatment which manages ensemble composition after a sequence of major MacMillan’s classic choreography for London’s to embrace the contradictions between tights and toe orchestral scores, the composer described writing Lindberg’s Accused, setting three historic Royal Ballet. The film production by the BalletBoyz shoes and the ugly realities of gang warfare just as surely for an ensemble of soloists: interrogation texts from the French Revolution, – Michael Nunn and William Trevitt – shot on as MacMillan’s choreography contrived to do.” “In order to exploit all the expressive possibilities Stasi times in East and the WikiLeaks location and reduced to 90 minutes, was screened Financial Times era, has been enjoying a flood of recent on BBC2 TV in the UK on New Year’s Day to of the scoring, I explore the whole range of The new film adds to the UK’s recent wave of performances. Soprano Anu Komsi has starred launch the new dance decade with Prokofieff. instrumental combinations offered. Solos, of novel approaches to Prokofieff’s Romeo and course, duets – with particular attention paid to as the defendant in Helsinki, Toronto, Hamburg, “Trevitt’s dynamic cinematography catches the bustle, Juliet. Matthew Bourne’s choreography for New an duo – but also tutti. When writing for Gothenburg, Stockholm, Paris and Berlin. the jostling, the connections between characters… The Adventures, praised for its raw, youthful energy, ensemble today, I am convinced that tutti must The Beethoven year brings further performances romance is heady, the chemistry is palpable, the dancing toured the UK with over 80 performances last year be included, and I want in these tutti to succeed of Lindberg’s Two Episodes, written to segue dreamy… A significant part of the film’s success is down and nationwide cinema screenings. The Guardian in giving the illusion of a much larger orchestra. directly into the Ninth Symphony, including the first to Prokofieff’s music. So vibrant, so ominous, so sublime, described it as “stunningly danced... full of insight “The title is borrowed from a poetry collection US performance in May with the Dallas Symphony with such clear storytelling you’ll come away thinking this and invention, this is a thrilling rethinking of this by the wonderful Finnish poet Edith Södergran under Dalia Stasevska. is the best score in ballet.” The Guardian tale of woe”.

Mackey A Different Drummer tours in France

Steven Mackey’s new concerto, A Different One of the tipping points that made me excited “… the 22-minute work, set in six contiguous Drummer, was premiered by the Dallas Symphony about this piece was to make the orchestral part movements, was a panoply of bizarre orchestral in November with principal Brian Jones and really rich and exciting, so that the timpanist is still textures… Soloist Brian Jones, on a set of four timpani, conductor Gemma New. The work travels to featured but as the driving force behind a full displaying the unique virtuosity and versatility of the Europe in March for a tour by the Orchestre orchestral sound.” instrument through unsettling pitch bending … pounded national d’Île de France including a performance against discordant horns and percussion until a final at the Philharmonie in Paris, with soloist Florian “There’s not a dull moment… Mackey explores sonic movement that ended in a bright exclamation, complete Cauquil under the baton of Case Scaglione. effects of rubbing objects on the drum heads, varying with buzzy drum rolls on snares.” pitch and timbre by striking at different points on the Texas Classical Review In an interview in the Dallas Observer, Mackey heads and producing pitch shifts and slides with the recalled how he learnt as a rock guitar player pedals. These timpani effects are threaded through This month sees David Robertson conducting “that your band is only as good as your orchestral glows and mutters, tinklings and rustlings, Mackey’s concerto Beautiful Passing at drummer… The timpani may not be able to sing a pulsings and rude sounds from brasses, wildly disjunct Juilliard in New York and in May he directs three beautiful melody, but one thing it does better than pitches for bass .” performances of Mnemosyne’s Pool with the

any other instrument is interrupt the orchestra… Dallas Morning News National Symphony in Washington. Photo: Jane Richey

Kats-Chernin Locomotives in Berlin Birtwistle Ter Schiphorst returns to Rilke Assange fragments

Autumn events for Iris ter Schiphorst returned Harrison Birtwistle’s 85th to the Dutch half of her last year ranged across roots for the premiere in the full gamut of his of a new work output, from a new jointly commissioned by staging of his monumental Ensemble Modern and the The Mask of Orpheus at Muziekgebouw. Assange – English National Opera, to Fragments of an Un-time, the premiere of an scored for female voice, intimate work for two ensemble and sampler, voices and chamber illustrates the Berlin-based

Photo: Philip Gatward composer’s personal ensemble, …when falling Photo: Bettina Stoess asleep. Commissioned by Birmingham approach to words and Contemporary Music Group, the new work music, weaving interviews, speeches and internet featured in a pair of birthday concerts presented footage into the ensemble soundscape, while in Birmingham and at the Elbphilharmonie in liberating the extraordinary vocalist Sarah Maria Hamburg, conducted by Geoffrey Paterson. Sun to express the moods of the texts. …when falling asleep sees Birtwistle return to the The 20-minute work explores how urgent issues texts of Rainer Maria Rilke, a poet the composer around the independence of the press and has previously set in his 26 Orpheus Elegies and freedom of expression represented by WikiLeaks Bogenstrich. The new work is intended as a have been blurred by the controversy surrounding companion piece to The Woman and the Hare, the personal history of Julian Assange. It follows and similarly presents a pair of solo voices, a other Ter Schiphorst works examining topical soprano who here sings Rilke’s To Say Before debates, such as the world after 9/11 in Zerstören Going to Sleep, and a speaker who interrupts or II and the Western perception of the Middle East comments with fragmentary texts from AC in The Imaginary of Lacan. Swinburne’s elegy for Baudelaire, Ave atque vale. “The theatrically and vocally convincing Sarah Maria The poetry combines to create a lullaby of Sun ranged from erotic-frightened rhythmic groaning

Photo: Komische Oper/Monika Rittershaus familiar Birtwistle themes of nocturnal darkness, to whispering and hissing… not a single gesture was troubled slumber, and striking clocks. free of feelings of fear and suppression. With her Elena Kats-Chernin’s Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver at the Komische Oper in Berlin. Birtwistle’s latest orchestral work Deep Time immensely rich varied noises and sounds and her receives five performances this season, with suggestive mimicry, Sun cast a spell over the audience.” and powerful way the sea voyage of the amphibious Elena Kats-Chernin’s new opera for children, Baldur Brönnimann conducting the Portuguese Bachtrack Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver, was locomotive, and another for the journey through the premiere with the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Following the premiere of Assange under the premiered at the Komische Opera in Berlin in ‘valley of twilight’ with its echoes, increasing in volume Casa da Música, the Swiss premiere with the baton of Enno Poppe, Ensemble Modern plans November. Based on the much-loved novel by up to the catastrophe.” Berliner Zeitung Basel Sinfonietta and a performance at the Eight German performances in a future season. Last Michael Ende, Jim Knopf und Lukas der Bridges festival in Cologne in May. The following 2019 was a bumper year for Kats-Chernin November, the ensemble presented Iris ter Lokomotivführer, the stagework is the month brings Ryan Wigglesworth to the rostrum stageworks in addition to Jim Button. Her Schiphorst’s score for the Fall of the House of composer’s second foray into the genre for this for Deep Time at the Royal Academy of Music in modern take on Iphis with its gender fluidity was Usher, already heard in Zürich and New York. opera house, following the success of Snow London and at the Aldeburgh Festival. White and the 77 Dwarfs with 30 performances a success in a production at the Staatsoper Stefan Asbury was on the Frankfurt podium since its premiere in 2015. Opening for the festive Hannover, and she took centre-stage at the Deep Time is newly published in the Hawkes accompanying the 1928 silent short film by James season, the 18 performances of Jim Button run with her Whiteley about the Pocket Scores series alongside recent publications Sibley Watson and Melville Webber, notable for its into February. famed Australian artist in an of Responses and 5 Lessons in a Frame. experimental optics. premiere directed by David Freeman. June this “The children are perfectly entertained: by Susanne year brings the first night of her new The Wind in Felicitas Wolf’s libretto, which skilfully gives the story-line the Willows at the Kassel Staatstheater, the first both life and a fluent sense of communication; by opera based on Kenneth Grahame’s classic with I Still Dance in Europe Kats-Chernin’s musically cleverly-structured Singspiel, a new libretto by Jens Luckwaldt. Adams which makes use of exotic elements and instruments John Adams’s latest patterns spread across the orchestra, with The renewed interest in contemporary for such as the sheng, a Chinese mouth organ… orchestral work I Still much of the driving energy coming from the young audiences continues apace. Alongside Kats-Chernin’s second children’s opera for the Dance receives its first exotic instrumentation for djembe, taiko Kats-Chernin, Pierangelo Valtinoni has also been Komische Oper is impressive above all in its central European performances in and bass guitar. enjoying a busy schedule over the past two years scene, Jim and Luke’s descent into hell… accompanied March: the with 75 performances of his works. His Pinocchio “A dazzler… What couldn’t be missed was the jazz by psychedelic circling video projections.” Radio Philharmonic is was a popular hit in recent stagings in Vienna, influence or the marvelous shifting tone colors. You Tagesspiegel conducted by the Turin, Venice and Daejon in South Korea, while don’t know where you’re going, and you don’t expect “Elena Kats-Chernin has shaped the extended story composer in Amsterdam The Wizard of Oz has been programmed in to end up in the luminous glow that seems to say through cheerful and colourful music with dance and the San Francisco Zürich, Berlin, Erfurt and Turin. this is a dance that will go on in the upper reaches rhythms predominating… and pithy musical Symphony is under the long after any of us are still dancing.” orchestration… Kats-Chernin has composed two baton of the work’s For a listing of new youth operas please email Los Angeles Times splendid interludes: one which portrays in a spirited [email protected]. dedicatee Michael Tilson Photo: Christine Alicino Thomas in London. “…a whirlwind of dark orchestral sound… The music This propulsive concert-opener was written exerts a churning, irresistible pull. It’s a tribute to both the to celebrate MTT’s 25th and final season at the continuing fecundity of Adams’ creative imagination and helm of the orchestra and takes the form of a to Thomas’ ability to bring out the composer’s best.” Rouse Sixth Symphony finale single moto perpetuo movement. Pulse-driven San Francisco Chronicle Der gerettete Alberich, Odna Zhizn and 1949–2019 Prospero’s Rooms. His six symphonies are a major contribution to the genre, commissioned by prominent including the New York Vivier in Paris and Amsterdam Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Baltimore major focus on the composer, travelling onward to Symphony and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Berlin for a performance at the Pierre Boulez Saal. Orchestra. Hiérophanie offers a window upon Vivier’s “Speaking of this final work, the composer said: ‘My emerging talent under the tutelage of main hope is that it will communicate something sincere Stockhausen but, as noted in ForumOpera’s in meaning to those who hear it’. Christopher Rouse’s review, “this work is above all a personal Sixth Symphony does that with great feeling, sterling delirium… nothing is too beautiful or too crazy for craft and economy and concentrated dramatic impact in an artist who finds here the first elements of his a work that should quickly become a repertory standard. poetic and emotional language”. Rouse’s Sixth is not only arguably the finest of all his works in the genre but among the handful of truly great The Netherlands is the focal point for Vivier’s music

Photo: Jeffrey Herman Photo: Jeffrey symphonies written by an American composer.” over the coming months, with a concert series Chicago Classical Review presented by the Asko|Schönberg ensemble in The Sixth Symphony by Christopher Rouse, who Amsterdam, Utrecht and Arnhem under the expert died last September, received an acclaimed baton of Reinbert de Leeuw. Highlights include a posthumous premiere in October, a fitting tribute ZaterdagMatinee programme at the to this American orchestral master. Louis Langrée “…a haunting and Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on 29 February with conducted the Cincinnati Symphony and a host of profound farewell.” Wo bist du Licht! and Lonely Child. An all-Vivier critics and supporters of Rouse’s music travelled New York Times concert at the Muziekgebouw on 5 March is built to hear the performance. Classical Voice America around the urban colours of his last completed described the symphony as “a stunning work Et je reverrai cette ville étrange, coupled with summation… complexities have been transformed “…all of Mr. Rouse – contemplative elegy, rowdy the cityscapes of Bouchara and Paramirabo. playfulness, eclectic homage – is in this score,

to a work of economy and transcendent beauty… Hossepied Photo: Ensemble Intercontemporain/Luc Rotterdam’s OperaDays festival in May includes Sophisticated yet instantly accessible, it is sure to masterfully orchestrated and transparently rendered. two performances of Musik für das Ende in the maintain an important place among symphonic Twenty-five minutes long, it has the sweep of Mahler but Vivier’s Hiérophanie at Festival d’Automne in Paris. staging by Canada’s Soundstreams ensemble. masterpieces of the 21st century.” the concision of poetry.” New York Times The continuing fascination with finding theatrical The production by Chris Abraham combines the Christopher Rouse (1949–2019) will be contexts for presenting Claude Vivier’s works title score with Glaubst du an die Unsterblichkeit remembered not only as a leading symphonist, “Rouse’s Sixth Symphony has elements of tragedy, with brought the French premiere of Hiérophanie to der Seele – left unfinished at Vivier’s death – and a but as a pioneer of New Romanticism and a heaven-rending climaxes of shattering impact. But there Paris last September. This 40-minute score, monodrama written by Zack Russell, Il faisait nuit, progressive educator who broadened the range was also evidence of the composer’s love of life in composed at the age of 21 and unveiled drawing on the composer’s letters and diaries to of music on the academic curriculum. Alongside moments of sincere beauty and lightheartedness. Written posthumously in 2010, was performed by the foretell his fateful last night. The European tour, concertos and concert-openers like , with exquisite care, it seems destined to become known Ensemble Intercontemporain under Matthias also visiting the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and the , Thunderstuck and , as one of the symphonic masterpieces of our time.” Pintscher. Silvia Costa’s production was a Concertgebouw in Bruges, is preceded by a run his programmatic works include Iscariot, Cincinnati Business Courier highlight within the Festival d’Automne’s second in Soundstreams’ home city of Toronto.

Glanert Bosch Requiem in London New publications

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