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June 2017

Turnage Rattle conducts Remembering Mark-Anthony Turnage’s powerful symphonic work, Remembering, reunites the composer with , while his new Coraline is announced by in London.

January saw the world premiere of Mark-Anthony climactic sounds. The writing is tonal, buoyant, Turnage’s new orchestral work Remembering: impassioned. A variety of bells, plus , celesta and In Memoriam Evan Scofield, performed by the saxophone, shape the orchestration, and offset the dark London Symphony under the baton string colours.” The Observer of Simon Rattle, celebrating afresh the 30-year- long special relationship between composer and conductor. The half-hour score, hailed as “…the music blossoms Turnage’s major symphonic statement of recent in the eloquence of its years, travels on for further performances with the Philharmonic under Rattle this month heartache…” Financial Times and with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a future season. The Royal Opera has announced Turnage’s new stagework Coraline, an opera for family audiences “Present and correct are the Turnage trademarks: thick, due for premiere at the Barbican Theatre in March bluesy riffs, guttural orchestral textures (there are no 2018. Adapting the much-loved classic fantasy tale ) and jagged harmonies. Delivered with soulful by Neil Gaiman, the new opera is staged by Aletta fervour by the LSO, however, the piece also revealed a Collins with Sian Edwards the Britten more romantic, even nostalgic side to Turnage that I’ve Sinfonia. This co-production travels to Opéra de not heard. Remembering was written after the death of Lille, Victorian Opera in Melbourne and Theater a family friend (son of the jazz guitarist John Scofield) Freiburg. and its keening woodwind lines, particularly in a haunting Photo: Philip Gatward/ArenaPAL second movement, and ghosts of baroque forms leaven The composer observes that “the fundamental Mark-Anthony Turnage at The Royal Opera, due to premiere his new operatic version of Coraline in 2018 the instability with consolation.” The Times message beneath the story is that we shouldn’t be afraid to do what we believe is right. Coraline is Recent Turnage works have included the The 2017/18 season includes the first performance “Remembering was about life as well as death. An brave, not because she doesn’t cry or get scared, Japanese-themed Hibiki, receiving its UK premiere of Turnage’s new double , Shadow energetic, pulsating figure, seesawing from double but because despite these things she still tries her at the BBC Proms on 14 August, and Martland Walker, for , Daniel Hope and the basses to high brass, ignites the piece. Taut rhythmic best and doesn’t give up. That’s why I wanted to Memorial given its first performance in April with Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra under patterns and swift melodic motifs in each section write Coraline, because here’s a message well percussion soloist , the Britten-Pears Sascha Goetzel, touring in October to Essen, suddenly break off and shift to fateful, drum-heavy, worth telling; through opera or in any other way.” Orchestra and Marin Alsop. , and Zürich.

of faith, brings together musical styles as diverse Fjellheim as America itself. Aa in Lucerne

Cantus CD Centennial performances will take place in US cities including those Bernstein held dearest The unique soundworld of Norwegian composer to his heart — New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Frode Fjellheim is familiar around the world thanks Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco to the opening track of the Disney animated film celebration — and major international events are scheduled Frozen. This employs his choral work Eatnemen in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Vuelie, sung by the all-female Trondheim-based announced Rome, Budapest, Warsaw, as well as in choir Cantus that has just released its first Japan, China, India, Brazil, Australia, South recording under a new Decca contract, entitled Borggreve Photo: Marco Photo: © Alfred Eisenstaedt Photo: © Alfred Africa and Israel. Northern Lights (Decca 4814814). A two-year global celebration of Leonard Three of the music festivals with which Leonard Michel van der Aa is composer-in-residence at Bernstein, spanning the seasons containing his Bernstein was closely associated — The this summer’s between 13 and centennial year of 2018, was announced last Tanglewood Festival, The Schleswig Holstein 26 August, including the Swiss premieres of four month by the Office in New Music Festival and the Pacific Music Festival — major scores all exploring the festival theme of York. Following the official launch at the Kennedy will pay special attention to his contributions. ‘Identity’. The most recent work is the chamber Center in Washington DC this September, opera for soprano and 3D film, Blank Out, probing more than 1000 events on six continents are Bernstein’s principal recording companies, a tragic mother-son relationship based on the life programmed through to the end of August 2019. Sony and , are issuing and texts of South African writer Ingrid Jonker. commemorative box sets and remastered Already seen in , Rome, Beijing, Leonard Bernstein’s range of accomplishments recordings. There will also be new recordings of and Hannover, the opera features Miah was uniquely broad and, in the new millennium, Bernstein’s music, performed by the successive Persson on stage and Roderick Williams on film. his legacy resonates more than ever. Leonard generations of musicians he inspired. Bernstein at 100 will celebrate the career of this The Book of Disquet for actor, ensemble, and film monumental artist by focusing on four pillars of Bernstein’s musicals will receive revivals is based on the legendary book by Portuguese Bernstein’s legacy: his work as a composer; throughout the world, including a worldwide tour writer Fernando Pessoa, in which he split himself conductor; educator; and activist/humanitarian. of the acclaimed BB Promotion’s West Side into a collection of heteronyms each with their Story; productions of in France, own biographies. The cellist in van der Aa’s Grawemeyer Award-winning concerto Up-close The new disc contains 12 tracks composed by Germany and Austria; and performances of Mass also has an alter ego appearing on film, trying Fjellheim around the ‘yoik’ - a traditional form …composer, educator, in London, Paris, Los Angeles, Glasgow, and urgently to connect with her past, while the of song from the Sami people of the Nordic Austin among other cities. Bernstein’s opera conductor, political concerto Hysteresis sees the soloist countries. Comparable to the chanting of some A Quiet Place will be presented in New York, interacting with a digital double to examine how Native American cultures, the yoik often mimics activist and more… Philadelphia, Vienna and Budapest. material can exhibit memory. the sounds of nature, as heard on the new disc.

Frode Fjellheim comments: “With this new album, Let us know of your Bernstein centennial plans by 2017/18 highlights for van der Aa include the US we hope to expose the world to the rich heritage As a theatre composer, Bernstein and his contacting [email protected]. premieres of Blank Out at the Park Avenue Armory and music in Norway. I’m so proud of the choir, collaborators brought us such outstanding For more information about Leonard Bernstein at in New York in September and Sunken Garden at who’ve worked tirelessly on the recordings.” shows as On The Town, Wonderful Town, West Side Story and Candide. As a composer for the 100, please visit leonardbernstein.com/at100. the Dallas Opera in March 2018. Composer, yoiker and keyboard performer Frode concert hall, Bernstein’s scores boldly united Fjellheim (b.1959) is a Laplander of South Sami diverse musical elements at a time when it was origin, now based in Trondheim, Norway. Trained frowned upon to do so. His courage in mixing at the Trondelag Music Conservatory, Fjellheim genres paved the way for future generations of Inside this issue… has published books on yoik as well as creating composers to take similar risks. new compositions incorporating the style, both for choir and for his band Transjoik where it Bernstein’s compositions embraced the is combined with jazz and ambient electronic world he lived in. For example, his Symphony elements. Fjellheim’s music published by Boosey No.2: The Age of Anxiety, explored the troubling & Hawkes includes a selection of yoik-based times of the 1940s. His musical Candide choral works including Eatnemen Vuelie in a was devised as a protest against the evils of number of voice-part configurations. McCarthyism in the 1950s. West Side Story Adams Gruber Ginastera MacMillan confronted head-on the bitter ramifications of Interview on Girls Bomarzo staged Concerto Visit www.boosey.com/fjellheim and bigotry and prejudice. His prophetic Mass from of the Golden West travels with at Teatro Real premiere in www.facebook.com/frode.fjellheim.artist 1971, which expresses a war-torn nation’s crisis opera premiere Emanuel Ax in Madrid Amsterdam Adams Girls of the Golden West

John Adams introduces his new opera set in the 1850s California to eat, no conveniences like plumbing or medical Do you integrate music from the 1850s with your care, with no legitimate law and order, and own idiom? Gold Rush, premiered in San Francisco in November. with drunken, often violent men threatening I looked at whatever available music from the unpredictable behaviour. Gold Rush era I could find. Most of it was in the Where did the idea and inspiration for the new form of bland parlour music – dance music such stagework come from? Are your ‘girls’ of the Gold Rush real or invented as gallops, ecossaises, etc – none of which had Peter Sellars and I had been kicking around ideas people? the kind of zing and sassiness of the written texts, for a new opera and coming up dry. Then he They are definitely real people. Louise Clappe, so I decided it wouldn’t be interesting to try to proposed a ‘Fanciulla del West’ with real sourced born in Massachusetts, married a young incorporate it. But instead I think I invented a kind stories, authentic texts and historical characters in physician and came to San Francisco with him of punchy music that matches the people and the place of the romantic fluff of the Belasco libretto. in 1850. They ended up in a tiny camp in the way they spoke and acted. Naturally I liked the idea, because the California Sierras where he was a doctor and also tried to Gold Rush is very close to home for me. I knew the dig gold (unsuccessfully). Using the pen-name It must be a pleasure to compose a stage work background history and the exact terrain where it ‘Dame Shirley’ she wrote a series of marvellously that originates in the California which you’ve all happened as I’ve had a cabin in the Californian descriptive letters which are so vivid and witty that adopted and obviously love. Sierras for 40 years. The subject also seemed to I could set them to music without altering barely Indeed! Over the past two years, as I’ve worked chime with what is now going on in our country. a word. on the opera, I’ve been aware of how many social and historical parallels exist between the You’re known for your that address very Another woman, Josefa Segovia, was a young get-rich-quick mood of the Gold Rush and our contemporary issues, so is this older historical Mexican who worked in a hotel bar in the village of current mad obsession with wealth and material subject something new? Downieville, just a few miles from where my cabin acquisition. The premiere in San Francisco will On one hand it will look and probably sound more is located. She was harassed on the night of July take place only a few miles from Silicon Valley, ‘historical’ than, for instance, Doctor Atomic or 4th 1851 by a drunken white miner. She fought where extravagant fortunes and hyperbolic Nixon in China. But the truth of the matter is, the back, stabbing and killing him and was summarily overvaluation are a way of life. Gold Rush was rife with the same kind of social tried and hanged the next day. That event is the Adams Girls of the Golden West and political conflicts that we’re experiencing right culminating moment in Act II. now – nativism, racism, opportunistic greed and (2015-17) 145’ environmental degradation. That makes the opera And you have the famous Lola Montez – how is it Opera in two acts sound awfully grim! In fact our stories are socially that this former consort of King Ludwig of Bavaria Libretto compiled from original sources pointed AND at the same time very entertaining. appears in California? by Peter Sellars Lola Montez had to flee or else be Commissioned by San Francisco Were there many women active during the arrested and put in jail, so brought her travelling Opera, The Dallas Opera and Dutch Gold Rush? act, including her infamous ‘Spider Dance’, to National Opera There were very few and they lived extremely the US and ended up performing in Gold Rush 21 November 2017 (world premiere) Photo: Christine Alicino hard lives. It takes a stretch of the imagination to California. I couldn’t resist the idea of inserting a 24/26/29 November, 2/5/7/10 December Credit: M.& N. Hanhart Chromo Lith, and Frank Marryat (Library of Congress) M.& N. Hanhart Chromo Credit: understand how crude and miserable it had to be little ‘scena’ in which Lola does her Spider Dance. War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco for a woman to survive in a tent through a Drawing of San Francisco in the 1850s at the time of I guess it will be my Yankee version of Salome’s Director: Peter Sellars the Gold Rush mountain winter with only onions and potatoes ‘Seven Veils’, only without the severed head. Conductor: Grant Gershon

Gruber Ax launches new concerto Rouse Symphony No.5 in Dallas

“…this is an intricate and provocative score, a 24-minute Christopher Rouse’s latest symphony, referencing “Rarely does a brand-new piece single movement concerto that unfolds with inexorable Beethoven’s own fifth, was premiered by the of music really grab me and keep sweep and rhythmic persistence… Stark passages of Dallas Symphony under Jaap van Zweden in me completely engaged on first pointillist writing in the piano turn wild, like avant-garde February. Further performances are planned hearing. But the world premiere jazz improvisations. The piano continues to twist and at this summer’s Aspen Music Festival and by of Christopher Rouse’s brilliant, turn, with dreamy harmonies segueing into frenetic, the Nashville Symphony in October, conducted exciting and at times hauntingly toccata-like eruptions. The orchestra sometimes swells by Joshua Weilerstein and Giancarlo Guerrero beautiful Fifth Symphony with startling Expressionist angst. Yet for all the gnashing respectively. The new 25-minute work grew from had that effect. Judging by harmonies and splintered phrases, the music is run Rouse’s life-long love of Beethoven’s music, with the roaring ovation after the through with hints of Kurt Weill cabaret… Mr. Ax deftly an overt revisiting of the familiar four-note motto Dallas Symphony Orchestra navigated the concerto’s mercurial quick-cuts in his theme of the fifth symphony as well as other performance, lots of others were

scintillating and colourful performance…” embedded references. similarly affected.” Dallas News Herman Photo: Jeffrey

Photo: © Christopher Lee New York Times Texas Classical Review noted that “over the Rouse’s orchestral work Odna Zhizn is performed HK Gruber with Alan Gilbert and Emanuel Ax in past 30 years, the American composer has in September by the Kansas City Symphony New York steadily produced an impressive row of and November brings the world premiere of his new work for Marin Alsop and the Baltimore HK Gruber’s new Piano Concerto for Emanuel “… the Romantic solo symphonies (along with a substantial body of Symphony, , written as a memorial Ax enjoyed first performances with the New concerto is bypassed with other works). With this new addition to the list, tribute to fellow composer and Cornell alumnus York Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert and the he can stake claim to the title of the leading . with Simon Rattle. Ax travels a raised eyebrow…” American symphonist of our time.” Der Tagesspiegel with the concerto for further performances in November from co-commissioners the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zürich and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and next March reaches Gruber’s “Ax’s ability to inhabit and project every twist and turn of home city with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra this one-movement, variations-style concerto was what BBC Proms 14 July - 9 September 2017 and Paris with the Orchestre Philharmonique de really made the sale with the audience, whose response Radio France. went far beyond the respectful applause usually accorded new pieces… The concerto was welcomed The composer’s customary skill at blending genres into the world with a warm ovation at the end.” was noted by the Financial Times’s reviewer in New New York Classical Review York, describing how the concerto “toys knowingly with jazz, swing, pop, serialism and even a touch “HK Gruber’s Piano Concerto moves between of old-fashioned romanticism…” Soloist Emanuel improvised free jazz and composed variations. The Ax was praised for his virtuosity at negotiating “the rhythms and moods of what is, all in all, an absolutely oddly zigzagging chords with infectious aplomb sparkling piece alternate like quicksilver. As dedicatee supported by calm energy… The composer, clearly of the work, Emanuel Ax delivers his exceedingly touched by his interpreter’s faithful bravura and complicated part with great cool.” Kulturradio, Berlin bravado, rewarded him during wildly applauded The Swedish premiere of the Piano Concerto curtain calls with much deserved hugs… the in November is a highlight within an extensive crescendo of approval was well deserved.” Gruber festival at the Stockholm Konserthuset. Photo: ©

New music highlights Mark-Anthony Turnage Barenboim premieres Hibiki (UK premiere) Borowski 14 August 2017 Deep Time (UK premiere) Berlin-based composer but this year also introduced Borowski’s earlier /Mihoko Fujimura/ 16 July 2017 Johannes Boris Borowski is Piano Concerto. Composed in 2010-11, the work Finchley Childrens Music Group/ Staatskapelle Berlin/ enjoying collaborations with was recorded by Wergo with as New London Children’s Choir/ Daniel Barenboim this year soloist, who returned for the belated concert Mark Simpson BBC Symphony Orchestra/Kazushi Ono including two major premieres. premiere in Cologne in March with the WDR The Immortal (London premiere) His ensemble work Encore Symphony Orchestra under Manuel Nawri. 27 July 2017 Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance (London premiere)

Photo: Martin Becker was commissioned for the Christopher Purves// Both works explore the dramatic relation of 9 September 2017 opening season of the new Boulez Concert Hall Crouch End Festival Chorus/ soloist and orchestra: in the Piano Concerto BBC Symphony Orchestra/

at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin and BBC Philharmonic/Juanjo Mena Photo: Hanya Chlala/ArenaPAL the keyboard acts under reflex like a marionette was premiered last month under Barenboim’s BBC Proms highlights also include a John Adams 70th seeking emancipation, while in Stretta the music James MacMillan baton. November brings the first performance of birthday feature from the First Night to the Last, a new moves from monumental structures to playful A European (UK premiere) Borowski’s Stretta, with Barenboim as concerto orchestral fanfare by Lotta Wennäkoski for the Last Night, character episodes. Borowski quotes Barenboim: 30 July 2017 soloist and the Staatskapelle under the first Proms performance of Stravinsky’s Funeral Song, “Music is not about being safe. Music is about Iestyn Davies/Jacques Imbrailo/ at the Berlin Philharmonie. plus music by Andriessen, Bernstein, Copland, Elgar, courage, and courage means risk”. This month BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra/ Maxwell Davies, Prokofieff, Shostakovich and Strauss. It is rare for a composer to have two substantial brings a further premiere with Borowski’s new CBSO Chorus/BBC National Chorus of Wales/ works for piano and orchestra premiered so close, String Quartet No.2 in Stuttgart. Xian Zhang www.bbc.co.uk/proms Willems Impressing the Czar MacMillan

James MacMillan travelled to Amsterdam in April for the world premiere of his Trombone Concerto, the latest in an admired series of recent works for solo instrument and orchestra. Written for Dutch trombonist Jörgen van Rijen, whose solo career has introduced a number of by leading contemporary composers, the 25-minute work was launched by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer. Further performances see the Trombone Concerto journeying with van Rijen to in Antwerp, Geneva, Oulu, Cottbus and Dallas. “The new work proved to be vintage MacMillan. There’s a wonderful mixture of timbres, sacral glowing melodies, rich chording and ear-splitting eruptions of sound – all in a kaleidoscopic form with a unifying hymn theme… it works in MacMillan’s hands, perhaps because of the magical orchestration, in which liquid woodwinds drip through a fine sonic mesh of harp and vibraphone. Or

where unusual echoes follow one another in strings, Photo: Philip Gatward/ArenaPAL piano and harp. Or when sudden apocalyptic cacophony emerges from percussion, brass and a siren.” of the pilgrimage site’s centenary programme. NRC Handelsblad The celebrations remember the series of Marian apparitions to three children in 1917 culminating in the prediction of a divine visitation on 13 October “…this magnificent which attracted over 50,000 to travel to the town, Photo: Ian Whalen concerto enriches the many the sun dancing across the heavens. Ballet Semperoper Dresden in William Forsythe’s Impressing the Czar with music by Thom Willems The composer describes how “The Sun Danced repertoire…” De Trouw will receive its premiere in the Basilica at Fátima The music of Thom Willems, inextricably linked “Impressing the Czar ends with a mock auction for the exactly 100 years after the Miracle of the Sun. with the classic choreography of William Forsythe, arts and a blast of energy in the form of a two-part finale. “The trombone sang, sang, sang… then suddenly The miraculous events made this unremarkable continues to travel the world as their collaborations Thirty-eight men and women in ‘catholic schoolgirls’’ a spectacular mating dance of four à la little Portuguese town famous throughout the enjoy frequent revivals or are added afresh to wigs and uniforms, as Forsythe puts it, return for a Stockhausen. At the very end van Rijen and MacMillan world, and provided the focus of an amazing the repertoires of ballet companies. One of their hilariously unhinged ritual. Here, meets struck me down completely: between the serene ongoing spiritual phenomenon.” Two days after largest-scale achievements, the full-evening MTV music videos and twerking…” Financial Times harmonies which came to a moment of rest, the the Fátima premiere, the Gulbenkian Orchestra Impressing the Czar, was restored to the stage by In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated continues to trombone once more entered with a heart-breaking and Choir conducted by Joana Carneiro perform the Semperoper Ballet in Dresden in 2015, toured enjoy an independent life as one of Forsythe’s eruption… the wonderful beauty of despair… It is a the 15-minute work in Lisbon. to Antwerp last year and Paris this January, and most popular ballets for triple bills, returning to concerto for eternity, and trombone players could use will return to Dresden in January next year. one.” De Trouw MacMillan has recently transcribed his Miserere English National Ballet at Sadler’s Wells in March for orchestra alone and the new version entitled and scheduled by Zürich Ballet in November. “…William Forsythe’s 1988 masterpiece, Impressing This autumn brings the world premiere of a new Larghetto will be premiered by the Pittsburgh The Daily Telegraph described it in London as “a the Czar, a riotous deconstruction of ballet’s history, MacMillan work for soprano, choir and orchestra, Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck bold regeneration of the classic dance vocabulary technique and performance practices… The first part, commissioned by the Shrine of Fátima as part on 27 October. and instantly recognised as a contemporary Potemkine’s Signature, is an absurd collage of characters masterpiece. It’s a dazzling spectacle, performed and references that turns ballet history on its head. Lush with fierce intensity by the company… who rise historical costumes cohabit with sleek leotards and a to the challenge of the choreography’s technical faun-like figure, just as phrases from Raymonda suddenly demands and the thrusting electronic score.” morph into stretched neoclassical lines… Stravinsky Other recent Forsythe ballet productions with “Forsythe’s real trick is to combine postmodern music by Willems include the complete Herman disruption with a thorough understanding of the classical Schmerman in Paris and its pas de deux in Lisbon technique, and the second act, In the Middle, Somewhat and New York. Enemy in the Figure ended a is animated Elevated, is an exhilarating demonstration. Originally Forsythe triple bill in Madrid and Pas./Parts, recently created as a stand-alone piece for the Paris Opéra Ballet, given its US premiere by San Francisco Ballet, will it got a hero’s welcome back at the Palais Garnier… also be staged next year by Boston Ballet.

Ginastera Bomarzo in Madrid Photo: Komische Oper/Iko Freese

Petrushka at the Komische Oper in Berlin, staged by 1927 with animations by Paul Barritt

A startling new production of Stravinsky’s breathless wit. Paul Barritt’s clever animations blend Petrushka, combining mime, acrobatics, cartoon stop-motion, paper dolls, collage and magic in a visual and video, was premiered in Berlin in January. aesthetic that recalls Eastern Bloc children’s films from This saw the return of the British performance the 1970s, but with naughty bits.” Financial Times collective 1927 that had worked with Barrie Kosky Photo: © Javier del Real “…a riot of continuous animation (by the brilliant on his hit Magic Flute at the Komische Oper five Paul Barritt), combining stop-motion and collage Ginastera’s opera Bomarzo in Pierre Audi’s production for the Teatro Real in Madrid years before. with techniques drawn from silent cinema. Petrushka The Spanish premiere of Alberto Ginastera’s expressionism that is highly expressive, with moments “Petrushka is a tour de force, an exuberant torrent unfolded as an agitprop carnival… a constantly opera Bomarzo was a fitting close to the special of huge and rich sonic substance… Pierre Audi’s of imagery that tells Stravinsky’s fairground tale with churning funhouse of a production.” Opera News events staged for the composer’s centenary. The tormented, often claustrophobic production enhances production by Pierre Audi, conducted by David the opera’s musical values… It translates the themes Afkham, featured tenor John Daszak probing the of oppression but also the enigmatic beauty of those complex psychology of the title role. El Mundo monsters – physical and moral – that, as in Goya Immortal returns described how the opera’s “presentation here in produce the dream of rationality. El Mundo Simpson Madrid, almost half a century after its composition, “Bomarzo is a retrospective account before the death Mark Simpson’s oratorio Messages from the beyond were reputedly has been brilliant… A real achievement and of the duke, who believes he has drunk a potion for exploring aspects of the received from the psychical researcher Frederic a triumph for the Teatro Real that deserves immortality. In these moments the action visits key afterlife, The Immortal, is heard Myers, who was tortured by a secret love affair to be applauded.” episodes that forged his life, marginalised by his at the BBC Proms on 27 with tragic consequences. The composer writes deformity but also pursued by his own demons… July, following its successful that “the huge space of the Royal Albert Hall is The duke sits, locked in his labyrinth, twinned with the premiere at the Manchester a perfect setting for this larger than life oratorio. “…Bomarzo is a potion Minotaur, and sings in a search for answers… There are International Festival in I’m looking forward to hearing the music echoing that disturbs the senses…” elements of Edvard Munch and also of Franz Kafka, with 2015. The 30-minute score Photo: Kaupo Kikkas around the hall – the wave of voices, human and those unclassifiable monsters that prowl the stage. La Nación attracted critical plaudits with The Times hailing orchestral, should be enveloping and perhaps it as “the most thrilling new choral work I have even supernatural.” “The imposing setting of Bomarzo in Madrid transports heard for years” and The Guardian describing it the spectator to a dreamlike galaxy and right from the This summer unveils Simpson’s new commission as “a blazingly original oratorio”. This first London “Near Viterbo, Duke Piero Francesco Orsini, himself opening takes us down that rabbit hole, just like Alice… for the Gould Piano Trio, After Avedon, whose performance features soloist Christopher Purves, physically deformed, built a garden of monstrous statues The dancers are transformed into peacocks, monsters, movements are responses to four portraits by the massed choirs and the BBC Philharmonic under that inspired Mujica Láines to create his monumental ghosts and masks, to bring according to the setting, influential American photographer. The composer Juanjo Mena. novel Bomarzo, from which he crafted an opera libretto sensuality or grotesque imagery… Bomarzo is an elixir is currently working on a new concerto for for the greatest Argentine composer… Alberto Ginastera of sounds and pictures that scream and scratch at Melanie Challengers’s text for The Immortal Leonard Elschenbroich as part of his Composer composed a powerful opera with an aesthetic of stark a perennial human trait: solitude.” La Nación delves into the Late Victorian world of séances. in Association rôle with the BBC Philharmonic. Offenbach Fantasio in Paris New publications Roger Quilter arr. McPhee/C.Matthews Collected Songs Variations on a Theme Vocal score (High voice) of Frank Bridge 979-0-051-93456-0 £18.99 Two piano score Vocal score (Low voice) 979-0-060-13093-9 £45.99 979-0-051-93457-7 £18.99

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