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Composers MICHAEL FINNISSY. Tlie History of Photography in Sound (first complete performance —29 January/London, R.A.M./ JOHN ADAMS. El Nino (German premiere)-15 ApriJ/ Ian Pace (pno). Berlin, Philharmonie/Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt- Lieberson, Willard White, London Voices, Deutsche SO c. GERALD FINZI (d.1956). In Years Defaced (premiere of Kent Nagano. cycle of six songs arrnaged for orchestra by the composer and JUDITH WEIR, COLIN MATTHEWS, ANTHONY JULIAN ANDERSON. Tlie Bird Sings With its Fingers (prePAYNE- , CHRISTIAN ALEXANDER and JEREMY miere)—9 February/London, Imperial College/Sinfonia 21 c. DALE ROBERTS)-19 May/Newbury Festival/Philip Martyn Brabbins. Langridge (ten), Cityu of London Sinfonia c. Richard Hickox.

LOUIS ANDRIESSEN. Tlie New Math(s) (UK premiere)-1 DETLEV GLANERT. Mahler/Skizze (UK premiere)-!6 March/London, Barbican/Electra. February/Glasgow/BBC Scottish SO c. Martyne Brabbins. Karikaturcn (premiere)—5 May/Berlin, Konzderthaus/ WILLIAM ATTWOOD. Pascal's Dungeon (premiere)-20 Kammersymphonie Berlin c. Jiirgen Bruns. February/London, Blackheath Concert Halls/Janey Miller (oboe d'amore), Joby Burgess (perc). ALEXANDER GOEHR. Piano Quintet (premiere)-30 March/New York, Carnegie Hall/Peter Serkin (pno), Orion GERALD BARRY has completed a work for the Vanburgh Quartet. Suite for violin and piano (premiere)—25 April/ String Quartet; he is writing a work for children's choir and Harvard/Pamela Frank (vln), Peter Serkin (pno). chamber orchestra, commissioned for the 50' birthday cele- brations of the South Bank Centre, and an opera based on HK GRUBER. Aerial; Charivari (Australian premieres)-28 Fassbaender's Tlie Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. April/Melbourne/Hakan Hardenberger (tpt), Melbourne SO c. composer. SALLY BEAMISH. Exile (UK premiere) - 16 February / Bromsgrove / Nigel Robson (ten), Howard Moody (pno). RAYMOND HEAD. The Fires of Prometheus (premiere)-16 February/Chipping Norton Theatre/Yoshiko Endo (pno). JORG BIRKENKOTTER. Drei Satze und Coda (premiere) —11 March/Berlin, Musik-Biennale/Trio Accanto. HANS WERNER HENZE. Symphony No.9 (US premiere)-23 February/New York, Avery Fisher Hall/NYPO, SIR HARRISON BIRTWISTLE. Tlie Last Supper (London Berlin Radio Choir c. Kurt Masur. Apollo trionfante (UK pre- premiere; concert performance)—26 January/London, Queen miere)-! 1 March/London, Royal Festival Hall/RNCM Elizabeth Hall/GIyndebourne Touring Opera c. Elgar Wind Ensemble. Five Neapolitan Songs (UK premiere of Howarth. Birtwistle is composing a new orchestral work for chamber version)—22 March/London, Purcell Room/Lisa the Cleveland Orchestra. Milne (sop), Wolfgang Holzmair (bar), Nash Ensemble c. Diego Masson. Fraternite (UK premiere)—29 March/ London, DANIEL BORTZ. En gycklares beratteiser (Recorder Royal Festival Hall/Philharmonia c. Christoph von Dohnanyi. Concerto) (premiere)—15 February/Stockholm/Dan Laurin (rec), Stockholm Royal PO c. B. Tommy Andersson. KENNETH HESKETH. Die Hangende Figur ist Judas (premiere of solo cello version)—9 February/London, The MARTIN BUTLER has completed a chamber opera, A Warehouse/Zoe Martlew (vie). Netsuki (premiere)—31 Better Place, commissioned for English National Opera. March/London, Purcell Room/Endymion Ernsemble.

ELLIOTT CARTER. Wliat Next? (UK premiere, concert STEFAN HEUCKE. Die Ordnung der Izrde for dancers, performance)—1 May/London, Queen Elizabeth Hall/ singers and orchestra (premiere)—27January/Gelsenkirchen/ London Sinfonietta c. Oliver Knussen. Ballet Schindowski, soloists from the Schillertheater-NRW, Neue Philharmonie Westialen c. Samuel Biichli. RICHARD CAUSTON has completed a Percussion Concerto for Evelyn Glennie. MANUEL HIDALGO. Monotonie : ich bin die Einsamkeit (premiere)—11 March/Berlin, Musik-Biennale/Trio BRETT DEAN. Beggars and Angels (UK premiere)-23 Accanto. March/London, Maida Vale/BBC Symphony Orchestra c. Grant Llewellyn. NICOLAUS A. HUBER. Rose Selavy (premiere)-3 March/ Cologne Radio/MusikFabrik c. Jacques Mereier. STEPHEN DODGSON. Recorder Concerto (premiere)- 31 March/Wolverhampton/John Turner (rec), Goldberg ADRIAN JACK. String Quartet No.4 (premiere)-8 Ensemble c. Malcolm Layfield. February /London, St.JoVin's Smith Square/Arditti Quartet.

HENRI DUTILLEUX is writing a work for soprano and DAVID JOHNSON. Sorry, False Alarm (premiere)-5 April/ orchestra commissioned for Dawn Upshaw and the Berlin London, RAM, Sir Jack Lyons Theatre/opera students of the Philharmonic. Royal Academy of Music.

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ELENA KATS-CHERN1N. Kosky Tango (premiere)-7 ALWYNNE PRITCHARD. Matrix for amplified violin March/Helsinki, Musica Nova/Zagros Ensemble. Vilalia's (premiere)-l February/London, Tabernacle/Darragh Steps (US premiere)-22 March/Chicago/Evelyn Glennie Morgan (vln). (perc), Emanuel Ax (pno). Zoom and Zip (UK premiere)—23 March/London, Maida Vale/BBC Symphony Orchestra c. WOLFGANG RIHM. Bide der Handschrift (UK premiere)- Grant Llewellyn. 30 January/London, BMIC/Clare Lesser (sop), David Lesser (pno). ROBERT KEELEY. Juegitos (premiere)-14 February/London, Goldsmiths College/Simon Limbrick (solo percussion & NED ROREM. Time Sisters Wlio Are Not Sisters; Bertha; Fables electronics). (UK stage premieres)—19 February/London, Bridewell Theatre/Bridewell Theatre Opera Group. VOLKER DAVID KIRCHNER. String Quartet No.2 (premiere)^ February/Neuweid-Engers/Villa Musica String CHRISTOPHER ROUSE. Rapturedux (premiere)-5 May/ Quartet. Manchester, Bridgewater Hall/RNCM Manchester International Cello Festival ensemble. Clarinet Concerto GRAHAM KOEHNE. Tivoli (premiere)-18 May/ (premiere)—17 May/Chicago/Larry Combs (cl), Chicago SO Melborne, State Theatre/Australian Ballet and Sydney Dance c. Christoph Eschenbach. Company, chor. Graeme Murphy. IRIS TER SCH1PHORST. Hundert Komma Null (UK pre- BENJAMIN LEES. Percussion Concerto (UK premiere)-30 miere)-! 6 February/Glasgow/BBC Scottish SO c. Martyne March/Guildfbrd/Trinity orchestra c. John Gibbons. Brabbins.

NICOLA LEFANU. Catena (premiere)-5 January/London, STEFFEN SCHLEIERMACHER. Eher was fiir Madonna & Purcell Room/Opus 20 c. Scott Stroman. Janet & Bjbrk alsfiir Nicolaus & Helmut & Hans (premiere)- 11 March/Berlin, Musik-Biennale/Trio Accanto. JOHN McCABE. The Goilden Valley (premiere)-17 February/Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall/Merseyside Youth ENJOTT SCHNEIDER. Sisyphos, symphony for percussion orchestra c. Clark RundelL Arthur Part II: Le Mort d'Arthurand orchestra (premiere)—10 February/Munich/Stefan Blum (premiere)-9 May/London, Sadlers Wells/Birmingham (perc), Munich SO c. Heiko Mathias Forster. Royal Ballet, chor. David Bintley. (premiere of Parts 1 & 2 as complete ballet cycle)—12 May/same place and performers. MELANIE SCHOENBERG. Harmony and Malady (premiere)-17 February/New York, Carnegie Hall/Proteus 5. JOHN McLEOD. Symphonies of Stone and Water (premiere) —12 Fgebruary/Edinburgh, Queen's Hall/ECAT Ensemble KURT SCHWERTSIK. Baumgesange (Australian premiere) c. James Wood. -28 April/Melbourne/Melbourne SO c. HK Gruber.

JAMES MACMILLAN. Tile Prophecy (Italian premiere and HOWARD SKEMPTON is composing a work for double premiere of new version)—12 March/Milan, La Scala/ chorus commissioned by the BBC Singers. Cristina Zavalloni, Sentieri selvaggi. Cello Sonata No.2 (premiere)—17 April/Edinburgh, Queen's Hall/Julian Lloyd KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN is composing a large-scale Webber (vie), John Lenehan (pno). choral work for the Dutch Radio Choir of Hilversum.

SIR PETER MAXWELL DAVIES. Symphony No.8, JOHN TAVENER. lero Oniro (A Sacred Dream) (premiere)- Antartica (premiere)—6 May/London, Royal Festival Hall/ 30 January/London, Wigmore Hall/Patricia Rozario (sop), Philharmonia c. composer. Nash Ensemble c. Lionel Friend.

RICHARD MILLS. Symphonic Poems (premiere)-30 MICHAEL TORKE. Rapture (premiere)-22 February/ March/Brisbane/Queensland SO c. composer. Batavia (pre- Glasgow/Colin Currie (perc), RSNO c. Marin Alsop. miere)—! 1 May/Melbourne/Opera Australia c. composer. DAVID DEL TREDICI. Gay Life (premiere)-3 May/San LLOYD MOORE. Quint (premiere)-24 March/Bristol, Francisco/William Sharp (bar), San Francisco Symphony c. St.George's Brandon Hill/Brunei Ensemble c. Christopher Michael Tilson Thomas. Austin. MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE. Silent Cities (US pre- ISABEL MUNDRY. Feme Ndhe (premiere)-16 March/ miere)—22 February/Dallas/Dallas SO c. Graeme Jenkins. Berlin, Musik-Biennale/Arditti Quartet. UNSUK CHIN. Kala for soli, chorus and orchestra (pre- PETER NELSON. A Bush of Ghosts (premiere)-12 February/ miere)^ March/Gothenburg/Gothenburg SO and Chorus Edinburgh, Queen's Hall/ECAT Ensemble c. James Wood. c. Peter Eotvos. Miroir des temps (German premiere)—29 March/Leipzig, Gewandhaus/Hilliard Ensemble, Gewandhaus PER N0RGARD. Terrains Vagues (premiere)-l April/Orchestra c. Kent Nagano. London, Barbican Centre/BBC Symphony Orchestra c. Sir Andrew Davis. GRAHAM WILLIAMS. Before the Song (premiere)-4 February/London, Jacksons Lane Theatre/Capital Oboe HELMUT OEHRING. Marie B. (Seven Chambers) (preQuintet- . miere)-10 April/Paris/Kronos Quartet. WALTER ZIMMERMANN. Erased-Retmced (premiere)- PAUL PATTERSON. Octet (premiere)-30 March/ 22 January/Cologne, WDR/Uta Buchheister (mezzo), Trio Wolverhampton/Goldberg Ensemble dir. Malcolm Layfield. dolce, ensemble recherche c. Holger Noltze.