Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited February 2014 2014/1 Andriessen Tapdance for 75th Chin Included in this issue: Louis Andriessen’s 75th birthday year introduces “The first is purely rhythmic, adopting patterns in Sweden MacMillan Tapdance, his new work for percussion and ensemble. from the Charleston – the soloist doesn’t Interview about new dance but portrays the sound of a The largest-ever survey of Unsuk St Luke Passion International celebrations for Louis tapdancer’s footwork. The second introduces Chin’s music took Andriessen’s 75th birthday year in 2014 fixed pitches through a solo toccata for place in Stockholm in combine first performances of new works marimba alone, and the third is a closing slow November with the with retrospectives across his output. His first movement with a single timpani drum, in composer attending large-scale orchestral work for 45 years, which the material is contained within the four enthusiastically Mysteriën, was premiered by the Royal limited span of a sixth. The ensemble received concerts at Concertgebouw Orchestra as a birthday introduces or comments on the material of the Konzerthuset. upbeat in November, and this year brings first the soloist, with its own percussionist acting The Tonsättarfestival, performances of Tapdance, a new work for as a go-between. presented by the percussion and ensemble featuring soloist Photo: Weonki Kim “The large ensemble has 18 players plus Royal Stockholm Colin Currie. strings and produces a ghostly recollection of Philharmonic, featured ten of the South The Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble under the slow jazz blues from the 1950s and ’60s, Korean-born composer’s most important Reinbert de Leeuw presents a pair of with particular reference to the music of scores, including a special emphasis on her Andriessen birthday concerts at the Horace Silver. The trajectory of the piece is five concertos. Viviane Hagner, Alban American Opera Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam on 8 and 9 the opposite to what you might expect: it Gerhardt and Wu Wei repeated their solo latest news including jazz May, followed by the unveiling of Tapdance in moves from energy to melancholy, and is roles in the violin, cello and sheng concertos, opera Champion the ZaterdagMatinee series at the something of a homage to the Percussion while Sunwook Kim introduced a new version Concertgebouw on 24 May. Further Concerto by Milhaud, where positive vigour is of the Piano Concerto and Kammarensemble performances of Tapdance are scheduled in increasingly supplanted by sadness and performed the Double Concerto. desperation – a very intriguing approach.” the autumn at the Southbank Centre in “One can hear music history in the works of Unsuk London with Colin Currie and at the Tromp Another major highlight of the 75th year is an Chin: in the first movement of the orchestral work International Percussion Competition in extensive Andriessen festival in the Graffiti you can observe echoes both of the Eindhoven. Washington DC area including La Commedia violinistic virtuosity of Vivaldi’s concertos and of the (6 April) – the Dante-inspired opera will also dancing lightness of Mendelssohn’s midsummer Driving pulse and exuberant rhythmic fairies. But Unsuk Chin has her own musical interchange have played central roles across appear this year on a new Nonesuch recording. De Materie returns with a concert language and is a free independent voice even in Andriessen’s oeuvre, but the composer was our own time… She is best when long lines of keen to exercise some restraint in the new performance by the Los Angeles development form intriguing tapestries of sound, - 15-minute work: “I’ve tried to avoid the ‘every Philharmonic (18 April) and a new production such as in the swarming Gougalon.” Svenska Dagbladet instrument including the kitchen sink’ by Heiner Goebbels with the Ensemble Modern Orchestra to open the Ruhr Triennale The Swedish affinity with Chin will continue on approach to the percussion concerto by 8 May with the world premiere of her new Maxwell Davies focussing on three spotlit sections for the (15 August) – the work’s German premiere and the first staging of the complete tetralogy Clarinet Concerto by the Gothenburg new concert overture soloist, each exploring distinct characteristics Symphony Orchestra under Kent Nagano, and colours. for 25 years. Ebb of Winter Photo: Francesca Patella with a repeat performance two days later in Stockholm. The work is written for Kari Kriikku who Chin describes as “a musician of electrifying virtuosity, vivid imagination and great culture”. She writes about how the new Strauss150th anniversary work explores the instrument’s “playful and Jenkins ritualistic aspects… Parts of the piece are 2014 is the 150th anniversary special ‘Happy Birthday Mr about a ‘fake folk music’ that is not related to of the birth of Richard Strauss, Strauss’ festival programmed any specific time or place and whose with a feast of his music in the by Brigitte Fassbaender (11-19 seeming simplicity is constantly being at 70 opera house, concert hall, on June). Nearby, the Munich subverted.” radio, and on new recordings. Opera Festival features four Celebrations for The Clarinet Concerto is a prestigious five- Many of the German operas, and there are major Karl Jenkins’s 70th way commission between the Gothenburg composer’s works are among new stagings of Die Frau ohne birthday year were Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, WDR, the most widely performed in Schatten in Leipzig and Der launched Stateside Barcelona Symphony and New York Panufnik the repertoire, while the Rosenkavalier at the Salzburg last month with a Philharmonic. The following commission is a Centenary highlights in anniversary offers the Summer Festival. concert at Carnegie new work for soprano and orchestra, Le Poland and UK opportunity to explore beyond Hall by Distinguished Rare repertoire around Europe Silence des Sirènes, to be premiered by the familiar fare. The first half of Concerts International includes stagings of Feuersnot Barbara Hannigan, the Lucerne Festival 2014 brings over 350 Strauss New York. The in Dresden and Palermo, Academy Orchestra and Simon Rattle in programme conducted opera performances in more Daphne in Frankfurt and Photo: DG/Rhys Frampton August. This is part of a Chin residency at the than 80 productions around by Jonathan Griffith Toulouse, and Die festival, also featuring the Double Concerto the world, with many more featured the US premiere of The Bards of Photo: Booseyprints schweigsame Frau in Chemnitz, with the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the promised in the summer festival Wales, together with Stabat Mater and plus concert performances of Piano Etudes played by Mei Yi Foo. selections from The Armed Man: A Mass for period and the autumn opera season. Guntram in Dresden, Feuersnot in Vienna and A new disc of Chin’s orchestral concertos Peace. The focus shifts to the composer’s Leading the celebrations are the German Die Liebe der Danae in Frankfurt. In the UK has been recorded for future release on Welsh homeland this month, with a artistic centres with special connections to the focus is on ‘Strauss’s Voice’ with a survey Deutsche Grammophon by the Seoul birthday feature within the Classic FM Live Strauss. Dresden presents five operas at the of his complete songs with orchestra shared Philharmonic and Myung-Whun Chung. concert in Cardiff on 10 February, including Semper Opera and on tour to the Salzburg in Manchester between the Hallé and the music from Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary Easter Festival, plus a gala concert on the BBC Philharmonic, and the BBC broadcasts and Requiem, plus Over the Stone with birthday of 11 June conducted by Christian all 15 of Strauss’s operas throughout the harpist Katrin Finch. Thielemann. The town of Garmisch, where 150th anniversary year. London highlights for Jenkins include a Royal Strauss built his villa in 1908 and made his Strauss events around the globe embrace Ginastera Albert Hall 70th birthday concert on 9 May home until his death in 1949, presents a orchestral features in Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul surveying his most popular choral works such and Singapore, Arabella in Tokyo, Ariadne auf new guide as The Armed Man, Requiem, Stabat Mater Naxos in Istanbul, Salome in São Paulo, and and The Peacemakers together with the with the sporting spectacular. The other new productions of Elektra in Buenos Aires As the 2016 centenary of the birth of Alberto Euphonium Concerto featuring soloist David major Welsh celebration for the composer’s and Perth. For further information visit Ginastera approaches, Boosey & Hawkes Childs who recorded the work for Chandos 70th will be an all-Jenkins concert in Cardiff www.boosey.com/strauss and has produced a new guide with CD, last month and is touring Jenkins’s music on 19 September with the BBC National www.operabase.com exploring the Argentinian-born composer’s extensively this year. Jenkins returns to the Orchestra of Wales. music. Royal Albert Hall on 28 September for a special performance of The Armed Man sung Adiemus Colores was released on disc last The catalogue includes an introduction to his by over 600 youth choir singers from the UK, year by Deutsche Grammophon, the first output by Ginastera scholar Deborah Germany, Belgium and France in a First recording under the composer’s new Schwartz-Kates, programming information World War commemorative collaboration. contract. The next disc, for release in the and details of scoring, while the 27 tracks of For further information visit singuk.org. 70th year, will be a collection of his choral the sampler CD take us from the early music featuring Polyphony conducted by nationalistic folk-influenced works such as Jenkins premieres this year include the first Stephen Layton. A number of new Jenkins Panambí and Estancia, through the colourful concert performance of his new Adiemus choral works and a cappella arrangements modernism of the middle years dominated by Colores at the Llangollen International will be published by Boosey & Hawkes linked orchestral and stage works, to the Eisteddfod on 9 July.