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February 2014 2014/1 Andriessen Tapdance for 75th Chin Included in this issue: ’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 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 alone, and the third is a closing slow November with the with retrospectives across his output. His first movement with a single drum, in 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 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 “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 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 . Viviane Hagner, Alban American 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 , 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 by Milhaud, where positive vigour is of the Concerto and Kammarensemble performances of Tapdance are scheduled in increasingly supplanted by sadness and performed the . desperation – a very intriguing approach.” the autumn at the Southbank Centre in “One can hear music history in the works of Unsuk 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 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 Orchestra to open the Ruhr Triennale The Swedish affinity with Chin will continue on approach to the 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 Concerto by the Gothenburg new concert overture soloist, each exploring distinct characteristics Symphony Orchestra under , 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 , 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 , concert hall, on June). Nearby, the subverted.” radio, and on new recordings. Opera Festival features four Celebrations for The Clarinet Concerto is a prestigious five- Many of the German , and there are major ’s 70th way commission between the Gothenburg composer’s works are among new stagings of Die Frau ohne birthday year were Symphony, , 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 and orchestra, Le and UK opportunity to explore beyond Hall by Distinguished Rare repertoire around 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 in programme conducted opera performances in more 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 : A Mass for period and the autumn opera season. Guntram in Dresden, Feuersnot in and A new disc of Chin’s orchestral concertos Peace. The focus shifts to the composer’s Leading the celebrations are the German 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 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 : Songs of Sanctuary Easter Festival, plus a gala concert on the BBC Philharmonic, and the BBC broadcasts and , 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. 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 singers from the UK, year by Deutsche Grammophon, the first output by Ginastera scholar Deborah , Belgium and 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 . 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. The performance, to the disc. heightened lyricism of his final decade. conducted by the composer, takes place during the FIFA World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Jenkins is currently working on a new The new guide is bilingual in English and and the South American colours of Jenkins’s 40-minute choral Mass, inspired by St Luke Spanish, and a separate German edition is 70-minute work for choir and ensemble, rich and themes of healing, due for premiere also available. To request a copy please email in samba, tango and , should chime this autumn. [email protected] MacMillan St Luke Passion Del Tredici James MacMillan’s new St Luke Passion, premiered in Amsterdam on 15 March, turns Dum Dee the spotlight on the chorus and returns to Baroque roots. Tweedle You have been continually drawn back to listening to youth involving my own the Passion narrative. Why is this? children over the years. ’s opera Dum Dee I’ve always enjoyed a fruitful fascination Tweedle received its belated world Since the St John Passion, you’ve with the Passion story, and there are deep premiere in November with expanded your sequence of Strathclyde reasons through history why artists and Leonard Slatkin at the helm of the Motets. How has that influenced your choral composers have been attracted to it, right Detroit Symphony Orchestra. writing? up to our own times. The story is Composed in 1995, the work is a Up to 2005 I’d written works of varying compelling and the images are powerful, complete setting of the fourth

difficulty, up to challenging repertoire for Photo: Paula Court prompting a variety of responses. Each chapter of Lewis Carroll’s Through choirs of professional soloists such as The time I return to it I try and find different the Looking-Glass for narrator, four soloists, choir and Sixteen or the BBC Singers. But since then perspectives. Some works are purely orchestra. The surreal nature of the Carroll original is I’ve also wanted to create a body of work instrumental reflections following Haydn’s reflected in the whirling pace of Del Tredici’s music, that could be tackled seriously and example, such as my Fourteen Little encountering Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the realistically by good university, church or Pictures for piano trio, or the Triduum of Walrus and the Carpenter, and of course Alice, within community choirs. I’ve spent my life with orchestral works written in the mid-90s. a total duration of 80 minutes. As the composer amateur choirs and value their contribution, Others follow more familiar formats with states: “Dum Dee Tweedle is total nonsense. Don’t so in the Strathclyde Motets I’ve accepted choir, such as the Seven Last Words from look for a normal plot or a cast of characters the challenge of writing modern music that is the Cross or the St John Passion. consistently sung. Everything, opera-wise, is askew.” simple and readily performable. I’m similarly What drew you especially to St Luke’s hoping the St Luke Passion can be “…no one has been so obsessed with setting Alice’s telling of the story? How does it differ from performed by a wide range of abilities – the adventures to music than American composer David Del Tredici. From 1968 until 1995, he turned out a slew of St John? first performance will be by professional compositions inspired by Carroll’s bizarre works… My setting of the St John Passion took a forces in the Netherlands but the US Del Tredici’s score is fresh and inventive and moves with a particular approach, examining the human premiere will be by an amateur university relentless, frenetic energy… There’s also wit in Dum Dee drama, and was almost operatic in chapel choir. I’ve tried to be as helpful as Tweedle. The snoring chorus in Scene 4 is a hoot.” impact. So returning after a five-year possible, providing pitch cues and harmonic The Detroit News interval I wanted to take an alternative support, using simple modalities, avoiding “Dum Dee Tweedle is an inventive and really extraordinary direction. St John stands apart from the angular leaps, keeping sections in repeating take on Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass. Del other three so-called synoptic Gospel metrical schemes etc. Tredici stretches the imagination, musical boundaries, and writers who share structure and common even gender roles (the “brothers” are played by one man, one How did you select the orchestra to balance material and, of those three, St Luke has woman)… The music was quirky, charming, droll, and often

Photo: Philip Gatward the choral forces in the St Luke Passion. a special appeal for me. As well as beautiful; all characteristics of Carroll the author as well as Del The orchestration was dictated by my Classical.net relating Christ’s life and teachings, Luke is Tredici the composer.” me how the story had gripped them, as if for the first pared-back approach and practical issues for choirs concerned with the idea of the Kingdom of God time. This was perhaps because we are so used to that might want to hire an orchestra and can’t always which points forward to the same author’s Acts of the Latin settings, or to German when we hear the Bach afford additional brass or percussion. It has taken me Apostles. This started me thinking about a more Passions. So I opted for English only and decided not back to the Baroque origins of the oratorio, employing spiritual, inward, and pared-back approach to create to include any extraneous texts beyond Luke’s a distinctive Handelian chamber orchestra with organ a focused work about an hour long. Gospel. and timpani. There is a single and clarinet, while Höller at 70 How did you select the texts from St Luke’s Gospel? Why did you dispense with soloists and focus on the and have doublings for expressive I decided to frame the Passion narrative with a Prelude reasons, plus two horns and . The use of York Höller celebrated his 70th birthday last month, chorus as narrator? and this season is bringing a sequence of celebratory exploring the Annunciation to set the scene, and a Excluding interpolated texts, set as reflective , organ together with cello or double bass solos gives a Postlude taking us beyond the Crucifixion to the continuo feel, but support for the chorus is also at premieres, plus a new staging in Hamburg last offered the possibility of a limited role for soloists and September of The Master and Margarita, described by and Ascension. These incorporate I decided to go the full way and do without the usual times provided by the string or wind choirs. Gospel texts where Luke explains the Kingdom of a reviewer as “one of the great literary operas of the Evangelist and bass Christ. Everything would be How do you view the state of new choral music today? God. The main body of the work sets Chapters 22 20th century” (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger). sung by choral forces. This posed quite a few I’m genuinely surprised and delighted by the amount and 23 complete. The other major decision was to use challenges for me as a composer and for the chorus of new choral music being commissioned and Höller’s was premiered in November English throughout. I’d been struck at performances of who would have to be very busy. I’d used a chamber performed by choirs today. I would never have by Adrian Brendel within a portrait concert by the NDR the St John Passion how engaged the audience was choir narrating the story in the St John Passion, and believed this possible when I think of the world 30 Symphony Orchestra, also including his Grawemeyer with the narrative sections in English, and several I envisage in the St Luke Passion a flexible approach years ago and the type of music composers were Award-winning orchestral work Sphären. The new people, perhaps not church regulars, came up to tell with the choir director deciding which tutti passages then focused on. It wouldn’t often have involved concerto grew from Höller’s earlier work for cello and could be sung by a semi-chorus and which single lines choirs because of a general antipathy and level of piano, Mouvements, and is now available in full might be better sung by a soloist drawn from the difficulty. The landscape has totally changed and I’m orchestral form. Höller’s latest orchestral work, choir. I tried to make the choral writing as varied as finding choral writing becoming much more central to Voyage, describing a journey into an imaginary possible, sometimes homophonic, sometimes with myself and other composers. The thirst for new choral landscape, is premiered by the Seoul Philharmonic in Maxwell Davies upper or lower voices, at other times just a unison line. music from audiences is equally marked and most April, with its German premiere in May by the The crowd sections move into polyphony to show the welcome. Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne. Ensemble Modern Ebb of Winter chaotic, angry or fearful world of the street. gives the world premiere of Aufschwung con tenuto for clarinet, viola and piano on 13 March in Frankfurt Using the children’s choir to depict Christ imparts a MacMillan The 80th birthday of Peter St Luke Passion (2012-13) 60’ within a Schumann-themed programme. Maxwell Davies is celebrated on special quality. How did this come about? Co-commissioned by Stichting Omroep Muziek/NTR 8 September, with 2014 also Any Passion that casts Christ as a soloist immediately The Master and Margarita, Höller’s only opera, was ZaterdagMatinee Amsterdam with assistance from acclaimed afresh in the new Hamburg production by marking his farewell to the role of makes him take human form as an adult male, Royal Concertgebouw, together with Duke University, Master of the Queen’s Music after whereas I wanted to examine his otherness, sanctity Jochen Biganzoli, viewed by many as the highpoint City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Soli Deo during ’s tenure at the opera house. ten years. In recognition of his and mystery. Employing a children’s choir grants a Gloria Inc, and Britten Sinfonia. services to , the measure of innocence to Christ as the sacrificial lamb, There was an element of reparation to the composer Photo: Martin Lengemann composer was appointed to the while the vocal line is either in unison or in three parts 15 March 2014 (world premiere) as Hamburg had originally commissioned the select membership of the Companions of Honour in reflecting the oneness or Trinitarian implications of Royal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam stagework, before it was staged at the Opera in the New Year awards. God. I’ve written for children’s voices in Quickening Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra/ 1989 by Hans Neuenfels. Like Bulgakov’s novel, and most recently in the Gloria for the Coventry Vocaal Talent Nederland/National Jeugdkoor/ Höller’s opera operates on many levels, combining Sharing the celebrations is the Scottish Chamber Cathedral 50th celebrations, and have gained a lot Markus Stenz lyrical writing of Bergian intensity, colourful Orchestra, reaching its 40th anniversary this season. orchestration, vaudeville entertainment and The orchestra collaborated closely with Maxwell Davies on his ten Strathclyde Concertos in the late 1980s and their recording series has recently been reissued on Naxos. To continue the relationship the SCO has commissioned a new concert overture from Maxwell Davies and Ebb of Winter was premiered Turnage Speranza travels under the baton of in November. Following its premiere with music is coloured by lamenting melodies – Palestinian, “The first thing that hits you is the sheer exuberance of this the London Symphony Jewish and Israeli – supplemented by the use of the 20-minute tone poem. Inspired by the unpredictable, ever- Orchestra last February, Armenian dudak and Eastern European cimbalom. changing Orkney weather, it with mercurial fluidity, long strains of sinewy melody constantly buffeted by Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Other than the scherzo-like Irish-themed third luminous sprays of chattering brass and woodwind. Speranza has been movement the mood is brooding with a sequence of A startling strain of warm-hearted Romanticism underpins travelling with conductor processions and variations illuminated by shafts of everything, exerting a softening effect on some of the old Max . The US orchestral light. austerity that lurks bullishly beneath the surface.” The Scotsman premiere with the Boston “I can’t remember the last time I was so moved by a Symphony Orchestra took premiere. Impressed, yes, awe-struck, thrilled, but Mark-

“…Max’s music is still place in October and the Anthony Turnage’s monumental Speranza is an act of Photo: Hamburgische Staatsoper/Jörg Landsberg Swedish Radio Symphony prayer which goes straight to the heart… The very act of York Höller’s The Master and Margarita at Hamburg Opera dancing…” The Herald Orchestra performs , for these resplendent forces, is an expression of hope, even if the tale it tells is tragic… The final Jewish sophisticated electronics. Both works also share a

Photo: Philip Gatward score in Stockholm in May. “Most striking were the SCO’s vivid orchestral textures and The work has also been melody blossoms into a majestic surge, pulling motifs from time-travelling aspect, not least in the Grand Ball of the way that Maxwell Davies nimbly weaves material between released on the LSO Live label, coupling the the work together.” BBC Music Magazine Satan, where Höller takes us on a trip from instruments... There’s restlessness in the basses and frenetic, premiere performance with From the Wreckage “..the 40-minute Mahlerian symphony turns the idea of Renaissance music to . tangled winds that cut to hushed strings, as if a walker featuring trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger. “hope” on its head. This is a sombre to hopelessness, “…exuberant, richly creative music. In its profundity it’s held struggling through a fierce wind suddenly rounds a corner leavened by wistful folk laments and Turnage’s masterly together through serial structures…but it also has a and finds peace.... Its impact is arresting and its haunting orchestration.” Financial Times Speranza is Turnage’s most important orchestral considerable immediate attraction. This lies above all in the soundworld couldn’t be from the pen of any other score to date, as close to a symphony as any in his Other recent Turnage orchestral works include Frieze, composer.” stylistic allusions and partly direct quotations which Höller fits output. The four movements are titled by the Arabic, performed by the in October, together to form a true pandemonium without resorting to Further performances of Ebb of Winter are planned German, Gaelic and Hebrew words for ‘hope’, yet this a for Marc-André Hamelin and the eclecticism in the process.” Die Deutsche Bühne this summer and in future seasons. To explore optimism appears to be hard-won as if through a Rotterdam Philharmonic, and Erskine for jazz “Höller’s opera has long since lost its avantgarde sting – in Maxwell Davies’s music in his 80th birthday year visit century of conflict. The work grew from reflections on drummer Peter Erskine and the Beethoven Orchestra the best sense. It has matured into a masterpiece of modern www.boosey.com/max80. the post-Holocaust poetry of Paul Celan, and the in Bonn. music.” Opernwelt arioso into a coherent and fluid musical unity, but Blanchard Argento has done so brilliantly. The vocal writing is singable and The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe appealing and nearly always supports and propels the American Opera dramatic action.” Chicago Tribune Machover interval, the opera is rescored for a chamber orchestra version which was most recently staged in New York with small . This fleeter and lighter Lizzie by Christopher Alden. Death and the Powers Borden provides a welcome alternative for smaller Tod Machover’s opera Death and the Powers travels “…the version for chamber orchestra is an excellent idea… to Dallas Opera this month, following its first run of companies, while the full version continues to pack a the cast of singers, musicians and Nagano on the podium left punch as experienced with the recent video reissue of absolutely nothing to be desired… their portrayal of these stagings in , Boston and Chicago, all in the the original cast recording from 1965 (VAI DVD 4563). damaged family characters etches itself deeply into the acclaimed production by Diane Paulus. On audience’s soul: outdoing all others, the young 16 February the opera will be simulcast to ten “Beeson’s expertly crafted score captures a certain mid-20th Jonathan McGovern plays a son rebelling against his locations in the USA, and venues in Europe including century moment in American opera, but it also survives successful father, angry and yet fearful after years of beyond it. The music ranges from harsh expressionistic the in London and University humiliation; soprano Claudia Boyle as daughter Dede adds College of Opera in Stockholm. The simulcast extends Photo: Staatstheater Braunschweig/Volker Beinhorn textures to tunefully generous vocal writing, all deftly tailored accents by extremely precise articulation, which is anything The new Argento staging in Braunschweig to the dramatic moment at hand… one hopes [the new the original production with new interactive elements but a trivial matter in this score, tailored so expertly to its version] will generate more performances without taking the for audiences far removed from the stage in Dallas. With its blending of lyricism and theatrical craft, protagonists’ language.” Berliner Morgenpost place of its still-authoritative original. Meanwhile, the tale at Death and the Powers tells the story of Simon Dominick Argento’s output for the stage continues to the centre of this work has clearly not relaxed its grip on our Plans are underway for a tour of the chamber version Powers, a successful and powerful business man, attract opera companies and singers, with a series of cultural imagination.” Boston Globe of A Quiet Place in 2015, conducted by Kent Nagano. notable revivals in recent years including The Aspern who wishes to perpetuate his existence beyond the Papers at Dallas Opera starring . The Bernstein Blanchard decay of his natural being. Nearing the end of his life, latest is a new production in Braunschweig this Powers seizes his one chance for immortality by A Quiet Place Champion downloading his consciousness into his environment, season of The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, one of Bernstein’s final opera, A Quiet Place, Argento’s most psychologically probing operas, Terence Blanchard’s jazz opera creating a living version of his mind and spirit, called returned in a new chamber version Champion has joined the Boosey & “The System”. His family, friends and associates must describing the poet’s voyage of self-discovery aboard as the culmination of a concert a ghostly ship of memories. Hawkes catalogue, following its series devoted to the composer at successful premiere at the Opera “Argento’s sensational score dramatically oscillates between the Berlin Konzerthaus in November. Theatre of St Louis last year. Telling bel canto, film music and mild leanings towards twelve-note Kent Nagano led the performance Photo: Susech Batah/DG the topical story of boxer Emile Griffith, technique. With rhythmic rigour he majestically co-ordinates with 18 musicians from Ensemble Photo: Nitin Vadukul soloists, orchestra and chorus, but in the same breath the opera follows his public career as presents a hypnotic pulling-power with highly emotional Modern, introducing new audiences to one of a prizefighter alongside his private battle to accept his passages summoning romantic ecstasy.” Opernnetz.de Bernstein’s most powerful and complex works. As the own homosexuality. Taunted by an opponent Kid Berliner Morgenpost noted, “the modernism that is Paret, Griffith punches him into a fatal coma – he is Following productions in Washington, Dallas and hidden at the core of Bernstein’s West Side Story exonerated by sports fans but the death haunts him Kassel, The Dream of Valentino returns to the stage in comes to the surface with a vengeance in A Quiet for the rest of his life. Towards the end of his career he March thanks to . The tango-tinged Place.” is brutally assaulted by homophobic thugs, opera follows the rise and fall of movie heartthrob exacerbating his own brain injuries and prompting him . The new version by Garth Edwin Sunderland returns to the origins of A Quiet Place, before it was to reflect: “I killed a man and the world forgives me; transformed into a three act opera with the inclusion of I love a man and the world wants to kill me”. Beeson the earlier one-act Trouble in Tahiti. This provided a Lizzie Borden jazzy flashback to the earlier lives of the characters but Photo: Jonathan Williams “…a new kind of American Machover’s Death and the Powers staged by Diane Paulus Jack Beeson’s opera was in marked contrast to Bernstein’s late style. With Lizzie Borden, relating the excision of Trouble in Tahiti, the chamber version masterpiece.” Denver Post decide what this means, whether or not Simon is the notorious Fall River ensures greater stylistic consistency and actually alive, how it affects them and – most axe murders of 1892, concentration, while allowing the reinstatement of Terence Blanchard is a top-tier jazz trumpeter, importantly – whether they, too, should follow. was staged by several arias for the lead characters, deepening the bandleader and composer of musicals and film Described by Opera magazine as “a grand, rich, Christopher Alden for personalities of the family members as they seek scores, working with the likes of Spike Lee and deeply serious new opera”, Death and the Powers Boston Lyric Opera in reconciliation and forgiveness. The version of A Quiet George Lucas. In addition to composing his first explores the dangerous point where technology and November in a new chamber version. Trimmed to Place heard in Berlin, with duration of 110 minutes, is opera, Blanchard’s classical activities include a humanity collide, combining Machover’s multi-skills as seven scenes and running for 80 minutes without intended to exist alongside the longer full orchestral residency with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. For composer, technologist and educator. With an Champion, Blanchard collaborated with Pulitzer Prize- opening pageant for robot performers, a stage set that winning playwright Michael Cristofer and director becomes the embodiment of the opera’s central James Robinson. His opera score “astutely mixes character, and an animatronic sound sculpture, the neo-Romanticism with sophisticated jazz elements… work breaks new ground as performance art as well He skilfully supports recitative-like exchanges with as being a warning parable of man’s ultimate New Composers jazzy musical backgrounds but is also capable of integration with the machine. creating show-stopping numbers...” (Financial Times) Johannes Boris “…a new work that deserves to be taken up by other opera For further information on these operas, together with Borowski (b.1979) producers far and wide ... It’s no mean feat to integrate hard classic stageworks by Copland, Bernstein, Floyd, bop, scat , driving Afro-Caribbean rhythms and lyrical Adams and Reich, visit www.boosey.com/opera. With a growing international as a zoomorphic play tracking 24 canine hours in reputation, Johannes Boris three movements: “Man likes to humanize the dog. Borowski is one of the Or is it rather the dog who ‘dogisizes’ the man?” leading contemporary Other noted Deutsch works include String Quartet composers to emerge from No.2 premiered by the Arditti Quartet, the Takemitsu Germany in recent years. Composition Award-winning subliminal given its first His intricate and richly performance by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, imagined works have been and the Concerto for and ensemble, premiered premiered under the batons by the ensemble reconsil in Vienna. He is currently

Photo: Priska Ketterer of Pierre Boulez, Susanna working on a new concerto for brass trio and Mälkki and George Benjamin, with notable orchestra, to be premiered in Vienna this September performances in Paris, Brussels, Porto, New York and by the Tonkünstler Orchestra under the baton of Chicago. His orchestral work change, originally Andrés Orozco-Estrada. commissioned by the Lucerne Festival, travels to Radio France’s Présences Festival in Paris this month, Mike and to the Wroclaw- Days in October. (b.1960) Three of Borowski’s scores have been created for or Svoboda by the Ensemble Intercontemporain, second for eight Trombonist and composer instruments, the 20-minute ensemble work Mappe Mike Svoboda is best which was toured internationally, and a new known for his collaborations Concerto for Pascal Gallois for first performance in as a performer with Paris on 12 April. Wandlung for chamber ensemble, in written for the Chicago Symphony’s celebrations of the 1980s and ’90s, and his Boulez’s 85th birthday, receives its European premiere premieres of over 400 by Ensemble Aventure in SWR2’s Ars Nova festival in works for . When Photo: Ken Howard May. Future commissions for premiere in 2015 include his work with Stockhausen Terence Blanchard’s Champion at its premiere staging by Opera Theatre of St Louis

new works for the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and for Photo: Jens Klatt ended, he returned to the SWR Symphony Orchestra and Peter Eötvös at composition, the calling that had first brought him the Donaueschingen Music Days. A portrait CD of from Chicago to Germany in 1982 on a BMI Award Borowski’s music is planned for release later this year for young composers. Svoboda’s music occupies Panufnik 2014 Highlights on the Wergo label. the interface between jazz, experimental and classical music, and between high culture and 5 February Barbican, London 24 September Symphony Hall, Birmingham Bernd Richard entertainment, employing both traditional and avant- Sinfonia Sacra / Lullaby Panufnik birthday concert London Symphony Orchestra/ garde techniques. Piano Concerto Deutsch (b.1977) Michael Francis City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Last year brought the premiere of Svoboda’s hour- 14 /15 February Philharmonic Hall, Viennese composer Bernd 14 October University Hall, Poznan´ long music-theatre work Robin Hood – too good to Sinfonia di Sfere Richard Deutsch enjoyed a be true (2012) commissioned by the Lucerne Festival Warsaw Philharmonic/ Alexander Sitkovetsky/ five-work focus at last year’s Jacek Kasprzyk and touring to Cologne in April. Aimed at audiences Poznan´ Philharmonic Orchestra/ Wien Modern festival, -Lukasz Borowicz from six years upward, the stagework is based on 27 February Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool including the world premiere music by Dowland and scored for soprano and brass Violin Concerto 18 October NPRSO Hall, Katowice of his new ensemble score Vadim Repin/ quintet. His youth opera Erwin, the Natural Talent 19 October Barbican, London Further performances are planned at Dr. Futurity. This commission Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/ Symphony No.10 summer festivals and in the autumn receives its Austrian premiere this month by the Vladimir Petrenko for Klangforum Wien resulted London Symphony Orchestra/ season, still to be announced. Vienna Boys’ Choir in its new concert hall, the MuTh, from his winning of the Erste 23/24 May Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw For a full list of events visit: in co-operation with the Volksoper. Current Piano Concerto / Heroic Overture 30 November Kings Place, London www.boosey.com/panufnik Photo: Boosey & Hawkes Bank Composition Prize and commissions include an ensemble work for the Maciej Grzybowski/ the premiere was conducted by . The Panufnik Day www.panufnik.com Eunoia Quintet for premiere in Basel in May, and a Warsaw Philharmonic/ Brodsky Quartet/Clare Hammond programme also included Deutsch’s most celebrated Lukasz Borowicz new triple brass concerto for the Cottbus - ensemble work to date, Mad Dog, which he describes Philharmonic in 2015. cantor in Cologne, he entered the Paris Conservatoire at 14 but had to counter both anti-German and anti-Semitic prejudice throughout his life. No wonder he retreated into disguise – into the frivolous mask of the opéra bouffe he more or less created, but which always concealed veins of New New bitterness and melancholy.” Financial Times Recordings Publications “, an burgher of Munich, impersonates a recently dead court jester in order to gain access to the John Adams Michel van der Aa beautiful princess Elsbeth, about to be married off to the Doctor Atomic Symphony/ rekindle Prince of Mantua. 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Naxos 8.559761 Benjamin Britten original third movement was for male voices and Benjamin Britten ou l’impossible piano, but with no publisher in sight for the work, the quietude composer decided to create a new orchestral version by Xavier de Gaulle with baritone, a task that remained incomplete at his Actes Sud death in 1956. Vivaldi Complesso Barocco 978-2-330-02479-6 The latest release in Alan Curtis’s “The seemingly indefatigable Alan Paperback 576 pp €30.00 The manuscript of the third movement came to light in Curtis directs with liveliness and the Finzi collection at the Bodleian Library in 1982, and Il Complesso Barocco series is a new performing edition of Vivaldi’s 1737 stylistic assurance and the cast an orchestral completion was created by Philip Thomas could hardly be bettered. The opera Stravinsky and his World allowing the entire work to be recorded for Chandos by three-act opera Catone in Utica. The opera sets one of Metastasio’s most survives incomplete, but this is a Edited by Tamara Levitz Richard Hickox. The new version by Christian fascinating and apt reconstruction Princeton University Press Alexander includes his own orchestral completion of dramatic libretti, describing the last and there is some marvellous stuff stand of the Roman Republic’s army 978-0691-15988-1 the Hardy movement and a detailed editorial overhaul. here.” BBC Music Magazine Paperback 384 pp £24.95 Boosey & Hawkes is publishing a study score of the under Marcus Cato against the emergent imperial forces led by Julius The first full score and vocal Requiem da Camera in the Hawkes Pocket Score score of Catone in Utica are in series, a vocal score, a reduction of the complete work Caesar. Curtis recorded the opera Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited last year in Naïve’s Vivaldi Edition, preparation for sale, including an by Francis Jackson for organ performance, and the appendix containing Ciccolini’s Aldwych House, 71-91 Aldwych, piano duet arrangement of the opening Prelude by revealing some of the composer’s London WC2B 4HN finest, most mature and original arias, cadenzas and da capo Howard Ferguson. variations for all the arias. This will be followed by new Telephone: +44 (0)20 7054 7200 while demonstrating a highly effective solution to the Promotion email: [email protected] Other works specifically linked to the First World War challenge of the missing first act. editions of Handel’s Giulio Cesare as recorded by Hire email: [email protected] include Finzi’s Farewell to Arms for tenor and orchestra, Curtis in 2012 and Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Website: www.boosey.com/composers Herbert Howells’s Elegy for viola and , “For his new recording, Alan Curtis uses a completion by Poppea, providing opera houses with practical, Alessandro Ciccolini, who, mindful that Vivaldi frequently performing materials for these two major stageworks. David Allenby Editor David J Plumb ARCA PPSTD Designer and Karl Jenkins’s setting of Laurence Binyon’s poem adapted vocal music for his instrumental works and vice Printed in England For the Fallen, first published in 1914 by The Times versa, has composed the missing passages using themes Explorations of rarer repertoire will include Cesti’s Il after the Battle of the Marne and familiar from from the concertos as his starting point. His arias dovetail Pomo d’Oro, Conforto’s Nitteti, and Handel’s Remembrance Day events. Repertoire exploring the beautifully with Vivaldi’s scheme of things... The performance arrangement of Vinci‘s Semiramide as heard at the wider themes of can be explored with is glorious. The conducting and the playing have Wiener Kammeroper last October. The Complesso audio clips at www.boosey.com/warandpeace, tremendous energy, and the singing is to die for.” The Guardian Barocco edition was launched last year with the ranging from Britten’s and Jenkins’s The “Ciccolini and Curtis deserve enormous credit for highly successful Drama Queens collection Armed Man: A Mass for Peace to Strauss’s transforming an incomplete obscurity into a coherent and prepared for and toured internationally by Metamorphosen and Reich’s Different Trains. compelling opera.” Gramophone Joyce DiDonato.