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October 2010 2010/3 MacMillan concerto success Turnage James MacMillan’s new , premiered in London by Vadim Repin and Included in this issue: in May, travels on to Philadelphia, New York, Paris and Amsterdam. Anna Nicole Andriessen Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new opera Anna Interview about new heart-on-sleeve melody of striking elegance… Nicole, created with librettist Richard Thomas monodrama Anaïs Nin The opening movement examines the violin’s role of Jerry Springer: the Opera fame and in dance bands as Repin plays furious Scottish reels in succession. The darker finale juxtaposes receiving its first performances in February, swirling violin figurations with both plainchant and a not only takes a humorous swipe at celebrity German nursery rhyme... Staggeringly difficult, it culture but also explores the human issues was a tour de force for Repin, and thrillingly done behind the headlines. The work was by Gergiev and the LSO.” The Guardian commissioned by The Royal Opera in London and Antonio Pappano conducts the and piano concertos premiere staging by Richard Jones, which MacMillan’s new concerto for oboist opens on 17 February. Nicholas Daniel is toured by the Britten Sinfonia this month, including the premiere at Birmingham Town Hall on 15 October and a performance in London at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 18 October. Scored with Chin chamber orchestra, the concerto is based on Alice in Wonderland travels the melody of L’homme armé - a French

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Photo: Philip Gatward MacMillan’s Piano Concerto No.3 (Mysteries

of Light). Jean-Yves Thibaudet is soloist with ew the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä spa “James MacMillan’s brand new Violin The new Violin Concerto’s co-commissioner, pers Concerto was in every sense of the phrase the , gives the first US on 14 April, with European performances a complete knock-out.” So the Independent performances with Repin and planned for future seasons. summed up the work’s premiere under the on 24-26 February in Philadelphia and on The new opera Violin Concerto (2009) 25’ baton of Valery Gergiev in May, providing the 1 March at Carnegie Hall in New York. examines the high-profile lifestyle of the culmination of MacMillan’s season-long Performances by further commissioning (2009-10) 20’ American glamour model and actress Anna profile with the London Symphony partners follow in April 2012 with the Piano Concerto No.3 Nicole Smith (1967-2007). She became a Orchestra. “It was written for and played, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and at the (Mysteries of Light) (2007-08) 25’ paparazzi target when she married a with blinding virtuosity, by Vadim Repin who Zaterdag Matinee in Amsterdam, all with billionaire oilman 60 years her senior, fought Birtwistle may well have answered the prayers of Repin as soloist. his family over the will and died after an Angel Fighter premiere at countless virtuosos for something new “Plundering the fiddle tradition of his native apparent drug overdose at the age of 39. Leipzig Bach Festival and audacious they could really play the Scotland, MacMillan infuses the first movement Reich Despite her iconic status during the tabloid socks off. with jig-like energy and the second with a ’90s - representing that decade’s lurid “MacMillan always comes at music from his own ruminative-rhapsodic-romantic tune, played in obsessions and celebrity ambitions – there is Scottish perspective and this action-packed unison by soloist and orchestra before being do