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Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited October 2010 2010/3 MacMillan concerto success Turnage James MacMillan’s new Violin Concerto, premiered in London by Vadim Repin and Included in this issue: Valery Gergiev 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 Oboe 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 C to Geneva song sung in times of war and source of over: Jo inspiration to composers down the ages. This season also brings the premiere of hn Frost N 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 Philadelphia Orchestra, gives the first US on 14 April, with European performances a complete knock-out.” So the Independent performances with Repin and Charles Dutoit 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 Oboe Concerto (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 doubles also a tragic personal story to be told. crowd-pleaser is essentially a compendium of carried skywards by piccolo… But it’s the solo part that inspires MacMillan to his most original Anna Nicole is Turnage’s third full-length song and dance digging deep into the primitivism opera, following Greek (1988) and The Silver of the distant past to unlock memories much touches…The violin negotiates a series of fiendishly fast and agitated progressions up the on disc Tassie (2000), and inhabits a new world for closer to the present. There are dizzying, spinning reels, dirges and sentimental plaints with the violin scale, creating waves of suppressed tension that the composer, closer to musical theatre with often hauntingly evoking the ‘vocal’ melismas of are eased by interludes in a yearning vein. The final its focus on words and action. Though much Celtic folk singers. One moment the fiddler is cadenza is in the finest classical tradition, testing of the libretto is wry and satirical, demanding urging the entire string section to shake a leg, the the soloist’s virtuosity and musicianship to the fast paced and immediate music, the next he’s in blissful repose with piano and piping extreme.” Financial Times impending tragedy also allows Turnage to piccolo lending a tearful consonance. Wild and “…essentially a big virtuoso concerto in late 19th- employ his darker vein. The cast assembled wacky, dark and subversive, even brutal – what century mould…at its centre is a reminiscence of for Anna Nicole includes Eva-Maria isn’t in the mix? The audience adored it.” childhood in which Repin picks out the shapes of Westbroek in the title role, Susan Bickley as Jenkins The Independent Celtic folk songs that eventually coalesce into a her mother Virgie, Gerald Finley as her lawyer Celebrating 10 years of Stern and Alan Oke as the oilman Marshall. The Armed Man Turnage Chapela beyond Ínguesu Anna Nicole (2008-10) Opera in two acts Mexican composer Enrico Chapela, who Chapela’s most recent orchestral work is Steve Reich’s latest recording on the Royal Opera House London signed with Boosey & Hawkes in 2008, has Genómica Mestiza, commissioned for the Nonesuch label combines two works which 17 February 2011 (world premiere) been winning friends with his flamboyant yet Mexican Bicentenary celebrations, explore the interplay of double ensembles 21/23/26 February intricate works. His output blends Latin premiered on 3 September by the (524853). In similar fashion to Reich’s 1/4 March American verve with contemporary themes Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas Counterpoint series of works, both Double and structures, no more so than his and Alondra de la Parra, and scheduled for Sextet and 2x5 can be performed by an orchestral football fantasy I´nguesu, which in future touring. The starting point for the 20- ensemble comprising a pair of identical ten minutes charts the course of the 1999 minute work was the Mexican Genome chamber groups or by a smaller formation of 2x5 is described by the composer as a rare FIFA Confederations Cup final between Diversity Project’s mapping of genetic live musicians playing against their foray into the soundworld of rock music. Mexico and Brazil, with the conductor groupings from Amerindian and Mestizo pre-recorded twins. Written for Bang on a Can and sharing the doubling as roots, which bill at its 2009 premiere with Kraftwerk at the referee. I´nguesu Chapela has Manchester Velodrome, 2x5 is scored for has been widely built upon to “Beautifully poised four electric guitars, two pianos, two bass performed, form a musical throughout, Double guitars and a couple of drum kits. The particularly at celebration of Sextet stands as arguably Independent describes how the work festivals including Mexico’s “features Zappa-esque chordings, doubled Tanglewood, ethnic diversity. one of Reich’s finest slightly out of sync to produce a jerky vibrato Cabrillo and Future new works…”BBC Music effect, over which lines of guitar motifs are Warsaw Autumn. Chapela works neatly stitched.” Yet Chapela’s include Private Double Sextet was commissioned by eighth range of references in his recent works Allelles, a concert opener for the Berkeley blackbird, premiered in 2008, and has been Reich at 75 extends far beyond I´nguesu’s football chants Symphony Orchestra receiving its premiere toured extensively by the group in the USA, Both works on the Nonesuch disc feature in and raucous folk music. His concerto for rock on 2 December, Nanobots for chamber Europe and Australia. The BBC Music review the 75th celebrations for Reich in 2011, trio and orchestra Noctámubulos grows from orchestra, commissioned by the Britten of the new disc describes how “Reich together with the recent Mallet Quartet and an astrological plan to capture the cosmic Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall for premiere in employs his beloved phasing techniques to a new work for the Kronos Quartet. Major rhythm of the spheres, while Irrational for April 2011, and Magnetar, an electric cello generate a procession of dramatic events include a two-day celebration in May chamber orchestra examines the coded concerto for Johannes Moser and the Los syncopations, engineering a face-off at the Barbican Centre in London pairing energy of mathematics. Chapela’s Los Angeles Philharmonic scheduled for first between two duplicate chamber groups, Reich works with fellow minimalists and Angeles Philharmonic commission Li Po, performance in October 2011. each comprising of flute, clarinet, vibraphone, composers who have followed in his premiered under the baton of Esa Pekka piano, violin and cello. As the pace of the footsteps, a 75th birthday series at Carnegie A new brochure exploring the music of Salonen in 2009, was inspired by Mexican playing shifts so too does the mood, Hall in New York, and concerts in Stockholm, Enrico Chapela is available from the and Chinese poetry but speech is totally alternating from anticipatory to frenetic as, all Essen and Porto. The birthday month of Promotion Department: please email transformed into electronic soundscapes and the while, a complex series of sub-melodies October 2011 brings a Cité de la Musique [email protected].