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News Section Composers FRANCO DONATONI. Flans; Flag (UK premieres)—10 October/London, Queen Elizabeth Hall/London Sinfonietta JOHN ADAMS. Road Movies (London premiere)-19 October/ c. Markus Stenz. London, Queen Elizabeth Hall/Clio Gould (vln), John Constable (pno). Gnarly Buttons (premiere); Suite from / was HANS ULR1CH ENGELMANN. per LVIGI for flute, looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky (premieres)—same clarinet, cello, percussion and tape (premiere)—16 July/ date and venue/London Sinfonietta c. composer. Darmstadt/Ensemble Phorminx. LOUIS ANDR1ESSEN. De Weg (Too) (premiere)—19 BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH. Kranichtanze II (premiere)—22 October/Donaueschingen/Hilversum Radio Chamber Orch- July/Darmstadt/Ortwin Sturmer (pno). estra c. Peter Eotvos. De Stijl (US premiere)—6 December/ New York, Brooklyn Academy of Music/Brooklyn MICHAEL FINNISSY. Different Things for four clarinets Philharmonic c. Robert Spano. (premiere)—28 July/Leasowes Bank, Shropshire/No Strings Attached. The Liturgy of St Paul (premiere)—1 August/ BELA BARTOK (d.1945). Viola Concerto (UK premiere of Cambridge, Trinity Chapel/Hilliard Ensemble. revised edition)—24 November/Manchester/Tabea Zimmer- mann (via), Halle Orchestra c. Giinther Herbig. ROBERTO GERHARD (d.1970). Soirees de Barcelone (premi- ere of complete ballet, performing edition by Malcolm SIMON BAINBRIDGE. Tts Time I think (premiere)—20 MacDonald)—29 September/Manchester/BBC Philharmonic July/Ludlow/Mary Weigold (sop), Composers Ensemble. c. Matthias Bamert. Four Primo Levi Settings (premiere)—7 July/Cheltenham Festival/Susan Bickley (mezzo), Nash Ensemble. HEINER GOEBBELS. Heracles 2; La Jalousie (premieres)—30 June/London, Meltdown Festival/London Sinfonietta c. ERIK BERGMAN. String Quaret (UK premiere)—27 July/ Markus Stenz. London, Wigmore Hall/New Helsinki Quartet. BERTHOLD GOLDSCHMIDT. Les Petits Adieux (German LUCIANO BERIO. Kol-od (Chemins VI); Sequenza XII (UK premiere)—16 October/Magdeburg/Magdeburg SO c. premieres)—16 October/London, Queen Elizabeth Hall/ Matthias Husman. Pascal Gallois (bsn), London Sinfonietta c. Markus Stenz. SOFIA GUBAIDULINA. Jezt immer schnee; Meditation on MICHAEL BERKELEY. Love is Strong as Death (premiere)— the Bach Chorale Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit (UK 16 July/Gloucester Cathedral/The Joyful Company of premieres)—16 November/London, Queen Elizabeth Hall/ Singers c. Richard Hickox. Grenadier (premiere)—20 July/ London Sinfonietta and chorus c. Markus Stenz. Ludlow/Mary Weigold (sop), Composers Ensemble. LOU HARRISON. Concerto in Slendro (UK premiere)—19 JORG BIRKENKOTTER. gekippte Genauigkeiten' for October/London, Queen Elizabeth Hall/Clio Gould (vln), orchestra with obbligato piano (premiere)—14 July/Darm- John Constable (pno), members of the London Sinfonietta c. stadt/Hwa-Kyung Yim, Orchester des Staatstheaters c. Marc John Adams. Albrecht. HANS WERNER HENZE. Seconda Sonata per archi (premi- BENJAMIN BRITTEN (d.1976). World of the Spirit, cantata ere)—7 November/Leipzig/Gewandhaus Orchestra c. Kurt (premiere)—7 August/St Endellion Festival/Festival Choir Masur. and Orchestra c. Richard Hickox. MANUEL HIDALGO. Des Kaisers neues Kleid (premiere)— ELLIOTT CARTER. A 6 letter Utter for solo cor anglais (UK 12 July/Stuttgart/members of Neuen Vocalsolisten and premiere)—29 October/London, Purcell Room/Gareth Ensemble Varianti. Hulse (ca). This work, a surprise 90th birthday present for Paul Sacher, was premiered in Basle on 27 April by Heinz NICOLAUS A. HUBER. To Marylin Sixpack for orchestra Holliger as a concert encore. (premiere)—18 October/Donaueschingen/Orchestre national de France c. Lothar Zagrosek. NICCOLO CASTIGLIONI. Cantus Planus; Risognanze (UK premieres)—10 October/London, Queen Elizabeth Hall/ MAURICIO KAGEL. ...the 24.XII.1931 (Garbled News); Sarah Leonard (sop), London Sinfonietta c. Markus Stenz. Orchestrion-Straat (UK premieres)—1 December/London, Queen Elizabeth Hall/Roland Hermann (bar), London MICHAEL DAUGHERTY. Le Tombeau de Liberate (premi- Sinfonietta c. Reinbert de Leeuw. ere)—15 October/London, Queen Elizabeth Hall/Paul Crossley (pno), London Sinfonietta c. Markus Stenz. ARON JAY KERNIS. How God Answers the Soul (premiere)— 20 July/Cheltenham Festival/Birmingham Bach Choir c. Paul JAMES DILLON. Redemption (premiere)—5 October/ Spicer. Lament and Prayer; Air for violin and orchestra Strasbourg/Mieko Kanno (vln), Armand Angster (cl), Yukiko (premieres)—31 July/Minneapolis, Minnesota/Pamela Frank Sugawara (pno). (vln), Minnesota Orchestra c. David Zinman. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.234, on 29 Sep 2021 at 06:40:32, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298200005507.