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78 Tempo 62 (244) 78–81 © 2008 Cambridge University Press doi:10.1017/S0040298208000144 Printed in the United Kingdom news section Composers elliott carter Figment IV (première) – 18 March Notes of premières of new works run from three months Washington DC, Freer Gallery / Samuel Rhodes before to three months following publication of this issue, (vla). Clarinet Quintet (première) – 29 April New i.e. from 1 January to 30 June 2008. There is therefore a York, Juilliard School / Charles Neidich (cl), Juilliard three-month overlap between issues, and omissions and String Quartet. late news for the three ‘following’ months of the current chaya czernowin Pilgerfahrten for speaker, issue will be picked up in the three ‘prior’ months of the children’s choir and ensemble (première) next one. News of more distant forthcoming premières is – 2 February Munich, Herkulessaal / Dresden given more briefl y; full details will be found in subsequent Kreuzchor c. Roderich Kreile. issues. michael daugherty Troy Jam (première) – hans abrahamsen Schnee (première) – 26 April 18 May Washington DC, Kennedy Center / National Witten, Wittener Tage / Ensemble Recherche. Symphony Orchestra c. Leonard Slatkin. john adams Doctor Atomic Symphony (US première) brett dean Short Stories (UK première) – 13 February – 7 February St Louis, Missouri / Saint Louis Norwich, St Andrew’s Hall / Britten Sinfonia c. Symphony Orchestra c. David Robertson. Jacqueline Shave. Ariel’s Music (UK première) – louis andriessen 18 April London, Barbican / Michael Collins (cl), La Commedia (première) – BBC Symphony Orchestra c. John Storgårds. 12 June Amsterdam, Koninklijk theater Carre / Claron McFadden, Cristina Zavalloni, Jeroen luca francesconi Kubrick’s Bone (UK première) – Willems, Netherlands Opera dir. Hal Hartley, Arnold 31 January London, Royal Festival Hall / Philharmonia Orchestra c. André de Ridder. Schoenberg Ensemble c. Reinbert de Leeuw. craig armstrong Gesualdo (première) – detlev glanert Doppelkonzert (première) 29 February Glasgow, Oran Mor / Scottish Opera c. – 15 March Glasgow, City Hall / Simon Crawford- Derek Clark. Phillips, Philip Moore (pnos), BBC Scottish SO c. luke bedford Martyn Brabbins. Nijinskys Tagebuch (première) Good Dream She Has (première) – – 6 April Aachen, Theater / dir. Ludger Engels, c. 14 April Birmingham, CBSO Centre / Angela Daniel Jakobi. Tunstall (sop), Susan Bickley (mezzo), Alan Belk (ten), Birmingham Contemporary Music Group c. philip glass Waiting for the Barbarians (UK première) Oliver Knussen. – 12 June London, Barbican Centre / soloists, frank michael beyer Orchestra and Chorus of Erfurt Theatre c. Dennis Meridian (première) – Russell Davies. 2 March Potsdam, Nikolaisaal / Emmanuel Pahud (fl), Kammerakademie Potsdam c. Michael orlando gough city:zen (première) – 24 January Sanderling. Metamorphosen (première) – 3 March London, Artsdepot / The Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Berlin / Viviane Hagner (vln). Lichtspuren (première) Company. – 11 March Kempen / Trio Wanderer. Zu den Inseln hk gruber Busking (German première) – 21 May (première) – 1 April Munich, Akademie der schönen Essen, Philharmonie / Håkan Hardenberger (tpt), Künste / Ensemble Oktopus c. Konstantia Gouri. Amsterdam Sinfonietta c. composer. harrison birtwistle The Minotaur (première) – georg friedrich haas Melancholia (première) – 15 April London, Royal Opera House / John 9 June Paris, Palais Garnier / Soloists, Vokalensemble Tomlinson, dir Stephen Langridge, c. Antonio Nova, Klangforum Wien c. Emilio Pomárico. Pappano. String Quartet: The Tree of Strings (première) – 27 April Witten / Arditti Quartet. cristóbal halffter Lazaro (première) – 4 May Kiel / Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra c. Georg Fritzsch. peter bruun Concerto Grosso (première) – 21 January Copenhagen, Tivoli Concert Hall / hans werner henze Phaedra (Austrian première) 4elements, Sjaellands Symfonieorkester c. Morten – 31 May Vienna, Theatre an der Wien / dir. Peter Ryelund. Musbach, Ensemble Modern c. Michael Boder; Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.58, on 01 Oct 2021 at 21:33:59, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298208000144 79 (Italian première) – 5 June Florence, Maggio elena kats-chernin Ornamental Air (première) – Musicale Fiorentino / c. Roberto Abbado. 10 April Chapel Hill, NC / Michael Collins (cl), North Carolina Symphony. kenneth hesketh Like the sea, like time (première) – 19 January Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall / Liverpool aaron jay kernis Newly Drawn Sky (UK première) Philharmonic Youth Choir, Roberto Prosseda (pno), – 8 April London, Barbican / BBC Symphony Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra Orchestra c. Andrew Litton. c. Harry Bicket. oliver knussen Symphony No. 4 (première) robin holloway Five Temperaments (première) – 11 April Pittsburgh PA / Pittsburgh Symphony – 31 January Leeds, The Venue / Britten Sinfonia. Orchestra c. Sir Andrew Davis. Whar can it be? (première) – 29 February Cambridge, rued langgaard St Catherine’s College / The Clerks c Edward (d. 1951) Sfaerenes Musik (US Wickham. String Quartet No. 2 (première) – 11 June première) – 1 June New York, Avery Fisher Hall / Madrid / Sacconi Quartet; (UK première) – 17 June American Symphony Orchestra. Brancaster, Houghton Hall / Sacconi Quartet. john mccabe Cello Concerto, Songline (première) david horne Restless Feeling (première) – 1 March – 17 January Manchester, Bridgewater Hall / Truls Oporto, Casa da Musica / Remix Ensemble. Mork (vlc) Hallé Orchestra c. Mark Elder. karl jenkins Stabat Mater (première) – 15 March steven mackey Time Release (US première) Liverpool, Anglican Cathedral / Royal Liverpool – 7 February Baltimore, MD / Colin Currie (perc), Philharmonic Orchestra c. composer. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra c. Marin Alsop. giya kancheli Concerto for violin and oboe james macmillan The Sacrifice: Three Interludes (première) – 15 February London, Barbican / (première) – 22 February Manchester, Bridgewater Lisa Batiashvili (vln), Francois Leleux (ob), BBC Hall / BBC Phiharmonic c. composer. The Song of Symphony Orchestra c. 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IP address: 170.106.202.58, on 01 Oct 2021 at 21:33:59, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298208000144 80 tempo news section Nancy Lancaster (org), Motet Choir of the House joby talbot Hovercraft (première) – 12 January of Hope Presbyterian Church c. Andrew Altenbach. Canberra, School of Music / Canberra Girls’ … fiat mihi … (première) – 21 March Wells Cathedral Grammar School, Australian Youth Orchestra. / Bath Camerata c. Nigel Perrin. String Quartet No. Mandala (Australian première) – 17 January 3 (première) – 21 May London, Royal Festival Hall / Canberra, National Library of Australia / Australian Takacs String Quartet. Youth Orchestra Harp Ensemble. sir peter maxwell davies The Seas of Kirk Swarf john tavener Requiem (première) – 28 February for bass clarinet and strings (première) – 10 January Liverpool, Metropolitan Cathedral / Josephine London, St John’s Smith Square / City Side Sinfonia Knight (vlc), Andrew Kennedy (ten), Royal Liverpool c. Steven Joyce. Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir c. Vassily Petrenko and Ian Tracey. thea musgave Points of View (première) – 23 mark-anthony turnage Juno; The Torino Scale (US February Manchester, RNCM / Gillian Keith, Stefan première) – 5 June San Francisco, Davies Hall / San Loges / Manchester Camerata c. Nicholas Kraemer. Francisco Symphony c. James Gaffigan. michael nyman gdm (UK première) – 5 April unsuk chin Rocaná (première) – 3 March Montreal Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall / Colin Currie (perc), / Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal c. Kent RLPO c. Mischa Damev. Nagano. steve reich Double Sextet (première) – 26 March param vir Hayagriva (Austrian première) – University of Rochester, VA / eighth blackbird. 5 May Vienna, Konzerthaus / Klangforum Wien c. Johannes Kalitzke. ned rorem Symphony No. 2 (UK première) – errolyn wallen 19 January London, Hampstead Garden Suburb Cello Concerto (première) Free Church / Helios Chamber Orchestra c. Owen – 26 January Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire Music Leech. Centre / Orchestra of the Swan. Wallen has been commissioned by Welsh National Opera to create kaija saariaho Adriana Mater (Finnish première) with writer John Binias a new work about South – 23 February Helsinki / Finnish National Opera Wales’s history, landscape and people. Carbon 12 – A c. Ernest Martinez-Izquierdo; (UK première) – Choral Symphony will be premièred in Cardiff on 6 24 April London, Barbican / Solveig Kringelborn June 2008. (sop), Monica Groop (mezzo), Gordon Gietz (ten), judith weir Concrete (première) – 20 January Jyrki Korhonen (bass), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony London, Barbican / BBC Singers, BBC Symphony