October 2015 Jenkins Still with the Music Karl Jenkins tells of his life and passion for music in a new autobiography, while Warner Classics releases a box set of his greatest works together with the premiere recording of The Healer. Still with the Music is the new autobiography by To tie in with the book publication, Warner Karl Jenkins, the composer of The Armed Man: Classics has released a new compilation disc A Mass for Peace and Adiemus, written with Sam (2564610053) and a box set entitled Voices Jackson and published by Elliott & Thompson (2564610051). The collection contains seven (978-1783961375). The Welsh-born composer, of Jenkins’s chart-topping discs together with recently knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours the first release of his latest work for choir and for “services to composing and crossing musical ensemble, The Healer, a cantata for St Luke. genres”, is one of the world’s most popular and Jenkins returns to the Royal Albert Hall in widely performed living composers. His Armed London on 30 October for a concert including Man is a classical music phenomenon, with on Stabat Mater and The Armed Man, with the average two performances per week, amounting Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and London to over 1800 total in 20 different countries, and a Philharmonic Choir. recording that has been in the UK Classical Album Chart for close to 600 weeks. Current composing projects include a new work for chorus and orchestra, commissioned by S4C From a modest upbringing, steeped in the Welsh to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the choral tradition and the Western musical canon, Aberfan Tragedy in October 1966, when a waste Jenkins trained as a classical musician at Cardiff tip slid down a mountainside to engulf houses University and the Royal Academy of Music in and a junior school, killing 144. Jenkins is also London. He immersed himself in the 1960s jazz writing a motet for the Cantoria de la Merced from world of Ronnie Scott’s, before joining the seminal Córdoba in Argentina, who won the recent choral prog-rock group Soft Machine. He topped the competition organised by Boosey & Hawkes. record charts with Adiemus, and went on to compose some of the most performed choral Still with the Music and the new CDs are now on works of our age, including The Armed Man, sale from our Online Shop. Please visit: Requiem, Stabat Mater and The Peacemakers. www.boosey.com/StillwiththeMusic its 2016/17 season and Turnage travels to Dutch National Górecki Opera. Other highlights in Manchester include the Violin Concerto final legacy and Ollantay in Madrid, the Two major works Harp Concerto performed The final works left by Mark-Anthony by the Berlin Philharmonic, unheard at Henryk Turnage receive their an all-Ginastera concert by Mikołaj Górecki’s death UK premieres at the the Polish National Radio in 2010 are joining the Bridgewater Hall Symphony, Popol Vuh canon thanks to in Manchester this with lighting installation by performances and autumn. The Hallé the celebrated designer recordings. Following Orchestra conducted rosalie in Karlsruhe, and the its world premiere in by Ryan Wigglesworth recently restored Concierto London in 2014, presents the Piano Argentino in Stavanger. Symphony No.4: Concerto on 22 Barbara Nissman performs Photo: Jerry Hurkmans Tansman Episodes has October with soloist a celebratory piano recital been performed in Los Angeles and Amsterdam, at Photo: Philip Gatward Marc-André Hamelin, at Kings Place in London in the International Tansman Festival in Łódź, and in who has already played the 20-minute work in the birthday month of April. Gdańsk and Kraków. Further Polish performances Rotterdam and Philadelphia. Turnage describes follow this autumn in Górecki’s home city of New discs in honour of the composing the concerto for the Canadian-born Katowice, and in Warsaw. centenary include a major virtuoso: cycle of ballets, piano Nonesuch is soon to release the first recording of “The title of the opening movement, Rondo- concertos and orchestral Symphony No.4 featuring the London Philharmonic Variations, sounds positively classical and rather Photo: Annemarie Heinrich works recorded by the Orchestra conducted by Andrey Boreyko, together decorative, but this is a little misleading because BBC Philharmonic and with a seven-disc Górecki box set retrospective the material really undergoes continual variation Alberto Ginastera’s centenary is celebrated in Juanjo Mena for Chandos. First recordings will and the first vinyl LP release of the classic recording as it moves forward. The central movement, Last 2016 with opera and orchestral performances include Music from Bomarzo on Capriccio and of Symphony No.3 with Dawn Upshaw. Lullaby for Hans, was composed immediately around the world. The Argentinian-born composer Turbae from Trinity Wall Street, alongside its series Saint Adalbert is the patron saint of Poland, buried I heard Hans Werner Henze had died - it’s a captured the spirit of the Pampas and the life of 15 Ginastera works planned for 2016. in Gniezno, and the composer initially embarked on straightforward tribute because I wanted it to be of the gauchos in his early works, establishing Boosey & Hawkes has been undertaking composition of his hour-long oratorio Sanctus direct, simple and lyrical. The last movement, an authentic South American compositional intensive editorial work preparing newly engraved Adalbertus in honour of his millennium in 1997. The A Grotesque Burlesque, is meant to be fun and voice. He went on to develop an expressive and scores and orchestral parts for Dances from belated premiere on 4 November forms the finale of moves from an opening with hints of Brahmsian richly coloured modern style through a series of Estancia, the Harp Concerto, Bomarzo and a 70th birthday concert in Kraków for Polish music finger patterns, to something much jazzier and concertos and orchestral scores. Despite a chain Don Rodrigo and new publications of scores of publisher PWM with the Polish National Radio closer to stride piano.” of major commissions in North America and Piano Concerto No.2, Estudios Sinfonicós, Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jacek final years spent in Europe, the Argentinian folk Erskine, which the BBC Philharmonic performs Popol Vuh and Turbae. If you would like your Kaspszyk, with a repeat performance in Katowice. music of his youth and his vividly imagined pre- on 20 November, is a tribute to the jazz drummer Ginastera centenary performance included in our Columbian world continued to feed his creative life. Górecki’s Kyrie received its UK premiere at the Peter Erskine, a long-time collaborator with web calendar please contact: BBC’s recent Total Immersion day devoted to the Turnage. The UK premiere in Manchester The Teatro Colón in Ginastera’s native city of [email protected]. composer at the Barbican in London. conducted by John Storgårds follows Buenos Aires opens its 2016 season with a new performances in Bonn, the Hollywood Bowl, production of his opera Beatrix Cenci in March, Helsinki and Bochum. Even as a teenager Turnage followed by ten concerts including performances was a fan of Peter Erskine, thanks to a passion for by the Buenos Aires Philharmonic under Enrique jazz-funk fusion, going on to write solo parts for Diemecke. Gustavo Dudamel conducts Piano Inside this issue… him in works including Blood on the Floor. Concerto No.1 internationally with Sergio Tiempo as soloist, including performances by the Los “Rather than having a soloist at the front, it’s a Angeles Philharmonic on tour to New York, concertante work with Peter Erskine sitting at London and Paris. As an upbeat to the centenary the back in what would be his typical position the Harp Concerto is performed this autumn by in a big band. He hits off the other players and the Chicago Symphony under Riccardo Muti and is also close to the percussion session. Peter’s on a tour by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales part is notated like a big band score, providing Lindberg Simpson Willems Yun & Einem to Argentina and Chile. a framework and queueing in the big moments, Interview on his new Reviews of oratorio Composer of Explore repertoire but he has a lot of freedom and is developing the In Europe a new staging of Bomarzo by Pierre concerto for Frank The Immortal William Forsythe for centenaries in piece each time he plays it.” Audi is unveiled by the Teatro Real in Madrid in Peter Zimmermann from Manchester ballets joins B&H 2017 and 2018 Lindberg Violin Concerto No.2 What is the relationship between solo and tutti Lindberg Magnus Lindberg introduces his new concerto for violinist in this work? Violin Concerto No.2 Frank Peter Zimmermann, performed this season in London, It is quite complicated – somewhere between (2015) the conventional classical dialogue and a more All performances with New York, Berlin, Stockholm and Paris extreme relationship such as in Berio’s Points on Frank Peter Zimmermann 20th century it seemed the Curve to Find where all the orchestral material that composers wrote is derived from the solo part. The latter approach 9 December 2015 one definitive concerto can be limiting because the flow is one directional (world premiere) for an instrument and – I’ve pursued instead something more fluid to Royal Festival Hall, London then moved on, but if allow interchange back and forth between the London Philharmonic Orchestra/ you look further back, violin and the tutti. This opens up a wider canvas Jaap van Zweden Photo: Harald Hoffmann/Hänssler Classic composers like Bartók with space enough for a large statement, like in and Prokofieff were my Piano Concerto No.2. 14-16 January 2016 (US premiere) happy to return and Lincoln Centre, New York How much of the material grows from the nature come up with new New York Philharmonic Orchestra/Alan Gilbert of the solo instrument and how much is driven by solutions for the same the musical argument? instrument.