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06/26/2012
schott aktuell - the journal 4/2012 online
This summer’s festival season proves to be no exception. At the Salzburg Festival, Heinz Holliger conducts the World Première of his Janus Double Concerto for violin, viola and small orchestra, featuring Thomas Zehetmair, Ruth Killius and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s ...
06/14/2012
World Première: String Orchestra Version of Penderecki's 3rd String Quartet
Krzysztof Penderecki headed his Third String Quartet with the poetic phrase ’Pages of an unwritten diary’, a reference to the past, to the author himself and his experiences. Now Penderecki has created an adaptation of this composition with its innate chamber musical style, episodic structure ...
06/06/2012
World Première: "Esh" by Chaya Czernowin at Cottbus
Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony is the final season highlight of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Cottbus (Germany). As a concert overture, the orchestra has commissioned an orchestral work by Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin. She explains her new piece, called Esh : ' Esh (the Hebrew word ...
06/01/2012
In Memoriam Bruce MacCombie 1943-2012
We are deeply saddened to report the passing of Bruce MacCombie, American composer, educator and scholar of the highest order, following a long illness. Bruce MacCombie was 69 years old. A passionate composer and educator, Bruce MacCombie created a wide array of chamber and orchestral music ...
05/25/2012
World Première of Shchedrin's "Cleopatra and the Snake" at Salzburg
The motto of the Salzburger Pfingstfestspiele (Salzburg Pentecost Festival) is the legendary Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra. On this occastion, a spectacular world premeire will be presented as part of the concert series: The Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev ist presenting ...
05/21/2012
Jean Françaix Centenary on 23 May 2012
Jean Françaix’ declared motto of always having aimed to create ’musique pour faire plaisir’ partially conceals the great variability and frequent inscrutability of the music created by this composer, born in Le Mans in 1912. Françaix succeeded in finding and consolidating his own style at an early ...
05/20/2012
What's the DnA of Dido 'n Aeneas?
It is a truly exceptional dance project which is going to be presented by the Opera Graz in late May. Choreographer Darrel Toulon has chosen Christian Jost as the composer who performs a balancing act of baroque and jazz music: DnA – six images of love constitutes one section of a large-scale ...
05/10/2012
Schott composers on focus at the Canberra Music Festival
On 11th May 2012, the 8th Canberra International Music Festival opens with the promise of over 30 concerts featuring music by composers from around the world in a range of venues of cultural and architectural importance. The festival will run from 11th to 20th May. Three Schott composers will ...
05/09/2012
World Première: De natura sonoris no. 3 by Krzysztof Penderecki in Copenhagen
During the 1960s, Krzysztof Penderecki dedicated himself to the extension of the expressive possibilities of the orchestra. Compositions such as Anaklasis , Polymorphia and St. Luke's Passion became milestones in the music of the twentieth century. This series of groundbreaking works also encompasses ...
05/05/2012
World Première of Rediscovered Korngold Piece
New incidental music was required for a performance of William Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado about Nothing in the Schönbrunn Schloßtheater in Vienna in 1920. Erich Wolfgang Korngold had already composed this music two years previously; he also conducted the première in May 1920. In January of the ...
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