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 revolutionary Die Soldaten, deservedly dubbed an ‘opera of the century’, also bows in Salzburg in a new co-production with Milan’s Teatro alla Scala directed by Alvis Hermanis and conducted by Ingo Metzmacher.

Back in the US, György Ligeti, Bernard Rands, George Gershwin, Andrew Norman, Sir Michael Tippett (whose landmark A Child of Our Time is performed at the Oregon Bach Festival), Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill are just a few of the many Schott composers whose music will be heard at festivals from coast to coast. Join us in a toast to summer!

- from the editorial by Norman D. Ryan, Schott Music New York

Contents:

p 3: Editorial by von Norman D. Ryan · Contents
pp 4-6: World Premières: Heinz Holliger: Janus · Gavin Bryars: The Beckett Songbook · Naji Hakim: Aalaiki´ssalaam · Toshi Ichiyanagi: Piano Concerto No. 5 'Finland' · Andrew Norman: Five New Miniatures · Enjott Schneider: Orgelsymphonie Nr. 12 · Huw Watkins: In the Locked Room · and more...
p 7: First Nights: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess in London · Alexander Glasunow: Raymonda in Bordeaux · Paul Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione, Sancta Susanna in Ravenna · Christian Jost: Death Knocks in Kootwijk · Carl Orff: Die Bernauerin in Andechs · and more...
pp 8-9: 70th Birthday of Peter Hanser-Strecker, shareholder and CEO of Schott Music
p 10: Birthdays - Alexander Goehr 80, Wilhelm Killmayer 85
p 11: Upcoming première highlights in season 2012/2013
pp 12-13: New sheet music editions, catalogues and CDs
pp 14-15: News - New repertoire for children´s concerts by Heidi Leenen and Hallfridur Olafsdottir · WERGO at 50 · Ryan Wigglesworth Composer-in-Residence at the English National Opera · In memory of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau · Schneider-Schott-Musikpreis for Birke J. Bertelsmeier
p 16: Repertoire - Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Die Soldaten

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