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Wolfgang Rihm, Franz Welser-Möst and Friedrich Cerha after the performance of Cerha’s Étoile, performed by Martin Grubinger and The Percussive Planet on 21 November at the Konzerthaus, Vienna.
View the full score of Étoile or watch a video interview in which Friedrich Cerha talks about his music.
Congratulations!
The winning recordings of this year’s Coups de Coeur Musique Contemporaine of the Académie Charles Cros have been announced.
Among them: Friedrich Cerha’s Schlagzeugkonzert; Impulse für Orchester on Kairos, Harrison Birtwistle’s Complete String Quartets on AEON, and Morton Feldman’s Violin and Orchestra on the ECM New Series.
Read a review of Birtwsitle’s Complete String Quartets on The Guardian.
Parts of Friedrich Cerha’s Eine Art Chansons will be
performed on 13 September at the Dominikanerkirche Krems as a side event to Marianne
Maderna’s exhibition Humanimals. The concert is for free, but one has to register for the event, which is organized
by Zeit Kunst Niederösterreich.
Friedrich
Cerha: Eine Art Chansons
for chansonnier, percussionist, piano and double
bass | 65'
13.09.2013, Dominikanerkirche,
Krems; Agnes Heginger, v; Rainer Keuschnig, pno; David Christopher Panzl, perc;
Josef Pitzek, cb
We just uploaded an updated version of the study
score of Friedrich Cerha’s Concerto
for Percussion and Orchestra. You can find the full score here.
Upcoming performances of the Concerto:
Friedrich Cerha: Concerto for Percussion
and Orchestra
for percussion and orchestra | 35’
3 2 3 3 – 6 4 4 2 – timp(2), perc(4), hp, cel, sop.sax, str(14 12 10 8 6)
10/9/2013, Lübeck, Germany
15/9/2013, Lucerne, Switzerland
17/9/2013, Frankfurt, Germany
18/9/2013, Cologne, Germany
Martin Grubinger, perc; Vienna Philharmonic, cond. Lorin Maazel
Further
peformances:
prem. 20/9/2013, Helsinki; Martin Grubinger, perc; Helsinki Philharmonic
Orchestra, cond. John Storgårds
prem. 25/10/2013, Casa da Musica, Porto; Martin Grubinger, perc; Orquestra
Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Musica, cond. Eivind Gullberg Jensen
24/11/2013, Philharmonie, Munich; Martin Grubinger, perc; Munich Philharmonic,
cond. Lorin Maazel
We
just sent out our latest newsletter focusing on Martin Grubinger and Friedrich Cerha and his
Étoile and Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra.
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Nicholas Collon with Gertraud and Friedrich Cerha after the performance of Like a Tragicomedy at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid on 7 April. As you can see, they were very happy with the performance.
You can read about – and listen to an excerpt of – Like a Tragicomedy on our homepage.
Friedrich Cerha. Ernst von Siemens Music Prize recipient 2012.
Happy Birthday Friedrich Cerha!
(Another anniversary for the 17th February is the world première of Mahler’s Das klagende Lied, which took place in 1901)
We’re off to the Konzerthaus in Vienna tonight for the latest concert in Klangforum Wien’s IKONEN series.
Under the title Vexations, Klangforum presents a rich programme of UE works:
Pierre Boulez: Mémoriale | ( ... explosante-fixe ... Originel)
Morton Feldman: Instruments 2
Beat Furrer:
Time out 1 and 2
Friedrich Cerha: Bruchstück, geträumt
as well as Olga Neuwirth’s ... miramondo multiplo ...
Jean Deroyer conducts, Eva Furrer and Anders Nyqvist are the soloists.
If you are in Boston tonight, go and see Sound Icon perform Georg Friedrich Haas’ ethereal 70-minute in vain at the Institute of Contemporary Art (audio sample on this page).
If you are not in Boston tonight, listen live on BBC Radio 3 (7:30pm London time) to the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra performing Friedrich Cerha’s Wiener Kaleidoskop – a romp around Vienna’s musical traditions (audio sample on this page).
For those looking for something else for a Friday evening, there’s Rihm in Saarbrücken (COLL’ARCO), Weill in Graz (Threepenny Opera), Janacek in Munich (Glagolitic Mass) and Reims (Jenufa), Schreker in Cologne (Chamber Symphony), Borisova-Ollas in Gothenburg (The Kingdom of Silence), Mahler in Bangkok (Symphony No. 9), Birtwistle in London (Linoi), Zemlinsky in Valencia (Lyric Symphony), Kodály in Arnhem (Dances of Galanta), Oldfield in Neuenkirchen (Tubular Bells), Bartók in Athens (Miraculous Mandarin), Berio in Düsseldorf (Rendering) …
The RSO
Vienna performs under Johannes Kalitzke tonight at the Wien Modern
festival.
The first half of the concert consists of orchestral miniatures, including excerpts of Francis Burt’s Morgana, Johannes Maria Staud’s ‘Eck’ from his work Polygon and Friedrich Cerha’s Momente.
After the interval, Harrison Birtwistle’s 30-minute The Triumph of Time will be performed.
The concert is broadcast on ORF Radio 1 on Friday 4 November at 19:30 Vienna time.
The
Gewandhausorchester is in Vienna this week with its chief conductor Riccardo Chailly. For
full details of the continuing tour of their Beethoven series, see the
Gewandhaus website.
Tonight, they present the Austrian première of Friedrich Cerha’s Paraphrase on the beginning of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
Shooting
Star Martin Grubinger performs Friedrich Cerha’s Concerto for Percussion
tonight and tomorrow in Leipzig. Riccardo Chailly conducts the
Gewandhausorchester.
Reviewing the world première for the Neue Musikzeitung, Gerhard Rohde wrote:
“The richness of rhythmic finesse and complexity is astounding, giving the work an overwhelming physical liveliness. The sophisticated sound that Cerha invents for both the orchestral part and for the formidable percussion ensemble is also fascinating.”