Our week of world premières continues, following yesterday’s new work by Vykintas Baltakas.

On Saturday, Georg Friedrich Haas’ new work for chamber orchestra, chants oubliés, is part of a portrait concert given by the Munich Chamber Orchestra, which is joined by Teodoro Anzelotti and Kelvin Hawthorne.

Johannes Maria Staud’s new monodrama for narrator and ensemble, Der Riß durch den Tag, is given its world première in Dresden by Bruno Ganz and the Staatskapelle Dresden.

In other news, the Dutch Radio’s famous ZaterdagMatinee series presents the Dutch première of Wolfgang Rihm’s QUID EST DEUS? The concert is broadcast live on Dutch Radio (14:15, Sat 4 June CEST).

Johannes Maria Staud is in Dresden ahead of the world première of his new work for orchestra, Tondo. Christoph Eschenbach conducts the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden tomorrow morning.

This Saturday afternoon, the Staatskapelle's artistic programmer Tobias Niederschlag and Staud talked about his music in a public podium discussion (and relaxed in the sun afterwards).