Jean-Guihen Queyras and the Arditti Quartett will perform the world première of Wolfgang Rihm’s first string quintet Epilog on 10 February at the Eclat festival in Stuttgart.
Wolfgang Rihm: Epilog
for string quintet | 15’
10/2/2013, ECLAT-Festival, Stuttgart; Jean-Guihen Queyras, vc; Arditti Quartet
On 1 February 2013, Dima Slobodeniouk conducts a memorial concert at the Auditorium Toscanini in Torino to honour the distinguished composer who passed away ten years ago († 27 May 2003). The Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Torino is performing three of Berio’s key works.
Luciano Berio:
Eindrücke
for orchestra | 11’
Luciano Berio: Requies
for chamber orchestra | 17’
Luciano Berio: Sinfonia
for 8 voices and orchestra | 35’
Neue Vocalsolisten
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Torino; c. Dima Slobodeniouk
3 of David Fennessy’s chamber works will be performed on 4 February
at the Southbank Festival. Among the performers are Mira Calix (live electronics), John
Reid (piano) and Oliver Coates (cello).
David Fennessy on The
first thing, the last thing and everything in between
David Fennessy on The
room is the resonator
Tom Service on Schönberg’s anti-revolutionary qualities: “The
most radical thing about Schoenberg's Second String Quartet is precisely that
there isn't a big musical signpost declaring: 'No key signature ahead –
beware!'”
Read the full article on the Guardian.
Listen to an excerpt of the String Quartet No.2
Find out more at the Welsh National Opera
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra performs
Borisova-Ollas’ Open
Ground on 24, 25 and 26 February under Christoph Altstaedt, marking
his debut with the orchestra.
In case you don't know the piece – you can listen to an excerpt here.
Watch Sir Simon Rattle's eloquent and precise description of Georg Friedrich Haas' in vain.
"One of the first great masterpieces of the 21st century."
Ensemble
2e2m gives the French premiere of Vykintas Baltakas‘ Lift to Dubai this
Thursday at their concert in Paris.
Read more on the 2e2m website.
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NMC Recordings are trying to release Harrison Birtwistle’s
Gawain, Judith Weir’s The Vanishing Bridegroom and Gerald Barry’s The
Importance of Being Earnest in 2014/15.
Here is what they have to say: Of all contemporary music, opera is perhaps the genre that epitomises NMC’s unique role in promoting British composition at its most innovative. The financial and artistic risks inherent in new opera, the paucity of repeat runs and the unwillingness of many mainstream record labels to take up this repertoire require NMC to step into the breach and make these works permanently available to a global audience. NMC has recorded over a dozen contemporary British operas to date, and Gawain is perhaps the work that we are most frequently asked to release!
We'd like to support this – find out how you can support NMC.
Happy 75th Birthday Nikolai Badinski!
The Guardian has just released a list of the five best
classical albums of 2012 – and thanks to wonderful performers such as Isabelle Faust and Christian Gerhaher, Alban
Berg and Arnold Schönberg are on that list.
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In the latest instalment of his Guide to Contemporary Classical Music in The Guardian, Tom Service presents the music of Luciano Berio.
“Wherever you start with Berio, you won't want to end, only keep listening, listening on …”