The New York Philharmonic moves into the Park Avenue Armory in New York tonight for a Philharmonic 360 concert – “Spatial Music from Mozart’s Don Giovanni to Stockhausen’s Gruppen”.
The 55,000-square-foot Thompson Drill Hall (photo) has been turned into a unique concert space, with the orchestra in three groups surrounding the audience.
Alan Gilbert, Magnus Lindberg and Matthias Pintscher conduct the New York Philharmonic.
Programme:
Pierre Boulez: Rituel
in memoriam Bruno Maderna
Mozart: Finale of Act I from Don Giovanni
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gruppen
Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question
Luke Bedford already has his copy of the brand new col legno CD – Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale – fresh from the Ernst von Siemens Prize awards ceremony last Friday.
We will let you know as soon as it is available to order.
100 years ago today, on 26 June 1912, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 was given its world première at the Musikverein in Vienna.
Friedrich Cerha. Ernst von Siemens Music Prize recipient 2012.
Happy Birthday Emilio Pomàrico! (17 June)
UE says a huge thank you for 163 performances of 83 works, for 13 world premières, for the Bach, the Berg, Berio, Boulez, Burt, Cerha, Feldman, Haas, Haubenstock-Ramati, Janácek, Kurtág, Mahler, Rihm, Schönberg, Schreker, Schubert, Sotelo, Staud, Stockhausen, Szymanowski and the Webern.
And for all the concerts still to come.
02.06.2012
Johannes Maria Staud — Le Voyage
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Location: |
Centre Pompidou, Paris (F) |
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Scored for: |
for actor, six-part vocal ensemble, four instruments and electronics |
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Orchestra: |
Ensemble Intercontemporain |
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Conductor: |
Geoffroy Jourdain |
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Choir: |
Cris de Paris |
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Main Soloists: |
Marcel Bozonnet, actor; Robin Meier, electronics |
07.06.2012
Mauricio Sotelo — Cripta – Música para Manuel de Falla
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Location: |
Teatro Goldoni, Firenze (I) |
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Scored for: |
for ensemble and electronics |
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Orchestra: |
Contempoartensemble |
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Conductor: |
Mauro Ceccanti |
13.06.2012
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Location: |
KKL, Luzern (CH) |
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Scored for: |
for orchestra |
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Orchestra: |
Luzerner SO |
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Conductor: |
James Gaffigan |
13.06.2012
Franz
Schubert — 3
Stücke
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Arranger: |
Richard Dünser |
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Location: |
Radiokulturhaus, Wien (A) |
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Scored for: |
for ensemble (chamber orchestra) |
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Orchestra: |
Theophil Ensemble Wien |
14.06.2012
Mauricio Sotelo — Muros...: Sarai
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Location: |
Badajoz (E) |
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Scored for: |
for saxofone tenore, marimba and electronics |
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Main Soloists: |
Javier Gonzáles Pereira, sax; Sarai Aguilera Cortés, perc |
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Remarks: |
venue: Conservatorio Profesional de Música "Juan Vásquez" |
15.06.2012
Georg Friedrich Haas — "Ich suchte, aber ich fand ihn nicht."
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Location: |
St. Michaelskirche, München (D) |
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Scored for: |
for ensemble |
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Orchestra: |
musikFabrik |
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Conductor: |
Emilio Pomàrico |
15.06.2012
David Fennessy — Little Bird Barking
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Location: |
Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (D) |
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Scored for: |
for violin |
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Main Soloists: |
Sabine Akiko Ahrendt, vln. |
22.06.2012
Luke Bedford — Wonderful No-Headed Nightingale
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Location: |
Cuvilliéstheater, München (D) |
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Scored for: |
for 10 players |
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Orchestra: |
Ensemble Modern |
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Conductor: |
Friedrich Cerha |
27.06.2012
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Location: |
Kathedrale, St. Gallen (CH) |
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Scored for: |
for mixed choir, three trombones and organ |
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Choreographer: |
Marco Santi |
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Main Soloists: |
Tanzkompagnie des Theaters St. Gallen |
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Remarks: |
Choreographie "Zwielicht" |
30.06.2012
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Location: |
Passau (D) |
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Scored for: |
for mixed choir a cappella |
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Conductor: |
Hans-Christoph Rademann |
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Choir: |
Rias Kammerchor |
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Remarks: |
venue: Basilika Niederalteich |
See all 475 performances of UE works this June in our Performance Database.
This Friday, David Fennessy presents what you could call a “staged concert” (to use Heiner Goebbels’s term) at the Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. The concert starts at sunset, and the audience walks for about 10 minutes into the forest adjoining the Schloss, where in the little hut there Sabine Ahrendt will perform Little Bird Barking for violin (or as the composer writes “for violinist and forest sounds”).
“The violinist is not attempting to 'harmonise' with the forest sounds but rather seems like an alien creature transplanted from a different habitat who nevertheless attempts to add their voice to the chorus!”
The audience then returns towards the Schloss and arrives at the Scheune (barn), where Sonia Cromarty will perform The room is the resonator (for cello and electronics) followed by Rest (for violin, cello and electronics). The recorded part was created at the hut mentioned above during Fennessy’s residence at Schloss Solitude last year.
As Fennessy writes: “There is a kind of narrative running throughout the three pieces, including in a way, the walking between them. The resounding question is one of the performers’ ‘voice’, literally and metaphorically, and how it adapts to its surroundings. All three pieces contain extended vocalising from the performers which, I feel, helps to imprint their individual identity onto the performance. In all three cases, the fragile voice emerges from behind the instrumental shield.”
Click the image above for a PDF file of the brochure.
Luigi Dallapiccola’s 1939 one-act opera Volo di notte (Night Flight), based on the story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, comes to the Akademietheater in Munich tomorrow night.
The opera is a coproduction between the Bavarian Theatre Academy August Everding and the Munich Music Conservatoire. Tobias Peschanel conducts; stage direction is by Igor Pison; the stage design and costumes by Evelin Maria Arwek.
Our English introduction is here.
Here is some further reading (in German) from our archives (on sometimes dodgy typewriters). Click the images for PDF files.
Our “Propaganda” folder from the 1950s
Die Story – Nachtflug
Zur Erstaufführung
Ensemble intercontemporain gives the French première of Luciano Berio’s Ofanim tomorrow. Susanna Mälkki conducts.
Pierre-Yves Macé introduces the work in the ensemble’s Accents online series, (in French).
Vykintas Baltakas’ new website is live.
Find information on the composer, his works, texts, photos and performances at www.baltakas.net.
This year
the prestigious Festival del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, still one of the most
important musical events in Italy,
reaches its 75th edition.
Two works by Béla Bartók will be staged in one evening, the ballet The miraculous Mandarin (choreography by Jo Kanamori) and the opera Bluebeard’s Castle.
On 6 June Wolfgang Rihm’s Der Maler träumt and Arnold Schönberg’s Pelleas and Melisande in the version for chamber orchestra by Cliff Colnot can be heard for the first time in Italy.
We have just published a new comprehensive catalogue of chamber operas, music theatre works and reduced versions of operas.
Download a PDF file of the catalogue (21MB)
The London Sinfonietta presents a portrait of Harrison Birtwistle at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London tonight. David Atherton conducts.
On the programme are Cortege, Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum, 5 Distances for 5 Instruments and the the UK première of In Broken Images.
In the first half of the concert, Tom Service talks to Harrison Birtwistle about his music.
Watch Birtwistle in conversation with the Southbank Centre’s Gillian Moore.
Watch on YouTube.
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Here’s the latest video from the Austrian initiative Kunst hat Recht (Art Has Rights).
“It has never been so easy to take someone’s art away”
More information (in German) at Kunst hat Recht.
Watch on YouTube.