Luke
Bedford is in Vienna for a performance of his Man Shoots Strangers from
Skyscraper. Franck Ollu conducts the London Sinfonietta.
The concert, which is part of the Wien Modern festival, is the ensemble’s first in Vienna for 15 years.
Also on the programme is Harrison Birtwistle’s Silbury Air, as well as works by George Benjamin, Simon Holt and Thomas Adès.
We’ve just published an early work by Jay Schwartz: Music for Saxophone and Piano.
Thomas Snydacker and Liz Ames perform the piece tonight at the Arizona State University.
The piece was written for the saxophonist Harry Kinrose White, who will also be performing the work in Zurich this autumn. More details in our performance calendar.
Part two of Georg Friedrich Haas’ SCHWEIGEN – II. Lampedusa for soprano and mezzo-soprano – is given its world première this Sunday at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
Soloists from the Neue Vocalsolisten perform as part of the Escalier du Chant project by the artist Olaf Nicolai.
The iconic ZaterdagMatinee
concert series in Amsterdam begins a special season dedicated to Wolfgang Rihm
this Saturday.
During the forthcoming concert series, works by Rihm will be included in eight of the matinee concerts presented by the Dutch Radio at the Concertgebouw.
The series begins with the world première of Rihm’s Der Maler träumt for baritone and ensemble given by Christian Miedl and the Asko|Schönberg ensemble, alongside a performance of Male über Male 2 with clarinettist Jörg Widmann. Reinbert de Leeuw conducts. Music by Schreker and Widmann will also be performed.
Read more on the NTR website.
The concert is broadcast live on Dutch Radio 4 at 14:15 (Amsterdam time) on Saturday 29 Oct, and there’s a live video stream on the NTR website.
col legno’s
new CD, Besides Feldman, is now available. The project, led by musician and
producer Patrick Pulsinger, was part of the Feld(man) Forschung series at the Wien Modern 2010
festival.
The Viennese weekly newspaper Der Falter talks of the “considerable attraction” of the music.
Morton Feldman’s works are here.
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.
Jonathan Nott celebrates
his 500th concert with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra tonight, including
Schubert’s 7th and Mahler’s 4th.
In honour of the occasion, the concert will be broadcast live on the internet from the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra website.
Watch our interview with Jonathan Nott, in which he talks about the music of Gustav Mahler
Vykintas Baltakas features at the SONiC Festival at the Miller Theatre in New York this Sunday.
The JACK Quartet gives the US première of his string quartet b(ell tree).
The 2011
Donaueschingen Festival starts tomorrow with a concert given by the RSO
Baden-Baden and Freiburg together with the Ensemble MusikFabrik.
Emilio Pomàrico conducts the world première of Wolfgang Rihm’s “Séraphin”-Symphonie. The work is the latest incarnation of a “complex” of works that carry a reference to Antonin Artaud and his work.
To learn more, see this Rihm-Artaud-Overview, showing how the works are connected (PDF file – with thanks to Ulrich Mosch from the Sacher Foundation in Basel).
Visit the Donaueschingen pages at the SWR website, including videos from last year’s festival.
The concert will be broadcast live on SWR2 Radio at 8pm Paris time on 14 October. Listen online.
Vykintas Baltakas’ Commentum for cello and piano receives its German premiere tonight at the Usedom Music Festival.
Artist in Residence David Geringas is accompanied by Ian Fountain.
See the full score of Commentum and listen to an excerpt on this page.
Here is Vykintas Baltakas’ blog. His Twitter feed is here.
Johannes Maria Staud is featured at the closing weekend of this year’s Festival Musica in Strasbourg.
This Thursday, On Comparative Meteorology for orchestra is given its French premiere by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg conducted by Pascal Rophé.
On Saturday, the SWR Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart performs Contrebande (On Comparative Meteorology II), conducted by Anton Zapf.
The US premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas’ chants oubliés for chamber orchestra takes place tonight in Los Angeles.
Otto Tausk conducts the LA Phil New Music Group at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
The title refers to late works by Franz Liszt (Valses oubliés, Romance oubliée) – Liszt’s technique of presenting one-part melodies in a different sound environment (often that of the piano) is applied here to the possibilities of the chamber orchestra.
Steve Reich is 75 years old today. Many happy returns!
UE is proud to publish some of Steve Reich’s most seminal works, including Clapping Music, Piano Phase and Violin Phase. See this page for details.
Our friends at Boosey & Hawkes have published an excellent video documentary about the man and his music.
Visit the Steve Reich website here.
AD LUCEM. Arte Contemporanea per Arvo Pärt
This Saturday (1 Oct) an exhibition of contemporary art dedicated to Arvo Pärt and curated by Angela Madesani opens at the Studio La Città in Verona.
A tribute concert will take place on Saturday 8 Oct with the composer in attendance.
