How time flies. Here they are: the first 100 posts on the new UE blog. The list gives quite a good impression of the variety of the UE catalogue and the quality of the performances taking place around the world.
Here’s the list from day one
Cunning Little Vixen in Glasgow
Bartók one of Top Ten Classical Composers
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung honours Arvo Pärt
Award for Mahler in Manchester
Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony online at the BBC
Haas limited approximations on the radio
New Mahler interview with Sir Simon Rattle
Stockhausen's Gruppen with the New York Philharmonic
Wolfgang Rihm's Das Gehege returns to Hamburg
British première of Georg Friedrich Haas' 3rd String Quartet
The new third act of Lulu comes to Oslo
Friedrich Cerha celebrates his 85th birthday
‘in vain’ back in New York – Georg Friedrich Haas
Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel in San Francisco
Mike Cornick’s new piano tutor for adult beginners
Zemlinsky’s Zwerg at the State Opera in Munich
The Musical Language of Pierre Boulez
Happy Birthday to the UE Website!
Christoph Marthaler’s Katya Kabanova returns to Paris
Gustav Mahler at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris
Berio’s Recital for Cathy with Measha Brueggergosman
Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Jay Schwartz’ Narcissus & Echo at the Salzburg Biennale
The Guardian talks to Luke Beford about living in Berlin
‘Early’ Music by Klangforum Wien
Alarm Will Sound at the MaerzMusik Festival
Feldman and Schönberg at the NYC Opera
Alarm Will Sound rehearsing Rihm in Berlin
Mahler live in Paris with Gergiev and the LSO
Robert Tear “absorbing” in Lulu 1979
Arts Council England makes widespread budget cuts
Kevin Spacey to play Pierre Boulez
Elena Denisova on Zemlinsky’s Serenade
Haas’ 3rd String Quartet in Milan
Pierre-Yve Macé on Berio’s Sinfonia
Vykintas Baltakas conducting Redditio
Italian Critics’ Prize for Traiettorie
Wolfgang Rihm on the radio: Das Rot
Wolfgang Rihm: New catalogue of works
Vykintas Baltakas: New catalogue of works
Happy 85th Birthday Francis Burt!
Staud takes up residency in Dresden
The House of the Dead at Opera North tonight
Luke Bedford: Music for Children at the Wigmore Hall
Boulez at the ‘new’ new music festival in Cologne
Cerha Concerto for Percussion in Leipzig
Arvo Pärt wins Classic BRIT Award 2011
Luke Bedford’s new opera in rehearsal
Gustav Mahler – 100 years after his death
Video Streams from the Leipzig Mahler Festival
Musikblätter - the new UE Newsletter
Schönberg recognised by UNESCO
Wolfgang Rihm on Schönberg’s Op. 31
Morton Feldman in Philadelphia
The Cunning Little Vixen in New York
A selection of performances this week
Listen to Rihm’s Dionysos from Amsterdam
Luke Bedford - Looking for Paradise
Full transcript of our Alan Gilbert interview now online
London Sinfonietta at the Aldeburgh Festival
Video trailer for Seven Angels
From the House of the Dead in Zurich
Arvo Pärt performs his Vater unser for Pope Benedict XVI
July overview of top 20 music blogs
Edo de Waart on Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony
Shostakovich’s Opera The Nose in Aix-en-Provence
Pierre Boulez on ... explosante-fixe ...
Arvo Pärt Vater unser now available
New Audio Excerpt of Baltakas’ Commentum
How our group of Facebook fans grows
Harrison Birtwistle’s Aleatoric Pebble
Liebermann’s Furioso in Chicago
Rihm’s Song Cycles available again
Jay Schwartz: Music for Autosonic Gongs
Janácek’s Sinfonietta at the BBC Proms
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett in the Guardian
Feldman, Birtwistle and Mahler news
Mahler, Berg and Boulez in Salzburg
Mahler and Dudamel at the Proms
Here’s a video of Aleksey Igudesman’s recent concert in honour of Vadim Repin’s 40th birthday at the Verbier Festival.
Aleksey and his guests perform several works from his UE publications, including
La Cucaracha and Tango sin nombre (from Latin & More - Violin Duets)
Klezmers Freilach (from Klezmer & More - Violin Duets)
Irish Stew in the Morning (from Celtic & More - Violin Duets)
See this page for all editions by Aleksey Igudesman and visit his website here.
Our friends at Boosey & Hawkes have produced this marvellous film with Sir Harrison Birtwistle, in which he talks about his music (and his tomatoes).
Watch on the Boosey.com website.
For a list of works published by UE, see this page.
For a list of works published by Boosey & Hawkes, see this page.
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Georg
Friedrich Haas’ 70 minute work for 24 instruments, in vain, is one of the most celebrated works in the composer’s
catalogue.
It has been a highly praised in the New York Times (Vivienne Schweitzer wrote of “waves of opulently strange, beautiful sounds”); it was the central part of an 8-hour ‘symposium’ concert by Klangforum Wien; and has already been performed 31 times since its world première in 2000.
Now, in a kind of pan-Alpine derby, the work is being performed twice in the same evening at two different major festivals (Saturday 13 Aug).
Emilio Pomàrico conducts Klangforum Wien at the Salzburg Festival, while at the Lucerne Festival Jürg Henneberger conducts Ensemble Phoenix Basel.
Listen to an excerpt of in vain on this page.
The Lucerne concert is part of a special focus on Haas this year, as part of which his opera Nacht (night is the central theme of the festival this year) can be heard (17 Sept) as well as his string quartets, including the world première of the String Quartet No 7 by the Arditti Quartet (10 Sept), and various ensemble works.
See all forthcoming performances of works by Georg Friedrich Haas in our online calendar.
Sir
Richard Rodney Bennett’s Jazz Calendar, a ballet for 12 players, is performed at
the BBC Proms Matinee concert tomorrow.
Nicholas Collon conducts the London Sinfonietta at the Cadogan Hall. Listen live on BBC Radio 3.
Read the Guardian’s recent article, A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett
Gustavo
Dudamel conducts Mahler’s Symphony No 2 tonight at the BBC Proms with the Simón
Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. They are joined by soloists Miah Persson and Anna
Larsson and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain.
Listen live on BBC radio 3
Watch Gustavo Dudamel talking about Mahler in this interview with UE.
The Vienna
Philharmonic opens its 2011 Salzburg Festival residency tonight with a concert
of music by Alban Berg and Gustav Mahler.
Pierre Boulez conducts and is joined by Anna Prohaska, Dorothea Röschmann, Anna Larsson and Johan Botha.
Alban Berg: Lulu Suite
Alban Berg: Der Wein
Gustav Mahler: Das klagende Lied
The concert
will be broadcast on Sunday 7 August at 11am on ORF OE1 Radio.
Watch Pierre Boulez talking to UE about the music of Gustav Mahler
Watch on YouTube
From this
weekend’s blogs and tweets:
Alex Ross reports on a performance of Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories at a floating concert hall in New York.
MahlerNews reports on Twitter that Michael Tilson Thomas’ DVD “Keeping Score: Mahler” has won a German Record Critics’ Prize (Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik).
And Norman Lebrecht spots Harrison Birtwistle watching cricket at Lords.
“I didn’t ever decide I was
going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It’s what I was. It’s what I
did”
Read about writing for the screen, Agatha Christie and wanting to be Boulez … (A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett – Nicholas Wroe)
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett was 75 this year and is featured at this year’s BBC Proms, including a performance of Jazz Calendar.
See the details of the Proms on the BBC website.
The
winners of the 2011 Echo Classic Awards have been announced.
We’re delighted to see five important releases of UE works among the winners. They are:
Opera
Recording of the Year (20th/ 21st century)
Eugen d'Albert: Der Golem
Stefan Blunier / Beethoven Orchester Bonn /
Chor des Theaters Bonn
World
Premiere Recording of the Year
Braunfels:
Jeanne d'Arc
Manfred
Honeck/ Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Symphonic
Recording of the Year (19th century)
Mahler: Symphony No 8
David Zinman/ Tonhalle Orchester Zürich
Order at JPC
Watch David Zinman talking about Mahler in our video interview
Symphonic
Recording of the Year (20th/ 21st century)
Szymanowski:
Symphony No 3 - The Song of the Night
Pierre
Boulez/ Wiener Philharmoniker
Male
Singer of the Year
Mahler:
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Thomas
Hampson
We’re also happy to see some of our friends being recognised, including:
Teodoro
Anzellotti (Instrumentalist of the Year, accordion)
Truls
Mørk (Instrumentalist of the Year, cello)
Andris
Nelsons (Conductor of the Year, for his Firebird)
musikFabrik
(Chamber Music Recording of the Year (20th/ 21st century))
Congratulations to all involved! See the full list of winners here.
Janáček’s Sinfonietta comes to the BBC Proms tonight in a concert by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder.
Listen live on BBC Radio 3.
For those who can’t wait:
Watch (or rather listen) on YouTube
Back in the olden days (2007!), when we had our first video camera, we recorded an interview with Jay Schwartz talking about his Music for Autosonic Gongs, in which he explains how they work.
Here’s an overview of works by Jay Schwartz
col-legno’s
2003 CD with Christoph Prégardien and Siegfried Mauser, 3 Liederzyklen, is
available again. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung celebrates the
rerelease of this “brilliant recording”.
The CD contains:
Ende der Handschrift. 11 späte Gedichte von Heiner Müller
Nebendraußen. 8 Gedichte von Hermann Lenz
Rilke: 4 Gedichte
Order online at col legno
Listen to an excerpt of Nature morte, from Ende der Handschrift
Listen on SoundCloud
Kwamé Ryan joins the Grant Park Orchestra at the Grant Park Music
Festival in Chicago this Wednesday for a performance of Rolf Liebermann’s
Furioso.
Furioso was first heard at the Darmstadt Festival in 1947. Listen to an excerpt on this page.