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We’ve just
received the recording of the world première of Vykintas Baltakas’ new work for
cello and piano, Commentum.
David Geringas and Ian Fountain gave the first performance at the Vilnius Festival. Their next performance will be in October at the Usedomer Musikfest in Germany.
Listen to an excerpt and view the full score of the work
Our new catalogue of works by Vykintas Baltakas is here.
Our new edition of Arvo Pärt’s Vater unser for boy soprano and piano is now available.
Watch Pierre Boulez talking to Emmanuel Pahud about his … explosante-fixe … on the occasion of its performance with the Berlin Philharmonic in September 2010.
Shostakovich’s opera The Nose opens at the Aix-en-Provence Festival tonight in the celebrated production by William Kentridge.
Kazushi Ono conducts the Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Lyon.
The performance at 5pm on 14 July will be broadcast live on radio classique.
This staging is a coproduction between the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the New York Met, and the Opéra National de Lyon, where it can be seen this October.
Watch a video trailer from the New York performances
and an interview with William Kentridge
Anthony Tommasini’s review of the New York production is here.
Seven sevens for the 7th
Georg Friedrich Haas
7 Klangräume (2005)
Arvo Pärt
7
Magnificat-Antiphonen (1988, 1991)
Wolfgang Rihm
7
Passions-Texte (2001-2006)
Gunther Schuller
7
Studies on Themes of Paul Klee (1959)
Nigel Osborne
7
Words (1971)
Luke Bedford
Seven
Angels (2009-2011)
Ian Wilson
The
Seven Last Words (1995)
Here’s conductor Edo de Waart talking about Alexander Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony, on the occasion of his performance this spring with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
Wikio.co.uk has published its July overview of the top 20 music blogs.
Congratulations to Norman Lebrecht (Slipped Disc at No. 12), Tom Service (Tom Service on Classical Music at No. 16) and Gavin Plumley (Entartete Musik at No. 20) for banging the drum for classical and contemporary music.
At 11 o’clock
this morning, Arvo Pärt will be performing his Vater unser (Our Father) for Pope Benedict XVI at a
ceremony in the Vatican celebrating the 60th anniversary of his ordination.
You can watch a video live stream on the news.va website.
Sign up on this page to be informed as soon as the new printed edition, complete with CD recording, will be available.
There's also an audio excerpt of Pärt himself performing with the soprano Heldur Harry Põlda.
The Dutch performances of Wolfgang Rihm’s new opera Dionysos have just come to an end, to much critical acclaim in the Netherlands.
The Netherlands Opera has published a video presenting the work, including interviews with Rihm and with stage director Pierre Audi.
The full recording of the Amsterdam production is still online at Radio4 Netherlands. And the full vocal score is here.
The final performance of Peter Konwitschny’s new production of Janacek’s From the House of the Dead takes place this Friday in Zurich.
Read an interview (in German) with conductor Ingo Metzmacher and director Peter Konwitschny in the Zurich Opera Magazine.
View on Issuu.
Luke Bedford’s opera Seven Angels comes to the Tramway in Glasgow tomorrow. Here’s the new video trailer.
Watch on YouTube.
Peter
Eötvös conducts the London Sinfonietta at the Aldeburgh Festival tomorrow.
On the programme is Pierre Boulez’ … explosante-fixe …, alongside works by Marco Stroppa and Peter Eötvös himself.
“When the New York Philharmonic plays Mahler, I enjoy this deep feeling of pathos”
The full transcript of our Gustav Mahler video interview with Alan Gilbert is now online (as is the video itself).
The New
York Philharmonic’s production of the Cunning Little Vixen opens at the Avery
Fisher Hall tonight.
“Music Director Alan Gilbert, director/designer Doug Fitch, and the New York Philharmonic invite you into the woods, with Avery Fisher Hall transformed into a fantastical forest filled with talking frogs, singing mosquitoes and badgers, and one very fetching little fox.”
See production photos on the NYPhil’s Facebook page.