02/22/2008

Dutilleux awarded prestigious RPS Gold Medal

 Following on from the recent success of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Cardiff University School of Music’s Discovering Dutilleux Festival, Henri Dutilleux has been honoured with the Royal Philharmonic Society’s (RPS) highest honour, the Gold Medal.   The recipient ...

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11/12/2007

Work of the Week - Paul Hindemith: Overture on “The Flying Dutchman”

Between the 16th and 18th November, the first “Hindemith Days” festival will be taking place Mainz, Germany. The small festival, which is organized by the Villa Musica and the Frankfurt Hindemith Institute, is dedicated to Paul Hindemith’s chamber music and will incorporate an exhibition ...

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11/05/2007

Work of the Week - Mark-Anthony Turnage: Three Screaming Popes

Musicians are frequently inspired by artists. Mark-Anthony Turnage has used paintings by Francis Bacon as the basis for a number of his works including Three Screaming Popes  and Blood on the Floor . "I’d had the title for some years.  In 1985 I went to see ...

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10/29/2007

Werk der Woche - Aribert Reimann: Wolkenloses Christfest

Aribert Reimann's requiem Wolkenloses Christfest will be premiered as NDR's "das neue Werk" (the new work) on 1 November 2007. The work is a memorial against war and the increasingly inhuman world we find ourselves in. Reimann has set poems by Otfried Büthe, and is ...

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10/22/2007

Work of the Week - Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Concerto funebre

From 22 to 24 October, Britten Sinfonia presents its programme “Transfigured Nights” which will include Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Concerto funebre for violin and strings. Performances will take place at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, Norwich Cathedral and the Queen Elizabeth ...

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10/15/2007

Work of the Week - Carl Orff: Trionfo di Afrodite

On 21 October the Compañia Nacional de Danza México will present a new production of Carl Orff's Trionfo de Afodite at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City with choreographer Mark Godden.  It will be the first performance of a work by Carl ...

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10/10/2007

Mark-Anthony Turnage - featured composer in Ekaterinburg

The festival "British Musical Revelations" will take place in Ekaterinburg, Russia's third largest city, from 11 to 14 October 2007. This is the first such event in the Urals and will introduce British works to Russian audiences from William Byrd through to Mark-Anthony Turnage. The rationale ...

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10/08/2007

Work of the Week - Lee Hoiby: Last Letter Home

On 10 October, at 6.30 pm, the National Gallery, London will hold the UK premiere of Lee Hoiby’s Last Letter Home, performed by baritone Philip Tebb and accompanied by Kathron Sturrock. Lee Hoiby's Last Letter Home is the setting to music of a letter by US Army tank crewman, Jesse ...

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09/29/2007

Work of the Week - Rodion Shchedrin: Slava, Slava

This week the Kronberg Academy is presenting its annual Cello Festival along with a memorial day - "in remembrance - celebrating Slava" - for Mstislav Rostropovich who died in April this year. Rodion Shchedrin will feature twice among the proceedings, firstly his new work Na pososhok - ...

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09/24/2007

Work of the Week - György Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre

György Ligeti’s only opera Le Grand Macabre comes to the stage of Theater Bremen for its first production after the death of the composer. In the context of a dual-country emphasis with Israel and Hungary, Tatjana Gürbaca’s production of the work represents the contemporary ...

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