04/20/2009

Werk der Woche - Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Requiem für einen jungen Dichter

Concluding Zimmermann’s highlights in the 2008/2009 season, the Berlin Philharmonic presents the monumental Requiem for a Young Poet after several other concerts of Zimmermann’s work, including Symphony in One Movement , the Brazilian dance Alagoana and his Violin Concerto .   ...

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12/03/2007

Work of the Week - Rodion Shchedrin: The Sealed Angel

On 16 December the great Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin will celebrate his 75th birthday. To mark the occasion his music is being featured in many concerts around the world. The Melbourne Chorale will perform his large-scale choral work The Sealed Angel  in Melbourne on 9 December under the ...

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06/19/2007

ECHO KLASSIK 2007 for Henze and Reimann

Hans Werner Henze’s melodramma Aristaeus will be awarded the ECHO KLASSIK 2007, for the category "world premiere recording of the year”. The award-winning CD has been released by the Schott label WERGO, performed by conductor Marek Janowski, narrator Martin Wuttke and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester ...

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10/19/2006

Berliner Philharmoniker present Henze´s "Raft of Medusa"

To mark the 80th birthday of Hans Werner Henze in July, the Berlin Philharmonic are mounting a performance of his monumenal oratorio Das Floss der Medusa (The Raft of Medusa)   on 8 November.  This will be the first time the work has been heard in Germany for five years.  A group of top performers ...

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01/12/2006

World Premiere of Jost's Angst

The world premiere of Christian Jost's new choral opera is on the 28 January in Berlin Sophiensaele with Simon Halsey conducting the Rundfunkchor Berlin and the ensemble musikFabrik.      Written for the Berlin Radio Choir Christian Jost’s choral opera Angst deals with fear on various levels: ...

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