05/10/2012

Schott composers on focus at the Canberra Music Festival

On 11th May 2012, the 8th Canberra International Music Festival opens with the promise of over 30 concerts featuring music by composers from around the world in a range of venues of cultural and architectural importance. The festival will run from 11th to 20th May. Three Schott composers will ...

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05/03/2012

Peteris Vasks in New York and Los Angeles

Latvian composer Peteris Vasks’ music features on both coasts this month, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s performances of his violin concerto Distant Light , and a portrait concert by the Park Avenue Christian Church Choir led by Paul Vasile. Soloist Alina Pogostkina joins Gustavo Dudamel for ...

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04/01/2012

Now available from WERGO

Pēteris Vasks: Vox Amoris - Works for Violin and String Orchestra - Solo violin and string orchestra: the pieces on this CD focus on Pēteris Vasks' favourite instrumentation. His music – which always has to be viewed against the background of the socially and politically ...

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12/23/2011

schott aktuell - the journal 1/2012 online

For Schott it is with particular pride that we look forward to the world’s celebrations of Wagner’s bicentenary in 2013. In anticipation of this event, we have been busy adding to our Richard Wagner Complete Edition: new urtext-vocal scores based to the Complete Edition of The Flying Dutchman in ...

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08/24/2011

schott aktuell - the journal 5/2011 online

Stage Animals Scientists estimate that there are 1,367,555 animal species currently known on earth. Insects and spiders constitute the largest group by far with a total exceeding a million different species. The figure is somewhat more modest in the world of theatre, or to be more precise, ...

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07/25/2011

Work of the Week - Peteris Vasks: Epifania

Peteris Vasks' works for string orchestra are exceptionally popular. The Latvian composer is blessed with an unrivalled sense for giving strings an incredible variety of sounds and emotional depth, whilst keeping the technical demands on the players relatively moderate. The most recent ...

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06/21/2011

schott aktuell - the journal 4/2011 online

MUSIC IN BLOOM Flowers and Gardens: although we all use the same words, their meaning and significance can be completely different depending on our cultural background. Some of you may bring to mind roses or snowdrops; our ancestors, however, used the word for cherry or plum blossoms. I agree ...

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08/23/2010

schott aktuell - the journal 5/2010 online

Dance! p. 3: Editorial · Contents pp. 4-9: World Premières: Tobias Picker: Awakenings · Benjamin Schweitzer: nach Hause · Toshio Hosokawa: Sternlose Nacht · Gustav Mahler / Yoel Gamzou: Symphonie Nr. 10 · Fazil Say: Trompetenkonzert · Howard Shore: Ruin and Memory ...

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06/24/2010

schott aktuell - the journal 4/2010 online

Marimbas, Maracas and More - New Percussion Repertoire p 3: Editorial · Contents pp 4-6: World Premières: Fazil Say: Variationen · Benjamin Schweitzer: Weikersheimer Wirbel · Joe Duddell: Skotos Variations · Morton Subotnick: Jacob's Room · Huw Watkins: Violin ...

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04/26/2010

Work of the Week - Peteris Vasks: Credo

An expressive, direct and unspoilt sound world alongside the sounds of nature. Commissioned by the Bremen Philharmonic Society to close the "Bremer Zyklus", Credo , conducted by Markus Poschner, will receive its world premiere on Monday 26 April by the Philharmonic Orchestra ...

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