05/06/2009

Heinz Holliger: 70th Birthday

"My entire relation to music is such that I always try to go to the limits", Heinz Holliger once said. The ever restless Swiss composer, oboist and internationally acknowledged conductor turns 70 on 21 May. After studying composition with Sándor Veress and Pierre Boulez, Holliger found ...

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04/27/2009

schott aktuell - the journal 3/2009 online

Shakespeare in Music Contents: p. 3: Editorial · Contents pp. 4-7: World Premieres: Christian Jost: Hamlet in Berlin, Kenneth Hesketh: PatterSongs in Liverpool, Rodion Shchedrin: Lithuanian Saga in Vilnius, Jörg Widmann: Dubairische Tänze in Berlin etc. ...

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03/02/2009

Work of the Week - Jörg Widmann: Antiphon

Jörg Widmann’s Antiphon for orchestral ensembles starts its worldwide journey through the concert halls this week. After premieres in the US , France , and Finland , the work will see its first performance this week in France , before it makes its way to Great Britain in ...

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07/09/2008

Work of the Week - Heinz Holliger: Ardeur noire

On 12 July, The Zurich Festival 2008 will present the world premiere of Heinz Holliger's new work, Ardeur noire d'après Claude Debussy . The composer himself will conduct the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich and the Swiss Chamber Choir with soloists Rachel Harnisch (soprano), Brigitte ...

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09/03/2007

Work of the Week - Arnold Schoenberg: 6 Little Piano Pieces op 19

Arnold Schoenberg's 6 Little Piano Pieces op 19 (1911) are compositions of extraordinary aphoristic brevity and are particularly characteristic of Schoenberg and his early period of free atonality. Each movement has a specific mood expressing the musical substance in a highly condensed form: 'My ...

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08/18/2007

schott aktuell - the journal 5/2007 online

  Download complete issue (PDF, 1.3 MB)   FILM MUSIC IN CONCERT Contents: p. 2-5: World premieres, Henri Dutilleux Le temps du horloge in Matsumoto - Peter Eötvös Seven in Lucerne ...

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06/14/2007

schott aktuell - the journal 4/2007 online

  Download complete issue (PDF 1.2 MB)   Summer Music Festivals Issue Contents: p. 2-5: Schott Composers at Summer Music Festivals, Carl Orff - Herbert Willi - Krzysztof Penderecki - Heinz Holliger ...

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04/27/2007

schott aktuell 3/2007 online

    Download complete issue (PDF, 3 MB)   Contents: pp. 2-3: World Premières, e.g. Peter Maxwell Davies: Das Rauschende der Farbe - Enjott Schneider: Hiob - Huw Watkins: In my craft ...

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04/11/2007

Zurich Festival Prize for Heinz Holliger

Heinz Holliger (photo: Patrick Deslarzes) The inaugural Zurich Festival Prize will be awarded during the 2007 Zurich Festival, and is presented for outstanding artistic achievement for the festival. The ...

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01/29/2007

Peter Eötvös receives Frankfurt Music Prize 2007

  Peter Eötvös; photo: Istvan Huszti Conductor, composer and teacher - Peter Eötvös successfully combines all three in one person. As a conductor ...

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