With his “sinfonia concertante”, Beat Furrer pursues one of the central ideas of his clarinet quintet “intorno al bianco” and reinterprets it within the orchestral soundscape. The first performance takes place in Basel on 7 November 2026.

After the great success of “Superorganisms” in Tokyo, the NHK Symphony Orchestra and several other orchestras have jointly commissioned Miroslav Srnka to compose a new Cello Concerto. In it, the interplay between solo cello and orchestra is devoted to the phenomenon of smoke.

A milestone of 20th century opera: in good time for the 150th anniversary of Franz Schreker’s birth in 2028 a new critical edition of his opera “Christophorus” is in preparation. His “Vision einer Oper” is at the same time an affirmation and a gripping drama.

In his new work “Litanei” Beat Furrer condenses verses by Ingeborg Bachmann creating an intense sonic space oscillating between wordlessness, the search for language and a cry.

“Memory is something sacred”, wrote Thomas Daniel Schlee in a work commentary. “In order to keep it alive, humanity has invented ritual, has invented repetition imbued with deep meaning, for in memory, knowledge transcends the confines of time.” He was a composer whose multifaceted body of work was characterised not only by masterly musical development and a sensuousness of sound, but was also always contained within an intellectual framework which stretched far beyond purely technical-musical thinking. “Thomas Daniel Schlee is an open spirit and a cultured man. He loves music passionately”, is how his teacher Olivier Messiaen summed him up: “He is an outstanding organist and an extremely gifted composer. His works reflect a high intellectual striving and a true originality with regard to their ‘écriture’ and sound colours.”

Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini has been invited by the Bremer Philharmoniker to write a work for their 200th anniversary. It addresses the earthly in the sense of an approach to human life here.

With her new orchestral piece, Ľubica Čekovská recalls the playful consciousness of our childhood. The first performance takes place in Houston at the end of November.