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Approaching and distancing. Charlotte Seither’s “Inschrift”

For the anniversary year “Luther 2017. 500 Jahre Reformation" Charlotte Seither has composed Inschrift for choir and orchestra, a commentary on Bach’s cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden  BWV 4. It can be performed following on from this cantata, but also as an independent work, and is scored for the same forces as the original work (choir and strings), with the addition of two recorders and (several) trombones playing the chorale melody. The premiere on 30 April in the Erlöserkirche Herten/Recklinghausen will be given by the Hertener Kantorei with members of the Dortmund Philharmonie conducted by Elke Cernysev. – (photo: Marco Bussmann)

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Heinz Winbeck and Philipp Maintz at “Ultraschall” in Berlin

Jetzt und in der Stunde des Todes is the subtitle of Heinz Winbeck’s monumental Symphony No. 5, his composition based on Bruckner lasting almost an hour. The three movements using motifs, especially from the Finale of Anton Bruckner’s 9th Symphony, are not in fact one of the many speculative attempts to complete the magnificent torso, but a musical paraphrase on material from the sketches. Without quoting from it literally, Bruckner’s music is constantly present. The work receives its German premiere at the 2017 Ultraschall Festival in Berlin on 22 January, performed by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester under Dennis Russell Davies. – In the same concert Marisol Montalvo will sing in „tríptico vertical“ by Philipp Maintz.

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Counter sound. Beat Furrer’s Clarinet Quintet at “Manifeste” in Paris

The combination of clarinet and string quartet, epitomised by such famous predecessors as Mozart, Brahms and others, is explored afresh by Beat Furrer: “A temporality stretched to the extremes – the clarinet is integrated into the sound of the string quartet. In a constant accelerando, different aspects of the sound of the clarinet are brought into focus, with the clarinettist speaking vowels into the instrument, producing an inharmonious, complex, speech-like sound.”

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Sound swarms. Impressions at the premiere of Miroslav Srnka’s “South Pole”

The first run of performances has taken place, and what remains are memories of two magnificent hours of contemporary music theatre. Miroslav Srnka’s South Pole was widely acclaimed. A look back.

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Dieter Ammann’s “glut” for orchestra in Zurich and Vienna

Dieter Ammann’s glut for orchestra takes an energetic extreme state as the theme of the composition. “A world whose inner glow, shaped into sound, drives towards the external.” This is how the Swiss composer describes his orchestral work which was premiered in 2016. Now two performances are lined up in Zurich and Vienna on 25 and 26 January 2018 with a specialist in the extreme: Teodor Currentzis conducts the Philharmonia Zurich, followed by the  Austrian premiere in the Konzerthaus Wien – tension is pre-programmed.

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Srnka’s “South Pole” in a reduced and revised version in Darmstadt

Just a year after its successful premiere at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Miroslav Srnka’s double opera South Pole receives its first performance in a reduced and revised version at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. The theatre’s artistic director Karsten Wiegand directs the legendary race between Robert Falcon Scott and the Norwegian Roald Amundsen in the Antarctic, which Srnka’s composition realizes as a musical conflict between two teams in a tremendous arc of tension. The conductor is Johannes Harneit. The first performance takes place on 27 May 2017. Further performances are planned for 10, 18 and 21 June. (Photo: Vojtěch Havlik)

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Manfred Trojahn pays homage to Shakespeare and Picasso

Premieres of two works by Manfred Trojahn will be given in Salzburg and Paris on two consecutive days in March 2016:  in Four Women from Shakespeare for soprano and ensemble at the Salzburg Easter Festival on 22 and 26 March 2016, the composer continues with his intensive study of Shakespeare, and pays homage to a “favourite instrument”, the female voice. The interpreter of the four portraits is Juliane Banse with soloists from the Staatskapelle Dresden conducted by the composer. The new ensemble work Nocturne – Minotauromachie, with its references to Picasso, will be premiered in Paris by the Ensemble intercontemporain under Matthias Pintscher on 23 March 2016.

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Contemporary music

The individual and the collective. Miroslav Srnka’s “Superorganisms” for Berlin
A harpsichord concerto! Miroslav Srnka’s new work for Mahan Esfahani
Beat Furrer explores the secret life of things
Premieres by Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini
New works by Charlotte Seither
“Sixty years in the groove: Dieter Ammann”
Music out of music. Philipp Maintz’s new ensemble work and chorale preludes
Spannungen. Matthias Pintscher premieres and first performances
Torsten Rasch’s “Die andere Frau” – first performance in Dresden
Charlotte Seither member of the European Academy of Sciences
Beat Furrer: premieres in Donaueschingen and Vienna
“Singularity” – Miroslav Srnka’s Space Opera
Tireless progress. The death of the Swiss composer Rudolf Kelterborn
Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini’s orchestral work to complement Mahler’s 4th Symphony
Premiere in Bregenz: Ľubica Čekovská’s “Impresario Dotcom”
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