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Miroslav Srnka – premieres in Munich

(5.5.2015) Miroslav Srnka has composed moves for the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – orchestral studies on physical, musical and motor movement. Matthias Pintscher conducts the premiere on 8 May as part of “musica viva“. – South Pole (libretto: Tom Holloway), Miroslav Srnka’s major opera project about the conquest of the South Pole, will be premiered at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich on 31 January 2016, with a top-class line-up including Rolando Villazón and Thomas Hampson. The conductor is Kirill Petrenko, and the director is Hans Neuenfels. A blog https://suedpol.staatsoper.de contains information about everything to do with the production. (Photo: Miroslav Srnka and Tom Holloway in Munich)

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Ensemble games. Rudolf Kelterborn on his latest compositions

Rudolf Kelterborn’s Ensemble-Buch V, a composition for six instruments, receives its premiere in Zurich. His series of “Books” for differently-scored ensembles explore a multifaceted variety of forms.

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Something which affects us all. A German premiere: “Totentanz” by Thomas Adès

The English composer Thomas Adès is fascinated by depictions of the dance of death The famous ‘Totentanz’ in Lübeck, destroyed in the war, is the starting point for his largest symphonic work to date.

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A fresh perspective: The new Urtext edition of Debussy’s “La Mer”

(1.10.2014) La Mer, composed between 1903 and 1905 has been revised and refined several times by Claude Debussy up until at least 1913. These corrections are found in a score which Debussy gave to his wife as a present for her private library in 1913. The new scholarly-critical edition draws on several important sources previously unavailable to musicologists, resulting in an array of new readings and corrections.

 

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Dust removed: Beethoven's piano concerto No. 4

Jonathan Del Mar has presented his new edition of Beethoven's Fourth piano concerto. Due to the fact that the autograph is lost, many inconsistant details and additions to the score have survived even in many modern editions.

 

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Famous work in new light: Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem”

Giuseppe Verdi's Messa da Requiem has appeared in a new Urtext-Edition by Marco Uvietta. In this new scholarly-critical edition the editor, on the basis of all available sources, succeeds in presenting practical suggestions to solve musical problems and those concerning the interpretation of this famous work. A hitherto unexamined handwritten reduction for voice and piano casts a new light on the evaluation of several known sources and leads to new philological and editorial decisions.

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Zelenka’s “Missa Divi Xaverii”: A rarity full of musical splendour

A masterwork by the bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka has been found: the large-scale Missa Divi Xaverii for soloist, chorus and orchestra, composed in 1729 in Vienna. This new discovery by Václav Luks and his ensembles brings a magnificent sacred work to light.

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Orchestra

Ancient myth for the concert hall. Georg Friedrich Handel's "Semele"
The Triumph of Time and Truth. Handel's "Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità"
In Honor of the Saints of Music. Handel's second Cecilian Ode
Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. John Passion of 1725
Premieres of Works by Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini
The individual and the collective. Miroslav Srnka’s “Superorganisms” for Tokyo
Ut Orpheus, now distributed by Alkor
A new attempt. Michael Ostrzyga‘s completion of Mozart‘s Requiem
A harpsichord concerto! Miroslav Srnka’s new work for Mahan Esfahani
Le retour à la vie – Summer Festivals 2021
“Super flumina Babylonis”. A rediscovered choral work by Camille Saint-Saëns
Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini’s orchestral work to complement Mahler’s 4th Symphony
“A prayer for the native country” Bohuslav Martinů’s “Field Mass” in Urtext
Short, but effective - Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Oratorio de Noël”
Felix Mendelssohn’s symphony-cantata “Lobgesang” in a new Urtext edition
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