(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)

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.

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.

(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.

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.

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.

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.