(20.11.2012) With two premieres and other works which contrast compositions by Debussy and Mozart, Manfred Trojahn is the subject of a concise retrospective at the Dialogues Festival Salzburg. The premieres are Musique for soprano and ensemble after three chansons by Claude Debussy (28.11.2012), and Libera me for low strings and solo tenor (2.12.2012). A further premiere will be given by the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt: Contrevenir for ensemble (2.12.2012) followed by first performances in Rome and Amsterdam.

(5.2.2013) Thomas Daniel Schlee’s Rufe zu mir op. 80 for organ and orchestra receives its premiere on 23 February 2013 in the Gewandhaus Leipzig, conducted by Riccardo Chailly, with Michael Schönheit as soloist. It receives its first Austrian performance shortly afterwards on 5 March in Vienna. The composition has been commissioned by Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Vienna. Thomas Daniel Schlee describes his concertante music for orchestra and solo organ as a “symphonic scene”. Its title places a sentence after Isaiah at its centre, which Schlee wants to understand “as a magical power”. “Rufe zu mir, dann werde ich dir antworten” [Call to me, and I will answer you] sets both the poetic mood and the musical programme.

[10.10.2012] After her extensive composer portrait at St. Martin’s, Kassel, at which 27 works were performed, Charlotte Seither’s new projects all place a characteristic spectral sonority at their centre.

Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag Wien is offering a new supplement to the Complete Bruckner Edition – a practical performing edition of the orchestral parts.

Antonín Dvořák’s dramatic ballad The Spectre's Bride composed in 1883 promises a powerful musical impact. The revised vocal score is now available from Bärenreiter Praha.

Rushing, surging, highly virtuosic contours characterise Miroslav Srnka’s Piano Concerto. It receives its Czech premiere in Prague, the composer’s native city, on 19 December 2016. The agile, glittering continuum of sound with its intense, brilliant colour values is performed by Nicolas Hodges (piano) and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Tomás Netopil.

(20.11.2012) The extended version of Matthias Pintscher’s Uriel for violoncello and piano  receives its premiere by Alisa Weilerstein (violoncello) and Inon Barnatan (piano) at the Alte Oper Frankfurt on 13 january 2013. Pintscher, recently appointed new artistic director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, has just been guest composer and conductor at the Huddersfield Festival. He travels to the USA in December to conduct at the Phillips Collection in Washington and the Curtis Institute Philadelphia, immediately following the premiere of his Chute d’Étoiles, written for the Roche Commissions 2012, at Carnegie Hall New York