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.

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.

When he received the commission to write a Mass, Beethoven feared comparison with Haydn. But his Mass in C, a new Urtext edition of which is published by Bärenreiter, established itself as a masterpiece which remains in the standard repertoire today.

There is now a new Urtext edition of Antonín Dvořák’s two Serenades op. 22 and 44, which removes many uncertainties and defective variant readings.

Handel went to great trouble in the composition of his Te Deum marking the British victory in the Battle of Dettingen. Now the work is available as part of the Complete Edition.

Zadok the Priest and The King shall rejoice were composed in 1727 on the occasion of the coronation of George II. Since then, they have gone on to become extremely popular choral concert pieces throughout the world.

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.