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Coronation music for England and the world. Handel’s “Coronation Anthems”

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.

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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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Matthias Pintscher’s new Cello Concerto

Matthias Pintscher’s new cello concerto, Un despertar for violoncello and orchestra, develops out of a “continuous slow, soft, tender and intimate song in the lower register of the cello”. It was written for the cellist Alisa Weilerstein and is inspired by the dark, warm tone of her playing. – (Photo Alisa Weilerstein: Jamie Jung)

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The wonder of life. A conversation with Ľubica Čekovská

Ľubica Čekovská has written a large-scale symphonic work for the Essen Philharmonic, an extremely multi-faceted piece of music. The title Palingenia is the scientific name for the mayfly.

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Magical power: Thomas Daniel Schlee’s “Rufe zu mir” in Bamberg

The Bamberg Symphony conducted by Manfred Honeck perform Thomas Daniel Schlee’s Rufe zu mir for orchestra and solo organ with Christian Schmitt as soloist. Schlee describes his concertante music as a “symphonic scene”. It begins with an invocation, a “De profundis” in the orchestra, which symbolizes mankind, the world. Its eloquent title reveals the sacred allusion which acts “as a magical power” in the imposing work. Performances take place on 16 and 17 January 2016. – (Photo: Herbert Lehmann)

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The edition of the Mass in B minor from the “New Bach Edition. Revised Edition”

The source material for Bach’s Mass in B minor is complicated. In order to create a practical performance version, compromises had to be made. Uwe Wolf describes how he approached his edition.

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Symphonist Miloslav Kabeláč

Miloslav Kabeláč is one of the most important Czech composers of the 20th century. He can indisputably be described as the greatest symphonist of the generation after Bohuslav Martinů..

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Orchestra

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 Berlin
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
“The pure joy”. Frank Peter Zimmermann on Bohuslav Martinů’s violin concertos
Not always just the “Danse macabre”. The symphonic poems of Camille Saint-Saëns
Dvořák’s most popular sacred work. A new edition of the Mass in D major op. 86
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