The source material for the three “Leonore” Overtures is extremely poor. Helga Lühning now sheds light on the different versions as far as sources allow.

Contrasts between the metallic sound of the piano and the ensemble define Matthias Pintscher’s work for the Barenboim-Said Akademie and its founder.

What happens when there is too much of an expanding energy? Miroslav Srnka seeks to reflect musically on a physical process.

Mahler’s symphonies are “musical travelling companions” for him. Now Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini has composed introductory pieces to the monumental works of Mahler for the Jena Philharmonic.

Ľubica Čekovská has composed “Three fragments from Stabat mater” for the Bavarian Radio Chorus. This receives its premiere at a performance of the original version of Antonín Dvořák’s setting of the “Stabat mater” for soloists, chorus and piano op. 58 on 2 March 2019 in Munich. Three unaccompanied compositions complement Dvořák’s seven-movement original version with the verses which he did not set from the medieval poem of sorrow, forming a kind of lingering echo to Dvořák’s composition. The conductor is Howard Arman.
The idea for the title for Ľubica Čekovská’s new orchestral composition is a singing orchestral line which she has composed as a homage to her native land, eastern Slovakia. “Cantus Simplicissimus” was commissioned by the Slovak State Philharmonic in Košice, the capital of eastern Slovakia, the region where Humenné, the composer’s birthplace, also lies. The premiere will be conducted by Michael Zlabinger on 21 February 2019 in Košice.

“nero su nero” (black on black), the latest orchestral composition by Siemens prizewinner Beat Furrer premiered in June in Vienna, is concerned with the nuancing of light: a continuum of sound from darkness to light builds up an immense tension by the most subtly differentiated means. The Swiss premiere takes place in Basel on 16 September 2018 conducted by Baldur Brönnimann with the Basel Sinfonietta, and the German premiere on 27 October 2018 with the Essen Philharmonic under the baton of Johannes Kalitzke.

Previous editions of Dvořák’s Piano Concerto op. 33 have been inadequate. After detailed examination of the sources the work is now being published in its original form.