March 2018

“It Takes Two” for Flute and Tympani by Moritz Eggert
Martina Overlöper, flute, and Arend Weitzel, tympani, will be the soloists at the world premiere of Moritz Eggerts “It Takes Two” for flute and tympani on 15 April 2018 in ...

The ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna has recorded four works by Wenchen Qin
The production of four works by the Chinese composer Wenchen Qin by the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna dates back two years. At the beginning of March 2016, ORF had decided to include the...

World premiere of Claus-Steffen Mahnkopfs Atsiminimas for bass flute in Chicago
Both the alto, the bass and the contrabass flutes, all special forms of the flute, are often used in contemporary music because of their large differences in timbre. Not only the pitch differences,...

New Book on Peter Ruzicka from the edition text+kritik
At the same time as the world premiere of the new opera BENJAMIN at the Hamburg State Opera on 3 June 2018 and the composers 70th birthday on 3 July 2018, the volume "Peter Ruzicka ...

Austrian Premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina’s “The Pilgrims” at the Salzburg Easter Festival
One of the central concert events of the year 2015 was the world premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina’s work “The Pilgrims“ for violin, double bass, piano and two percussionists with the ...

John Neumeier's Anna Karenina with music by Alfred Schnittke at the Bolshoi Theater Moscow
John Neumeier's ballet "Anna Karenina" will be shown on March 23, 2018 on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. The star ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet Svetlana Sakharova dances ...

Sofia Gubaidulina's Violin Concerto Dialogue: I and You
The Trans-Siberian Art Festival commissioned the composer Sofia Gubaidulina to compose a new work for violin and orchestra. The violinist and violinist Vadim Repin, who is close to Gubaidulina,...

World premiere of Claus-Steffen Mahnkopfs Atsiminimas for bass flute in Chicago
Both the alto, the bass and the contrabass flutes, all special forms of the flute, are often used in contemporary music because of their large differences in timbre. Not only the pitch differences,...

Brahms Parergon in the eyes of Johannes X. Schachtner
The “German Requiem” of Johannes Brahms is “one of the great monoliths of music history“. Indeed, beyond its sheer musical quality, this Requiem moves people so strongly...

Dejan Lazic’s Ingenious Adaptation of Brahms’ Violin Concerto for Piano in Finland
The adaptor Dejan Lazic will be the piano soloist at the Finnish premiere of his adaptation of Johannes Brahms‘ Violin Concerto for piano and orchestra on 16 March 2018 in Tampere. Lazic will ...

Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk” at the Antonín Dvoràk Theatre in Ostrava
Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera “Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk“ in a production by Jiri Nekvasil will be premiered in Ostrava at the Antonín Dvoràk Theatre on 8 March 2018. Jakub ...