August 2019

Titular organist Iveta Apkalna with Gubaidulina and Shostakovich on the first Elbphilharmonie organ CD
The Latvian-born titular organist of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Iveta Apkalna, has released the first organ album "Light and Dark" of the Elbphilharmonie ...

Helena Basilova premieres Elena Firsova's 'A Fearful Fairy Tale' for piano
"A Fearful Fairy Tale. Prophetic Birds" for piano by the Russian composer Elena Firsova will be premiered on 13th August 2019 at the Danish festival Rudersdal Sommerkoncerter ....

First performance of Sonata No. 4 for violin and piano by Lera Auerbach in Kingston
Lera Auerbach's cycle of violin sonatas began at the turn of the millennium. This was followed by the 2nd Violin Sonata in 2002 and the 3rd Violin Sonata in 2005 after the creation of the Sonata...

Asian premiere of Alfred Schnittkes Polyphonic Tango
The Polyphonic Tango of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke, who died in 1998, was composed in 1979 for Gennady Rozhdestvensky and the Chamber Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater. The piece is now ...

Moritz Eggerts Oratorio Die Tiefe des Raumes in an Italian first performance
For a long time football was not necessarily a focus of the international music scene, apart from folkloristic attempts by individual kickers and the successful football opera "Playing ...

Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov at the Rudersdal Sommerkoncerter (DK) (11.8.-1.9.2019)
At the Rudersdal Sommerkoncerter 2019 in Denmark, under the artistic direction of Christine Pryn, Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov will be Composers in residence (in 2018 the Georgian composer Giya...

Anna Gourari’s Elusive Affinity: Spellbinding New Recordings of Schnittke’s Five Aphorisms and Pärt’s Arinushka Variations
The Russian composer Alfred Schnittke was inspired several times to compose music by the idea of the aphorism. Schnittke, who died in 1998, composed “Four Aphorisms for Orchestra” in ...