September 2019

A brass quintet based on Herman Melville: Schachtner’s ‘Bartleby Sketches’
The Ensemble Schwerpunkt will premiere on the 24. September 2019 in Munich the work ‘Bartleby Sketches’. Brass Quintet No. 2 ‘Bartleby’ by Johannes X. Schachtner for the ...

Symposium Reception of Shostakovich in the 21st Century
Every two years the German Shostakovich Society organizes a Shostakovich Symposium. This year\'s symposium will take place from 13 to 14 September 2019 at the Berlin University for Media ...

First recording of the clarinet sonatas No. 1 to 3 by Grigori Frid
The great success of his two operas "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "Letters van Gogh" distracts the attention from the highly interesting instrumental music of the composer Grigori ...

Chamber version of Dejan Lazic's Mozart adaptation Rondo Concertante in Aschau
The arrangement of the "Rondo Concertante" for piano and orchestra, based on a movement from the Piano Sonata in B flat major KV 333 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, by the pianist and composer...

Mischa Maisky performs Benjamin Yusupovs Cello Concerto on Deutsche Grammophon
For many years, cellist Mischa Maisky has been a close friend and interpreter of Russian-Israeli composer Benjamin Yusupov. On his latest album for Deutsche Grammophon entitled "20th Century...

World Premiere in Barcelona: “Human brother” by Ferran Cruixent
The new work by Catalan composer Ferran Cruixent, “Human Brother”, was commissioned by the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. Consisting of one movement, the ...

Johannes X Schachtner’s More An Expression of Feeling Than Painting, a Commission by the Kronberg Academy Festival
The Bavarian composer Johannes X Schachtner has created a highly interesting work with references to Ludwig van Beethoven entitled, "More An Expression of Feeling Than Painting",...

Gerald Resch’s opera ‘TitaniaTraum’ at the Taschenopernfestival Salzburg
Stage director Thierry Bruehl compiled central passages from Shakespeare’s Midsummernight’s Dream to a libretto, which Gerald Resch set to music for the  Taschenopernfestival...

Meeting Betthoven: Moritz Eggert’s “Me With You“
Moritz Eggert has completed a new composition that pays homage to Ludwig van Beethoven in celebration of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the great composer’s birth. Due to be premiered on 27. ..