August

New DVD: Sophia – Biography of a Violin Concerto
By the term biography we usually mean the presentation of a person`s life - a public or cultural figure of the past or present. The filmmaker Jan Schmidt-Garre has now expanded the genre to ...

Alfred Schnittke's “Glass Harmonica“ in Japan
The animated film "The Glass Harmonica," completely scored with film music by Alfred Schnittke, will receive its world premiere on 22 August 2011 in Tokyo. The director Andrei Khrshanovsky ...

World Premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina's “Labyrinth“ at the Lucerne Festival 2011
This year`s "Lucerne Festival in the Summer" (10 August until 18 September 2011) will be investigating the phenomenon of the night in music. At the centre of focus are the fantasists ...

Krzysztof Meyer's Concerto for Guitar, Tympani and String Orchestra: World Premiere in Poznań
Krzysztof Meyer`s Concerto for Guitar, Tympani and String Orchestra will receive its world premiere on 20 August 2011 in Poznań (Posen), Poland during the course of the Guitar Festival of ...

Shostakovich's Eighth at the Bremen Musikfest 2011
Bremen and its environs, the so-called North German metropolitan region of Bremen-Oldenburg, are once again completely focussed on this music festival from 27 August until 17 September ...

Sikorski Works at the Festival YOUNG EURO CLASSIC 2011
The ambitious festival of the world`s best youth orchestras, "YOUNG EURO CLASSIC“ (5-21 August 2011) at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, is presenting an extraordinary programme, also ...

Romanian Premiere of Peter Ruzicka's HÖLDERLIN SYMPHONY in Timisoara
Peter Ruzicka`s HÖLDERLIN SYMPHONY will receive its Romanian premiere on 4 September 2011 in Timisoara. The baritone Stefan Ignat will present the vocal-symphonic work together with the ...