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2024-03-19 10:29:00
Venice's Golden Lion: composer Rebecca Saunders receives Lifetime Achievement award from the Biennale Musica
[…] area within the listener, an intimate inner acoustic space that evolves and amplifies the sonic imaginary. The composer conceives a specific temporality for each work which becomes an investigation into and experimentation with the experience of listening. Her elaboration of the sonic material is profoundly speculative and at the same time powerfully empirical and material, tied to the performance and the playing strategies" [from citation]Rebecca Saunders studied composition with Nigel Osborne in Edinburgh and Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe, and in 2019, she became the first woman to receive the Ernst-von-Siemens award. Saunders' piano concerto, To An Utterance was premiered in 2021 by the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, at the Lucerne Festival with pianist Nicholas Hodges [see my 2020 interview with Nicholas], and she was composer in residence with the Dresdner Philharmonie for 2021/2022.Full details from the Biennale website.
2024-01-18 15:56:53
Sol Gabetta/Bertrand ChamayouSony, 2 CDsSoaring through the composer’s cello and piano works, and homages by Holliger, Coll, Rihm and Widmann, Sol Gabetta and Bertrand Chamayou make this a rewarding new recordingThe cellist
2022-09-15 18:44:00
Wolfgang Rihm (b.1952): Vigilia for six voices and ensemble 1 Sonata I 2 ‘Tristis est anima mea’ 3 Sonata II 4 ‘Ecce vidimus cum non habentem speciem’ 5 Sonata III 6 ‘Velum templi scissum est’ 7 Sonata IV 8 ‘Tenebrae factae sunt’ 9 Sonata V 10 ‘Caligaverunt oculi mei a fletu meo’ 11 Sonata VI 12 ‘Recessit pastor noster 13 Sonata VII 14 ‘Aestimatus sum cum descendentibus in lacum’ 15 ‘Miserere’ Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze, in the string quartet arrangement 1 Introduzione: Maestoso ed adagio 2 Sonata I: ‘Pater, dimitte illis, non enim sciunt, quid faciunt’: Largo 3 Sonata II: ‘Amen, dico tibi: hodium mecum eris in paradiso’: Grave e cantabile 4 Sonata III ‘Mulier, ecce filius tuus, et tu, ecce mater tua!’: Grave 5 Sonata IV: ‘Eli, eli lama sabachthani’: Largo 6 Sonata V: ‘Sitio’: Adagio 7 Sonata VI: ‘Consummatum est!’: Lento 8 Sonata VII: ‘Pater! […]
2022-07-09 05:22:00
Classical Music News of the Week, July 9, 2022
[…] be open to the public, and the concerts given by the members of the academy are always highlights of the festival. At three chamber music concerts (13, 14, and 15 September), the students at the Zermatt Festival Academy will present the results of their week of hard work under the tutelage of the members of the Scharoun Ensemble.The programmes they have chosen to perform are unusual and include works by Louise Farrenc, Grazyna Bacewicz, Wolfgang Rihm, and Nino Rota. The festival will continue its long-term co-operation with the Fondation Pierre Gianadda in Martigny with the German pianist Christian Zacharias performing Tchaikovsky and Schubert there at 8 p.m. on 8 September. Although this will be one of his last solo recitals, Zacharias will fortunately continue to give concerts, either with orchestra, as a soloist, or as a conductor.For complete information, visit http://zermattfestival.com/en/home-2/--Zermatt Music Festival & AcademyYoung People’s Chorus Goes on Tour“AloneTogether”:The […]
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