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Wolfgang Rihm 

04 New representation for 

UE in US. Music publisher 

Theodore Presser Company starts 

UE representation on 1 January 2005. 

07 Birthday approaching. 

Pierre Boulez celebrates his 80th 

birthday on 26 March 2005. 

20 Janácek viewed cinematically. 

New animated movie of 

"The Cunning Little Vixen” on DVD. 

42 Georg Friedrich Haas. 

Updated worklist inside. 

newsletter 

01/05 • winter 2004/2005

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Contents 

NEWS 

Representation — 4 

Hire and Sales Material — 4 

COMPOSERS 

Rihm — 5 

Halffter — 6 

Boulez — 7 

Sotelo — 8 

Baltakas — 9 

Staud — 11 

Pärt — 12 

Berio — 13 

Cerha — 14 

Haas — 14 

Sawer — 15 

Feldman — 15 

Furrer — 16 

Schnyder — 16 

Mozart 2006 — 18 - 19 

Janácek — 20 

Mahler — 21 

Krása — 22 

Berg — 23 

Bartók — 24 

Kodály — 24 

Krenek — 25 

Martin — 26 

Weill — 27 

Martinu — 28 

Schmidt — 28

REDISCOVERIES 

Zemlinsky — 29 

Edmund von Borck — 29 - 30 

Rieti — 30 

Alfvén — 31 

Atterberg — 31 

REVIEWS 

Schreker — 32 

Birtwistle — 33 

Bennett — 33 

ANNIVERSARIES — 34 - 35 

WORLD PREMIÈRES — 37 

NEW RELEASES — 38 - 39 

NEW ON CD + DVD — 40 - 41 

WORKLIST 

Haas — 42 - 44 

Dear reader, 

dear Mozart- 

programmer, 

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numerous positive reactions to our 

Newsletter's new format.They confirm 

our belief that there is a need 

for concise and clearly structured 

information on the music, composers 

and activities of UE. 

It may surprise some to find themselves 

reading about Wolfgang 

Amadeus Mozart in the editorial of 

this second volume. But Mozart's 

250th anniversary in 2006 is of 

twofold importance to UE: firstly 

due to the results of the latest research 

on Mozart interpretation 

(Wiener Urtext Edition), and secondly 

thanks to all the new, exciting 

and highly individual ways in 

which our composers continue to 

deal with the phenomenon of 

Mozart. You can read more about 

Mozart - viewed and heard anew on 

page 18 -19. 

The editors 

contents 01/2005 

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RIHM 

Three decades 

of music 

The coming months have in store a 

decidedly divers selection of 

Wolfgang Rihm's rich oeuvre. Few 

contemporary composers have 

been able to enjoy seeing their 

music become part of the concert 

repertoire to such an extent. Indeed, 

conductors and ensembles 

now turn to Rihm's compositions 

as a matter of course, thus contributing 

to a living tradition of interpretation. 

Christoph Eschenbach is to conduct 

Musik für Klarinette und Orchester 

(soloist: Jörg Widmann) on 

17 and 18 Dec in Hamburg; Marek 

Janowski will lead a performance 

of Sotto voce with the RSB and Majella 

Stockhausen (piano) in Berlin 

(13 Jan); Ensemble Modern will present 

Jagden und Formen to the 

Irish public on 20 Feb in Dublin; 

Peter Rundel is to conduct the 

string orchestra pieces Ländler and 

Erscheinung with the Jonge Filharmonie 

in Courtrai/B on 12 March; 

the Minguet Quartet will be playing 

String Quartet No. 3 in Duisburg 

on 27 Feb 2005; Ensemble Recherche 

will bring Drei Vorspiele zu 

einer Insel (flute, violin, percussion) 

back to Freiburg, the city where it 

was premièred, on 7 Dec. 

We can also look forward to three 

Rihm premières: the Basel Sinfonietta 

commissioned an orchestration 

of the songs for tenor entitled 

Rilke: Vier Gedichte (2000); soloist: 

Christoph Prégardien, conductor: 

Emilio Pomarico (10 Dec), the Philharmonie 

Köln has commissioned 

Trio for flute, violine and cello (20 

January), and Über-Schrift for 2 pianos 

will be premiered at the Vienna 

Konzerthaus on 16 January 2005. 

rihm 

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HALFFTER 

Music for 

Madrid and 

Dresden 

For the occasion of his 75th birthday, 

Christóbal Halffter (born on 24 

March 1930) was invited by the 

Dresden Philharmonic to compose 

an orchestral work. Palimsesto for 

timpani and orchestra will receive 

its première on 5 Feb 2005 at the 

Kulturpalast in Dresden, conducted 

by Pedro Halffter and with Alexander 

Peter, timpani; the piece is dedicated 

to the memory of longserving 

artistic director Olivier von 

Winterstein. 

Palimsesto means to write or paint 

something anew on a page or a 

canvas on which something has already 

existed. … I used this process 

on a piece which I had composed 

halffter 

back in 1956. Of this score, I left only 

the formal structure intact. Over it I 

laid sound surfaces of various dynamic 

densities, resulting from my experience 

during the nearly 50 years 

spent composing since then. 

Hence, Palimsesto is a "new" score in 

which the "old" elements can still be 

heard, depending on where we 

focus our eyes or our ears. (Halffter) 

In celebration of the 100th birthday 

of the Orquesta Sinfónica de 

Madrid, Halffter wrote Eritaña for 

orchestra, an arrangement of the 

original piano piece Eritaña from 

Isaac Albeniz' piano cycle Iberia. 

The orchestra is given the role of 

the main instrument. World première: 

30 December 2004, Teatro 

Real, Madrid, c. Rafael Frühbeck de 

Burgos.

BOULEZ 

80th Birthday 

approaching … 

It will be a special birthday indeed: 

his 80th, on 26 March 2005. One 

easily gets the impression that the 

entire musical world is hastening 

to prepare. After all, this is the 

birthday of a personality who, for 

decades, has made his mark on the 

musical scene like none other - perhaps 

even becoming its very symbol. 

It is about a composer who, 

with his compositions, writings, teaching 

and interpretations, as well 

as with the foundation of IRCAM 

and Ensemble Intercontemporain, 

has had an epochal influence. It is 

about a man who, even today, pursues 

an utterly astounding array of 

activities with unbelievable 

strength and energy, providing us 

all with an example of how one can 

continue treading one's chosen 

path at an advanced age. In everything 

Pierre Boulez does, he serves 

the music of today and of tomorrow. 

Over the next few months, he will 

be conducting several works in 

Paris (cummings ist der dichter, Dérive 

2, Notations I-IV, VII), New York 

(Dérive 2), Munich, Cologne and 

Amsterdam (Domaines). Notations 

I-IV will also be performed by Barenboim 

in Berlin, David Robertson 

and Ensemble Intercontemporain 

will perform …explosante-fixe…, 

Zsolt Nagy will conduct the RAI-Orchestra 

in Figures-Doubles-Prismes 

in Turin, Ensemble Alternance 

under Robert HP Platz will play a 

birthday concert in Düsseldorf (Dérive 

1, Dialogue de l'ombre double 

et al), and Vienna's Konzerthaus 

will stage a Boulez marathon with 

works for piano. 

boulez 

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SOTELO 

Dance into the 

center of sound 

At a benefit concert for UNICEF on 

6 Dec 2004 in Florence, Mauricio 

Sotelo's Cuaderno de Danzas for 

violin and ensemble will be given 

its world première by the Contempoartensemble. 

From a 'kaleidoscopic' perspective, it 

touches upon the sounds and 

echoes of old flamenco dances …. A 

'Fanfarria' (show-off) gets us acquainted 

with the multifarious 

being of a dance which is fast, passionate, 

stirring, ecstatic and burlesque, 

while always bearing massive 

confusion within. Here, dance 

means a dance into the center of 

sound, not an actual dance: felt or 

sung by a violin… (Sotelo) 

sotelo 

Beat Furrer, who celebrates his 

50th birthday on 6 December, received 

the dedication of the work 

Wall of light red - for Beat Furrer 

for saxophone and chamber ensemble, 

which Klangforum Wien 

will première on this date in Graz. 

Sotelo took his inspiration for the 

piece from the Irish painter Sean 

Scully and his pictures Wall of light 

… (red, black, brown…), which Sotelo 

considers to be among the most 

intense works of contemporary 

painting. 

Here I allow myself to quote Scully 

himself, whose view of his work has 

a lot to do with my own musical 

viewpoint at the moment: 

'I am trying to give light a feeling of 

body… The words light and spirit are 

interchangeable in my opinion. I'm 

trying to capture something that 

has a classical stillness and at the 

same time has enough emotion or 

dissonance to create an unresolved 

quality…'

BALTAKAS 

Mountain and 

stone 

Asked about the latest part of a 

cycle to be written for the festival 

‘das neue werk’ in Hamburg 

(première on 24 February 2005), 

Vykintas Baltakas answers with a 

metaphor: 

What is a cycle? You stand on a 

mountain top and have a stone 

lying before you on the ground. Anything 

is possible, you are still free. 

But you want to use this freedom. 

So you move the stone, at which 

point its own life begins. How it falls 

and what else happens as a consequence 

depends on innumerable 

factors. One can also imagine a 

mountain without beginning and 

without end, with countless stones 

capable of moving in all directions, 

even upwards. I know I need only 

move the first stone. Everything else 

I can only observe and note. My field 

of vision is limited; my impressions 

can result only in a mosaic-like 

image of the mountain. And that is 

a cycle. 

baltakas 

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STAUD 

A map is not 

the territory 

Following the successful Japanese 

première (25 August 2004, Tokyo 

Sinfonietta, c. Yasuaki Itakura), 

Johannes Maria Staud's A Map is 

not the territory (2001) for large ensemble 

is about to receive its US 

première. HK Gruber will conduct 

the New World Symphony on 22 January 

2005 in Miami (see also Friedrich 

Cerha). 

The title of this work refers to the 

theory of Alfred H. Korzybski (1880 - 

1950) who developed 'General Semantics' 

in his principal work 'Science 

and Sanity'. 

Elaborating on the idea behind the 

title, the composer writes: 

Is the acoustic result not dependent 

upon the way in which the performers 

follow - interpret - the map? 

Does this not indicate the presence 

of an additional quality, indispensable 

to the effect of music? Something, 

without which the symbols 

and notational markings on the 

page would never "come to life", without 

which no poetic meaning 

could be made accessible through 

them? 

staud

PÄRT 

Of pilgrims' 

songs and 

swarms of bees 

New York: With a "Special tribute 

to Arvo Pärt", the New York ensemble 

Continuum, led by Joel Sachs, 

will offer a cross-section of Arvo 

Pärt's chamber and string music 

at Hunter College on 5 Dec. The 

programme includes: Wallfahrtslied 

(in the rarely heard 

quartet version), Summa, Es sang 

vor langen Jahren, Passacaglia, 

Darf ich…, Trisagion, Orient & Occident, 

Silouan's Song, Fratres and 

2 Wiegenlieder. 

Paris: Pärt's latest work, L'abbé 

Agathon for soprano and 8 cel- 

pärt 

los, will be given its first performance 

in Paris (6 Dec 2004) by the 

Octour de Violoncelles de Beauvais, 

which also played the world première 

in May 2004 with soloist Barbara 

Hendricks. The soloist in Paris 

will be Kaoli Isshiki. The private 

French classical station Radio Classique 

will broadcast the world première 

concert on 16 December. 

Copenhagen: Alexei Lubimov will 

be the soloist in the Danish première 

of Lamentate for piano and 

orchestra with the Danish National 

Symphony Orchestra/DR, c. Andrey 

Boreyko, on 10 February. 

Hamburg: A few days prior (23 January), 

Andrey Boreyko conducts 

the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra 

in Pärt's Wenn Bach Bienen gezüchtet 

hätte for piano, wind quintet, 

string orchestra and percussion. 

In this work, Pärt quite unconventionally 

writes out the B-A-C-H 

motif as a string tremolo which 

crescendos into a giant swarm of 

bees. A calm, contemplative second 

part concludes this 8-minute work. 

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BERIO 

Master of 

interaction 

Brussels: Belgium's Ictus Ensemble, 

in co-operation with the Kaaitheater, 

will shed light on some of the 

many facets of Luciano Berio's 

oeuvre on 18 Dec: universality and 

virtuosity, eroticism and revolt, and 

of course Berio's indefatigable search 

for the roots of language. 

Alongside Ricorrenze for wind 

quintet (1987) and Linea for 2 pianos, 

vibraphone and marimba (1973), 

the focus is also on Circles for harp, 

mezzo-soprano and percussion 

(1960) and Naturale for viola, percussion 

and tape (1985). Circles was 

the result of an interaction between 

Cathy Berberian and 3 instrumentalists. 

In Naturale, Berio - starting 

with Sicilian folk songs and 

the impressively original voice of 

folk singer Peppino Celano - developed 

a stream of harmonising 

contrasts. Soloists: Paul De Clerck, 

vla, Maria Husmann, Mezzo. 

Helsinki: SOLO for trombone and 

orchestra, premièred in 1999 by 

Christian Lindberg in Zurich, has 

become one of Berio's most successful 

concert pieces, and Lindberg 

has since performed it in all 

the important musical centres of 

the world. On 21 Jan, he plays this 

piece in Helsinki (Finnish RSO). 

Amsterdam: On 16-17 Dec, SOLO 

will also be on the programme of 

Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra 

(soloist: Jörgen van Rijen). 

Turin: Roberto Abbado, a passionate 

interpreter of Berio's oeuvre, will 

conduct Epiphanies for female 

voice and orchestra with the 

Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI on 13 

January 2005. 

berio

CERHA 

Impulse 

in the US 

Commissioned by the Vienna Philharmonic 

in 1992/1993, Impulse for 

large orchestra (23') was premièred 

shortly after Friedrich Cerha's 70th 

birthday, in 1996, under André Previn. 

The work's US première will be 

conducted by Heinz Karl Gruber 

with the New World Symphony on 

22 January in Miami. 

In contrast to many of his 

colleagues, Cerha has never been 

hesitant to furnish his new works 

with revealing and detailed introductory 

texts. Of this composition, 

he writes: 

Formally, Impulse is a very diverse, 

rich piece, also containing stark contrasts 

in the emotional sense. Forms 

of a powerful, passionate nature alternate 

with ones of more peaceful, 

meditative, elegiac expressivity. Sometimes 

they are juxtaposed in a 

harsh, abrupt way. The basis for the 

pitch organisation is a five-tone 

row… 

HAAS 

cerha / haas 

New Catalogue 

In this Newsletter one can again 

find an updated composer’s catalogue, 

that of Georg Friedrich Haas 

(pp. 42 - 44); a printed version will 

soon follow. 

Haas is currently working on a 

piece for baritone and ensemble 

commissioned by the Witten New 

Music Days. 

Three ensemble works by Haas will 

be heard in December: "…Schatten 

… durch unausdenkliche Wälder" 

(1992) on 7 December in Geneva; 

Tria ex uno (1991) on 16 December 

in Wuppertal; and Nach - Ruf … Entgleitend 

(1998/99) on 20 December 

in Essen. 

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SAWER 

Rebus in London 

Following musikFabrik's successful 

world première of David Sawer's 

ensemble work Rebus comes the 

UK première, this time performed 

by the London Sinfonietta and 

David Porcelijn at the QEH (19 February 

2005). 

Part of a day entitled Inventions 

2005, other works by Sawer to be 

performed are Cat's-Eye (also by 

the London Sinfonietta) and 

Sounds (BBC Singers). 

Meanwhile, Tiroirs, which was performed 

in Denmark in November, 

will receive its Portuguese première 

on 28 February 2005, when Susanna 

Mälkki conducts BCMG. 

Morton, Morton, Morton... 

FELDMAN 

Morton, Morton, 

Morton ... 

From 8-15 January, the Theater am 

Neumarkt in Zurich will once again 

present Morton, Morton, Morton, 

an evening of music, dance, text 

and silence based on For Bunita 

Marcus by Morton Feldman - at 

centre is the composer's passionate 

love of sound, while ample space 

and time are also given over to silence. 

(Direction: Joachim Schlömer, 

piano: Markus Hinterhäuser) 

The Staatstheater Stuttgart has 

been presenting a new production 

of Feldman's opera Neither since 31 

October (further performances: 4 

Dec 2004, 20 and 21 Jan 2005). The 

composer wrote this work in 

1976/77 after a text written for him 

by Samuel Beckett. The unusual 

libretto, without roles or stage 

directions, resulted in an abstract 

opera devoid of characters and 

scenery (conductor: Roland Kluttig, 

direction: Studio Azzurro, soloist: 

Anu Komsi). 

sawer / feldman 

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FURRER / NERUDA 

Dort ist das 

Meer, nachts 

steig ich hinab 

For one of the concerts in his ‘das 

neue werk’ festival in Hamburg, 

Richard Armbruster has programmed 

Beat Furrer's piece 

Dort ist das Meer - Nachts stieg ich 

hinab, composed in 1985/86 (NDR 

Symphony Orchestra and Choir, 

c. Peter Eötvös, 25 February 2005). 

With reference to the poem by Chilean 

poet Pablo Neruda, Furrer remarks 

that it is an expression of despair 

over past tragedy, misery, and 

the Mapocho River as its witness, 

born of snow, sprung from the beak 

of an eagle, winding through the 

"valley of ashes". … The increasingly 

intense cries of the poet, the fearful 

questions … are answered with silence. 

Neruda's text was not used 

here as a programmatic model for 

the composition of the music. Since 

only fragments of his text were 

used, it was possible to subjugate 

the language to the musical composition. 

Beat Furrer 

SCHNYDER 

Portrait concert 

in Winterthur 

The Musikkollegium Winterthur, 

a long-standing partner of Daniel 

Schnyder, will present a concert 

portrait concert of Schnyder on 26 

January 2005. 

The Orchester Musikkollegium 

Winterthur under Kristjan Järvi will 

interpret his Trumpet Concerto 

(Reinhold Friedrich, trp.), Concerto 

and Ritus from Symphonic Encounters 

with South Africa. 

Schnyder's oeuvre is marked by an 

openness to the entirety of his own 

musical experience, where twelvetone 

music sits equally next to 

Bach and jazz. 

furrer / schnyder 

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MOZART 

Viewed and 

heard anew 

The relationship between Universal 

Edition and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 

is twofold, and both of these aspects 

will be playing a prominent and important 

role in Mozart Year 2006: 

The Wiener Urtext Edition is at work on 

new editions of Mozart's most important 

piano work - editions which will 

take into account new and surprising 

findings that make a new interpretation 

of the musical text necessary. 

A review of Mozart related works: 

Walter Braunfels Don Juan for large orchestra 1920 - 1924 

(reference to Don Giovanni) 18’ 

Gottfried von Einem Steinbeis-Serenade for 8 instruments 1980 - 1981 

(variations on a theme from Don Giovanni) 13’ 

Georg Friedrich Haas "... sodaß ich's hernach, gleichsam wie 

ein schönes Bild... im Geist übersehe" for strings 1990/91 

(reference to the 2nd movement of Sonata in B major K454) 16’ 

Frank Martin Ouverture en hommage à Mozart for orchestra 1956 

7’ 

mozart 2006 

These findings will no doubt have a powerful 

impact on performance practice, 

particularly in light of the now certain 

fact that Mozart viewed improvisatory 

elements as being integral to his 

works. 

The second aspect has to do with the 

influence of Mozart on the composers 

of our time, who, decade after decade, 

have repeatedly brought forth works 

that deal with Mozart in the most diverse 

ways. A detailed catalogue of 

these Mozart related 20th and 21st 

century works can be found on our 

website, at 

www.mozart-noten.com

Arvo Pärt Mozart-Adagio for violin, cello and piano 1992, rev. 1997 

(reference to the Adagio of Sonata in F major, K 280) 6’ 

Wolfgang Rihm Sotto voce Notturno for piano and small orchestra 1999 

(suitable for Mozart concert programme) 14’ 

Alfred Schnittke (K)ein Sommernachtstraum / 

Not after Shakespeare for large orchestra 1984/85 

(Mozart / Schubert related Rondo) 10’ 

Alfred Schnittke Moz-art à la Haydn (rights only for Austria) 

Play with music for 2 violins, 2 small string orchestras, 1976 - 1978 

double bass and conductor 8’ 

(Pantomime K 416 d) 

Divertimento für Mozart - 12 aspects of the aria "Ein Mädchen 1956 

oder Weibchen wünscht Papageno sich" for soloists and orchestra 

Collective work of 12 composers: 

Gottfried von Einem, Luciano Berio, Heimo Erbse, Peter Racine 

Fricker, Niels Viggo Bentzon, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, 

Giselher Klebe, Gerhard Wimberger, Maurice le Roux, Jacques 

Wildberger, Maurice Jarre, Hans Werner Henze 

mozart 2006 

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JANÁCEK 

viewed 

cinematically 

From the House of the Death can 

surely be viewed as the great musical 

legacy of Leos Janácek, impressive 

proof of the composer's artistic 

refinement. He created the 

work in 1927/28, in anticipation of 

the industrial-scale mass murder 

of human beings in concentration 

camps. German film-maker Volker 

Schlöndorff, known particularly for 

his international film successes Der 

junge Törless, Die verlorene Ehre der 

Katharina Blum and Die Blechtrommel, 

has worked with this opera 

once before, in Paris during the 

1980s. And his new production at 

the Deutsche Oper in Berlin is the 

subject of eager anticipation. Christian 

Thieleman will conduct the 

janácek 

orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin, 

and the première is on 19 Feb 2005. 

Starting from the original 1920s 

drawings which inspired Janácek 

to compose his Cunning Little 

Vixen, Geoff Dunbar created a cartoon 

version of the opera for the 

BBC, a version which has now been 

brought to the market as a DVD 

(Opus Arte OA 0839 DVD). 

A whole palette of new animation 

techniques was developed in order 

to lend the pictures the necessary 

depth and dimension. A sympathetic 

arrangement of the score lasting 

for one hour's duration and 

the subsequent musical execution 

were in the hands of Kent Nagano 

and the DSO Berlin, plus an ensemble 

of young singers. Janácek's 

opera on the cycle of life, death and 

new life is a story filled with love, 

humour and tragedy. Dunbar's cartoon 

characters underline the 

drama, humour and depth of feeling 

present in this work. An experience 

for all age groups!

MAHLER 

His 10th Symphony 

has 5 movements, 

Das klagende 

Lied has 3! 

Numerous experts, aiming to create 

a complete and logical work 

from the framents of Gustav 

Mahler's 10th Symphony, failed to 

do so in the true spirit of the composer. 

Rudolf Barshai also dared an 

attempt, and the results of his efforts 

have since met with unanimous 

approval. Barshai had of 

course the advantage of sources to 

which others had not had access. 

On 27 November, he conducts the 

10th Symphony in Japan (Gunma 

SO) for the second time. 

Opus 1, as Mahler himself called 

Das klagende Lied even many years 

later, originated with the 3 sections 

Waldmärchen, Der Spielmann and 

Hochzeitsstück. We can only speculate 

as to the reason why Waldmärchen 

was omitted at the première. 

Only now is the original, 3 movement 

version returning to concert 

halls, such as on 12 and 13 December 

2004, with the Staatsorchester 

Stuttgart under Lothar Zagrosek. 

mahler 

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HANS KRÁSA 1899 - 1944 

The work of a 

mature apprentice 

Hans Krása is much more than the 

composer of the children's opera 

Brundibar, with which he is typically 

associated. 

UE recognised his outstanding 

talent early on and published his 

first orchestral work: Orchestral 

Songs op. 1 (1920), composed at the 

age of 21. Krása's teacher, Alexander 

Zemlinsky, probably put in a 

good word for him with director 

Emil Hertzka. Zemlinsky, after all, 

had conducted the première at a 

krása 

graduation concert in Prague's 

conservatoire in 1921. The 8 minute 

work for voice and orchestra is a 

setting of four Galgenlieder by 

Christian Morgenstern. On 12 February 

in Amsterdam, it will have 

its Dutch première: Gerd Albrecht 

will conduct the Radio Symfoni Orkest 

with Michelle Breedt, mezzosoprano. 

The concert is part of Jan Zekveld's 

festival dedicated to so-called "degenerate 

music".

BERG 

Wozzeck 

in Tel Aviv 

Alban Berg’s Wozzeck, a milestone 

of 20th century operatic history, is 

to see its first ever performance in 

Israel: a new production of this masterpiece 

is being mounted by the 

Israel Opera in Tel Aviv in cooperation 

with the Wiesbadener Maifestspiele. 

This complex and highly expressive 

opera, inspired by Georg Büchner's 

dramatic fragment Woyzeck, was 

composed between 1914 and 1921 

and was premièred with overwhelming 

success by Erich Kleiber on 14 

December 1925 at the Deutsche 

Staatsoper Berlin; it has since gone 

on to become one of the most performed 

classical stage works of the 

modern era. 

In Tel Aviv, the Israel Opera will be 

performing Wozzeck as staged by 

Manfred Beilharz, a production 

which was premièred in April 2003 

in Wiesbaden and was celebrated 

by audiences and the press with 

equal enthusiasm. Ascher Fisch will 

conduct the Israel SO and Andreas 

Scheibner will sing the title role in 

nine performances at the Tel Aviv 

Performing Arts Center (16, 17, 18, 19, 

21, 22, 24, 25 and 26 February 2005). 

berg 

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Zoltán Kodály 

BARTÓK 

from Bratislava 

to Nagoya 

The National Theatre in Slovakia's 

capital, where Béla Bartók and his 

mother lived in 1892/93, is to stage 

two of his three one act works - the 

opera Bluebeard's Castle and the 

ballet The Wooden Prince (première 

on 15 January 2005). 

A week later, the ballet will also 

open at the Deutsche Oper am 

Rhein in Duisburg (22 Jan); 

Bluebeard will see a semi-staged 

performance in Nagoya on 11 Feb. 

The suite from the ballet has been 

programmed in Berlin under Michael 

Gielen (1-2 Feb) and in Paris 

under Kirill Karabits (6-8 Jan). 

Steven Sloane will conduct the 

suite from the pantomime The 

Miraculous Mandarin on 13 Feb in 

Bochum, and Peter Eötvös will conduct 

performances in Stuttgart 

(19-21 Jan) and Hamburg (25 Feb). 

KODÁLY 

Psalmus and 

Dances 

Psalmus hungaricus, generally akknowledged 

to be one of the greatest 

choral works of the 20th century, 

will be performed on 28 Jan at 

the St. Nikolauskirche in Aachen 

(Collegium Musicum of the RWTH 

Aachen under Hub. Pittie). 

In his psalm, composed in 1923, 

Zoltán Kodály used the words of a 

medieval Hungarian preacher to 

criticise the conditions of his own 

day. During the next few months, 

two Kodály favourites - Marosszék 

Dances and Dances from Galánta - 

will be heard in Zurich (28 - 30 Jan) 

and in Koblenz (23 January 2005). 

bartók / kodály

KRENEK 

Ernst-Krenek- 

Institute Private 

Foundation in 

Krems 

12 September 2004 saw the 

opening of the Ernst-Krenek-Institute 

Private Foundation in Krems, 

Austria. Ernst Krenek, who left 

Austria following the Anschluss of 

1938, settled in California, where he 

died in 1991. His widow, Gladys N. 

Krenek, has since done much to 

promote the appreciation of his oeuvre. 

In February 2004, she founded 

the Ernst-Krenek-Institute Private 

Foundation with the support 

of Austria's federal government 

and the Province of Lower Austria. 

The Foundation exists to collect 

and house Krenek’s entire legacy 

permanently in Krems, making this 

city the composer's new home. The 

Foundation is dedicated to the research, 

presentation, support and 

promotion of Ernst Krenek's work. 

Krenek's 2-part opera Jonny spielt 

auf, premièred in 1927 in Leipzig 

and performed thereafter on over 

70 European stages, will be performed 

on 24 February 2005 at the 

Cologne Opera in Günter Krämer's 

production which was premièred 

at the Vienna State Opera on 16 De- 

cember 2002. Musical direction: Ryusuke 

Numajiri, Gürzenich Orchester 

Köln. Further performances: 26 

Feb and 4, 6, 11, 13, 16, 19, 23 and 27 

Mar 2005. 

Fragmente aus Karl V for soprano 

and orchestra will be heard on 26 

Feb in Eindhoven with Marc Soustrot 

and Het Brabants Orkest. 

Capriccio recently released Krenek's 

three one act works Der Diktator, 

Schwergewicht oder die Ehre der 

Nation and Das geheime Königreich 

(Capriccio, 2 CDs, 60107). 

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MARTIN 

30th anniversary 

of death 

On 21 Nov, the musical world will 

remember the 30th anniversary of 

Swiss composer Frank Martin's 

passing. In the three decades following 

his death, interest in his work 

has by no means decreased - a 

positive sign which testifies to the 

vitality of his diverse oeuvre. 

Martin was a deeply religious person, 

and he gave voice to his faith 

in a number of gripping compositions. 

In Golgotha, he created a dramatic 

and moving Easter oratorio, 

and Le Mystère de la nativité is a 

recounting of the Christmas mystery 

which allows for a staged production. 

For the opera house, he 

created Der Sturm after Shakespeare's 

Tempest and the musical comedy 

Monsieur de Pourceaugnac 

after Molière. 

Numerous concert works have 

found their way into the international 

repertoire, above all Sechs 

Monologe aus Jedermann for baritone 

and orchestra, Concerto for 

seven wind instruments, timpani, 

percussion and strings, Petite symphonie 

concertante for harp, harpsichord, 

piano and two string orchestras, 

and the violin concerto 

Polyptyque. 

martin 

Martin's written statements bear 

witness to the great sense of responsibility 

with which he approached 

his vocation. One's inner sense 

must always watch over both heavenly 

inspiration and conscious invention. 

… It is not an attitude of rational 

coolness, but rather one's passion 

that must be merciless … opposing 

everything that does not conform 

to one's intent, no matter 

where it comes from.

WEILL 

Off to 

Mahagonny...! 

Part 2 

In the last issue of our Newsletter, 

we wrote of the turbulence surrounding 

the creation of the opera 

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny 

- as well as about the current, 

successful productions in 

Nuremberg and Darmstadt. 

In January 2005, three Italian opera 

houses will be co-producing a new 

production directed by Daniele Abbado 

and conducted by Jonathan 

Webb: Teatro dell'Opera di Roma 

(28 and 30 Jan, 1, 3, 4, and 5 Feb), I 

Teatri di Reggio Emilia (12 and 13 

Feb), and Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari 

(4 and 6 March). 

A further new production in Pforzheim, 

under the musical direction 

of Jari Hämäläinen and the stage 

direction of Jochen Biganzoli, will 

be premièred on 4 February. 

An evening of a special sort awaits 

the audience of the Klubhaus-Akzente 

Concert in Zurich on 25 November: 

this evening is dedicated 

to Lotte Lenya. Weill gave his music 

to her voice, and Lenya gave her 

voice to his music. And the two 

lived ever after in constant symbiosis, 

in a roller-coaster marriage rife 

with disloyalties and affairs. In 

spite of everything, the two were 

unable to let go of one another, 

connected by a spiritual link originating 

in Mahagonny, a city of anarchy, 

free love and anti-bourgeois 

rebellion. 

UE composer and saxophonist 

Daniel Schnyder will retrace this 

unique voice with his "Lenya" improvisations. 

And in the second 

half of the evening, the Songspiel 

will take us back to Mahagonny. 

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MARTINU 

The Greek 

Passion 

The large-scale, grand opera The 

Greek Passion by Czech composer 

Bohuslav Martinu (after Nikos Kazantzakis' 

novel Christ Recrucified, 

1948) had a long and painful genesis. 

We wrote about this at length on 

the occasion of the original English 

language version's première at the 

Bregenz Festival in 1999, and again 

for the British première at Covent 

Garden in 2000 and the German 

première at the Bremer Theater in 

2003. 

On 16 January 2005 comes the next 

step: The Greek Passion, which can 

also be interpreted as a refugee 

drama and is thus lent a sad topicality, 

arrives back in the homeland 

of the composer in a new production 

at the National Theatre of 

Brno. The main roles in the opera 

are played by the choir of refugees 

and the villagers, in keeping in line 

with the intent of Kazantzakis: he 

wanted the work to be above all, an 

opera of the masses. 

SCHMIDT 

The funeral 

march that 

shocks 

Franz Schmidt’s Symphony No. 4 is 

one of those rediscoveries which 

have long since found their way 

back into the concert repertoire. 

Numerous performances and recordings 

(most recently the outstanding 

SACD with Yakov Kreizberg 

and the Netherlands Philharmonic 

Orchestra Amsterdam, on 

PentaTone Classics PTC 5186015) 

have contributed to this success. 

Symphony No. 4 has a special place 

in Schmidt's oeuvre. It was composed 

in 1932/33 while he mourned 

the loss of his daughter during 

childbirth. In the piece's second 

section, a cello solo leads into a 

touching funeral march which 

swells to devastatingly powerful 

sonic dimensions - the actual requiem. 

Next performances: Yakov Kreizberg 

with the NDR Symphony Orchestra, 

23-24 January 2005, Hamburg; 

Fabio Luisi with the Royal 

Concertgebouw Orchestra, 12-16 

January 2005, Amsterdam. 

martinu / schmidt

ZEMLINSKY 

Symphony in 

B flat major 

This youthful work, with which the 

26 year old Alexander Zemlinsky 

won the coveted Beethoven Award, 

was already his second attempt in 

the genre. 

Its proponents, who take pains to 

analyse the score thoroughly, praise 

its master handiwork and detect 

characteristics foreshadowing the 

mature master. Critics point out its 

eclecticism and the influence of 

Brahms (Passacaglia from Symphony 

No. 4), Wagner (Parsifal and Siegfried) 

and Mahler. Ulrich Schreiber, 

who even thinks he hears traces of 

Schubert's Octet, writes: It is music 

of its day, in the best sense.The piece 

sounds as if the crisis of the symphony 

had never occurred. 

On 9 October 04, Graham Jackson 

conducted this work with the 

Schleswig - Holstein SO in Schleswig, 

and in neighbouring cities during 

the days that followed. 

Alexander Zemlinsky 

EDMUND VON BORCK 

Composer and 

victim of war 

Edmund von Borck, born in Breslau 

in 1906 and killed on the Italian 

front in 1944, studied composition 

and conducting. He first worked as 

a Kapellmeister, but soon turned to 

composing. On what would have 

been his 50th birthday, H. Bentz 

wrote: His language is always uncompromising, 

and his statements 

go for the essence. He has the 

strength to construct large forms 

and fill them accordingly. 

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Edmund von Borck 

The UE catalogue contains six 

works of Edmund von Borck, including 

the Concerto for Orchestra, 

which Israel Yinon conducted and 

recorded at WDR Cologne this 

September. 

Borck's contemporaries were full of 

praise: What makes one listen is his 

determined creativity, melodic logic 

and positively formal talent ... it is 

the musical language of a loner, 

which culminates in raw power. … 

composition which quite decidedly 

goes its own way. 

VITTORIO RIETI 

rediscoveries 

One who was 

forgotten ... 

Not even the recently revived interest 

in so-called "degenerate composers" 

has helped to achieve a 

true rediscovery of the Italian composer 

Vittorio Rieti (1898-1994), 

who emigrated to the USA. 

In the 1920s, his ballet compositions 

met with great success: Balanchine 

choreographed Barabau 

with scenery by Maurice Utrillo 

and Le Bal with scenery by Giorgio 

de Chirico, and the Concerto for 

wind quintet and orchestra was 

premièred under Alfredo Casella. 

This coming January, Le Bal is to receive 

a new chance in Rome. And 

on 28 October 2005, students of 

Wright State University will play 

Concerto in Dayton, Ohio. 

Of this work, Rieti wrote: 

This concerto is written somewhat 

in the spirit of the old Italian concerto 

grosso. In spirit, but not in 

form, because the form has more to 

do with modern concerti for solo instruments, 

that is to say, sonata 

form.

HUGO ALFVÉN 

Symphony No. 4 

The Swedish composer Hugo 

Alfvén, born 2 years before Schönberg, 

survived his younger colleague 

by 9 years - yet his music remained 

entirely in the spirit of late 

Romanticism. 

Alongside music, literature and 

painting were also means which 

Alfvén found suitable for the expression 

of his thoughts and feelings. 

His most important source of 

inspiration was nature, particularly 

water. He spent much time boating 

in the archipelago near Stockholm, 

and the strong impressions gained 

on these outings flowed into his 

Symphony No. 4 (1918/19) for soprano, 

tenor and large orchestra. 

My symphony tells a fairy tale of 

the love between two human 

beings, Alfvén once said. 

The beauty of this 47 minute symphony, 

which is little known outside 

Sweden, moved Peter Kuhn to 

perform it with his orchestra in Bielefeld 

on 10 December. 

KURT ATTERBERG 

The curse 

of beauty 

When the 41 year old Swedish composer 

Kurt Atterberg won the coveted 

Columbia Schubert Composition 

Award in New York in 1928, his 

life changed in a major way. His 

Symphony N0. 6 became popular 

overnight and graced concert halls 

around the world. Atterberg received 

a sizeable sum of money 

(hence Dollar Symphony), leaving 

him free of immediate financial 

worry. 

Critics and the merely jealous, who 

viewed his work's beauty as the result 

of cold calculation, were quick 

to arrive on the scene. Money 

aside, Atterberg's style - particularly 

his symphony's romantic Adagio - 

was a thorn in the sides of his most 

modern contemporaries, even 

though this movement was born 

out of a deep love for Swedish folk 

music. The piece will be performed 

on 27 February 2005 in Heilbronn, 

by the Heilbronner Sinfonie Orchester 

under Peter Braschkat. 

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SCHREKER 

At last, Irrelohe 

It is thanks to Vienna Volksoper director 

Rudolf Berger that first 

Austrian production of Franz 

Schreker's opera Irrelohe (premièred 

in Cologne in 1924) has been 

playing in Vienna since 16 October 

2004 (dir.: Olivier Tambosi, c.: Dietfried 

Bernet). Schreker was among 

the most performed composers of 

his day. Banned by the Nazis, his 

music is now in the process of 

being rediscovered. 

And to rave reviews: One could listen 

to these sounds until dizzy: 

opalescent, running into one another, 

seductive (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 

Gerhard Persché); Illuminated 

sound-theatre … the music is of 

complex, abundantly dissonant and 

daring harmony, possessed of its 

own "grammar" between expressionism 

and the modern. (Salzburger 

reviews 

Nachrichten, Heinz Rögl). At last, 

Schreker! At 

last, "Irrelohe" … a wildly glowing 

elegy to expressionism which simultaneously 

throws the doors wide 

open to new territory (Wiener Zeitung, 

Edwin Baumgartner). 

From 15 Dec 2004 to 24 Apr 2005, 

the Vienna Jewish Museum presents 

the exhibition Franz Schreker: 

Crossing Borders, Crossing Musical 

Frontiers, which offers a look at musical 

and operatic history at the 

crossroads between Art Nouveau 

and New Objectivity, between romanticism 

and modernism. 

On 25 Jan 2005, a concert at the RadioKulturhaus 

will retrace Schreker's 

life with a selection of his 

works: the Vienna RSO, c. Peter Ruzicka 

will play the Suite from "Der 

Geburtstag der Infantin", Vom ewigen 

Leben, Vorspiel zu einem 

Drama et al.

BIRTWISTLE 

Antiphonies 

Following the performance of Sir 

Harrison Birtwistle's highly inventive 

and complex work Antiphonies 

(given by the Philharmonia Orchestra 

with Christoph von Dohnányi 

conducting and Pierre-Laurent Aimard 

as soloist) at Birtwistle 

Games, the festival in honour of 

the composer's 70th birthday, the 

work then received its second ever 

German performance just a few 

days later, on 12th November in Cologne. 

Stefan Asbury conducted 

the WDR Symphony Orchestra, 

with soloist Nic Hodges, in both 

the concert and a studio recording. 

Considered to be the composer's 

own response to some of the musical 

ideas in Gawain, Antiphonies is 

no conventional piano concerto, 

but rather a drama from which the 

piano ultimately emerges triumphant. 

The first ever performance 

of this work was given in 1993 by 

the Philharmonia and Boulez, with 

Joanna MacGregor as soloist. 

Mines of Sulphur 

Glimmerglass Opera 2004 

BENNETT 

Mines of Sulphur 

In July and August 2004 Glimmerglass 

Opera, New York, staged a 

new production of Richard Rodney 

Bennett's atmospheric thriller The 

Mines of Sulphur. This opera was 

widely acclaimed at its première in 

London in 1965, and productions in 

Berlin, Stockholm, and at La Scala 

in Milan soon followed. 

Musical America said of the Glimmerglass 

production, Bennett's 

music is very much the servant of 

the drama, and the result is gripping 

musical theater. 

The New York City Opera will present 

the work in 2006. 

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2005 

100th Anniversary Theodor Berger * 18 May 1905 

80th Anniversary Luciano Berio * 24 October 1925 

80th Birthday Pierre Boulez * 26 March 1925 

75th Birthday Cristóbal Halffter * 24 March 1930 

60th Birthday Vic Hoyland * 11 December 1945 

70th Birthday Arvo Pärt * 11 September 1935 

80th Birthday Gunther Schuller * 22 November 1925 

100th Anniversary Eric Zeisl * 18 May 1905 

2006 

70th Birthday Gilbert Amy * 29 August 1936 

125th Anniversary Béla Bartók * 25 March 1881 

70th Birthday Richard Rodney Bennett * 29 March 1936 

50th Anniv. of Death Bertolt Brecht † 14 August 1956 

80th Anniversary Earle Brown * 26 December 1926 

80th Birthday Francis Burt * 28 April 1926 

80th Birthday Friedrich Cerha * 17 February 1926 

10th Anniv. of Death Gottfried von Einem † 12 July 1996 

60th Birthday Michael Finnissy * 17 March 1946 

75th Birthday Mauricio Kagel * 24 December 1931 

70th Birthday Ladislav Kupkovic * 17 March 1936 

80th Birthday György Kurtág * 19 February 1926 

250th Anniversary Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart * 27 Jan 1756 

70th Birthday Steve Reich * 03 October 1936 

100th Anniversary Dmitri Schostakowitsch * 25 Sep 1906 

125th Anniversary Karl Weigl * 06 February 1881 

70th Birthday Hans Zender * 22 November 1936 

anniversaries

2007 

75th Anniv. of Death Eugen d'Albert † 03 March 1932 

70th Birthday David Bedford * 04 August 1937 

20th Anniv. of Death Morton Feldman † 03 September 1987 

80th Birthday Michael Gielen * 20 July 1927 

125th Anniversary Zoltán Kodály * 16 December 1882 

125th Anniversary Gian Francesco Malipiero * 18 March 1882 

125th Anniversary Joseph Marx * 11 May 1882 

70th Birthday Gösta Neuwirth * 06 January 1937 

50th Birthday Thomas Daniel Schlee * 26 October 1957 

50th Anniv. of Death Othmar Schoeck † 08 March 1957 

125th Anniversary Karol Szymanowski * 06 October 1882 

50th Birthday Julian Yu * 02 September 1957 

2008 

80th Anniversary Cathy Berberian * 04 July 1928 

25th Anniv. of Death Cathy Berberian † 06 March 1983 

90th Anniversary Gottfried von Einem * 24 January 1918 

70th Birthday Zygmunt Krauze * 19 September 1938 

80th Anniversary Gerhard Lampersberg * 05 July 1928 

60th Birthday Nigel Osborne * 23 June 1948 

60th Birthday Peter Ruzicka * 03 July 1948 

70th Birthday Tona Scherchen * 12 March 1938 

75th Anniv. of Death Max von Schillings † 24 July 1933 

80th Birthday Karlheinz Stockhausen * 22 August 1928 

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VYKINTAS BALTAKAS 

Work for Ensemble for ‘das neue werk’ 

NDR SO, c. Peter Eötvös 

24 February 2005 · Rolf-Liebermann-Studio Hamburg/D 

CRISTÓBAL HALFFTER 

Eritaña from “Iberia” by Isaac Albeniz for orchestra 

Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, c. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos 

30 December 2004 · Teatro Real, Madrid/E 

Palimsesto 1956/2004 for timpani and orchestra 

Dresdner Philharmonie, c. Pedro Halffter 

Alexander Peter, timpani 

05 February 2005 · Kulturpalast am Altmarkt Dresden/D 

ROXANNA PANUFNIK 

Ave Maria for choir (SSA) and organ 

c. Anthony Cain, Downe House Choir 

15 December 2004 · St. Nicolas' Church Newbury/GB 

WOLFGANG RIHM 

Rilke: Vier Gedichte for tenor and orchestra 

Basel Sinfonietta, c. Emilio Pomárico 

Christoph Prégardien, Tenor 

10 December 2004 · Stadtcasino Basel/CH 

Über-Schrift for 2 pianos 

Klavierduo Andreas Grau & Götz Schumacher 

16 January 2005 · Konzerthaus, Neuer Saal Wien/A 

Trio for flute, violin and cello 

Emmanuel Pahud, fl, Daniel Sepec, vln, Jean-Guihen Queyras, vlc 

20 January 2005 · Philharmonie Köln/D 

MAURICIO SOTELO 

Cuaderno de Danzas I for violin and ensemble 

UNICEF presentation, Contempoartensemble 

c. Mauro Ceccanti, Duccio Ceccanti, vln 

06 December 2004 · Teatro Pergola Firenze/I 

Wall of light red for saxophone and chamber ensemble 

Klangforum Wien, c. Beat Furrer, Gerald Preinfalk, sax 

06 December 2004 · Helmut List-Halle Graz/A 

world premieres

MIKE CORNICK 

20 Piano Studies in classical, jazz and popular styles for piano 

UE 21233 

ANDREAS DORSCHEL (ED.) 

Dem Ohr voraus - Erwartung und Vorurteil in der Musik 

Studien zur Wertungsforschung, Bd. 44 


MORTON FELDMAN 

For John Cage for violin and piano 


GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS 

String Quartet No. 4 for string quartet and live electronics 

Score UE 32915 

ARVO PÄRT 

Zwei Wiegenlieder for voice and piano 


JAMES RAE 

Style Workout - studies in classical, jazz, rock and Latin styles 

for saxophone (soprano / alto / tenor) 


THOMAS DANIEL SCHLEE 

Amen. Halleluja op. 57 for organ 


MAURICIO SOTELO 

Estremecido por el viento for violin 


IAN WILSON 

Veer for string quartet 

Score and parts 


new releases 

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MIKE CORNICK 

Studies - 

but with a 

difference! 

20 Piano Studies in classical, jazz 

and popular styles 


Few of today's piano teachers 

would choose to restrict their 

pupils´ repertoire to the strictly 

'classical' and this broadening of 

approach - 

to include pieces in a range of styles, 

is clearly reflected in the syllabus 

selections of most examination 

boards.With this in mind, Mike 

Cornick´s new set of piano studies 

encludes pieces with a distinct 

Latin, jazz or pop 'feel' as well as 

the expected classically-styled 

exercises. Pupils of middle grade 

standard will find these pieces attractive 

an stimulating - each piece 

focusing on a particular technical 

or interpretative aspect of piano 

playing. For teachers selecting an 

appropriate study, a table has been 

provided giving details of key, style, 

time signature and rhythm. 

new releases

LUCIANO BERIO / FRANZ SCHUBERT Rendering 

Bamberger Symphoniker, c. Jonathan Nott 

Tudor CD 7131 

HARRISON BIRTWISTLE Earth Dances, Theseus Game 

Ensemble Modern, Martyn Brabbins and Pierre-André Valade, 

Ensemble Modern Orchestra, c. Pierre Boulez 

Deutsche Grammophon 20/21 4770702 

HARRISON BIRTWISTLE Gawain's Journey, The Triumph of Time, 

Ritual Fragment Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, 

c. Elgar Howarth 

NMC CD D088 

HARRISON BIRTWISTLE The Axe Manual - Complete Piano Works 

Sad Song, Berceuse de Jeanne, Précis, Hector's Dawn 

Nicolas Hodges, pno 

Metronome MET CD 1074 

MORTON FELDMAN Patterns in a Chromatic Field 

Charles Curtis, vlc, Aleck Karis, pno 

Tzadik Composer Series TZ 8002 CD 

MORTON FELDMAN Violin and Orchestra, Coptic Light 

Bayerischer Rundfunk SO, c. Peter Rundel, Isabelle Faust, vln 

musica viva, col legno WWE CD 20089 

LEOS JANÁCEK Cunning Little Vixen Animated film after Janácek’s 

opera: Christine Buffle, Grant Doyle, Richard Coxon, BBS Singers, 

New London's Children's Choir, Deutsches SO Berlin, c. Kent Nagano 

Virgin/EMI CD 5 45586 2 

KAGEL by MAURICIO KAGEL Anagrama et al. 

SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, c. Mauricio Kagel 

hänssler CLASSIC CD Nr. 93-054 

ERNST KRENEK Piano Works 

Till Alexander Körber, pno 

Capriccio CD 67078 

ERNST KRENEK conducts ERNST KRENEK Orchestral Works 

NDR Sinfonieorchester, c. Ernst Krenek 

(NDR Klassik) EMI Classics NDR 10082 

JOSEPH MARX Orchestral Songs 

Bochum SO, c. Steven Sloane, Angela M. Blasi, Soprano, Stella 

Doufexis, Mezzo, ASV Sanctuary Classics, CD DCA 1164 

ARVO PÄRT Psalom, Summa, Fratres, Es sang vor langen Jahren, Stabat 

Mater, Quatuor Franz Joseph, c. Christopher Jackson 

Atma/Musikwelt CD 2310 

new on cd + dvd 

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LUCIANO BERIO Sincronie 

Kairos Quartett · edition zeitklang ez 90007 

LUCIANO BERIO Sincronie 

Kairos Quartett · edition zeitklang ez 90007 

KURT ATTERBERG 6. SInfonie op 10 

HUGO ALFVÉN 

Symphony 

No. 4 op. 39 

Stockholm 

Philharmonic 

Orchestra, 

c. Neeme Järvi 

BIS-CD-505 

L. BERIO Naturale, 

Chemins II 

M. FELDMAN 

Rothko Chapel 

Christophe 

Desjardins, Collegium 

Novum 

aeon/harmonia 

mundi AECD 

0425 

ERNST KRENEK 

Der Diktator, 

Das geheime 

Königreich, 

Schwergewicht 

Ensemble Modern, 

c. Martyn 

Brabbins and 

Pierre Boulez 

Capriccio 60107 

KAROL 

SZYMANOWSKI 

Król Roger 

Orchestra and 

Chorus of the 

Polish National 

Opera, c. Jacep 

Kaspszyk 

Accord 

ACD 131-2 

FRANZ SCHMIDT Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln 

MDR-Sinfonieorchester, Michael Schönheit, org, c. Fabio Luisi 

Querstand/Musikwelt 2 CD 0411 

WOLFGANG RIHM Deus Passus, KAROL SZYMANOWSKI Stabat Mater 

Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, 

c. Marcello Viotti, c. Helmuth Rillling 

Profil/Naxos CD 04035 

KAROL SZYMANOWSKI Complete Songs with Piano accompaniment 

Juliana Gondek & Iwona Sobotka, Soprano, Urszula Kryger, Mezzo, 

Piotr Beczala, Tenor, Reinhild Mees, pno 

Channel Classics CCS 19398 (M04) 

KURT WEILL Royal Palace, Der Neue Orpheus 

BBC SO, BBC Singers, c. Andrew Davis, Janis Watson, Stephen 

Richardson, Ashley Holland, Richard Coxon, Capriccio CD 60 106 

new on cd + dvd

OPERAS and VOCAL WORKS 

Adolf Wölfli short opera . 1980/1981 

Libretto by the composer after texts by Adolf Wölfli 25’ 

Nacht chamber opera 1995-1996/1998 

Libretto by the composer after texts by Friedrich Hölderlin 75’ 

after Hyperion, Empedokles, Oedipus, letters 

Die schöne Wunde opera in 2 parts 2002-2003 

Libretto by the composer after texts by Franz Kafka’s 150’ 

Der Landarzt, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum et al. 

lied for tenor and 2 percussion players 2000 

Text by Süsskind von Trimberg 5’ 

Blumenstück 2000 

for 32-voice choir, bass tuba and string quintet 18’ 

Text after Siebenkäs’ by Jean Paul 

Haiku for baritone and ensemble 2004 

World Première: 24 April 2005, Witten New Music Days 12’ 

ORCHESTRA 

"... sodaß ich's hernach, gleichsam wie ein schönes Bild ... 1990/1991 

im Geist übersehe" for string orchestra 16’ 

Descendiendo 1993 

for large orchestra 30’ 

Violin Concerto 1998 

for violin and orchestra 15’ 

Torso for large orchestra 1999-2000/2001 

after the unfinished Piano Sonata C major D840 (1825) 40’ 

by Franz Schubert 

Natures mortes 2003 

for large orchestra 26’ 

Opus 68 2003 

Alexander Nikolajewitsch Skrjabin’s Piano Sonata No. 9 (1913) 10’ 

for large orchestra, orchestrated by Georg Friedrich Haas 

Rondeau 2003 

for ensemble, also for amateur or school orchestra 14’ 

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra 2003-2004 

for cello and orchestra 30’ 

Ritual open air work 2004 

for 12 large drums, 3 wind orchestras and church bells ad lib. 75’ 

World Première: July 2005, Klangspuren Schwaz 

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5 Distances für Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette, Fagott und Horn. 1991/92 

Partitur UE 21085, Stimmensatz UE 21086 12’ 

4. Streichquartett 1988 

Partitur UE 31967, Stimmensatz UE 31968 10’ 

Sonate op. 20 a für Gitarre solo 2002 

ENSEMBLE 

Sextett 1982 

for 3 violas and 3 cellos 13’ 

Quasi una Tânpûrâ 1990/1991 

for chamber orchestra 28’ 

"... Schatten ... durch unausdenkliche Wälder" 1992 

for 2 pianos and 2 percussion players 24’ 

Sextett 1992/1996 

for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and cello 15’ 

"...." 1994 

double concerto for accordion, viola and chamber ensemble 14’ 

"... über den Atem, die Stille und die Zerbrechlichkeit ..." 1994 

for 7 brass instruments 23’ 

"... aus freier Lust ... verbunden ..." 1994/1995/1996 

for varied ensemble orchestrations 11’ 

"... Einklang freier Wesen ..." 1994/1995/1996 

for 10 instruments 11’ 

Fremde Welten 1997 

for piano and 20 strings 27’ 

String Quartet No. 1 1997 

for string quartet 30’ 


for string quartet 18’ 

"In iij Noct." - String Quartet No. 3 2001 

for string quartet 40 - 60’ 


for string quartet and live electronics 25’ 

Monodie 1998/1999 


Nach-Ruf ... ent-gleitend ... 1999 

for flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and cello 16’ 

Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich ... 1999 

for percussion and ensemble 25’ 

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ENSEMBLE (cont.) 

in vain 2000 


tria ex uno 2001 

for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and cello 12’ 

"für Hans Landesmann" 2001-2002 


SOLO INSTRUMENTS 

"... aus freier Lust ... verbunden ..." 1994/1995/1996 

for different solo instruments 11’ 

Solo for Viola d'amore 2000 

for viola d'amore 15’ 

de terrae fine 2001 

for violin solo 21’ 

flow and friction 2001 

for microtone piano for 4 hands 9’ 

ein Saitenspiel 2002 

for microtonally-tuned zither 4’ 

Ein Schattenspiel 2004 

for piano and live electronics 10’ 

Finale 2004 

for flute 10’ 

PROJECTS 

Work for choir and orchestra (instrumentation of Mozart’s Requiem) 2005 

World Première: Mozarteum, 4 December 2005 Salzburg/A 

Work for orchestra (Cleveland Orchestra, c. Franz Welser-Möst) 2005 

World Première: March 2006 Cleveland/USA 

Work for orchestra 2006 

World Première: Donaueschinger Musiktage, October 2006 

Work for 15 instrumentalists (Remix Ensemble) 2006 

World Première: November 2006 Porto/P 

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