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Georg Friedrich Haas and Friedrich Cerha
HAAS
Hommage to
Mendelssohn
The 2009 Mendelssohn
WP Festival will include a
world première of Georg
Friedrich Haas’ Traum in des Sommers
Nacht in Leipzig on 28 and 30
Aug. Haas admires Mendelssohn,
particularly when “the composition
of the sound is the main part
of the musical composition”. According
to Haas, “Mendelssohn
forestalled Schönberg’s utopia of a
‘sound-colour-melody’. He opened
doors to a room that the serial music
of the 1950s was to enter later.” The
Gewandhaus Orchestra will perform
his new work under Riccardo
Chailly. www.bit.ly/haas1
The Klangspuren Schwaz festival
will include a performance of ins
Licht for violin, cello and piano on
23 Sep. Open Spaces II for 12 string
instruments and 2 percussion can
be heard at the same festival on 27
Sep with Ensemble Resonanz.
SOTELO
Wailing wind
The Festival de Mùsica de
Alicante is one of the
most important of its kind
in Spain. For its 25th anniversary,
the festival honours Mauricio Sotelo
with a series of performances. The
central part of the series is the première
of La mémoire incendiée: la
guitare for string quartet (Diotima
Quartett, 23 Sep), but Sotelo's guitar
concerto Como llora el viento is
also presented for the first time in
a chamber version (Grup Instrumental
de Valencia, Canizares, guit,
18 Sep). Alicante also sees the
Spanish première of Chalan.
(musikFabrik, c. Anu Tali, Dirk Rothbrust,
perc, 19 Sep).
www.bit.ly/sotelo2
To mark the 25th WP
birthday of the
Klangforum Wien, Sotelo wrote
Klang-Muro-for-Klangforum, which
premières at the musikprotokoll in
Graz/A on 9 Oct, and can be heard
again on 3 Nov at the Wien Modern:
www.wienmodern.at
haas / sotelo
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