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Gerald Barry's new opera is based on Lewis Carroll's two beloved books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. As with Barry's last opera, the lauded The Importance of Being E...

This most frequently played orchestral work by Aribert Reimann quotes from and makes use of Robert Schumann's last finished composition, the so-called 'Geistervariationen' [Ghost Variations] in E flat...

The brief Fantasia gregoriana, op.65, is based on the Gregorian Easter Hallelujah. Like a mosaic, the individual heterogenic episodes, lyrical, dance-like, hymnal and dramatic in turn, are combined th...

Emotional depth and riveting virtuosity - these elements are what characterise many compositions by Rodion Shchedrin. Even though he has been a cosmopolitan for a long time, the Moscow-born Shchedrin...

It was at the suggestion of the conductor of the World Première, Mariss Jansons, that Jörg Widmann refers to musical characteristics of Beethoven's 7th and 8th Symphony. His starting points primarily...

The Left-Hander - a popular Russian grotesque about Russian and Englishmen, new technologies, old traditions and hard liquor - in the form of a two-act opera.

Mit seinem Orchesterwerk Armonica begibt sich Jörg Widmann auf die Suche nach der Harmonie. Klänge wie von einer Glasharmonika bestimmen Anfang und Ende des Stücks. In seinem Verlauf weitet sich das W...

Gustav Mahler's Symphony Nr. 10 is the last and only unfinished symphony in his complete oeuvre. On 5 September 1910 Mahler wrote his last notes: exactly 100 years later, the 23-year-old conductor and...

Das Orchesterstück Melodien habe ich 1971 komponiert. Ich versuchte, die dichte Mikropolyphonie meiner Musiksprache aufzulockern, transparenter zu machen. Im Grunde genommen blieb ich treu zu meinem f...

The great Greek composer Theodorakis (who turns 90 in 2015) worked on this lyric tragedy for years, in his house opposite the Acropolis, and, according to him, immersed himself in the universal harmon...

Translation into Modern Greek by Mikis Theodorakis Libretto by Mikis Theodorakis

INHALT Aribert Reimanns 'Trilogie lyrique' beruht auf drei Stücken von Maurice Maeterlinck: Im ersten Stück L'Intruse sitzt eine Familie am Tisch um den blinden Großvater. Man wartet auf den Arzt, der...

The oeuvre of Bernd Alois Zimmermann is chracterized by the abundant use of musical quotations. In Dialoge he transferred this 'pluralistic composition technique' to a large-scale symphony orchestra f...

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