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15.05.2018
Bärenreiter’s publisher
Together with his wife Barbara Scheuch-Vötterle and now with their son Clemens Scheuch too, Leonhard Scheuch has been at the helm of the Kassel-based publishers Bärenreiter-Verlag for a full 42 years. The Swiss-born music publisher celebrated his eightieth birthday on 21 May. »more«
15.05.2018
Pulsating Energy
The composer Dieter Ammann, whose works are published by Bärenreiter-Verlag, is to be awarded one of the 2018 Swiss Music Prizes. Born in Aarau in 1962, Am-mann leads a musical double life. As a composer, he enjoys great international success with complex scores written in the slowest of tempi and exuding rich inner life, as shown, for example, by the orches-tral work “Core – Turn – Boost” at the Lu-cerne Festival. »more«
25.04.2018
Handel all over Europe
This will be a wonderful summer for Handel fans! Handel’s works – operas, oratorios, sacred choral works – will be an attraction at several well-established summer festivals in several European countries. All performances will use material based on the “Halle Handel Edition” published by Bärenreiter. »more«
06.10.2017
“Rivale” by Lucia Ronchetti at Staatsoper Berlin
Lucia Ronchetti is a specialist in the highly sensitive and subtle new interpretation of baroque subjects. For the Staatsoper Unter den Linden she has composed Rivale, a chamber opera for female voices, solo viola and ensemble based on Antoine Danchet’s Tancrède, the famous episode from Torquato Tasso’s renaissance epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata about love and rivalry between Tancredi and Clorinda. ›more‹
24.05.2017
“Lotario”, “Jephtha” and “Esther”: Handel in Göttingen and Halle
The Göttingen Handel Festival traditionally opens with a new production of an opera – this year on May 19 it’s Handel’s opera seria Lotario. Meanwhile in Halle, the late oratorio Jephtha is presented by Halle Opera on 26 May for the opening of the Handel Festival there. Tatjana Gürbaca, one of the most sought-after directors of her generation, is responsible for this production, and the conductor is Christoph Spering.›more‹
24.05.2017
Srnka’s “South Pole” in a reduced and revised version in Darmstadt
Just a year after its successful premiere at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Miroslav Srnka’s double opera South Pole receives its first performance in a reduced and revised version at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. The theatre’s artistic director Karsten Wiegand directs the legendary race between Robert Falcon Scott and the Norwegian Roald Amundsen in the Antarctic, which Srnka’s composition realizes as a musical conflict between two teams in a tremendous arc of tension. The conductor is Johannes Harneit.The first performance takes place on 27 May 2017. Further performances are planned for 10, 18 and 21 June.(Photo: Vojtech Havlik)›more‹
24.05.2017
Philipp Maintz’s orchestral piece “hängende gärten” in Berlin
Philipp Maintz has composed hängende gärten for large orchestra for the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin – an evocative allusion to the gardens of Babylon which Nebuchadnezzar II had built for his wife Semiramis.The first performance is on 28 May 2017 in the Philharmonie Berlin conducted by Christoph Eschenbach.›more‹
