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01.10.2018
Scartazzini meets Mahler
The Swiss composer Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini is invited to an ongoing encounter with Gustav Mahler. Commissioned by the Jena Philharmonic and its Music Director Simon Gaudenz, a work by Scartazzini will precede the performance of a Mahler symphony each time. This begins with “Torso" for orchestra, preceding Mahler’s First Symphony. The first performance takes place on 18 October 2018 in the Volkshaus Jena. »more«
28.09.2018
Georg Anton Benda‘s “Medea” – first performance with Katharina Thalbach
The master concerts associated with the Heidenheim Opera Festival present a very special event this autumn: the well-known German actress Katharina Thalbach will play the (spoken) title role in Georg Anton Benda’s famous melodrama “Medea”, accompanied by the Cappella Aquileia under the direction of Marcus Bosch. The concert on 27 October in the Congress Zentrum Heidenheim, repeated on 28 October in Fürth, is at the same time the first performance using the critical new edition published by Bärenreiter. »more«
11.09.2018
Beat Furrer’s “nero su nero”: Swiss and German premieres
“nero su nero” (black on black), the latest orchestral composition by Siemens prizewinner Beat Furrer premiered in June in Vienna, is concerned with the nuancing of light: a continuum of sound from darkness to light builds up an immense tension by the most subtly differentiated means. The Swiss premiere takes place in Basel on 16 September 2018 conducted by Baldur Brönnimann with the Basel Sinfonietta, and the German premiere on 27 October 2018 with the Essen Philharmonic under the baton of Johannes Kalitzke. »more«
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‹
