Interview
“It’s always really his own music”
Sakari Oramo on Szymanowki’s Six Songs of the Fairy-tale Princess
- Essay
- Feuilleton
- Interview
- Milestones
- Work insights
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“Singing in the stratosphere”
Christian Tetzlaff on Karol Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1
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“Listen with open ears, an open heart, and an open mind”
Georg Friedrich Haas on Morgen und Abend
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“A sound world that has immediate access to its listeners”
Michael Boder on Haas’ Morgen und Abend
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“… an absolute breakthrough in his compositional force”
Ernst Kovacic on Haas’ Violin Concerto
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“Freedom is a state of being ...”
Wolfgang Schaufler conversed extensively with Friedrich Cerha and his wife Gertraud.
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“I Seek a Common Denominator”
Enzo Restagno, the Italian musicologist, conversed extensively with Arvo Pärt and his wife Nora.
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Jiří Zahrádka on the critical edition of The Makropulos Case
“This publisher is fortunate to really have all the sources at their disposal.”
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David Pountney on staging Janáček
“Even a hundred years later, his music is still strikingly original and arresting.”
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Jakub Hrůša on Leoš Janáček
“He was a composer who never stayed on the surface, he’d always dig in to touch something deeper.”
Interview
Boulez on Boulez
“And then you discover yourself, progressively, just like archaeologists discover an old civilization.”
Interview
Pierre-Laurent Aimard on Pierre Boulez
“People around him wanted to give their best all the time.”
Interview
What is atonal?
Even if a few harmonic resources are lost along with major and minor, all of the other prerequisites of “serious” music are preserved.
Interview
“Webern depicts the soul, but there is still something physical about Bartók”
Peter Eötvös in an interview with W. Schaufler
Interview, Work insights
“It is more vibrant”
Orchestral version (1914) of the “Chamber Symphony” – An interview with Philippe Jordan
Interview, Work insights
“You have to rely on your creativity”
Harrison Birtwistle in an interview with Sarah Laila Standke on “Gawain”
Interview
Metamorphosis of sound
“Today’s music is new and at the same time a part of The Universal Work.”
Interview
“Off to Mahagonny”
Kim Kowalke, President of the Kurt Weill Foundation in New York, explains the history, reception, and performance issues of Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny.
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“How does one survive the day?”
Leoš Janáček’s From the House of the Dead was hailed the “performance of the year” when Pierre Boulez and Patrice Chéreau unveiled their new international co-production.
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“Opening a Window onto Resonance”
Mauricio Sotelo has been very successfully exploring uncharted musical territory.
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“I hear the silence here”
Cristóbal Halffter became involved with opera relatively late. His [first,] Don Quijote, which premiered in 2000 in Madrid, is a setting of the most renowned work in Spanish literature.
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“Mahler causes a change of heartbeat”
Markus Hinterhäuser on his impressions of Mahler and the concept of his festival programme.
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“Laser-sharp rhythms”
Pablo Heras-Casado on Kurt Weill’s “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny”.
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“My craft inspires me”
Johannes Maria Staud offers an insight into his working methods and his image of himself as a composer.
Interview
Freedom, passion, sensuality
The conductor Ingo Metzmacher is regarded as a renowned authority on operas by Franz Schreker.
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“Sometimes you discover yourself!”
With Le Marteau sans maître Pierre Boulez established himself once and for all as a major composer.