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Hèctor Parra - Wilde

A year after Das geopferte Leben, Hèctor Parra has stepped up to the plate with his new opera, Wilde, premiered at the Schwetzinger Festspiele, by the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR under the direction of Peter Rundel, with staging by Calixto Bieito.

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Listen & Read - August

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Pascal Dusapin - "Penthesilea"

To celebrate his 60th birthday this year, Pascal Dusapin gave us a triumphant opera Penthesilea, premiered in March 2015 at the Brussels Théâtre de la Monnaie, under the baton of Franck Ollu, with staging by Pierre Audi. This fall the co-commissioner, Opéra du Rhin will present the French premiere in Strasbourg on September 26, 2015.

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Samy Moussa - "Crimson"

World premiere of the work by Samy Moussa Crimson for large orchestra at the Lucerne Festival on 23 August 2015 on the occasion of the "Hommage à Pierre Boulez" day by Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra under the direction of Julien Leroy.
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Quartets

In this new interview, Bernard Fournier presents Arthur Honegger’s Quatuor à cordes n°1 to us. Despite being a part of Groupe des Six, Arthur Honegger is indisputably a traditionally Germanic composer, who distances himself from the French taste for entertainment and lighter music.

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Focus on Iannis Xenakis

A new bilingual edition of one of the most emblematic works by Iannis Xenaki is going to be released. It is a new publication which is seen from a practical angle as much as a musicological review. We have called in Michel Tranchant who, under the supervision of the composer, recorded the work with Groupe Vocal de France.

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Tanguy: Premieres in June 2015

Eric Tanguy has three important premieres coming up in the next few weeks: the world premieres of Cercle (for soprano and piano) and Nouvelle Etude (for piano) as well as the the first British performance of In a dream, a composition for violin and piano.

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