“Electroacoustic works”, by Clemens Reusner. Contemporary electroacoustic music is often the work of composers who are also very close to technological fields. The German Clemens…
Johannes Maria Staud and his third opera. It’s a joke that often circulates in Austrian musical circles: the Vienna State Opera is a marvellous opera…
Spanish premieres by Anne T. de Keersmaeker. Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker is one of the most acclaimed figures in international contemporary dance. This season, precisely,…
“Julius Eastman: Piano Interpretations”, by Kukuruz Quartet. In recent years the figure of the American minimalist composer Julius Eastman (who died in 1990 at the…
“Muunduja”, by Maarja Nuut & Ruum. The enormous figure of Arvo Pärt (alive and kicking at the age of 83) is the most prominent figure…
“Doctor Atomic”, by John Adams. John Adams is, after Philip Glass, the great operatic figure of American minimalism. In both cases, however, the minimalism of…
“Peter Pears”, by Thomas Bartlett y Nico Muhly. Both natives of Vermont, where they were born in 1981, singer and pianist Thomas Bartlett and composer…
“Landfall”, by Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet. Can you believe it? Laurie Anderson, the grand dame of the New York (i.e. international) artistic-musical avant-garde, at…
Alejandro Pelayo: “The piano is my musical diary”. The Fundación SGAE has organised Instrumentales, a small cycle dedicated to music without words that began yesterday…
“Palabras sin música”, by Philip Glass. Philip Glass is the most popular living American composer – one of the creators of the minimalist movement, along…