Max Richter performs at the Teatros del Canal in Madrid on Sunday 19 June. Max Richter, the postminimalist German composer who became a British citizen,…
Bertrand Chamayou published in Erato the “Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus” by Messiaen. Composed in 1944, the cycle of Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus (Twenty glances on…
Tobias Picker premieres “Awakenings”, his opera based on the book by Oliver Sacks. The couple of composer Tobias Picker (New York, 1954) and physician and…
“Exploring Xenakis”, by Alfia Nakipbekova, in commemoration of the Xenakis centenary. Although originally published in 2019 by the American academic book publisher Vernon Press, the…
“Violet”, Tom Coult’s first opera, opens the 73rd Aldeburgh Festival on Friday. The long-awaited seventy-third edition of the Aldeburgh Festival, cancelled in 2020 and 2021…
London’s Southbank Centre welcomes the Dream House Quartet with two world premieres. The sisters Katia (Bayonne, 1950) and Marielle (Bayonne, 1952) Labèque are one of…
The Erato Records label reissues its historic recordings of pieces by Iannis Xenakis. The centenary of the birth of Iannis Xenakis is one of the…
“Diatope”, by Iannis Xenakis, closes the 1985 edition of Madrid Autumn Festival. As a tribute and remembrance to Iannis Xenakis on the centenary of his…
Today marks the centenary of the birth of the Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis. This Sunday marks the centenary of the birth of the Greek-born, Romanian-born,…
Folk singer Rhiannon Giddens makes her debut as an opera composer at the Spoleto Festival. The American singer Rhiannon Giddens (Greensboro, North Carolina, 1977) –…