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Bye, bye 2023 and welcome 2024 ...
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Hopefully, despite the alarming wake-up calls about climate change
with fire, water and drought,
you have been able to recover to some extent during the holidayst
and are now ready
for the start into the upcoming musical, organizational and
financial challenges.
And if that wasn't complicated enough,
we now have to think art and culture together with the terrible
human catastrophes
in the world, in teh MIddle East and Estern Europe -
not to forget upon the urgent effort to save our beautiful little planet!
We can only try to remain human with courage, tenacity and confidence
and do our best - even if it is exhausting and often painful ...
I wish us insight and imagination -
and the strength to realize, what is possible and urgently needed.
Art and culture can't do everything in life, but without them a
many few things would be nothing...
Cordially your's
1.1.2024
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ROBERTO PROSSEDADA
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On March 22,
2024, the last album of Prosseda's complete
recording of all of Mozart's piano works will be released with
the Rondos, Suites, Minuets and and small piano pieces.
This will complete his Mozart edition,
which also includes all the sonatas and variations.
DECCA will release the edition in a 10 CD box
set.
Immediately afterwards, in
April 24, the next new CD,
his recording of piano concertos by contemporary
Italian composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, which he
recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
will be released - among them the
rarely played concerto "Piccolo Concerto for Muriel Couvrieux"
by Luigi Dallapiccola.
In
addition, the worldwide renowed Pedal Piano specialist, is looking forward to perforn
concerts on the new Pedal Piano built by Chris
Maene.
With the new instrument from the Belgian piano maker, who is also known
for the so-called Barenboim grand piano, the 'straight-strung' grand piano, it will be
much easier and also more economical to present the rarely heard spectacular
instrument in concert!
Finnaly,
Prosseda
is looking forward to a new project: the recording of Beethoven-Sonatas on an original Graf-Fortepiano from 1820.
In his concert
calendar in the near future will be recitals
and concerts
from his Mozart
repertoire, but also modern and contemporary music as piano concertos f.e. by Schoenberg (150th birthday in 2024)
and Dallapiccola (50th death
anniversary in 2025) and 'Phoenix"
a very special composition for piano
and orchestra written for him by Matteo Rubini.
Aside, he will start a
chamber
music series with works of Italian composers to be performed
with his master students and starting with Trios by Muzio Clementi.
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LUCA LOMBARDI
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Lombardi's composition "Novembernacht" (November Night), a work commissioned
by the Piano Festival Ruhr,
had a highly acclaimed premiere in the frame of the festival in
Bochum on June 27, 2023.
Sir
Andras Schiff, for whom Lombardi wrote his composition
and to whom it is dedicated, gave a magnificent premiere performance.
Now, Lombardi is working again on his opera project
"Ohra - A Woman on the Run from a Message" (based on the novel
of the same name by David Grossmann), which he had to put on hold
for a while because of other composition commissions.
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JEAN JACQUES LEMETRE
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Finally: Lemêtre
is online with his own website!
It reveals the musical and intercultural creative work of a great
artist during more than half a century - and its ongoing importance.
The whole range of his music, which extends
far beyond theater or movie music - from Classical
Music to Jazz
or Klezmer up to his ravishingy
funny Cartoons
or the recently launched series "Raconte-moi...
des musiques" leading Lemêtre around the world beyond borders
- is revealed in a new series of videos on the
ART WORKs and on his new YouTube channel "Nomade de la Planète Bleue" - have a look!
After
more than 40 years of his continous, intense work as musical director
of Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil, Lemêtre
has embarked on an extended journey around the world to find new inspiration,
encounter new miracles and to pursue his multifaceted ideas and interests.
Among his most important concerns,
however, belong his many workshops,
master classes, seminars and international
conferences in which he spreads his knowledges and his
large collection of original
instruments gathered from all over the world to pave the
way for future generations in the countries
of origin, where some instruments and musical traditions have already
been forgotten or lost, to experience making music with them again.
And he wants to pass on his artistic
experience and knowledge to students, professional stage
artists and interested amateurs within the framework of international
workshops and seminars,
for whose subject matter and orientation he uses the term
"Le Corps Musical", with which
he centers upon the the body as an instrument of scenic expression.
Workshops
and seminars can also be booked
through ART WORKs.
Together with a magician and a puppeteer he has formed the Trio Magisterium to create an idiosyncratic
concert program: "Contes sans Paroles" (A wordless Tales)
Together with Lemêtre's music
performed on his instruments inspired by the cultures of the
world, the trio creates feather-light moments of pleasure.
In spring 2024 the
'magic' Trio will be on tour.
He continues to write music for theater, dance , festivals
and Tv and movies.
Thus,
his soundtrack for the film "Here the Mistral
blows hard" was awarded the Palme
d'Or Cannes 23 for
best film music!
Jjust
now he's focusing on concerts with Live -Music for
silent films.
For his theater music, Lemêtre has invented own instruments for individual
scenes, characters, and areas of tension, or has reassembled elements
of instruments from a wide variety of epochs and cultures between Orient
and Occident.
Thibault Saladin made the wonderful
film "JJ Lemetre - Musicien Insolite" about
this process of creation, in which Lemêtre explains the development
of an individual new instrument and then plays it.
And
2 more publications are available upon Lemêtre's work:
"Jouer avec la musique"
a book upon his work with the Théâtre du Soleil
has been published by Actes-Sud.
And a DVD with 4 films by Anne
Lacombe upon his music, "L'oeil
et l'oreille"
has
been released; DVD + streaming at Fortdeca.org.
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GÜNTER
A. BUCHWALD
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Video footage for all film concerts
Info Silent
movies from Japan |
Before our collaboration with Günter
A. Buchwald comes to an end, we are happy upon a very special highlight: the
silent film concert "Jewish Luck",
a comedy based on a novel by Sholem Alechem, with which the Jewish Culture Days and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg made a courageous statement
for humanity in the face of the terrible conflict in the Middle East - acclaimed
by a sold-out hall with long applaudings.
Buchwald and Klezmer clarinettist Helmut Eisel
performed "Fantasy for Jewish Luck", the
score Buchwald composed for the film.
And before our ways will part for good, we hope for a few more film concerts
with Jewish Luck.
And perhaps we can also use our intensive contacts with organizers at home
and abroad to realize long-planned film concerts with Buchwald's music for the French-Russian silent
film "Casanova".
Buchwald's new Casanova music premiered as a film concert under his direction
at the international silent film festival Le Giornate
del Cinema Muto at the end of 2022.
The DVD/Bluray with the restaured version of the legendary
silent film restored by the Cinémathèque
Francaise and set to music by Buchwald,
initially 'produced for the American market,
is expected to be also released in Europe.
DVD-Democopies of Buchwalds film concerts with
Murnaus "Nosferatu" and
"Faust", the Hollywood
production
"The Wind" and the Japanese silent movies
"Sumiko" and
"Express 300 Miles" are
available.
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BETTY OLIVERO
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Video: "Many Waters"
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Olivero's current commissions include
a work for the Boulez Ensemble,
upon which she is working on behalf of
Daniel Barenboim.
In
2023, her composition "Many Waters"
commissioned by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
and the Konzerthaus Dortmund opened the
season in Dortmund with the Isreal Philharmonics under the direction of Lahav Shani
and was also performed at the Philharmonie Berlin as part of the Musikfest Berlin.
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Our last cooperation
with Shlomo Mintz for his performance of the Violin Concerto by Dvorak with
Würth Philharmonics was received
with enthusiasm by press
and audience:
"If the audience
is already thrilled by this interpretation of Dvorak, it is downright
ravished by Shlomo Mintz's highly virtuosic encore - the Paganini
Caprice No. 24."
We're happy, that this cooperation with Schlomo
Mintz, which ended with the beginning of season 23/24 has been emphasized
with this beautiful final event.
Bye, bye Maestro and thank you for
the beautiful moments with your music...
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