IMZ Newsletter March 2012

NE WS L E T T ER MA RC H 2012 IMZ INTERNAL NEWS • IMZ WOLRD MUSIC FILM SCREENINGS AT WOMEX 2012

• THE MET 2012-13 SEASON AND DVD RELEASES • WHAT’S ON… ZDF MUSIC PROGRAMMES ON ARTE FESTIVAL NEWS • 49TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE

• STAFF CHANGES

LAURELS – PRIZES AND PRAISES

• IMZ FILM SCREENINGS AT CLASSICAL:NEXT

• WINDROSE PROCIREP AWARD

• FOLLOW IMZ ON FACEBOOK

• ICMA 2012: ACCENTUS MUSIC • ICMA 2012: ARTHAUS MUSIK

IMZ MEMBER NEWS

• ICMA 2012: THE LIST OF WINNERS

• NOT A MEMBER YET? JOIN THE IMZ FAMILY

PERSONNEL NEWS

NEW PRODUCTIONS

• ELGA PONZER RETIRED

• EUROARTS MUSIC TO ESTABLISH NEW SUB-LABEL AND C(H)ŒURS WITH THE TEATRO REAL MADRID

RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS

• C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT ARIADNE, HARNONCOURT AND QUEENS OF POP

• MELODIYA ANTHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN COMPOSERS

• ACCENTUS MUSIC MAHLER, CAGE AND DIE THOMANER • DYNAMIC 3D PARTÉNOPE

• A CAPPELLA AWARD 2012 THE FINALISTS

• ROSE D’OR 2012 NOMINEES ANNOUNCED • LIVE ARTS WEEK

N EWSL ET TER IMZ INTERNAL NEWS IMZ WORLDMUSIC FILMSCREENINGS AT WOMEX 2012

Find all submission details here. For all further details please see the GENERAL

CALL FOR ENTRY

INFORMATION sheet Feel free to you use the ONLINE APPLICATION FORM to submit your

13 April is the deadline for entries to the 11th World Music Film

proposals. The proposed entries may also become part of World Music Films on

Screenings at WOMEX organised by the Internatinal Music and Media Centre -

Tour, a non-profit distribution initiative of the IMZ.

IMZ taking place 17 October - 21 October 2012 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

You may submit any recently produced world music programmes that

WOMEX is "the most important international professional market of world music

have not been presented at WOMEX before. We are looking for undeniable

of every kind. This international fair brings together professionals from the worlds

cinematic quality – a film that grabs and moves the viewer, with an intriguing

of folk, roots, ethnic and traditional music and also includes concerts, conferences

storyline, dramatic composition, strong visuals and first-rate camera work. We welcome new, unheard, unseen subjects and niches but are also open to

and documentary films. It contributes to networking as an effective means of promoting music and culture of all kinds across frontiers." (UNESCO Global

established artists. In addition, the quality of the music itself is most important and

Alliance for Cultural Diversity)

one of the key criteria for the selection process.

For all inquiries, please contact Tatiana Petkova.

N EWSL ET TER IMZ FILM SCREENING AT CLASSICAL:NEXT IMZ STAFF CHANGES As announced at the last General Assembly, the IMZ office is facing the following

The IMZ curated special classical music film programme at Classical:NEXT is

temporary staff changes:

now online! Take a look at the programme here!

The screenings are scheduled for 31 May and 1 June, 16h00 – 20h00,

Ruth Pfletschinger, IMZ Executive Director, will face a new challenge in her

and are open to both Classical:NEXT delegates as well to non-business

life as she is expecting a baby in May.

audience. For those who wish to meet us, don’t hesitate to visit us at the

Starting with 1 March 2012 she will be on maternity leave, planning to get back to work sometime in 2013.

We thank Ruth for her committed work at the IMZ within the last years, wish her all the very best for this great new challenge and are looking forward to having her back at the IMZ again!

IMZ stand number 13.

All IMZ members will profit from a special registration rate – the "company additional"-registration rate. Please write "IMZ MEMBER" on your registration contract.

Last registration reminder: make sure to register until 30 March 2012 so as to also be listed in the in the Classical:NEXT guide.

Katharina Jeschke, IMZ Project Manager, will temporarily take over Ruth´s agendas as IMZ Deputy Director.

From 30 May until 2 June 2012 international professionals from all sectors of the classical music business will gather at Gasteig in Munich for the first edition of Classical:NEXT - a new annual event with the aim to create cross-

We wish Katharina all the very best and good luck with this new scope of

sector networks and to find new solutions for the future challenges of

responsibility!

classical music.

Find out more on www.classicalnext.com

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N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS NOT A MEMBER YET? JOIN THE IMZ! The IMZ Family is looking forward to welcoming you…

Ten good reasons to join:

Why be a member?

• To connect with producers and broadcasters worldwide

The IMZ is the one-stop shop for anyone in any position in the value chain from music and

• To meet up to 80% of all available production funds at the yearly Avant Première Screenings

dance creation to the buying public.

For an opera house it provides an instant media policy along with every element needed to

• To find out what other producers and broadcasters plan in order to avoid doubling up

carry it out. For a broadcaster, it‘s every stage of the supply chain. For producers and

• To find out what particularly works with the various audiences

distributors, it‘s their entire global market. For everyone, it‘s a valuable network, a forum for

• To get a feel for new talent behind the camera and on screen

discussion, a showcase for productions, a lobbying group, a database, and an information

• To build one´s own network

exchange.

• To make friends with influential people in the industry

You wish to stay on top of evolving tastes and trends in the music world and the pertinent audio, video, multi-media or online business? You are looking for the crucial contacts and want

• To get advice on rights questions

support for your ambitious plans for the future?

With the IMZ you will have a strong partner on your side.

Who we assist As a member, you are offered a host of benefits including invitations to events, workshops, talks throughout the year, and more. The membership not only allows you to get closer to the music and dance business, you also strengthen the IMZ´s impact on the development of the audiovisual music and dance industry.

• To be part of an international body that pulls more weight when collectively negotiating common causes • And last but not least:To have some fun!

See all benefits and Membership Categories Let´s lobby together for more music and dance in the audiovisual media!

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS NEW PRODUCTIONS

1980s and 1990s, to be released only after intensive and high-quality audio and visual restoration", explains Hanno Plate, Label Manager at EuroArts.

The Recorded Excellence Series will further include recordings with Sergiu

EUROARTS MUSIC

Celibidache, who would have been 100 years old in 2012; another highlight in

New Sub-Label: Recorded Excellence - Historical Value

Sonatas.

autumn will be Barenboim’s complete concert cycle of Beethoven’s 32 Piano

EuroArts Music sets a new sign in quality standard with the sub-label Recorded Excellence – Historical Value. It will be launched in March 2012 with the releases of Parsifal under Daniel Barenboim, a recording from the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden directed by Harry Kupfer, and Barenboim play s Bach's Goldberg Variations, recorded in 1992.

The aim of the new label is to make accessible to music lovers and collectors top-quality concert performances that were hitherto unreleased or were no longer available, either for the first time or as re-releases on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.

"We are talking here about real defining moments in music history, mainly from the

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS

C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT

C(H)ŒURS with the Teatro Real Madrid

Ariadne auf Naxos From Baden-Baden

A Musical Theatre by Alain Platel Music by Verdi & Wagner Choir & Orchestra of the Teatro Real Madrid · Les ballets C de la B Between group and individual: In C(H)ŒURS Ghent choreographer Alain Platel examines how “dangerously beautiful” a group can be. Reflecting on the dynamic

The Festspielhaus Baden-Baden presents Philippe Arlaud’s staging of Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos – with Staatskapelle Dresden and the cast that already made the Baden-Baden Rosenkavalier a reference recording: Renée Fleming, Sophie Koch and conductor Christian Thielemann. In further roles: Eike Wilm Schulte, Robert Dean Smith and René Kollo.

of collective movements, he questions the emotions originated by the assemblage

TV Director: Brian Large. Length:

of individuals and groups.

approx. 140’. A production of Produced by EuroArts Music & Te a t ro R e a l M a d r i d i n c o production with 3sat. Read More

UNITEL in co-production with ZDF/ 3sat in cooperation with Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and CLASSICA.

TV distribution worldwide: © Chris van der Burght

C Major Entertainment

Renée Fleming © Andrea Krempner

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS Live From the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam:

Queens of Pop International Version - Available Now!

Nikolaus Harnoncourt Conducts Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis The rare occasions on which Nikolaus

In January 2011, ARTE viewers voted for the Queens of Pop. 8 pop queens were

Harnoncourt is enticed to come to

chosen from 50 proposals and these are presented in a 27-minute

Amsterdam have become veritable

documentary: From the 1960s: Diana Ross. From the 1970s: Donna

cultural happenings. And this time, he’s

Summer and Debbie Harry. From the 1980s: Madonna. From the 1990s:

returning to conduct no less than the

Britney Spears and Mariah Carey. From 2000 – 2009: Lady Gaga and

“Mount Everest of religious choral

Beyoncé.

music”...

With Marlis Petersen, soprano; Elisabeth Kulman, alto; Werner Güra, tenor;

A production of Signed media in co-production with Arte.

TV distribution worldwide: C Major Entertainment

Gerald Finley, bass; Netherlands Radio Choir; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Live signal available: Friday, 19 April 2012; TV Director : Joost

Honselaar; Length: approx. 90’. A production of AVRO in co-production with UNITEL CLASSICA. TV distribution worldwide: C Major Entertainment

Donna Summer

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS ACCENTUS ACCENTUS Music And Riccardo Chailly:

“A gripping documentary” (ZDF aspekte)

Mahler Cycle To Be Continued In 2012

Die Thomaner

© Gerd Mothes

Both the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and its Music Director Riccardo Chailly have acquired a legendary status together. Having set out in May 2011 with celebrated concert recordings of Mahler 2 and 8 at the prestigious International Mahler Festival in Leipzig, the artists will continue the highly acclaimed Mahler cycle performing Symphony No. 4 in April 2012.

ACCENTUS Music Documentary Honouring John Cage ACCENTUS Music honors the outstanding American composer John Cage with an exceptional 100th-anniversary television tribute by Oscar-winning director Allan Miller. This one-hour programme will be produced this spring in Europe, Japan and the US. A production of ACCENTUS Music, in co-production with

Theatrical Release The nationwide theatrical release of Die Thomaner started on 16 February and has been accompanied by a tremendous feedback from the press. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: “[The film] provides a moving insight into the everyday lives of the members of St Thomas’s Choir today” and the ARD cultural magazine ttt stated “A touching documentary”.

Find

out

more

on

www.thomaner-derfilm.de! www.accentus.com

WDR, subsidized by Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung. © Matthias Knoch

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A splendid native 3D production, with the richness of costumes, and the

DYNAMIC

experience.

Leonardo Vinci: Parténope

With Sonia Prina (Partenope), Maria Grazia Schiavo (Rosmira), María Ercolano

colourful and elaborated sets enhancing the 3D effect, making this a captivating

(Arsace), Eufemia Tufano (Emilio), Stefano Ferrari (Armindo), Charles Do Santos (Omonte), Giuseppe de Vittorio (Eurila), Borja Quiza (Beltramme). Cappella della

The plot revolves around the myth of Parthenope, Queen of Thessaly and founder of the city of Naples, and her three suitors: Arsace of Corinth, Armindo of Rhodes, and Emilio of Capua. The latter offered to put an end to the enmity

Pietà de' Turchini.

Video Director: Marco Scalfi

between his people and Parthenope's if she consented to marry him. The popular

Filmed in 16:9 HD – 3D

myth is known in as many as sixteen different versions. It was set to music by a

Recorded in Murcia, Spain, April – May 2011

number of musicians, among them Caldara, Hasse, Sarro, Handel, Vivaldi… and Leonardo Vinci.

Conductor: Antonio Florio Director: Gustavo Tambascio

The Neapolitan Baroque orchestra "I Turchini di Antonio Florio" have long been considered among the best interpreters of this type of repertoire. In the cast: renowned artists who regularly appear throughout the world in the most important Baroque productions.

Duration 163’ – Sung in Italian SUBTITLES: ITA - EN - DE - FR - ES The production is available for TV & CINEMA licensing worldwide.

Contact: Luca Canessa, Sales & Marketing www.dynamic.it

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Further new productions: Thomas Adès’ The Tempest; Verdi’s Un Ballo in

THE MET‘S 2012-13 SEASON

and Handel’s Giulio Cesare.

Maschera; Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda; Verdi’s Rigoletto; Wagner’s Parsifal;

An abundance of Verdi and Wagner, in celebration of their 200th birthdays, will be featured in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2012-13 season, which will showcase the world’s greatest singers, conductors, and directors in seven new productions – two of them Met premieres – and 21 revivals, including three complete Ring cycles. Twelve of the season’s Saturday matinees will be transmitted worldwide as part of the Met’s award-winning Live-in-HD series.

The new productions begin on 24 September, opening night of the season, with a staging of Donizetti’s comic masterpiece L’Elisir d’Amore, directed by Bartlett Sher, conducted by Maurizio Benini, and

Click here to watch preview

starring Anna Netrebko and Matthew

videos about the season’s new

Polenzani.

productions.

N EWSL ET TER WHAT‘S ON...ZDF MUSIC PROGRAMMES ON ARTE

IMZ MEMBER NEWS

Programmes in Spring

New DVD Releases

"What's a greater crime? Robbing a bank or founding one?" asks Mack the Knife in Three recent Live-in-HD transmissions will be released on DVD in the

The Threepenny Opera, the world's most popular German play of the twentieth century. Actor Ben Becker presents the story, characters and social backgrounds of the work by Bert Brecht and Kurt Weill in the streets of Berlin…

coming months. Two will be

11 March 2012, 4:10 p.m., on ARTE

released on the Deutsche

MUSICA: Die großen Werke: Dreigroschenoper

Grammophon label on 3 April 2012: David McVicar’s production

of

Il

Trovatore, conducted by Scene from „Il Trovatore“© Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera

Marco Armiliato and starring

Sondra Radvanovsky as Leonora, Dolora Zajick as Azucena, Marcelo Álvarez as Manrico, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky as di Luna; and the centennial revival of

Encountering one of the most fascinating violinists of the young generation…

18 March 2012, 6:30 p.m., on ARTE MAESTRO: Patricia Kopatchinskaja spielt Tschaikowsky The conductor is Vladimir Fedoseyev

Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West, conducted by Nicola Luisotti and starring Deborah Voigt as Minnie, Marcello Giordani as Dick Johnson, and Lucio Gallo as

On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his death, the British vocal ensemble

Jack Rance.

The Sixteen and Harry Christophers celebrate the music by Tomás Luis de Victoria

Also on 3 April, EMI will release a DVD of the Met premiere production of Le Comte Ory, directed by Bartlett Sher, conducted by Maurizio Benini, and

at San Antonio de los Alemanes, a jewel of Baroque architecture in the heart of Madrid…

starring Juan Diego Flórez in the title role, Diana Damrau as Countess Adèle, and

25 March 2012, 6:30 p.m., on ARTE

Joyce DiDonato as Isolier.

MAESTRO: Tomás Luis de Victoria. Geistliche Musik der Renaissance

N EWSL ET TER FESTIVAL NEWS

IMZ MEMBER NEWS Anna Netrebko, reigning diva at the Salzburg Festival! Alongside Marianna

49TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE 13 – 17 October 2012 | Zofin Palace, Prague

Pizzolato, Matthew Polenzani and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, she is performing in

The team of the ITF Golden Prague is working on an update of the festival’s website and regulations. We will keep you posted…

Gioachino Rossini’s Stabat Mater. Making his long-awaited debut at the festival,

When the new website is launched, you will receive a copy of the statutes.

Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia.

8 April 2012, 6:10 p.m., on ARTE MAESTRO: Rossini: Stabat Mater

The basics in advance: Categories of the 49th ITF Golden Prague Competition are 1) Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance

Palestrina is one of the great musicians of the Renaissance. Presenting his life and

2) Performing Arts (Recordings of opera, operetta, musicals, dance, ballet, concerts, etc.)

work as an intriguing picture puzzle mixing the formats of feature film and

Conditions:

documentary: MUSICA: Palestrina – Fürst der Musik. On 29 April 2012,

Only programmes produced after 15 April 2011 will be accepted for competition.

4:10 p.m., on ARTE. With Jean Nirouët, Maurizio Dalena, Renato Moro, Raimundo Pereira, Luigi Petroni, Aurio Tomicich, Ensemble Seicentonovecento, Cappella Musicale di San Giacomo, Coro di Voci bianche „J.J. Winckelmann“ a.o. The conductor is Flavio Colusso.

Maximum number of programmes per entrant: 5. Maximum total length of all programmes entered by a single entrant: unlimited Minimum length of each programme: 5 minutes Entry forms deadline: 15 May 2012 Programmes submission deadline: 31 May 2012 Personal registration deadline: 15 September 2012 See you in October in Prague!

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS LAURELS - PRIZES AND PRAISES

invented language by the modern composer Etienne Perruchon, and Grétry’s great

Windrose & Camera lucida

the XVIIIth century.

works accompanied by a documentary to rediscover this forgotten composer from

On 5 December 2011, Camera lucida, whose catalogue is distributed by Windrose on behalf of Vox Lucida, won the PROCIREP AWARD in the documentary category. This Prize rewards every year the best French production company. Camera lucida is internationally renowned especially for its arts and culture documentaries, including music and dance. They produced for instance The Carnival Of The Animals, which won the Grand Prize of Golden Prague and the Prix Italia in 2011.

Their new classical music programmes are The Chapelle Royale – Great Concerts and Henry IV’s Music, its accompanying documentary; The Great Motets (baroque music with the tenor Robert Getchell conducted by Guy Van Waas); The Philarmonic Orchestra with Myung Wung Chung and Sergio Tiempo; Hector Berlioz At The Royal Opera Of Versailles (with Sophie von Otter conducted by Marc Minkowski); Concert at Festival Presence conducted by Esa Pekka Salonen and a documentary on the renowned conductor; Orlando Furioso (the baroque opera by Vivaldi with Philippe Jaroussky and Marie-Nicole Lemieux); Antoine’s four seasons (the new classical music family programme); Dogora, the opera written in an

Explore Windrose’s line-up on www.windrose.fr and request a screener!

Contact: pmazenod@windrose.fr.

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IMZ MEMBER NEWS Winners Of The International Classical Music Award 2012 (ICMA)

The documentary Carlos Kleiber – Traces to nowhere, the first film about the legendary conductor, wins the International Classical Music Award 2012 in the category DVD-Documentaries.

Carlos Kleiber is renowned as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century. The film, directed by Eric Schulz, follows in the traces of Kleibers final journey from Munich, where he lived, to the

ACCENTUS Music

Slovenian village Konjšica. The documentary

On 20 February, the jury of the International Classical Music Awards 2012

includes interviews with friends such as

announced that ACCENTUS Music’s production of Claudio Abbado and the

Plácido Domingo, Otto Schenk, Michael

Lucerne Festival Orchestra performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 has won the

Gielen, Brigitte Fassbaender and Otto Staindl but also his sister Veronika Kleiber. She never

prestigious award in the category DVD

wanted to talk about the things her brother

Performance.

did, but in this case she made an exception.

It was her first and only interview…

Carlos Kleiber – Traces to nowhere is produced

by Servus TV and published on DVD and Blu-ray Disc by Arthaus Musik.

www.accentus.com

www.arthaus-musik.com

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CD & DVD CATEGORIES

The International Classical Music Award is considered as one of the

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most important awards for classical music worldwide and is granted every year.

The independent jury of leading music journalists from top European classical

EARLY MUSIC

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Assumpta est Maria – Salve Regina – Ave Maria

music media – including Crescendo (Belgium), Fonoforum (Germany),

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

PIZZICATO (Luxembourg) and Musik & Theater (Switzerland) – has chosen the

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winners in 14 CD and DVD categories. The Award Ceremony and the Gala Concert will take place in Nantes, France on 15 May 2012.

The Complete List Of ICMA 2012 Winners: SPECIAL AWARDS

BAROQUE INSTRUMENTAL Rameau: L’Orchestre de Louis XV Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Indes galantes, Naïs, Zoroastre, Les Boréades (Orchestral Suites) Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Krysztof Penderecki

Alia Vox AVSA9882

ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet YOUNG ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Joseph Moog SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Ward Marston LABEL OF THE YEAR: Ondine CLASSICAL WEBSITE AWARD: classicalplanet.com

BAROQUE VOCAL Heinrich Schütz: Musikalische Exequien Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier Ricercar RIC 311

N EWSLE T TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS VOCAL RECITAL Tragédiennes 3 Etienne Nicolas Méhul – Rodolphe Kreutzer – Antonio Salieri – Christoph Willibald Gluck – François Joseph Gossec – Hector Berlioz e.a.

OPERA Frank Martin: Der Sturm Robert Holl, Christine Buffle, Ethan Herschenfeld, James Gilchrist, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra & Netherlands Radio Choir

Véronique Gens, Les Talens lyriques, Christophe Rousset

Thierry Fischer

Virgin 50999 070927 2 5

Hyperion CDA678213

Slavic Opera Arias

SOLO INSTRUMENT

Piotr Iliytsch Tchaikovsky – Parachkev Hadjiev – Alexandre Borodin – Antonin Dvorak – Bedrich Smetana – Nicolas Rimski-Korsakov – Veselin Stoyanova

RECORDING OF THE YEAR

Krassimira Stoyanova. Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Pavel Baleff

Robert Schumann: Papillons, Klaviersonate op. 11, Kinderszenen, Fantasie op. 17, Waldszenen,Thema mit Variationen (Geistervariationen)

Orfeo C 830 111 A

Andras Schiff ECM 2122/23

CHORAL WORKS Gabriel Fauré: Messe de Requiem

CHAMBER MUSIC

Philippe Jarrousky, Matthias Goerne, Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris

Ludwig van Beethoven: Septet op. 20 - Sextet op. 71

Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi

Scharoun Ensemble Berlin

Virgin 5099908847027

Tudor 7146

N EWSLE T TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS CONCERTOS

HISTORICAL RECORDING

French Impressions

Bela Bartók: Concerti, Cantata profana, Divertimento, etc

Camille Saint-Saëns – Eugene Ysaÿe – Ernest Chausson – Maurice Ravel

Tibor Varga, Andor Foldes, Géza Anda, Louis Kentner, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, RIAS Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay

Rachel Kolly d'Alba Orchestre Symphonique de Bienne, Jean-Jacques Kantorow

Audite 21 407

Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, John Axelrod Warner Classics 2564671814

DVD PERFORMANCE Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9

SYMPHONIC Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4

Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado Accentus Music ACC 20214

Sunhae Im, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck Exton EXCL00048

DVD DOCUMENTARIES Carlos Kleiber – Traces to Nowhere

CONTEMPORARY Penderecki: Viola Concerto - Cello Concerto No. 2

Film by Eric Schulz. With Placido Domingo, Brigitte Fassbaender, Otto Schenk, Veronika Kleiber Arthaus Musik 101553

Grigory Zhislin, Tatjana Vassiljeva, Warsaw Philharmonic, Antoni Wit Naxos 8.572 211

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N EWSLE T TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS PERSONNEL NEWS

Her work has been characterised by her extraordinary discipline, extensive knowledge and favour for music and arts.

Elga Ponzer, from 1981 to 2011 Secretary General of the International Beethoven Piano Competition Vienna has retired by 30 November 2011.

In December 1979, she was asked by Hans Graf, pianist and professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw / former Academy) to organise the competition, a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC). She tackled the task‌ With great knowledge, responsibility, enormous enthusiasm and success.

Elga Ponzer studied ballet/dance at the mdw as well as foreign languages at the University of Vienna. She started her working life as assistant of professor Marcel Luipart at the department for dance at mdw. From 1979 to 1992, she has been assistant, then assistant professor at the Institut for Cultural Management founded at mdw by Ernst Haeusserman and Marcel Prawy.

Besides the International Beethoven Piano Competition Vienna, Elga Ponzer was responsible for JUGEND MUSIZIERT, the PRIMA LA MUSICA Youth Competition and further mdw projects.

We wish her all the best for the future!

N EWSLE T TER RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS MELODIYA ANTHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN COMPOSERS Revisiting Centuries Of Piano Music

Firma Melodiya and the Tikhon Khrennikov Charitable Foundation are proud to present the joint project Anthology of Piano Music by Russian and

not just performed but took part in compiling the series searching in the music archives for the compositions which, in their opinion, deserve a way back to their listeners.

The series will be split in 4 sections: 1917 – 1991 (music of the Soviet period)

Soviet Composers.

1991 – 2010 (contemporary music)

The project is conceived as a series of 30 discs featuring recordings of not only

Russian piano music (before 1917)

recognized masterpieces of Russian and Soviet music, but also as a revival of

Music of expatriate Russian composers

unjustly forgotten compositions. The Anthology is an attempt to collect together the music constituting the pride of Russian culture. The series will include works

by Nikolai Myaskovsky, Aram Khachaturian, Dmitri Shostakovich, Andrei Eshpai, Tikhon Khrennikov, Nikolai Roslavets, Vissarion Shebalin, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Rodion Shchedrin, Alexander Alexandrov, Arno Babajanian, Galina Ustvolskaya, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Konstantin Makarov-Rakitin and many others. A significant part of the compositions will be recorded for the first time.

This series is in the first instance an outlook from the 21st century revisiting the

Contact:

previous two centuries. The Anthology features some of the young virtuosos of

info@melody.su

piano music including Andrei Korobeynikov, Nikita Mdoyants, Luka

www.melody.su

Okrostsvaridze, Asiya Korepanova, Yuri Favorin, Ekaterina Mechetina a. o. They

N EWSLE T TER A CAPELLA AWARD LEIPZIG 2012

RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS

The Finalists

ROSE D‘OR 2012

The candidates of the 6th International A CAPPELLA Award Leipzig have been

6 – 10 May 2012 | Lucerne, Switzerland

music taking place in Leipzig on 27 – 29 April 2012.

The Nominees

In addition to the prize money of € 4,000, the A Cappella Award enables the winners

determined! Eight young vocal ensembles were chosen by the jury to compete for the prestigious award in the framework of the international festival for a cappella

to perform at Gewandhaus Leipzig at the A CAPPELLA Festival 2013.

At the Nominees Night in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the 36 programmes shortlisted to compete for the 2012 Rose d'Or Awards were announced.

On 29 April, at 10:30 a.m., all participants are invited to join the workshop of

Selected from over 400 entries, 36 outstanding shows from over 40 countries will compete in Lucerne for the coveted Golden Rose awards. The nominated programmes have been chosen for their quality and creativity, guaranteeing a thrilling finale to the 2012 Rose d'Or Festival…

Read more Find the full list of Nominees online at www.rosedor.ch.

former King´s Singer Stephen Connolly.

Entrance free! The competition is open for the public: On 27 and 28 April (11 p.m.), at the Mendelssoh hall of Gewandhaus Leipzig

Ginger & Tonic ©

N EWSLE T TER The set-up of events, performances, shows, concerts and live media offers a

RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS Four groups (amplified) are competing on 27 April, at 1 p.m.: Jazzva (Ljubljana, Slovenia), BMV Cabrio (Terni, Italy), Ensemble Norma (Helsinki, Finland) and Ginger & Tonic (Melbourne, Australia); and (unplugged) on 28 April, at 11 a.m.:

coherent and fragmented vision, to be appreciated by the audience both as a whole and in its components, offering the chance to attend projects and follow their evolution.

Find out more on the festival’s participants, concept, and venues on

AcaBella (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Ensemble quartonal (Bremen, Germany),

www.liveartsweek.it.

KrisKrosKvintet (Prague, Czech Republic) und Latvian Voices (Riga, Latvia).

Live Arts Week is conceived and created by Xing, a

The award ceremony is on 28 April 2012, 8 p.m.

cultural network based in Bologna with the purpose

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of planning, supporting and promoting products and events characterized by an interdisciplinary approach toward the issues of contemporary culture.

LIVE ARTS WEEK

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Bologna | 24 – 29 April 2012 Xing presents Live Arts Week, a new project born out of the fusion of the two Xavier Le Roy © Vincent Cavaroc

Bologna festivals (2000 – 2011): Netmage – International Live Media Festival and F.I.S.Co. – Festival Internazionale sullo Spettacolo Contemporaneo.

Taking place in Bologna, from 24 to 29 April 2012, Live Arts Week intensifies a weave between disciplines and forms of expression, and cohabitation between artists and audiences from different backgrounds. Focused on live arts, it offers a

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programme that reflects an idea of art as experience made of temporalities, postures and the imaginaries.

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