November’s going to be a busy month for Daniele Ghisi, with two world premieres: This is the Game, for vocalist and electronics, and La Chute, for string orchestra and video.

Aria della battaglia, one of Claudio Ambrosini’s most recent compositions, makes its world premiere in Padova, Italy, this October 11. Courtesy of the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, conducted by Giordano Bellincampi.

Bernhard Lang three times in September – or is it four? Let’s do the math: The incredible Marino Formenti, “a Glen Gould for the 21st Century” (LA Times), not only performed twice the piano concerto Monadologie XXXIV ‘...Loops for Ludvik’, but also in between Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto to which Lang refers.

Berlin, 12 September, around 5 pm: Summer is coming to a close, while the concert season is kicking off. On the roof of the former warehouse “Eierspeicher”, now home to Universal Music Germany, Ricordi invites you to Sundowner.

At the end of September at London’s Print Room at the Coronet, the Octandre Ensemble dedicated a Composer Portrait to Rolf Hind.

In October, two major compositions for orchestra by Fabio Vacchi will be making their premieres: Concerto for Cello and the revised version of Concerto for Violin.

The world premiere of the new critical edition of Giuseppe Verdi’s Le trouvère (curated by David Lawton) comes to the 18th edition of Festival Verdi, in Parma. The performance, scenery and lights are under the direction of Robert Wilson.

This October 27, as part of the third edition of the Bologna Modern Festival, cellist David Geringas performs three pieces by Silvia Colasanti, which she wrote for him. The most recent is Tango for David. 

September 6 marked the passing of conductor and musicologist Claudio Scimone, well known throughout the world for having founded the Solisti Veneti Orchestra in 1959.

19 September marks the start of the 36th season of MUSICA - an international festival dedicated to contemporary music. Several Ricordi composers are presented on the programme, including national and local premieres.