200 years after the young English writer Mary Shelley awakened the science-fiction genre to life in 1818 with her novel Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, Jan Dvořák has adapted the story in an extraordinary music-theatre format.

Fifty years after the death of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Sony Classical releases the first Italian recording of the Concerto for cello and orchestra, featuring soloist Silvia Chiesa.

This year’s La Chaux-de-Fonds Festival’s contemporary music section, Les Amplitudes, runs May16-20, featuring music by Mauro Lanza.

Vittorio Montalti's compositions have been commissioned and performed by a number of musical institutions in Italy and abroad. In 2010 he won the Silver Lion for Creativity at the Venice Biennale Contemporary Music Festival.

Trio Accanto is performing world premieres of both Georg Friedrich Haas and Marco Momi at Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik on April 27, 2018.

The premiere of Ali Askin’s children’s concert Peterchens Mondfahrt (Peter’s Journey to the Moon) took place on 18 March, 2018 at Munich’s Prinzregententheater. Four-year-old Alma was there, and she gives us a first-hand description of the successful premiere.

Three winners! Our composers Sarah Nemtsov, Shiori Usui and Liza Lim were all honoured in March for their work.

In her new WERGO album Amplified Imagination, Sarah Nemtsov lets us hear what she describes as the “tension between consistency and chaos”.

Corpi Celesti (Celestial Bodies) for 5 voices, by Lorenzo Pagliei, makes its world premiere at the BBC’s Open Ear concert series in London this April 14. The piece will be performed by the vocal group Exaudi. 

RV 588 is Vivaldi’s ‘other’ Gloria, a composition having many parallels with Vivaldi’s better-known setting of the same text (RV 589). The reduction for voice and piano is now available on sale.