From our Repertoire is a blog category featuring knowledgeable commentary on works from our diverse catalogues. We will introduce you on a regular basis to not only the best-known compositions but also to niche works that we think deserve a little more attention.

This time: Xenakis’ first completed choral work, Polla ta Dhina.

Luca Francesconi has been commissioned to write a new violin concerto for Leila Josefowicz called Duende, The Dark Notes. We talked with Ms Josefowicz about the new piece and her collaboration with Luca Francesconi.

On January 29 Luigi Nono would have turned 90. May 8 will mark his 24th anniversary of death, and since then his music has never ceased to attract audiences. On the contrary, it has enjoyed more and more attention on the programs of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, opera houses, and festivals. On our blog we wish to pay homage to this great musician.
We have interviewed his wife Nuria Schoenberg Nono, who founded the Archivio Nono in Venice in 1993, today a fundamental host for research and study of Nono and contemporary music in general.

Russian-born composer Sergej Newski will receive the Berlin Art Prize for Music in 2014. It is awarded to honour artistic achievement and to promote creative work. The award ceremony takes place on March 18.

Hungarian composer, conductor, and educator Peter Eötvös will celebrate his 70th birthday on January 2nd. Ten years ago, on the occasion of Eötvös’s 60th birthday, we asked Claudio Abbado, György Kurtag, Helmut Lachenmann, and Karlheinz Stockhausen to comment. These were their statements.

On our blog, our contemporary composers present their favorite works from our catalogs. We start here with a text by Dai Fujikura about Peter Eötvös’ work Atlantis.

June will see two world premieres for Julia Wolfe. unEarth will premiere on June 1 at David Geffen Hall with Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic (lead commissioner), featuring Soprano Else Torp. Pretty (commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and St. Louis Symphony) will premiere on June 8 with Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic.

In his blog “The Almonac” Henrik Almon, library manager at Ricordi Berlin, presents works from the publishers’ inexhaustible repertoire that are worth hearing straight away yet are rather seldom to be found in the programming of the major opera houses and orchestras.

On November 20, Giorgio Battistelli’s Julius Caesar makes its world premiere for the inauguration of the 2021-2022 opera season at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome.

Written for the Neue Vocalsolisten (ECLAT 2012) and dedicated to Christine Fischer, Herzstück is a work for vocal ensemble to a text by Heiner Müller, the author from whom Luca Francesconi adapted the libretto of his opera Quartett.