Edition Peters Group

29/05/2024

Three World Premieres last week!

Roxanna Panufnik’s choral work ‘Lancing Beatitudes’ was commissioned to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Lancing College and received its World Premiere on May 25, with the Lancing College Choir conducted by Alex Mason.

Roderick Williams’ ‘From Ignatius Sancho,’ commissioned for countertenor Reginald Mobley and the Academy of Ancient Music was also premiered on Saturday, at the West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, conducted by Laurence Cummings. Catch further performances this week in Liverpool, London, and Bristol.

Finaly, ‘Spell’ – Sally Beamish’s new piano quartet premiered at the Musik in der Pforte Festival in Feldkirch, Austria on May 23. Taking Joseph Campbell’s concept of the ‘hero’s journey’ Beamish sets out ‘The Initiation: Between Courage and Despair’

15/05/2024

World Premiere of Roderick Williams’ CUSP with a text by Rommi Smith will have its World Premiere on Thursday 16 May with the composer as soloist, the Bach Choir and the Philharmonia conducted by David Hill at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London. The work commissioned to act as a prelude to Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius explores death and grief.

Read more via the link in our bio.

01/05/2024

If you haven’t heard… listen to latest record featuring chamber works by Nicola LeFanu now! ‘The Path Above the Dunes’ was released on last week.

Find out more, stream and buy the album through the link in bio.

31/05/2023

Skull by Rebecca Saunders receives its Swiss premiere from Enno Poppe and Ensemble Contrechamps at Geneva's Salle Frank Martin this Saturday, 3 June.

That same evening, KLANG - Copenhagen Avantgarde Music Festival presents the Danish premiere with Christian Eggen conducting the Oslo Sinfonietta.

https://www.contrechamps.ch/fr/saison/feu-sacre
https://klang.dk/2023/program/oslo-sinfonietta

(📸: Astrid Ackermann)

30/05/2023

In tomorrow's New York Times, a look behind the scenes of Tyshawn Sorey's new Be Holding:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/arts/music/tyshawn-sorey-be-holding-philadelphia.html

29/05/2023

A pivotal artist of the late 20th century, György Ligeti was born 100 years ago today, on 28 May, 1923. His music transformed radically over the course of his life as he incorporated the influences of folkloric rhythms, modes and melodies from around his native Transylvania, Western Europe's post-tonal avant-garde, layers of rhythmic complexity from Central Africa, and the vernacular, conceptual, and process-driven musics of North America.

The musical style most closely associated with the name Ligeti, however, is his "micropolyphony," the transformation of a vast number of independent musical lines into dense, swirling planes of sound—swarming clusters often reaching to the highest and lowest ranges of the orchestra.

This year, musicians and presenters are celebrating the Ligeti centennial with performances around the world, including works from the Edition Peters catalogue.

At London's Royal Albert Hall 11 August, Edward Gardner will conduct Ligeti's best known work, the gripping Requiem, alongside his micropolyphonic motet Lux aeterna—and Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra—in a BBC Proms concert inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, the film that cemented these pieces in the popular imagination as signifiers of the sublime.

Lux aeterna will receive a number of other performances in London, including renditions by The Carice Singers at the Cheltenham Music Festival on 9 July and at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 22 September, and by Voces8 with the Voces8 Scholars at Kings Place on 14 October.

In Mexico City, as part of a four-part, eight-concert tribute to the Hungarian composer, Ensamble Cepromusic will perform the Cello Concerto with soloist Diego Gutiérrez on 9 &10 June. The London Sinfonietta will also perform the dense, raw concerto on their 14 October tribute to the composer at Queen Elizabeth Hall.

24/05/2023

19/05/2023

Tonight and tomorrow (May 19-20) in Mexico City, Ensamble Cepromusic's centennial celebration of György Ligeti features his Aventures, Nouvelles Aventures, and more:

https://cepromusic.inba.gob.mx/

(📸© Ligeti Estate)

Cepromusic - Centro de Experimentación y Producción de Música Contemporánea

17/05/2023

The Carnegie Hall celebration of Claire Chase's landmark Density 2036 commissioning project kicks off tomorrow, May 18 with a performance of George Lewis's Emergent, for solo flute and electronics.

https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2023/05/18/Density-2036-part-i-amp-ii-0730PM

(📸: Maurice Weiss)

12/05/2023

Happy Birthday to Gabriel Fauré. Roy Howat, editor of our acclaimed Fauré editions writes:

"Here’s a post to celebrate Gabriel Fauré’s 178th birthday (today), along with the now-complete critical edition of all his songs from Peters Edition. Volume 4, completing the project, contains his last four song cycles, from his last two decades, music that sounds younger every time I come back to it. Every bar of his music leaps a step beyond the expected, and it was thrilling to witness a group of over 40 students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland take to these wonderful songs from between 1905 and 1921. The project completed itself with a semi-informal concert in the RCS Ledger Recital Room on 3 May, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyq4V7duzCE
I'm still trying (in vain) to upload the programme order, but essentially it's most of the songs of La Chanson d’Eve (1905–10) and Le Jardin clos (1914), plus all of the Mirages (1919) and L’Horizon chimérique (1921). Starting with the extraordinary quasi-cantata 'Paradis' that launches La Chanson d’Eve, the cycles are interspersed with some other items, including some earlier Fauré plus songs by Debussy and Chausson and piano duets by Bizet. Some of the song performances are probably premières in the high-voice key options that the Peters Edition has made available for the first time to sopranos and tenors. Bear in mind that this was a student in-house event, but I’m thrilled at the passion with which these marvellous students, many of them new to this repertoire, took to it. They were great, and I’ll never forget this."

11/05/2023

Hear the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players perform George Lewis’s ferociously virtuosic Anthem tonight, May 11 at San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre.

https://www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=2831

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players invites you to purchase single tickets or season tickets and enjoy the best contemporary music in the Bay Area

11/05/2023

The can't-miss world premiere of Jonathan Dove's Search for Spring takes over the Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center at 3pm Saturday, May 13 in New York.

More than a piece of choral music, this massive "crowd action for optimism," on a libretto by Alasdair Middleton, features a half dozen of New York's most outstanding choral directors and literally hundreds of singers (including the Young People’s Chorus of New York City), all under the leadership of conductor Simon Halsey. Admission is free.

https://www.lincolncenter.org/series/lincoln-center-presents/search-for-spring-20

(📸 © Marshall Light Studio)

09/05/2023

We are very proud to release the score for Roxanna Panufnik's 'Coronation Sanctus', first heard to such moving effect at the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla as a digital download: https://www.fabermusic.com/shop/coronation-sanctus-d48235

08/05/2023

Heartfelt congratulations to Tyshawn Sorey, who has just been named as a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for his work Monochromatic Light (Afterlife).

https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/tyshawn-sorey

(📸: John Rogers)

05/05/2023

05/05/2023

We've polished our tiaras and made a quiche. Now looking forward to the premieres of Roxanna Panufnik's 'Coronation Sanctus' and Roderick Williams - Baritone's contribution to the 'Be Thou my Vision' triptych as part of the Coronation festivities tomorrow. https://www.royal.uk/coronation-music-commissions

04/05/2023

This Saturday at 12:30pm, Alarm Will Sound performs Tyshawn Sorey's time-stopping For George Lewis at the Mark Morris Dance Center, as part of the Bang on a Can 2023 Long Play Festival.

Then at 2pm, all are invited to sit in (free!) on a conversation between Sorey's friend and mentor George Lewis, their fellow composers Jessie Cox and Hannah Kendall, and critic Donna Lee Davidson at The Center for Fiction.

https://bangonacan.org/long-play-2023/

03/05/2023

03/05/2023

For jaimie branch by Tyshawn Sorey returns to New York on TAK ensemble's 9pm Swoonfest set at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center this Friday, May 5.

http://www.takensemble.com/tickets/swoonfest-night-1-

02/05/2023

The Rothko Chapel in Houston hosts Loop38 and George Lewis's The Will to Adorn this Thursday, May 4.

https://www.loop38.org/calendar/2023/5/4/will-and-soul

02/05/2023

Oboist Jacqueline Leclair gives the world premiere of Journey by Roger Reynolds with Denmark's Ekkozone and the Esbjerg Ensemble at the Offbeat Festival festival in Copenhagen on Thursday, May 4. Conducted by Mathias Reumert, the program will also feature the Danish premieres of Mistral and Transfigured Wind III.

https://www.offbeat.dk/program

30/04/2023

The New York New Music Ensemble plays Clara Iannotta's The people here go mad. They blame the wind; Charles Wuorinen's Trio for Flute, Bass Clarinet, and Piano; and more, on Monday, May 1.

https://www.nynme.org/events/toy-s

28/04/2023

TORUS season is here! Emily Howard's sophomore album dives into her series of Orchestral Geometries, pieces that allow the listener to explore pure mathematical forms as breathtaking, dramatic musical landscapes. The album features her works Antisphere, Sphere, and Compass, as well as the title track.

https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/emily-howard-torus

28/04/2023

A great review from Pianodao.com of Roy Howat's superb edition for 'The Complete Chopin' of Chopin's Etudes Op. 10. "I believe we can rest assured that this edition has an academic authority which is second to none." Hear Hear!

With the recent arrival of Roy Howat’s stunning new edition of the Etudes Op.10, Edition Peters’ ‘Complete Chopin: New Critical Edition’ is continuing to develop into a lead…

28/04/2023

Great to present our recent publication 'Kein schöner Lied' at the Leipziger Buchmesse this afternoon. Many thanks to our wonderful editor Jochen Stankewitz. https://www.edition-peters.de/product/kein-schoner-lied/ep11611

28/04/2023

Today at the Leipziger Buchmesse at 4:30pm in Hall 4 (Musikzimmer) we present Prof. Christian A. Pohl's 'Klaviermethodik':

Leipziger Buchmesse - Christian A. Pohl

27/04/2023

Hear Zoom! by Shawn E. Okpebholo composer at the Lexington Philharmonic this Saturday, April 29.

https://lexphil.org/the-power-of-influence

27/04/2023

We're off to a busy start this morning at the Leipziger Buchmesse. Our sales team looks forward to seeing you at our stand in Hall 4.

27/04/2023

Legendary soprano Claron McFadden and pianist Alexander Melnikov perform some of the 20th century's most groundbreaking vocal music at Wigmore Hall tomorrow, 28 April: John Cage's Aria, Cathy Berberian's Stripsody, George Crumb's Apparition, and more.

https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/claron-mcfadden-alexander-melnikov-202304281930

26/04/2023

We are excited to return to the Leipzig Buchmesse this week. We are ready to welcome you to our stand in Hall 4 - come and say hello!