Contemporary Music (58)

Homage to Pierre Boulez on occasion of his 85th birthday

With Daniel Barenboïm and West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

• Staatsoper Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

Brett Dean's Hamlet

Neil Armfield (director), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) – Allan Clayton, Sarah Connolly, Barbara Hannigan, Rod Gilfry...

Kent Nagano conducts Dvořák and Moussa – With Moment Factory

375th anniversary of Montreal

Tugan Sokhiev conducts Messiaen, Dutilleux, Debussy, and Stravinsky – With Gautier Capuçon

Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse

Valery Gergiev conducts Strauss, Shchedrin, and Beethoven – With Denis Matsuev

Münchner Philharmoniker

• Philharmonie im Gasteig (Munich, Germany)

Kent Nagano conducts Messiaen – With Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Hans-Ola Ericsson

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

George Benjamin's Written on Skin

George Benjamin (conductor), Katie Mitchell (stage director) – With Christopher Purves (The Protector), Barbara Hannigan (Agnès)...

Vivaldi's The Four Seasons recomposed by Max Richter

A documentary by George Scott

Gala Concert for Krzysztof Penderecki's 80th birthday

With Gergiev, Dutoit and Urbański

• Grand Theatre — National Opera Warsaw (Warsaw)

Kent Nagano conducts Evangelista, Schumann and Strauss – With Truls Mørk

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

Jaap van Zweden conducts Glass and Shostakovich – With Katia and Marielle Labèque

Orchestre de Paris

Olivier Messiaen, The Crystal Liturgy

Birds, rhythms, colours and faith

The Lost Paradise: Arvo Pärt and Robert Wilson

A documentary on the most performed contemporary composer in the world

Adams' Doctor Atomic

Lawrence Renes, Peter Sellars – Gerald Finley (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Thomas Glenn (Robert Wilson), Jessica Rivera (Kitty Oppenheimer) – De Nederlandse Opera

• De Nederlandse Opera (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Louie's Mulroney, The Opera

A comedy imagined by Dan Redican and Larry Weinstein

World premiere of Wuorinen's Brokeback Mountain

Tribute: work commissioned by Gérard Mortier (1943-2014)

Risonanze (Resonances) – Rassegna di nuove musiche contemporanee

Steve Reich / Electric Counterpoint

Between the lines

Meeting with three contemporary composers

Les Enfants de la Voix

The production of Philip Glass's opera Les Enfants terribles directed for stage by Stéphane Vérité

Rodion Shchedrin improvises with Chick Corea and Nicolas Economou

Jazz Improvisations

Arnold Schoenberg: Five orchestral pieces

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Michael Nyman, Composer in Progress

A documentary directed by Silvia Beck

John Cage, Journeys in Sound

A film by Allan Miller and Paul Smaczny

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Helicopter String Quartet

Arditti String Quartet

• Holland Festival (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Edgard Varèse, A Visionary in Sound

A film by Frank Scheffer

Elliott Carter, A Labyrinth of Time

A century of music

How To Get Out Of The Cage

One Year With John Cage

Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland

Kent Nagano, Achim Freyer, Unsuk Chin – With Sally Matthews and Dietrich Henschel – Nationaltheater München

• Nationaltheater München (Munich, Germany)