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Bye, bye summer and welcome automn ...
 
Hopefully, despite the wake-up calls about climate change with fire, water and drought,
you have been able to recover to some extent and are now ready for the start into the new season.


Unfortunately, even the re-entry into the upcoming season
will probably still take place against the background of Putin's war,
and there is still no global agreement on how to save our little planet. 

We can only try to do our best with courage, persistence and confidence -
even if it hurts here and there ...

For this, I wish us insight and imagination - and the power
and the strength to do, what is right and urgently needed.

Art and culture can't do everything in life, but without it,
 a many few things would be nothing...

Cordially  your's




ROBERTO PROSSEDADA
 
   
 

   


Video: Variation no.9 Allegro-Cadenza
upon "Lison dormait" (F.Dezède)

 
In March DECCA released Prosseda's album with Mozart's Piano Variations and his recording of Mozart's Rondos, Suites, Minuets and little piano pieces shall be published in automn.

DECCA also plans to release these last two albums with the previously recorded versions of all of Mozart's piano sonatas in a 10-CD box set.Mozart edition This will complete Prosseda's with all piano works.


Correspondingly, Prosseda will center his concert calendar 2024 upon recitals and concerts from his complete Mozart repertory .

Butaside, he will soon also increasingly focus on modern and contemporary music.
These include piano concertos f.e. by Schoenberg (150th birthday in 2024) and Dallapiccola (50th death anniversary in 2025) and  'Phoenix" a very special composition for piano and orchestra
written for him by Matteo Rubini.

Aside, he will start a chamber music series with works of Italian composers to be performed with his master students and starting with Trios by Muzio Clementi.

Furthermore,
he will  intensify performances on the rarely played fortepiano
, already successfully launched in December 2023.
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LUCA LOMBARDI

 
                                                                                                             
                                                                                                     



Lombardi's composition "Novembernacht" (November Night), a work commissioned by the Piano Festival Ruhr, had a highly acclaimed premiere in the frame of the festival in Bochum on June 27, 2023.
Sir Andras Schiff, for whom Lombardi wrote his composition and to whom it is dedicated, gave a magnificent premiere performance.


Now, Lombardi is working again on his opera project "Ohra - A Woman on the Run from a Message" (based on the novel of the same name by David Grossmann), which he had to put on hold for a while because of other composition commissions.



GÜNTER A. BUCHWALD
   
 


                 
     
 
   Video footage for all film concerts
 

    Info Silent movies from Japan
At the end of 2022, the DVD/Bluray of the restored version of the legendary silent film "Casanova" synchronized with Buchwald's score, produced by the Cinémathèque Francaise initially produced for the American marke and released as part of the international silent film festival Le Giornate del Cinema Muto. shall soon also be available in Europe.

In 2023,/24 Buchwald will again be a guest of many festivals and orchestras in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France and the USA, to perform film concerts as musician, composer and conductor out of his of his vast repertoire.

A special highlight will take place at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
, where he will present together with German Klezmer clarinettist Helmut E isel his new music for the Jewish silent film comedy "Jewish Luck" based on a novel by Sholem Alejchem.



DVD-Democopies of Buchwalds film concerts with Murnaus "Nosferatu" and "Faust", the Hollywood production "The Wind" and the Japanese silent movies "Sumiko" and "Express 300 Miles" are available.

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JEAN JACQUES LEMETRE
   





         

               
        
Audio
Music  written for the ThdS
Music from "Cds à ID"
After more than 40 years of his continous, ery intense work as musical director of Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil, Lemêtre has embarked on an extended journey around the world to find new inspiration, encounter new things and to pursue his multifaceted ideas and interests.

Among his most important concerns, however, belong his many workshops, master classes, seminars  and international conferences in which he spreads his knowledges and his large collection of original instruments gathered from all over the world to pave the way for future generations in the countries of origin, where some instruments and musical traditions have already been forgotten or lost, to experience making music with them again.

And he wants to pass on his artistic experience and knowledge to students, professional stage artists and interested amateurs within the framework of international workshops and seminars, for whose subject matter and orientation he uses the term "Le Corps Musical", with which he centers upon the  the body as an instrument of scenic expression.


Together with comedian and accordionist Aboudarham and the magician AlafrezHe he just formed the Trio Magisterium to create an idiosyncratic concert program:
Lemêtre's music performed on his instruments inspired by the  cultures of the world, combines with humor, burlesque and magic to creats feather-light moments between magic and wit.
In spring 2024 the 'magic' Trio will be on tour.

He continues to write music for theater, dance , festivals and  films.
Recently "Lampejos" a spectacular production of the dance company "Cisne Negro" / Sao Paulo was premiered.
And for his soundtrack to the film "Here the Mistral blows hard" he was just awarded the Palme d'Or Cannes 23 for best film music!


Workshops and seminars can also be booked through ART WORKs.

For his theater music, Lemêtre has invented own instruments for individual scenes, characters, and areas of tension, or has reassembled elements of instruments from a wide variety of epochs and cultures between Orient and Occident.
Thibault Saladin made the wonderful film "JJ Lemetre - Musicien Insolite" about this process of creation, in which Lemêtre explains the development of an individ
ual new instrument and then plays it.

And  2 more publications are available upon Lemêtre's work:
 "Jouer avec la musique" a book upon his work with the Théâtre du Soleil has been published by Actes-Sud.
And a DVD with 4 films by Anne Lacombe upon his music,
"L'oeil et l'oreille"  has been released at Fortdecafe.



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BETTY OLIVERO

Olivero's current commissions include a work for the Boulez Ensemble, upon which she is working on behalf of Daniel Barenboim.



Our last cooperation with Shlomo Mintz for  the Violin Concerto by Dvorak he performde with Würth Philharmonics was received with enthusiasm by press and audience:

"If the audience is already thrilled by this interpretation of Dvorak, it is downright ravished by Shlomo Mintz's highly virtuosic encore - the Paganini Caprice No. 24."

We're happy, that this cooperation with Schlomo Mintz, which ends with the start of season 23/24 has been emphasized with this beautiful final event.
Bye, bye Maestro and thank you for the beautiful moments with your  music...
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