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2026-07-29 00:11:37 UTC

< World Premiere >
THIERRY PÉCOU : Le Visage, le Cœur
(Concerto for Piano & Mixed Choir)
Sunday 28 July, 2013 – La Roque d'Anthéron, France
(Festival de La Roque d'Anthéron)
Chœur de Chambre Les Éléments, cond. Joël Suhubiète
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano solo
Schott Music, 2012
“This concerto for piano and choir without orchestra takes its inspiration from Mexican seals made in the pre-Hispanic era. The song celebrates friendship, and a mix of joy and trepidation arising from contemplation of the beauty and transience of life. The corresponding Nahuan expression ’Le visage, le cœur’ ('The face, the heart') describes the external and internal form of an individual. Stanzas are alternated with commentary, creating a universe characterised by the ‘ontological pessimism’ of the Aztecs, their propensity for heightened emotion, and their intense experiences of particular moments in time.”
— Thierry Pécou

2026-07-27 00:09:07 UTC

< World Premiere >
TAMÁS BEISCHER-MATYÓ : Farewell to the Little Good
(for unaccompanied SSATBB choir)
Thursday 26 July, 2012 – Kölcsey Centre, Decebren, Hungary
Kodály Choir Decebren, cond. Zoltán Pad
Text: William Shakespeare's 'Henry VIII' – Act III, Scene 2
Kontrapunkt Music Budapest, 2012 (K-0122)

2026-07-17 00:04:29 UTC

< World Premiere >
ADRIAN WILLIAMS : A Smile and Ashes
(for unaccompanied SATBB choir)
Saturday 16 July, 1994 – Shire Hall, Warwick, UK
I Fagiolini
Text : Tijana Miletić & Jovan Dučić
Éditions Max Eschig, 1997 (M.E. 9136)

2026-07-14 00:01:01 UTC

< World Premiere >
DETLEV GLANERT :
Miserere für gemischten Chor a cappella, Op.34
(for 12 Sopranos, 12 Altos, 12 Tenors, 12 Basses)
Thursday 13 June, 1996 – Munich, Germany
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, dir. Gustav Sjökvist
Text: Wolf Wondratschek
Bote & Bock, Berlin, 1996 (BB 2092)

2026-07-10 00:33:08 UTC

< World Premiere >
NICHOLAS MAW : Life Studies
Monday 9 July, 1973 – Cheltenham Town Hall, England
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, cond. Neville Marriner
Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd. 1977 (BH-6084)

2026-07-09 00:11:17 UTC

< World Premiere >
JUDITH WEIR : Ave Regina Caelorum
Tuesday 8 July, 2014 – Gloucester Cathedral, England
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, cond. Benjamin Nicholas
Chester Music, 2014 (CH82346)
Judith Weir's 'Ave Regina Caelorum' for unaccompanied SSATBB choir was commissioned by Merton College, Oxford as part of "The Merton Choirbook", a collection of music assembled to celebrate Merton College's 750th anniversary in 2014.

2026-07-04 22:50:24 UTC

... “O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.”...
— Frederick Douglass
Ladies Anti-Slave Society, Rochester, NY
Monday 5 July, 1852

2026-07-01 00:37:28 UTC

< World Premiere >
FRANCIS GRIER : Missa Trinitatis Sanctae
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir)
Sunday 30 June, 1991 – Westminster Abbey, London
Choir of Westminster Abbey, cond. Martin Neary

2026-06-26 00:21:56 UTC

< World Premiere >
JULIAN ANDERSON : Nunc Dimittis
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir)
Sunday 25 June, 2017
St. James Church Sussex Gardens, London, England
Choir of Gonville and Caius College, cond. Geoffrey Webber
Schott Music Ltd., London, 2017 (ED 13986)

2026-06-25 00:04:58 UTC

< World Premiere >
ERNST PEPPING :
Johannes der Täufer. Ecce mitto angelum meum
(for unaccompanied SATB div. choir)
Sunday 24 June, 1962
Loccum Abbey, Rehburg-Loccum, Germany
Göttinger Stadtkantorei, dir. Ludwig Doormann
Bärenreiter Verlag, 1962 (BA 4357)

2026-06-23 00:02:08 UTC

< World Premiere >
JOHN CASKEN : The Land of Spices
Sunday 22 June, 1980
Hatfield College, University of Durham
Hatfield College Choir, cond. Gerald Cornelius
Text : George Herbert (1593–1633)
Schott & Co. Ltd., 1994 (ED12421)

2026-06-22 00:10:26 UTC

< World Premiere >
JOHN GARDNER : A Latter Day Athenian speaks, Op. 51
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir & soli)
Thursday 21 June, 1962 – Wigmore Hall, London
Elizabethan Singers, cond. Louis Halsey
Text: Christopher Henry Oldham Scaife
Oxford University Press, 1962

2026-06-17 02:56:22 UTC

< World Premiere >
ERNST PEPPING : Der Wagen
(for unaccompanied SATB choir)
Tuesday 16 June, 1942 – Dresden, Germany
Dresdner Kreuzchor, dir. Rudolf Mauersberger
Texts : Josef Weinheber (1892–1945)

2026-06-15 00:11:03 UTC

<World Premiere >
CHRISTOPHER BROWN : Three Shakespeare Songs, Op. 7
(for unaccompanied SATB div. choir)
Monday 14 June, 1965 – King's College, Cambridge, England
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, cond. Sir. David Willcocks

2026-06-10 00:37:29 UTC

< World Premiere >
ALFRED SCHNITTKE : Concerto for Mixed Choir
(for unaccompanied div. SSAATTBB & soli)
Monday 9 June, 1986
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir, cond. Valery Polyansky
Compozitor Saint Petersburg, 2017 (No. 7000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaImHcOwb1g

2026-06-09 01:29:32 UTC

< World Premiere >
MATTHEW MARTIN : A Rose Magnificat
(for unaccompanied double SATB choir)
Thursday 8 June, 2017 – St. John's Smith Square, London
The Gabrieli Consort, cond. Paul McCreesh
Novello & Company, Ltd., 2017 (NOV 296978)

2026-06-05 00:10:44 UTC

< World Premiere >
ALISSA FIRSOVA : Stabat Mater, Op. 30
(for unaccompanied SATB div. choir)
Wednesday 4 June, 2014
LSO St. Luke's, London
The Sixteen, cond. Harry Christophers

2026-06-04 00:28:40 UTC

< World Premiere >
GILES SWAYNE : Stabat Mater
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB & SATB soli)
Thursday 3 June, 2004 – Priory Park Chapel, Bath, England
Bath Camerata, cond. Nigel Perrin
Gonzaga Music, London, 2004 (GZ019)
“Men, women and children still die violent deaths in Palestine and Israel, and their mothers, sisters, wives and daughters still mourn and bury them – it is always the women who are left behind. That is the burden of this piece. It is not sacred music : it celebrates our common humanity. My setting incorporates into the Latin poem the Aramaic & Hebrew text of 'Kaddish', the blessing 'Barukh uvarukh' from the 'Talmud Babli', and the Arabic of the 'Salaat al-Jinàaza' – inserting them between the stanzas of the Latin poem to create a communal ritual of grief.”
– Giles Swayne

2026-06-03 14:43:45 UTC

- reply

"... just let my freedom tech researcher and evangelism die ..."
If you really feel that way, expressed as much to him then ... no.
Only because I couldn't ask / require / demand a loved one to abandon a thing they were so passionate about and was so integral to who they are.
...2¢

2026-06-02 00:09:30 UTC

< World Premiere >
LENNOX BERKELEY : Spring at this Hour, Op. 37, No. 2
(for unaccompanied SSATBB choir)
Monday 1 June, 1953 – London
Cambridge University Madrigal Society Golden Age Singers,
cond. Boris Ord
Text : Paul Dehn
Chester Music, 1953 (CH55399)

2026-05-31 00:25:58 UTC

< World Premiere >
ERNST PEPPING : Lob der Träne oder Der Welten Lauf
(for unaccompanied SATB choir)
Saturday 30 May, 1942 – Berlin, Germany
Chor der Berliner Kirchenmusikschule, dir. Gottfried Grote
Bärenreiter Verlag, 1948 (BA1827)

2026-05-28 00:09:03 UTC

< World Premiere >
DANIËL De LANGE : Requiem (1868)
(for unaccompanied SATB-SATB choir & SATB-SATB soli)
Thursday 27 May, 1993 – Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Nederlands Kamerkoor, cond. Uwe Gronostay
Nederlands Muziek Instituut, 1992 / Donemus (Ed. 10538)

2026-05-28 00:02:22 UTC

< World Premiere >
GUSTAV MAHLER : Symphonie Nr. 6
Sunday 27 May, 1906 – Saalbau Hall, Essen, Germany
cond. Gustav Mahler
C.F. Peters Ltd & Co. KG, Leipzig
(Universal Edition UE 36520, 2010)

2026-05-26 00:13:09 UTC

< World Premiere >
WILHELM BERGER : Symphony No. 2 in B minor, Op. 80
Friday 25 May, 1900 – Berlin
Felix Weingartner, conductor
Bote & Bock, Berlin, 1912

2026-05-23 00:17:58 UTC

< World Premiere >
JAMES MacMILLAN : O Virgo prudentissima
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir)
Tuesday 22 May, 2018 – Eton College Chapel, England
The Sixteen, cond. Harry Christopher
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Ltd., 2018 (BH13645)

2026-05-17 00:11:46 UTC

< World Premiere >
FRANCIS POTT : Mass for 5 Voices
(for unaccompanied SSATB choir)
Sunday 16 May, 2004
London Festival of Contemporary Church Music (LFCCM),
St. Panctas' Church, London
LFCCM Choir, cond Christopher Batchelor

2026-05-16 00:21:19 UTC

< World Premiere >
JOHN CASKEN : Sunrising
(for unaccompanied SATB div. choir)
Saturday 15 May, 1993
Choir of Dunham Cathedral, cond. James Lancelot
Text : 'Early One Morning', Sylvia Townsend Warner
Schott & Co. Ltd, London, 1994 (ED12421)

2026-05-16 00:14:29 UTC

< World Premiere >
CHRISTOPHER BROWN : Aubade, Op. 17
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir & soli)
Wednesday 15 May, 1968
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Elizabethan Singers, cond. Herrick Bunney
Texts : Robert Herrick, William Davenant, and Edmund Spenser
Chester Music, 1999 (CH55114)

2026-05-16 00:10:07 UTC

<World Premiere >
ERNST PEPPING : Das Weltgericht
(for unaccompanied SATB div. choir)
Thursday 15 May, 1958 – Berlin
Spandauer Kantorei, dir. Hanns-Martin Schneidt
Text : Matthew 25, 31–46
Bärenreiter Verlag, 1958 (BA03218)

2026-05-16 00:07:05 UTC

< World Premiere >
PAUL HINDEMITH :
Concerto for Woodwinds, Harp, and Orchestra
Sunday 15 May, 1949
McMillan Academy Theatre, Columbia University, New York
CBS Symphony Orchestra, cond. Thor Johnson
Schott Music Ltd., London, 1950 (ED 4604)

2026-05-15 00:16:08 UTC

< World Premiere >
ERNST PEPPING : Deutsche Choralmesse
(for unaccompanied SSATBarB choir)
Thursday 14 May, 1931 – Bremen, Germany
Bremer Domchor, dir. Richard Liesche
Schott Music GbmH & Co., 1930 (ED 3241)

2026-05-06 00:06:50 UTC

< World Premiere >
ALEXANDER SHCHETYNSKY :
"Uzna Sebe" Symphony for Mixed Choir a cappella (2003)
( for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir & soli )
Friday 5 May, 2006
4th Festival of Contemporary Sacred Music, Uzhhorod, Ukraine
Uzhhorod Chamber Choir Cantus, cond. Emil Sokacz
Texts: Hryoruii Skovoroda & other sources (in bookish Old Ukranian, Old Slavonic, Ancient Greek, and Latin)
Acta Publishers, 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3zwbg08al8

2026-05-03 00:06:55 UTC

< World Premiere >
PAUL MORAVEC : Tempest Fantasy
Friday 2 May, 2003 – The Morgan Library, New York City
Trio Solisti – David Krakauer, Clarinet
Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music
Subito Music Publishing, 2003

2026-05-02 00:09:45 UTC

< World Premiere >
BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ : String Quartet No. 6, H.312
Thursday 1 May, 1947 – Harvard University
The Walden String Quartet
Edition Bärenreiter Praha, 2006 (H 7968)
"String Quartet No. 6 differs considerably from Martinů's previous Quartets. It represents a major step on a road which the composer characterised as the development from “geometry to fantasy”; it is music dislodged from all certainty. Typical for the whole work, which is constructed around three movements, is his most constant use of the principle of progressive variation, uneasy harmonic development, pulsating yet fine rhythmical values, and inventive treatment of sound.” – Aleš Březina

2026-04-27 00:17:13 UTC

< World Premiere >
ANDRZEJ PANUFNIK : Song to the Virgin
(for unaccompanied SSATBB chorus or soli)
Sunday 26 April, 1964
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Geraint Jones Singers, cond. Geraint Jones
Boosey & Hawkes Ltd. (BH-3996)

2026-04-26 00:26:39 UTC

<World Premiere>
HUUB KERSTENS : Le tombeau d'Edgar Poe, Op. 29
(for unaccompanied SMzATBarB choir)
Friday April 25, 2008 – Posthoornkerk, Amsterdam
Hollands Vocaal Ensemble Amsterdam, dir. Caroline Westgeest
Text : Stéphane Mallarmé
Donemus Amsterdam, 1991

2026-04-26 00:19:12 UTC

< World Premiere >
ELLIOTT CARTER : Symphonia "Sum fluxae pretium spei"
Saturday 25 April, 1998
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, England
BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Oliver Knussen, CBE
Hendon Music / Boosey & Hawkes, 1998
“A symphony beyond symphonies, this was an astoundingly and hearteningly massive achievement for a composer in his mid-eighties. The invention is consistently alert, the execution masterful and the development typically nimble. Thinking of the latin poem 'Bulla' ('The Bubble') by the English poet Richard Crashaw (c. 1613-1649), Carter adopts the viewpoint of a bubble floating above human affairs, observing, in the three movements, the games people play, the tragedies they endure, and the life that goes on fizzing through them.
These movements may be performed separately and were separately commissioned: 'Partita' by the Chicago Symphony, 'Adagio tenebroso' by the BBC, and 'Allegro scorrevole' by the Cleveland Orchestra. But it is when they are played together that the full breadth of this extraordinary work stands revealed.”
— Paul Griffiths
https://tinyurl.com/2aqqcclk

2026-04-26 00:08:43 UTC

< World Premiere >
ROBERTO GERHARD : Concerto for Orchestra
Sunday 25 April, 1965 – Boston, Massachusetts
BBC Symphony Orchestra, cond. Antal Dorati
Oxford University Press, London, 1965
“... Ensemble playing, the distinguishing feature of the concerto for orchestra, in fact here takes the place of the virtuoso soloist in the traditional concerto. As a result, one of the composer's tasks is to provide such varied instances of virtuoso team-work as will show up the quality of the Orchestra as an ensemble.”
– Roberto Gerhard

2026-04-26 00:03:29 UTC

< World Premiere >
PAUL HINDEMITH : Concerto for Organ & Orchestra
Thursday 25 April, 1963
Philharmonic Hall (Lincoln Center), New York
New York Philharmonic, cond. Paul Hindemith
Anton Heiller, Organ

2026-04-25 00:13:31 UTC

< World Premiere >
JULIAN ANDERSON : Four American Choruses
(for unaccompanied SATB div. choir)
Saturday 24 April, 2004 – The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam Netherlands Radio Choir, cond. Simon Halsey
Faber Music, Ltd., 2008
Texts: Mary S. B. Dana, William O. Cushing, Victoria Stuart,
and P. P. Bliss
“The texts of these four choruses were chosen from Ira D. Sankey's popular 'Gospel Hymn Book' from the mid-nineteenth century, a volume much beloved by Charles Ives who quoted numerous Sankey tunes in almost all of his mature works. I have not used any of the tunes, being struck more by the optimism and artless directness of the texts themselves. There is something socially very moving about them, providing as they did a means of solace, comfort and hope for a better life for people whose lives were, on average, probably terrible.
Some of the phraseology and turns of phrase may also have been an influence on American poets in the latter half of the nineteenth century. I hear pre-echoes of Emily Dickinson, at least, in the texts of both 'I'm a pilgrim' and 'Beautiful valley of Eden'. In all four cases, the chosen texts generally avoid any specifically denominational religious references, as I wanted to focus on the social idea of collective hope and celebration.”
— Julian Anderson
I. I'm a pilgrim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPtPYbxrO9Y
II. Beautiful valley of Eden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmzMd9sURt8

2026-04-25 00:03:03 UTC

STEVE REICH : Music for 18 Musicians
Saturday 24 April, 1976 – Town Hall, New York City
Steve Reich & Musicians
Hendon Music / Boosey & Hawkes, 1976 (HPS 1239)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ApnbymNz9dE

2026-04-24 00:58:27 UTC

< World Premiere >
ALEX FREEMAN : A Wilderness of Sea
( for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir )
Saturday 23 April, 2016 – Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki Chamber Choir, cond. Nils Schweckendiek
Fennica Gehrman Oy, Helsinki, 2021

2026-04-21 00:04:49 UTC

< World Premiere >
MATTHEW MARTIN : The Lamentations of Jeremiah
(for unaccompanied SSATTB choir)
Wednesday 20 April, 2016
The Tallis Scholars, cond. Peter Phillips
Faber Music, Ltd., 2017

2026-04-20 00:11:43 UTC

< World Premiere >
ALBAN BERG : Violinkonzert 'Dem Andenken eines Engels'
Sunday 19 April, 1936
Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona
(Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music)
Orquestra Pau Casals, cond. Hermann Scherchen
Louis Krasner, Violin solo
Universal Edition, 1996 (UE 34119)
“The Violin Concerto is in a sense Alban Berg's farewell to this world : a painful, melancholic, devotional language (the last such one) to everything that was dear to him; a purely personal witness of his relationship to the world — to death — to God.”
– Helene Berg (1958)

2026-04-17 00:01:08 UTC

In April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, after he defied a state court’s injunction and led a march of black protesters without a permit, urging an Easter boycott of white-owned stores. A statement published in 'The Birmingham News', written by eight moderate white clergymen, criticized the march and other demonstrations.
While incarcerated, Dr. King responded:
Letter from Birmingham Jail – Tuesday 16 April, 1963
https://LetterFromJail.com/

2026-04-16 00:21:47 UTC

< World Premiere >
PRIAULX RANIER : Requiem (1955)
(for unaccompanied SATB div. choir & Tenor solo)
Sunday 15 April, 1956 – Victoria & Albert Museum, London
The Purcell Singers, cond. Imogen Holst
Peter Pears, Tenor
Text: David Gascoyne
Schott Music Ltd., 2003 (Ed. 13335)

2026-04-14 00:21:28 UTC

< World Premiere >
WOLFGANG RIHM : Sieben Passions-Texte
(for unaccompanied S A T T B B soli)
Friday 13 April, 2001
Basilica dei SS. XII Apostoli, Rome, Italy
Singer Pur

2026-04-14 00:20:50 UTC

< World Premiere >
GEORGE PERLE : Adagio for Orchestra
Tuesday 13 April, 1993 – Carnegie Hall, New York City
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, cond. David Zinman
In 1937, Perle made his first connection with the revolutionary innovations of Schönberg and his school when he came upon a copy of Berg's 'Lyric Suite'. “It wasn't until I came upon the 'Lyric Suite' that I realized that there was something going on in contemporary music that implied really significant new ways of thinking about harmony.”

2026-04-05 00:10:26 UTC

< World Premiere >
JAMES MacMILLAN : Tenebrae Responsories
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir)
Wednesday 4 April, 2007
St. Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow, Scotland
Cappella Nova, cond. Alan Tavener
Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd., 2008 (BH11954)

2026-03-28 00:34:28 UTC

< World Premiere >
STEPHEN McNEFF : The Horizons of Doubt
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir)
Friday 27 March, 2020 – St. Paul's Knightsbridge, London
BBC Singers, cond. Matthew Halls
Text : Aoife Mannix
Edition Peters Ltd., London, 2020 (EP 73485)

2026-03-26 00:23:58 UTC

< World Premiere >
ELLIOTT CARTER : String Quartet No. 2
Friday 25 March, 1960 – Juilliard School, New York
The Juilliard String Quartet
Winner of the 1960 Pulitzer Prize in Music, the 1960 NY Music Critics Award, and the International Rostrum of Composers Award (UNESCO), 1961
“My Second String Quartet, commissioned by the Stanley String Quartet, was begun in August, 1958, and finished in May, 1959. In it, the four instruments are individualized, each being given its own character embodied in a special set of melodic and harmonic intervals and of rhythms that result in four different patterns of slow and fast tempi with associated types of expression. Thus, four different strands of musical material of contrasting character are developed simultaneously throughout the work. It is out of the interactions, combinations, cooperations, and oppositions of these that the details of musical discourse as well as the large sections are built. Up to the end of the second movement (Presto scherzando) the various facets of each instrument’s character are presented quite distinctively. After that, in the third and fourth movements (Andante espressivo and Allegro), there is a growing tendency to cooperate and exchange ideas, while, in the cadenzas, opposition between the solo and accompanying instruments grows. The Conclusion returns to the state of individualization of the first part of the work.” – Elliott Carter

2026-03-24 00:12:29 UTC

<World Premiere >
GABRIEL JACKSON : Stabat mater
(for unaccompanied SSSSAATTBB choir)
Friday 23 March, 2018 – Merton College Chapel, Oxford
The Marian Consort & Merton College Girls' Choir,
cond. Rory McLeery
Oxford University Press, 2018

2026-03-24 00:09:27 UTC

< World Premiere >
BELA BARTÓK : Violin Concerto No. 2, BB 117
Thursday 23 March, 1939 – The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, cond. Willem Mengelberg
Zoltán Székely, Violin
https://youtu.be/KbAaM9tIYhs?si=v117qgFPWJ27aPAN

2026-03-18 00:25:54 UTC

< World Premiere >
GEORGE ROCHBERG : Concerto for Violin & Orchestra
(The final “Definitive 2002” Version)
Sunday 17 March, 2002 – Saarbrücken, Germany
Saarbrücken RSO, cond. Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Peter Shepperd-Skærved, Violin solo
Theodore Presser Company, 2007
“... a representative example of the synthesis of his free tonal style that Rochberg characterizes as “hard romanticism”, with a more lyrical, elegiac, “tonal” manner; indeed it is this opposition that primarily articulates the dramatic structure of this powerful work.” — Christopher Lyndon-Gee

2026-03-18 00:13:30 UTC

< World Premiere >
CHRISTOPHER BROWN : To Musick, Sing!, Op. 82
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir & soli)
Wednesday 17 March, 1993
Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, England
Clare College Choir, cond. Timothy Brown
Texts: Thomas Traherne, Robert Herrick, Sir John Davies, William Barnes

2026-03-17 00:12:11 UTC

< World Premiere >
FRANK MICHAEL BEYER :
'Et resurrexit' für 12-stimmigen Chor oder 12 Solostimmen
Sunday 16 March 2003 – Berlin
Rundfunkchor Berlin, cond. Simon Halsey
Boosey & Hawkes / Bote & Bock, Berlin, 2002

2026-03-17 00:08:26 UTC

< World Premiere >
PATRICK BURGAN : Stabat Mater
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir & soli)
Saturday 16 March, 1996
Auch (France), Festival "Eclats de Voix"
Les Eléments, cond. Joël Suhubiette
Editions Jobert (JJ1741-7)

2026-03-17 00:05:37 UTC

< United States Premiere >
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS :
Symphony No. 7 'Sinfonia Antartica'
Thursday 16 March, 1953
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, cond. Raphael Kubelik

2026-03-17 00:02:14 UTC

ERNST PEPPING : Das Jahr
(for unaccompanied SATB div. choir)
Sunday 16 March, 1941 – Berlin
Chor der Berliner Kirchenmusikschule, dir. Gottfried Grote
Texts: Josef Weinheber
Schott Music GbmH & Co., 1941 (ED 2913)

2026-03-16 00:03:23 UTC

< World Premiere >
BENJAMIN LEES : Piano Concerto No. 2
Friday 15 March, 1968 – Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Symphony Orchestra, cond. Erich Leinsdorf
Gary Graffman, Piano solo

2026-03-11 00:25:08 UTC

< World Premiere >
ERNST PEPPING : Passionsbericht des Matthäus
(for unaccompanied SATB-SATB div. choir)
Saturday 10 March, 1951 – Leipzig, Germany
Thomanerchor Leipzig, dir. Günther Ramin
Bärenreiter Verlag, 1950 (BA2276)

2026-03-07 01:17:11 UTC

< World Premiere >
LENNOX BERKELEY : Crux Fidelis, Op. 43 No. 1
(for unaccompanied SATB choir & Tenor solo)
Sunday 6 March, 1955 – Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Purcell Singers, cond. Imogen Holst
Peter Pears, Tenor
Chester Music Ltd., 2011

2026-03-04 01:42:34 UTC

< World Premiere >
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT : The Glory and the Dream
(for SATB div. choir & Organ)
Saturday 3 March, 2001
St. John's College, Cambridge, England
New Cambridge Singers, cond. Christopher Brown
Text: 'Intimations of Immortality' – William Wadsworth (1770-1850)
Novello & Company Limited, 2001 (NOV170376)

2026-03-02 01:07:41 UTC

< World Premiere >
ARTHUR BLISS : River Music 1967
(for unaccompanied SATB div. choir)
Wednesday 1 March, 1967 – Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Text : Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972)
Novello & Company, Ltd., 1967 (19626)
Commisioned by the Greater London Council for the opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 1 March, 1967

2026-02-27 01:06:02 UTC

< World Premiere >
ELLIOTT CARTER : String Quartet No. 1
Thursday 26 February, 1953
McMillan Theater, Columbia University, New York
The Walden Quartet of the University of Illinois
Awarded 1st Prize, Concours international de quatuors à cordes,
Liège, Belgium
... “With this quartet, I decided to focus on what had always been one of my own musical interests, that of ‘advanced’ music, and to follow out, with a minimal concern for their reception, my own musical thoughts along these lines. Now I think there is every reason to assume that if a composer has been well taught and has had experience, then his private judgment of comprehensibility and quality is what he must rely on if he is to communicate importantly.
The 'First Quartet' was written in the undisturbed quiet of the Arizona desert, and, like the desert horizons I saw daily while it was being written, the quartet present a continuous unfolding and changing of expressive characters – one woven into the other or emerging from it – on a large scale. The general plan was suggested by Jean Cocteau’s film 'Le sang d’un poète', in which the entire dream-like action is framed by an interrupted slow-motion shot of a tall chimney being dynamited. Just as the chimney begins to fall apart, the shot is broken off and the entire movie follows after which the shot of the chimney is resumed at the point it left off, showing its disintegration in mid-air, and closing the film with its collapse on the ground. A similar interrupted continuity is employed in this quartet’s starting with a cadenza for cello alone that is continued by the first violin alone at the very end.
On one level, I interpret Cocteau’s idea (and my own) as establishing the difference between external time (measured by the falling chimney, or the cadenza) and internal dream time (the main body of the work) – the dream time lasting but a moment of external time but from the dreamer’s point of view, a long stretch. In the 'First Quartet', the opening cadenzas also act as an introduction to the rest, and when it reappears at the end, it forms the last variation in a set of variations.”
— Elliott Carter

2026-02-23 03:32:09 UTC

<World Premiere >
JULIAN ANDERSON : Magnificat (2016)
(for unaccompanied SATB div. choir & soli)
Thursday 22 February, 2018
Manchester Cathedral, England
ORA Singers, cond. Suzi Digby
Schott Music, Ltd. London, 2018 (ED 13975)

2026-02-21 03:04:44 UTC

< World Premiere >
FRANK FERKO : Stabat Mater
(for unaccompanied SATB-SATB choir and Soprano solo)
Saturday 20 February, 1999 – Evanston, Illinois, USA
His Majestie's Clerkes, cond. Anne Heider
Rauquaia Hale Wallace, Soprano
E. C. Schirmer Music Company, 2000

2026-02-21 03:02:47 UTC

< World Premiere >
ERNST KRENEK : The Santa Fe Timetable, Op. 102
(for unaccompanied SSAATB choir)
Monday 20 February, 1961 – Los Angeles, CA
The Gregg Smith Singers, cond. Gregg Smith
Text: The Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway System Timetables (circa. April, 1945)

2026-02-19 02:42:58 UTC

FRIEDRICH CERHA : Vier Hölderlin-Fragmente
(for unaccompanied SATB div. choir)
Tuesday 18 February, 1997 – Berlin, Germany
RIAS-Kammerchor, cond. Erwin Ortner
Text: Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843)
Universal Edition, Vienna, 1996 (UE 30407)

2026-02-15 04:15:37 UTC

< World Premiere >
HANS SCHANDERL : Meerwunder
(for four unaccompanied SATB choirs)
Saturday, 14 February, 2004 – Konzerthaus, Berlin
RIAS Kammerchor & Rundfunkchor Berlin
Carus Verlag, 2003 (CV 07.356)
“The composition is based on the concept of acoustic quadrophony, in which four choirs placed on four sides of the room 'sing around' the auditorium. Here, sound movements are composed as surround sound.” – Hans Schanderl

2026-02-15 04:12:47 UTC

< World Premiere >
GRANVILLE BANTOCK : Vanity of Vanities
(Symphony for Unaccompanied 12 part choir)
Saturday 14 February, 1914
Liverpool Welsh Choral Union, cond. Harry Evans
Text: Book of Ecclesiastes, Old Testament
J. Curwen & Sons, 1913

2026-02-13 01:22:43 UTC

< USA Premiere >
ELLIOTT CARTER : Musicians Wrestle Everywhere
(for unaccompanied SSATB choir)
Tuesday 12 February, 1946 – New York Times Hall, New York
Randolph Singers, cond. David Randolph
Text: Emily Dickinson
Theodore Presser Company (35200119)

2026-02-12 01:02:46 UTC

< World Premiere >
JOSEPH JONGEN :
Symphonie Concertante for Organ & Orchestra, Op. 81
Saturday 11 February, 1928 - Royal Brussels Conservatory
cond. Désiré Defauw; Joseph Jongen, Organ
“The 'Symphonie Concertante' is not an organ concerto, but rather an orchestral work in which the organ is another orchestra that takes the leading role it rightly deserves. There is no thematic or rhythmic connection between the four movements of this extensive work; the focus is set on the stylistic unity of the different movements.” — Joseph Jongen

2026-02-07 01:03:34 UTC

< World Premiere >
KALEVI AHO : Symphony No. 10
Thursday 6 February, 1997 – Lahti, Finland
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, cond. Osmo Vänskä

2026-02-06 01:18:44 UTC

< World Premiere >
ELLIOTT CARTER : Concerto for Orchestra
Thursday 5 February, 1970 – Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY
New York Philharmonic, cond. Leonard Bernstein
Associated Music Publishers, 1972 (HL50225800)
“I had been thinking about writing a work which treated most of the players in the orchestra as soloists, when the commission from the New York Philharmonic started me off. In casting about for a plan, a dramatic and musical structure for such a multiple concerto, I came across St. John Perse’s 'Vents' (Winds), a long poem about America which suggested a way of ordering a piece. I realized at once, of course, that the broad, Whitmanesque rhetoric of the poem could only partially be reflected in the music whose main aim was to give individual, human expression to a great variety of players; yet the poem’s fluidity and its changes of character offered a useful model.” — Elliott Carter

2026-02-04 01:04:34 UTC

< World Premiere >
MICHAEL TORKE : Ash
Friday 3 February, 1989 – Ordway Center, St. Paul, Minnesota
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, cond. by John Adams
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd. (HPS1138)
“In trying to find a clear and recognizable language to write this piece, I have chosen some of the most basic, functionally tonal means: tonics and dominants in F minor, a modulation to the relative major (A-flat), and a three-part form which, through a retransition, recapitulates back to F minor. What I offer is not invention of new "words" or a new language but a new way to make sentences and paragraphs in a common, much-used existing language. I can create a more compelling musical argument with these means because, to my ears, potential rhetoric seems to fall out from such highly functional chords as tonics and dominants more than certain fixed sonorities and pop chords that I have used before.
My musical argument is dependent on a feeling of cause and effect, both on a local level where one chord releases the tension from a previous chord and on the larger structural level where a section is forced to follow a previous section by a coercive modulation. The orchestration does not seek color for its own sake, as decoration is not a high priority, but the instruments combine and double each other to create an insistent ensemble from beginning to end. Only occasionally, as in the middle A-flat section, do three woodwind instruments play alone for a short while to break the inertia of the ensemble forging its course together.” — Michael Torke

2026-01-24 01:18:12 UTC

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2026-01-24 01:13:44 UTC

< World Premiere >
ELLIOTT CARTER : String Quartet No. 3
Tuesday 23 January, 1973 – Julliard School, New York
The Julliard String Quartet
Associated Music Publishers, 1973, 1998 (AMP 7303)
Awarded the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Music
“My String Quartet No. 3, commissioned by The Julliard School for the Julliard String Quartet, divides the instruments into pairs: a duo for Violin & Cello that plays in rubato style and a duo for Violin & Viola in more regular rhythm.
The Violin–Cello duo presents four different musical characters – an angry, intense 'Furioso'; a fanciful 'Leggerissimo'; a 'Pizzicato giocoso'; and a lyrical 'Andante expressivo' – in short sections one after the other in various orders, sometimes with pauses between. The Violin–Viola duo, meanwhile, presents the six contrasting characters: 'Maestoso'; 'Grazioso'; 'Pizzicato, giusto mechanico'; 'Scorrevole'; 'Largo tranquillo'; and 'Appassionato'.
During the Quartet each character of each duo is presented alone and also in combination with each character of the other duo to give a sense of ever-varying perspectives of feelings, expression, rivalry and cooperation.” – Elliott Carter

2026-01-23 01:08:45 UTC

< World Premiere >
ROBIN HOLLOWAY :
The Consolation of Music, Op. 38, No. 1
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir)
Monday 22 January, 1979 – Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
The BBC Singers, cond. John Poole
Texts : Robert Herrick (1591-1674), William Strode (1598-1645)
Boosey & Hawkes Ltd., 1979 (B&H 20628)

2026-01-22 01:09:47 UTC

< World Premiere >
BÉLA BARTÓK : Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
Thursday 21 January, 1937 – Basel, Switzerland
Basler Kammerorchester, cond. Paul Sacher
Universal Edition, 1937
"In the summer of 1936, the 55-year-old Béla Bartók, having by then achieved considerable international fame as a performer, composer, and ethnomusicologist, tackled a formidable array of compositional challenges in his 'Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta', a work of astonishing synthesis, organicism, and technical brilliance." – Christopher Gibbs

2026-01-15 01:16:23 UTC

< World Premiere >
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS :
Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony No. 7)
Wednesday 14 January, 1953
Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England
Hallé Orchestra & Choir, cond. John Barbirolli
Margaret Ritchie, Soprano

2026-01-14 01:14:37 UTC

< World Premiere >
KAIKHOSRU SHAPURJI SORABJI : Piano Sonata No. 2
Monday 13 January, 1922
Kammersaal, Musikverein, Bödendorferstrasse, Vienna
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Piano

2026-01-11 01:21:25 UTC

< World Premiere >
ROBIN WALKER : I have thee by the hand, O Man
(A Madrigal for 40 Voices a cappella )
Friday 10 January, 2003
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, England
The Tallis Scholars, cond. Peter Phillips

2025-12-27 01:17:30 UTC

< World Premiere >
ALFRED SCHNITTKE : Pœnitential Verses
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB div. choir)
Monday 26 December, 1988 - Moscow
USSR Ministry Culture Chamber Choir,
cond. Valery Polyanski
Compozitor Saint Petersburg, 2017 (No. 6993)
“The importance of the theme of repentance to Schnittke is shown in his 1987 work 'Penitential Verses', a large scale composition for unaccompanied choir which, at around 40 minutes duration, is comparable in scale to his 'Concerto for Mixed Choir' (1984-1985).
The work, written for the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Russia, was inspired by a collection of early Russian literature which includes these spiritual lines or poems by anonymous monks. Although thematically these texts might seem to offer much less variety than those of St. Gregory of Narek (whose words Schnittke used in his 'Choir Concerto'), the music employs essentially the same techiques and is characterized by the same degree of technical virtuosity.
In both pieces there are very strong echos of the Russian sacred repertoire of the 19th and early 20th centuries; this imparts a sense of belonging to a tradition which, in turn, provides much of the music's strength.” — Ivan Moody

2025-12-22 01:00:51 UTC

< World Premiere >
COLIN MATTHEWS : A Rose at Christmas
(for unaccompanied SATB choir)
Friday 21 December, 1990 – St. Albans Church, Birmingham
BBC Singers, cond. Simon Joly
Text: from Shakespeare's 'Love's Labour's Lost', Act 1, Scene 2
Faber Music Ltd., London, 1990

2025-12-19 01:28:59 UTC

< World Premiere >
KAIKHOSRU SHAPURJI SORABJI : Toccata No. 1, KSS46
Tuesday 18 December, 2001
British Music Information Centre, London, England
Jonathan Powell, Piano solo

2025-12-17 01:10:06 UTC

< World Premiere >
KAIKHOSRU SORABJI :
Toccata Seconda per pianoforte, KSS57
Wednesday 16 December, 1936
Stevenson Hall, Glasgow, Scotland
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Piano solo

2025-12-14 02:44:04 UTC

< World Premiere >
ERNST PEPPING : Die Weihnachtsgeschichte des Lukas
(for unaccompanied SATB div. choir)
Sunday 13 December, 1959 – Göttingen, Germany
Göttinger Stadtkantorei, dir. Ludwig Doormann
Bärenreiter Verlag, 1959 (BA3947)

2025-12-12 01:06:11 UTC

< World Premiere >
MAX REGER : Geistliche Gesänge, Op. 110, Nr. 2
– Motette „Ach, Herr, strafe mich nicht“
Thursday 11 December, 1913
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Städtischer Gesangverein, dir. Fritz Busch
Text: Psalm 6,2-3; 4,2.9; 6,7a; 7,11; 18,2; 16,11
Edition Bote & G. Bock, Berlin, 1911
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2RPbJKinHs

2025-12-10 01:14:30 UTC

< World Premiere >
CHRISTOPHER BROWN :
Hodie Salvator Apparuit, Op. 28 - A Sequence for Christmas
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir & soli)
Wednesday 9 December, 1970
St. Andrew's Church, London
Salterello Choir, cond. Christopher Seaman
J. & W. Chester, Ltd., 1976 (CH55008)

2025-12-08 01:31:50 UTC

< World Premiere >
KAIKHOSRU SORABJI : Le Jardin Parfumé, KSS35
Tuesday 7 December, 1976
Wigmore Hall, London, England
Yonty Solomon, Piano solo
J. Curwen and Sons Ltd., 1927

2025-12-07 04:12:36 UTC

< World Premiere >
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS : Mass in G minor
(for unaccompanied SATB-SATB choir & SATB soli)
Wednesday 6 December, 1922 – Town Hall, Birmingham
City of Birmingham Choir, cond. Joseph Lewis
J. Curwen & Sons, Ltd., 1922

2025-12-04 01:00:49 UTC

< World Premiere >
KAIKHOSRU SORABJI : Symphonic Nocturne, KSS97
Thursday 3 December, 2015
Miryzaal, School of Arts, Koninklijk Conservatorium Gent, Belgium
Lukas Huisman, Piano solo

2025-12-03 01:28:14 UTC

< World Premiere >
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN : Two Songs from Kalender Röd
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir)
Saturday 2 December, 2000 – Stockholm
Swedish Radio Choir, cond. Stefan Parkman
Texts : Ann Jäderlund
Chester Music Ltd., 2005 (CH63470)
“I became enchanted with Ann Jäderlund's poetry because of its sensual intensity and lack of sentimentality. She describes sensations with amazing effectiveness, with few words, but with a rhythm that immediately awakens mystical associations.”
– Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen's 'Two Songs from Kalender Röd' was commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation for the 75th Anniversary concert of the Swedish Radio Choir.

2025-12-02 01:05:11 UTC

< World Premiere >
DAVID MATTHEWS : The Ship of Death
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir)
Tuesday 1 December, 1992 – Pebble Mill, Birmingham
Finzi Singers, cond. Paul Spicer
Text: D. H. Lawrence
Faber Music, Ltd., 1996 (Cat. No. 0571554148)

2025-12-02 01:02:05 UTC

< World Premiere >
KAIKHOSRU SORABJI : Opus Clavicembalisticum, KSS50
Monday 1 December, 1930
Stevenson Hall, Glasgow, Scotland
Kaikhosru Sorabji, Piano solo

2025-11-28 01:03:47 UTC

< World Premiere >
RICHARD STRAUSS : Also sprach Zarathustra, Op.30
Friday 27 November, 1896 – Frankfurt, Germany
Municipal Orchestra of Frankfurt-am-Main, cond. Richard Strauss
... It came as no surprise that when Richard Strauss announced the subject of his new symphonic poem, a great outcry went up. Philosophy through music? Ridiculous! Yet, unknown to Strauss or anyone else, Nietzsche had confided to his journal that the nature of Zarathustra belongs “almost among the symphonies.”
On the eve of Zarathustra’s premiere in December 1896, Strauss felt it necessary to clarify his position and wrote: “I did not intend to write philosophical music or portray Nietzsche’s great work musically. I meant rather to convey in music an idea of the evolution of the human race from its origin, through the various phases of development, religious as well as scientific, up to Nietzsche’s idea of the Übermensch.” – Dr. Michael Fink

2025-11-27 01:37:55 UTC

< World Premiere >
WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI : Concerto for Orchestra
Friday 26 November, 1954 – Warsaw, Poland
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Witold Rowicki
J & W Chester / Edition Wilhelm Hansen London, 1972
“Direct impetus for this work came via an invitation from the conductor Witold Rowicki, who in 1950 asked Lutosławski to write a piece based on folk material for performance by the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, which Rowicki founded that year. As Lutosławski grappled with the piece, it grew into a full three-movement composition. Lutosławski would often work on pieces over long periods of time; the four-year gestation period of the 'Concerto for Orchestra' was not unusual. What Rowicki received is a brilliant orchestral showpiece that, like Bartók’s 'Concerto for Orchestra', is a virtuoso vehicle for the ensemble as a whole.” — James M. Keller

2025-11-26 02:01:56 UTC

< World Premiere >
EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA : Missa A Cappella
(for unaccompanied SSAATTBB choir)
Friday 25 November, 2011 – Jacobikerk, Utrecht
Netherlands Radio Choir, cond. Celso Antunes
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd., 2011

2025-11-25 02:08:26 UTC

< World Premiere >
HERBERT HOWELLS : Mass in the Dorian Mode
(for unaccompanied SATB choir)
Sunday 24 November, 1912 - Westminster Cathedral, England
Westminster Cathedral Choir, dir. Dr. Richard Terry