On 15 November in the Jenö Takács Saal in Oberschützen, the Orchestra of the Oberschützen Institute of the Kunstuniversität Graz (KUG) will perform the world premiere of Claudio Ambrosini’s Phonurgia.

On November 21 at the Hudderfield Festival, soprano Donatienne Michel-Dansac and the ensemble United Instruments of Lucilin conducted by David Reiland will perform the world premiere of Mauro Lanza’s The Kampelen Machine for "prepared" voice and 8 instruments.

The world premiere of Carlo Boccadoro’s composition Orbis Tertius, commissioned by the Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milan, will be performed on 12 November under the direction of John Axelrod.

On November 1 in Rome (additional performances on 2 and 3), the Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia with conductor Antonio Pappano will perform the world premiere of Fabio Nieder’s Danza lenta di C.S. fra gli specchi (C.S.’s slow dance between mirrors).

For the 40th anniversary of the death of the artist and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini in November 1975, Azio Corghi has composed ‘...tra la carne e il cielo...’, a piece for concertante cello, male reciting voice, soprano, piano and orchestra on texts by Pasolini.

Alberto Posadas wanted to experiment with the late Baroque construct of the double variation while remaining faithful to his own fractal compositional style for a new cycle of pieces written for violist Christophe Desjardins.

Frequent Boston Symphony Orchestra guest conductor Christoph von Dohnányi leads the world premiere of Aube ("Dawn"), a work by the celebrated 28-year-old French composer Jean-Frédéric Neuburger that has been commissioned by the orchestra. In Neuburger's works, we can hear brilliant colors and energy of his French predecessors ranging from Ravel to Boulez.

Paul Dukas is known worldwide for L’Apprenti sorcier based on one of Goethe’s ballads and featured in Walt Disney’s Fantasia. The piece is a tour de force. Subtitled “Scherzo”, the orchestral work tells the story through musical gesture and was composed with greater attention to amusement than to strict classical form. Unfortunately, the popularity of L’Apprenti sorcier has overshadowed the rest of Dukas’ works, despite their great quality.

The 70th anniversary of the death of Béla Bartók was marked in Budapest on Saturday, 26 September with a full day of events at the Institute of Musicology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. On the occasion, it was announced that the score series Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition will be published jointly by Editio Musica Budapest and G. Henle Verlag of Munich.

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