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Sir Andrzej Panufnik’s autobiography Composing Myself charts his creative life navigating the political turmoil of the twentieth century. A new annotated edition is published by Toccata Press on 28 March, together with a selection of the composer’s writings on music.

In April, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Rafael Payare premiere Melita by Ana Sokolovic, as part of her three-year residency with the orchestra.

The vocal score of the first 1858 version of Orphée aux Enfers, which has long been a bestseller within the Offenbach Edition Keck, is now published anew in an edition supplemented with important recent discoveries as well as a range of digital resources.

A Letter from UK Classical Music Publishers was sent today to Tim Davie (Director General, BBC), Richard Sharp (Chair of BBC Board) the BBC Board and BBC Commercial Board, regarding the planned closure of the BBC Singers.

Acclaimed composer Courtney Bryan joins the Boosey & Hawkes roster in March 2023. Her substantial catalog includes orchestral, vocal, and chamber works that have been championed by major performers and orchestras, including Branford Marsalis, Jennifer Koh, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and Opera Philadelphia. 

Gabriela Ortiz's rhythmically driven musical language embraces folk music and jazz, and has been championed by orchestras around the world. Part of a profile series throughout March—Women’s History Month—in which we explore the lives, music, and inspirations of extraordinary composers from around the world.

RIOT, composed by Steven Mackey with poet Tracy K. Smith, receives its world premiere with New Jersey Symphony in honor of their Centennial celebration in April.

2023 is the 25th anniversary of the death of Alfred Schnittke, and the composer is subject of a special feature at Hamburg’s International Music Festival. Across four concerts in May the series explores chamber and orchestral works, culminating in his extraordinary Faust Cantata.

On 26 March the MDR Symphony Orchestra premieres the latest work by Kurt Schwertsik. His new divertimento Muertes en Relajo, influenced by the art of Frida Kahlo, is the latest collaboration between the composer and conductor Dennis Russell Davies.

In 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, Marina Abramovic and Marko Nikodijevic trace the great diva and characterise her in seven death scenes from world-famous operas that are closely linked to Callas. The complete version of the work will be performed for the first time in Barcelona in March.

Shin's Upon His Ghostly Solitude, which premieres with the Los Angeles Philharmonic led by Osmo Vänskä in April, is a musical meditation on the cycles of history, drawing inspiration from WB Yeats and Alban Berg.

Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov is staging Serge Prokofieff's opera War and Peace in its original version at the Bavarian State Opera. This epic work will be performed eight times this season at the Munich National Theatre under musical director Vladimir Jurowski.

Pianist Barbara Nissman releases a new DVD on Ginastera’s music and life, combined with a masterclass of the composers’s three piano sonatas and Danzas Argentinas.

Boosey & Hawkes is pleased to announce that Thomas Bangalter, co-founder of Daft Punk, has signed a new agreement to publish the music from his ballet score Mythologies. The full evening ballet, choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj, has been touring France and Italy and its first recording is released by Erato in April. Individual tableaux from the 90-minute orchestral score are now available for concert performance.

Steve Reich’s three string quartets—Different Trains, Triple Quartet and WTC 9/11—are recorded by the Mivos Quartet and released together for the first time on one recording by Deutsche Grammophon.

Glasslands, composed for saxophonist Jess Gillam, receives its world premiere with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Han-na Chang on February 18-19.

As we approach the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth on 1 April 2023, we invite you to join worldwide celebrations for the iconic composer and pianist.

Red Wood premieres in February as part of The Soraya’s Treelogy Project, a celebration and a call to action to save California’s iconic redwood, sequoia, and Joshua trees. The work will be performed by the composer on electric guitar alongside Delirium Musicum.

The Paris Opéra presents a new production of John Adams’s ever-topical Nixon in China in March, with the cast led by Thomas Hampson and Renée Fleming as the presidential couple, and Gustavo Dudamel on the rostrum.

The London Sinfonietta pays tribute to Harrison Birtwistle, who died last year, with a concert on 5 March devoted to his music. The programme at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London features commissioned works including In Broken Images, conducted by Martyn Brabbins.