paul griffiths
notes for Prom performances of Adès’s Tevot, Boulez’s Mémoriale, Carter’s Caténaires and Oboe Concerto, Peter Eötvös’s Seven, 16th-century French chansons and motets, night ragas, Manchicourt’s Veni Sancte Spiritus mass, Messiaen’s Apparition de l’église éternelle, Cinq rechants, Concert à quatre, Dieu parmi nous, Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum , Messe de la Pentecôte and La Nativité du Seigneur, and Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto
release of What Next? on dvd (Boston Symphony), July 18
piece on Kurtág, Financial Times, June 7
notes for Zankel Hall, May 17 (Uchida et al.)
notes for Carnegie Hall, May 9 (Uchida)
notes for Carnegie Hall, May 4 (Bronfman et al.)
review of Hugh Wood books, TLS, May 1
notes for Carnegie Hall, April 24 (Andsnes)
notes for Zankel Hall, April 15 (Gunns)
notes for Monday Evening Concert, April 14 (Lachenmann)
release of The General on cd (Analekta), April 3
Sep 12 — publication of La Mer en feu (Hermann)
— European release of The General (RCA Red Seal)
Oct 6 — publication of Geschichte der Musik (Metzler)
20-24 — Ithaca, N.Y. (Cornell): Messenger Lectures
— publication of let me tell you (Reality Street Editions)
— republication of Olivier Messiaen (Faber)
Nov 18 — Vienna: Austrian première of What Next? (Neue Oper)
21 — Stavanger (University): talk on Messiaen
— publication of Spanish translation of A Concise History of Western Music (Akal)
— republication of Myself and Marco Polo (Faber)
Jan 20 — Birmingham (BCMG): conversation with George Benjamin
Jan 24 — Manchester (Bridgewater Hall): conversation on Berio and Dukas
Jan 26-7 — Munich (Bayerische Staatsoper): German première of The General
Feb 21 — Lancaster (University): Reich symposium
May 2-3 — La Jolla: U.S. première of The General