Premiere Suite V by Alisa Weilerstein

On Saturday 31 May, Alisa Weilerstein will premiere Suite V for solo cello at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC.

Suite V is part of Alisa Weilerstein’s ground-breaking performance series FRAGMENTS, new music by some of the most compelling composers of our time meets the timeless beauty of Bach’s Six Suites for Solo Cello.

New commissions by 27 different composers are interwoven with the individual movements of the Bach Suites. The result is a collection of six different FRAGMENTS performances in total, curated by Alisa and underscored with bespoke lighting, scenic architecture, and costume design from a world class team of creatives. Each of the six FRAGMENTS performances embodies its own striking identity that transforms the Bach Cello suites in turn.

Each FRAGMENTS performance is around 60 minutes of music and a program with nothing more than the composers’ names, in which Alisa invites the audience to simply immerse themselves in the dramatic power of live performance.

Tickets are available here.

Prélude à une nuit Américaine in Liverpool

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Erina Yashima, will play Mathilde Wantenaar's Prélude à une nuit Américane on Thursday 3 April in Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. The piece will be performed alongside Shostakovich's Piano Concerto no 1, with Anna Tsybuleva as soloist, and Dvořák Symphony No.9.

In 2021, the Prélude was recorded by the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra:

Prèlude à une Nuit Américaine in Vienna

Tonight the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by their new chief conductor Markus Poschner, will play Mathilde Wantenaar's Prèlude à une Nuit Américaine in the Konzerhaus in Vienna. The orchestra will also play Prokofiev's third piano concerto and Richard Strauss' Aus Italien.

Last year, on the occasion of the premiere of Wantenaar's Accordion Concerto by the same orchestra, Markus Poschner gave an interview about her work: