One of the highlights of this year’s MaerzMusik will be the performances of Enno Poppe’s music theatre work IQ. The Berliner Festspiele’s festival for contemporary music will also feature the world premiere of Mela Meierhans’ Shiva for Anne as well as concerts with works of our composers György Kurtág, Fabien Lévy, Sergej Newski, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler, Samir Odeh-Tamimi and Hans Wüthrich.

From our Repertoire is a blog category featuring knowledgeable commentary on works from our diverse catalogues. We will introduce you on a regular basis to not only the best-known compositions but also to niche works that we think deserve a little more attention.

This time: Xenakis’ first completed choral work, Polla ta Dhina.

Daniele Ghisi has written a work for eight voices and electronics to be performed with Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Notre Dame.

Inspired by Colomba, the short story from 1840 by Prosper Mérimée, the four-act opera of the same name is a portrait of a far-from-ordinary Mediterranean heroine with an insatiable desire for vengeance.

On our blog, our contemporary composers present their favorite works from our catalogs. This time: Ricordi London composer Jonathan Cole writes about Luigi Nono's Prometeo.

Luca Francesconi has been commissioned to write a new violin concerto for Leila Josefowicz called Duende, The Dark Notes. We talked with Ms Josefowicz about the new piece and her collaboration with Luca Francesconi.

From our Repertoire is a new blog category featuring knowledgeable commentary on works from our diverse catalogues. We will introduce you on a regular basis to not only the best-known compositions but also to niche works that we think deserve a little more attention.

We are starting off with Edgar Varése's groundbreaking symphonic work Amériques, the composer's largest-scale work.

After performances throughout Europe O Mensch! by Pascal Dusapin will have its Canadian premiere this year. The performance will take place in Montréal on February 7, 2014, featuring baritone Vincent Ranallo and pianist Mathieu Fortin. O Mensch! was premiered by Georg Nigl (baritone) and Vanessa Wagner (piano) with the stage direction by the composer himself at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris on November 15, 2011.

On January 29 Luigi Nono would have turned 90. May 8 will mark his 24th anniversary of death, and since then his music has never ceased to attract audiences. On the contrary, it has enjoyed more and more attention on the programs of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, opera houses, and festivals. On our blog we wish to pay homage to this great musician.

The upcoming Festival Présences of Radio France will feature French premieres of works by three Universal Music Publishing Classical composers: Philippe Manoury, Fabien Lévy and Oscar Bianchi.