A few world premieres

For a change, I'd like to present a couple of recent live concerts, each of which contains at least one work that had its first public performance on this occasion. These are radio broadcasts.

Calefax Reed Quintet:
Oliver Boekhoorn - oboe
Ivar Berix - clarinet
Raaf Hekkema - altosax
Jelte Althuis - bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet
Alban Wesly - bassoon

with Ivo Janssen - piano

Theo Loevendie (*1930) - Ritorno (2012) (world premiere)
Hans Abrahamsen (*1952) - Walden (1978; revised version for reed quintet, 1995)
Klas Torstensson (*1951) - Prelude & Encores (2012) (world premiere)
Yannis Kyriakides (*1969) - Hypothetical Islands (2012) (world premiere)
Carola Bauckholt (*1959) - Zugvögel (2012) (premiered in Witten just a couple of weeks earlier)
Conlon Nancarrow (1912-1997) - Three Studies for Player Piano (arr. Raaf Hekkema): nos 11, 3b, 7 (plus no. 3c as an encore)

Muziekgebouw aan't IJ, Amsterdam, 3 May 2012

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Members of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern:
Grigory Mordashov - flute
Veit Stolzenberger - oboe
Rainer Müller-van Recum - clarinet
Benoit Gausse - horn
Guilhaume Santana - bassoon

Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) - La cheminée du roi René op. 205
Giulio Briccialdi (1818-1881) - Wind quintet no. 1 in D op. 124
Vito Žuraj (*1979) - Wind quintet (world premiere)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - Fantasy in f KV 608 (arr. Wolfgang Sebastian Meyer)
Jean Françaix (1912-1997) - Wind quintet no. 1

HfM University of Music, Saarbrücken, 6 June 2012