On 28 March, as part of Toshio Hosokawa's residency at the Orquesta de València, his one-act melodrama Futari Shizuka (The Maiden from the Sea) will be shown in a semi-staged performance with Ryoko Aoki in the role of Shizu.

After it was announced at the beginning of March that Toshio Hosokawa would receive the highly endowed Frontiers of Knowledge Award from the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Foundation, the second concert as part of his residency in València is awaited with particular interest.

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In 2019, Wergo released a portrait CD including Anssi Karttunen’s recordings of Hans Werner Henze’s English Love Songs with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Oliver Knussen.

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