Music from Germany

Four string works by Wolfgang Rihm: the quartets of 1966 and 1968, Geste zu Vedova (2015) and Epilog for string quintet (2012/13). Minguet Quartett with cellist Jens Peter Maintz, recorded in Cologne in 2015/16, co-produced with Deutschlandradio.

Mauricio Kagel's organ works, from Improvisation ajoutée (1962) to Rrrrrrr... (1980/81), plus Dominik Susteck's own K-A-G-E-L improvisations. Recorded by Susteck at the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, 7-9 April 2014, for Deutschlandfunk.

Stockhausen's complete Klavierstücke I-XI (1952-61) played by Sabine Liebner, with Klavierstück XI in two versions. Two CDs, a co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk, released by Wergo in 2018.

Four orchestral works by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, including the first version of the Sinfonie in einem Satz and Giostra Genovese in first recordings. WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Peter Hirsch, recorded at the Kölner Philharmonie in 2013 and 2015.

Three works by Hans Zender: Dialog mit Haydn (Kretzschmar, Wiget, Bundesjugendorchester, Zender), Issei no kyō (Claron McFadden, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Johannes Kalitzke) and Nanzen no kyō with the WDR Rundfunkchor. MDR/WDR productions, 2017.

Hans Zender's four Canciones on St John of the Cross (2008-14), with Angelika Luz, Ernst Kovacic, Klangforum Wien, the Bavarian Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Vokalensemble and SWR Sinfonieorchester; four conductors.

Hans Werner Henze's cantata Being Beauteous (Rimbaud) with Anna Prohaska, and Kammermusik 1958 (Hölderlin) with Peter Gijsbertsen and Jürgen Ruck, first recording of the string orchestra version; NDR Sinfonieorchester, Peter Ruzicka, Hamburg 2013 and 2015.

Recorded on April 26, 2000.

Free jazz drummer Shoji Hano and German saxophone giant-leading European free improviser Peter Brotzmann first met in Japan in the early eighties. In 1990 Hano went to Europe for the first time and played with Brötzmann; then he invited Brotzmann to Japan for a duo tour in fall '91. This album is the complete recording of a concert they gave during that tour, at Aku Aku in Tsukuba. In '92 Hano released (on his label EGG) a cassette tape of that performance, with the same title, omitting one of t…

Edition Musikfabrik: Francesco Filidei's Finito ogni gesto, Michael Beil's Black Jack and Mauricio Kagel's unfinished Heine cycle In der Matratzengruft with tenor Markus Brutscher, all first recordings by Ensemble Musikfabrik under Marcus Creed, Otto Tausk and Emilio Pomàrico.

Edition Musikfabrik vol. 3: Martin Smolka's Rush (Hour in Celestial Streets), Mauricio Kagel's Orchestrion-Straat and Louis Andriessen's Racconto dall'Inferno with Cristina Zavalloni, conducted by Peter Rundel and Reinbert de Leeuw.

Karlheinz Stockhausen's Amour (1974/76), Der kleine Harlekin (1975) and Wochenkreis from Montag aus Licht (1986/88), played by clarinettist and basset horn player Michele Marelli with Antonio Pérez Abellán on synthesizer, recorded in March 2013.

From last year's North American tour: Evan Parker (saxophones), Alexander Von Schlippenbach (piano), Paul Lytton (percussion) in concert recordings at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans and the Seattle Asian Arts Museum.

First complete recording of Hans Zender's Logos-Fragmente (Canto IX) for 32 voices and four orchestral groups, on early Christian and Gnostic texts, with the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart and SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg under Emilio Pomàrico.

Wolfgang Rihm's 11th String Quartet (1998/2010), Interscriptum for string quartet and piano and Grave in memoriam Thomas Kakuska, played by the Minguet Quartett with pianist Markus Bellheim, a co-production with Deutschlandradio.

Soprano Claudia Böttcher and pianist Jovita Zähl perform Stockhausen's Tierkreis (soprano and piano version) and Klavierstück IX and Berio's Sequenza III and Quattro Canzoni popolari, recorded in Cologne in 2011-2012.

First CD recording of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Tierkreis in the version for organ, played by Dominik Susteck on the Willy Peter organ of St. Peter, Cologne, with four of his own improvisations.

Complete songs and early chamber music by Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1939-1950), with soprano Anna Prohaska, pianist Cordelia Höfer, violinists Alessandro Cappone and Rachel Schmidt and the Trio Berlin, recorded 2009-2010 in Berlin.

Chamber and solo pieces by Hans Werner Henze dedicated to friends and colleagues, most in first recordings, performed by ensemble recherche, a coproduction with Westdeutscher Rundfunk.

Hans Werner Henze's Symphony No. 2 (1949) and Sinfonia N. 10 (1997-2000), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Marek Janowski, recorded in 2012 and 2013, completing their Henze symphony cycle.