Music from Germany

Hans Werner Henze's Sinfonia N. 9 for chorus and orchestra, text by Hans-Ulrich Treichel after Anna Seghers's The Seventh Cross, with Rundfunkchor Berlin and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Marek Janowski, recorded November 2008.

Hans Werner Henze's two Orpheus works: Orpheus behind the Wire for a cappella choir on Edward Bond, and the first recording of Aristaeus for speaker and orchestra, recorded live in Berlin on 1 February 2004 with Rundfunkchor Berlin and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Marek Janowski.

First recordings of Wolfgang Rihm's Sphäre um Sphäre for ensemble and Frage for female voice and ensemble, played by ensemble recherche, which premiered both, with Salome Kammer and conductor Lucas Vis. A coproduction with WDR.

Live recording of Dieter Schnebel's Orchestra, symphonic music for mobile musicians, at his 70th birthday concert on 14 March 2000 at the Universität der Künste Berlin, played by students and teachers under three central conductors.

Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Un petit rien, Das Gelb und das Grün, the serial cantata Omnia tempus habent and the film music Metamorphose, with soprano Angelika Luz and the Collegium Novum Zürich under Peter Hirsch.

Hans Werner Henze's radio operas Ein Landarzt (after Kafka) and Das Ende einer Welt (libretto by Hildesheimer), revised versions, premiered live in the Cologne Philharmonie on 27 September 1996 with the WDR Sinfonieorchester under Markus Stenz.

First recording of Hans Werner Henze's children's opera Pollicino, after Collodi, Grimm and Perrault, sung in German by young soloists with a choir and orchestra of Berlin music school students under Jobst Liebrecht. Echo Klassik 2004.

Five early works by Hans Werner Henze (1946-1951): Ballett-Variationen, Concertino, Rosa Silber, Kammerkonzert and the Boulevard Solitude interludes, played by the NDR Sinfonieorchester under Peter Ruzicka with Christopher Tainton and Matthias Perl, 2002-2003.

Three orchestral works by Hans Werner Henze from 1950 to 2001, Scorribanda sinfonica, Antifone and Piano Concerto No. 1, played by the NDR Sinfonieorchester under Peter Ruzicka with pianist Christopher Tainton, recorded in Hamburg.

Four orchestral works of the 1950s by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, with the live world premiere of the Märchensuite and the first recording of Alagoana, played by cellist Lucas Fels and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Peter Hirsch, January 2001.

Hans Werner Henze's Drei sinfonische Etüden, Quattro Poemi, Nachtstücke und Arien (Ingeborg Bachmann) and La selva incantata, played by the NDR Sinfonieorchester under Peter Ruzicka with Michaela Kaune, recorded 1999.

Piano works by Wilhelm Killmayer written 1975-1999: An John Field (five nocturnes), Vier neue Klavierstücke and Klavieralbum mit Sphinxen, played by his former pupil Siegfried Mauser.

Piano works by Wilhelm Killmayer, from the Trois Etudes blanches and Douze Etudes transcendentales to Rundgesänge und Morgenlieder and three pieces from 1957-1968, played by Siegfried Mauser.

Hans Werner Henze's solo piano music, including Une petite phrase, the Lucy Escott Variations, Cherubino, pieces from Pollicino, the Variations op. 13 and the Sonata per pianoforte, played by Homero Francesch.

Live collaboration between Japanoise legend Merzbow and german artist Achim Wollscheid. Recorded at Spiral Hall, Tokyo.

2004 release. Four previously unreleased realizations of Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Zylus" (different recordings than the one featured on the Columbia LP Electronics and Percussion -- Five Realizations. Recorded 1959-68. The term "New York School" refers to a circle of composers. "Zyklus" was written in 1959 and is one of the first solo pieces to utilize such a large number of percussion instruments (twenty-one). When Max Neuhaus first started to play this piece there were only three percussi…

First recordings, supervised by the composer, of two early works by Mauricio Kagel: Transición II (1958-59) for piano, percussion and tapes with live electronics, and Phonophonie (1963-64), four melodramas for two voices and other sound sources.

1990 release. Six compositions by the German composer Mathias Spahlinger: ("Morendo" for orchestra), ("Yon Hier" for string quartet), ("Vier Stücke"), ("Entlöschend"), ("Storung" -- electronic music), ("Sotto Voce" -- choral work).Mathias Spahlinger is a composer. His compositions play out in the area of tension encompassing the most diverse musical influences and style directions: Spahlinger’s works portray conflicts for which there are no defined models as such, between Renaissance and jazz…

"the first joint release of hamburg-based all-around artists felix kubin (music, sounds) and mariola brillowska (lyrics, vocals). for brillowska's 2006 theatre play of the same title, kubin composed a soundtrack in order to mess up this infamous musical by twirling colourful little building bricks around in it. this then became an album in its own right, where constructivist orchestra- and plunderphonics-collages meet gameboy-disco while melancholy-laden chansons rub against weill/eisler-like hy…

monolithic guitar / drum / synth tumblers ; an awesome, necessary adjunct to the important Kluster records. Credited to Eruption, that was a short-lived German krautrock or experimental music super group founded by former Tangerine Dream member and then current Kluster (3) member Conrad Schnitzler. Eruption performed free-form, improvisational, experimental music, some of which resembles industrial music