The Seven Words
Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross in its string quartet version, played by the Rosamunde Quartett (Reiner, Fordham, Nicolai, Lechner). Recorded May 2000 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt am Main.
Hayren - Music of Komitas and Tigran Mansurian
Kim Kashkashian (viola), Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion) and Tigran Mansurian (piano, voice) play two Mansurian works of 1998 and his arrangements of Komitas songs. Recorded May 2000 at Teldec Studio, Berlin.
Words of the Angel
Debut album of the Norwegian vocal trio Trio Mediaeval: the 14th-century Messe de Tournai with English polyphony, Italian laude and Ivan Moody's title piece. Produced by John Potter, recorded December 1999 in Gönningen.
Alexander Knaifel, Mstislav Rostropovich, Tatiana Melentieva, Boy Choir Glinka Choral College, State Hermitage Orchestra, Arkady Shteinlukht
Amicta SoleAlexander Knaifel's Psalm 51 (50) for solo cello, played by Mstislav Rostropovich (St. Gerold, 2001), and Amicta Sole for soprano Tatiana Melentieva, Glinka Choral College boys and State Hermitage Orchestra under Arkady Shteinlukht (St. Petersburg, 2…
Signs, Games and Messages - Friedrich Hölderlin / Samuel Beckett
Three cycles by György Kurtág: Hölderlin-Gesänge op. 35a and ...pas à pas – nulle part... op. 36 sung by baritone Kurt Widmer, and Signs, Games and Messages for strings, with the Orlando Trio and Mircea Ardeleanu. Recorded 2002 at Radio Studio DRS, Z…
Wenn Wasser wäre - T.S. Eliot / Giorgos Seferis
Bruno Ganz reads T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (German translation by Ernst Robert Curtius) and poems by Giorgos Seferis, linked by music by György Kurtág, Giya Kancheli and Nikos Xydakis. Recorded 1999 in Zürich and Basel.
Elogio per un'ombra
Violin recital by Michelle Makarski, with Thomas Larcher on piano in Dallapiccola and Berio, setting Tartini's Sonata No. 7 among works by Petrassi, Carter, Rochberg and a 14th-century Lamento. Recorded May 1999 at Radio DRS, Zürich.
Béla Bartók / Peter Eötvös / György Kurtág
Kim Kashkashian plays Bartók's Viola Concerto, Peter Eötvös's Replica and György Kurtág's Movement for Viola and Orchestra with the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra under Eötvös, recorded in 1999 at Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht.
Surrogate Cities
Heiner Goebbels's Surrogate Cities for orchestra, sampler and voices, with Jocelyn B. Smith, David Moss and the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie under Peter Rundel; orchestra recorded 1996 at Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, vocals 1999 in Frankfurt.
Messe Noire
Alexei Lubimov plays Stravinsky's Serenade in A and piano sonatas by Shostakovich (No. 2), Prokofiev (No. 7) and Scriabin (No. 9), recorded at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich, in May 1998 and December 2000, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Lament
Giya Kancheli's Lament, music of mourning in memory of Luigi Nono, for violin, soprano and orchestra, performed by Gidon Kremer, Maacha Deubner and the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra under Jansug Kakhidze, recorded in Tbilisi in March 1998.
Ceremony
Maya Homburger (baroque violin) and Barry Guy (double bass) play Biber's Annunciation prelude and five pieces by Guy, one for violin and seven-track tape, recorded in April and July 1997 at Propstei St. Gerold and Rainbow Studio, Oslo.
Gottfried Michael Koenig
Restocked, reduced price: beautifully prepared overview of Gottfried Michael Koenig's work (including early 60s WDR electronic classics), produced in conjunction by the Instituut of Sonologie and NEAR/Donemus w/ Edition RZ. During the early '60s, Koe…
Kultrum
Eight pieces by Dino Saluzzi for bandoneon and string quartet, played by Saluzzi with the Rosamunde Quartett (Andreas Reiner, Simon Fordham, Helmut Nicolai, Anja Lechner), recorded in March 1998 at Propstei St. Gerold and produced by Manfred Eicher.
Sonaten für Viola und Klavier
Brahms's two Sonatas op. 120 in the composer's viola version, played by Kim Kashkashian (viola) and Robert Levin (piano), recorded in November 1996 at the Liederhalle, Stuttgart, and produced by Manfred Eicher.
Játékok
György and Márta Kurtág play 30 pieces from his piano cycle Játékok (Games) and four of his Bach transcriptions, for two and four hands. Recorded July 1996 in the Mozart-Saal, Wiener Konzerthaus, produced by Manfred Eicher.
J.S. Bach / B.A. Zimmermann
Thomas Demenga's fourth ECM New Series pairing of Bach and the 20th century: Bach's Cello Suite No. 2, BWV 1008, with Bernd Alois Zimmermann's solo sonatas for violin (Thomas Zehetmair), viola (Christoph Schiller) and cello, recorded in 1995 in Sandh…
Giya Kancheli, Maacha Deubner, Natalia Pschenitschnikova, Catrin Demenga, Ruth Killius, Rebecca Firth, Christian Sutter, Wladimir Jurowski
ExilGiya Kancheli's Exil (1994), settings of Psalm 23 and poems by Paul Celan and Hans Sahl for soprano, instruments and tape, sung by Maacha Deubner with a chamber ensemble conducted by Wladimir Jurowski, recorded in May 1994 at Propstei St. Gerold.
Suites for Keyboard
Keith Jarrett plays seven keyboard suites by Georg Friedrich Händel on piano, recorded in September 1993 at the State University of New York, Purchase, produced by Manfred Eicher and released by ECM New Series in 1995.
Officium
Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones) improvising with the Hilliard Ensemble on sacred vocal music from Gregorian chant to Morales, Dufay and Pérotin, recorded in September 1993 at the Propstei St. Gerold, Austria.