The Mauricio Kagel Edition
"It's fascinating, and a wonderful reminder of how fresh and unique Kagel's place in the history of music in the last half-century is." - The Guardian
Schwarzes Madrigal
*2025 stock* "In composing a piano trio, I fulfilled a long-fostered desire. This is a genre which, like the string quartet tradition, can slightly intimidate any composer. I too waited patiently but anxiously to make my own contribution. The pre-his…
Playback Play
*2025 stock* Famous for his examination of unusual and exotic instrumental sounds, here Mauricio Kagel focuses on the most mundane of sound materials. While attending a music trade show, Kagel was taken by the many levels and orbits of sound activity…
Penumbra
Four beautifully reduced duets, jointly developed by violinist Morgan Evans-Weiler and pianist J.P.A. Falzone. Music which is as delicate as a feather, but also as tough as nails.
Longing Landscape
Three recent and typically exquisite chamber works by Swiss composer Jürg Frey, all written for and performed by the Prague Quiet Music Collective - one in collaboration with the Norwegian new music group asamisimasa.
O a | F g
Two wonderfully mysterious 20+ minute compositions for ensemble by Teodora Stepančić, played by Ordinary Affects.
Towards a slowing of the past
Virtuosic & highly-acclaimed 45-minute work for two pianos and electronics, Mark Knoop & Roderick Chadwick.
Recorded by Simon Reynell at the University of Huddersfield, October 2024. Edited & mastered by Mark Knoop. The work was commissioned with sup…
Lacinia
Returning to Die Schachtel with his forth full-length with the label, the Genoa born, Bologna based, guitarist and electroacoustic composer, Stefano Pilia, delivers “Lacinia”, a new, immersive cycle of compositions, delving deeper into the realm of m…
Bonbori
Noriko Baba’s music transforms fleeting details into profound artistic expressions, weaving nostalgia, nature, and her Japanese heritage into evocative soundscapes. From the intimate, lantern-lit glow of Bonbori to the tumultuous echoes of the 2011 t…
Tönendes licht
In tönendes licht., Klaus Lang imagines the Gothic cathedral as a resonating body shaped by the architectural principles of hierarchy and proportion. Performed by Wolfgang Kogert and the Wiener Symphoniker conducted by Peter Rundel, the work creates …
Zone Grise
Didier Rotella’s "Zone Grise" unfolds in a space of perpetual transformation, where sound navigates between density and purity, acoustic and electronic, structure and fluidity. Catharsis combines hybrid instruments and spatialized textures to evoke a…
Niu
*Edition of 250 hand-numbered copies, handmade textile artwork, printed inner sleeve* Rauelsson's third solo album for Sonic Pieces focuses on simplicity and minimalism. It recalibrates his love for ambient with an austere approach that conjures an a…
Gaiaphilia
The title, Gaiaphilia, is a newly created word to encompass our love and respect for nature and life, this feeling is the theme we hoped to express.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Teodoro Anzellotti, Edicson Ruiz, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Ensemble Modern, Klaus Ospald
Klaus Ospald: Escribíbastille musique presents its thirty-third release »Klaus Ospald: Escribí« featuring world premiere recordings by Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Teodoro Anzellotti (accordion), Edicson Ruiz (double bass), WDR Sinfonieorchester and Ensemble Modern, an…
Spur
bastille musique presents its thirty-second release »Beat Furrer: Spur« featuring world premiere recordings by Quatuor Diotima, Claudia Chan (piano) and Thorsten Johanns (clarinet). The double album combines Furrer’s complete four string quartets wit…
Urquiza, Terranova, Rataj, Djordjević, Kranebitter, Glojnarić, Schüttler: Gassenhauer
bastille musique presents its thirty-first release »Urquiza, Terranova, Rataj, Djordjević, Kranebitter, Glojnarić, Schüttler: Gassenhauer« featuring seven world premiere recordings by the Trio Catch. The album combines new works for clarinet, violonc…
Belt of Orion
Belt of Orion by Stockholm-based Isak Edberg is the composer’s second solo release on XKatedral, and his first to focus solely on instrumental music in the form of two pieces of extended duration for solo piano.
Time – Space – Sound – Light
Time of year and day, light; warmth, coolness; wind, rain; breath of air, babbling of the stream; People and other beings going about their lives: a strangely unpredictable mix of expected and unexpected events that contribute to the precise conditio…
Seven Reorganisations
Close to five years since the future-fwd dancefloor classic Workaround, Seven Reorganisations sees Beatrice Dillon return to the long-player format a long way removed from the club she helped reimagine. In some ways, the immediacy of that previous re…
A Root Or Mirror, Blossom, Madder, Cracks; Together
"[..] With Rebecca Bruton’s piece, the melody/ harmony is transmuted into something psychedelic by manifesting its essential indivisibility from the shifting textures of the music as a whole. There’s often an ephemeral virtuosity to this music, an in…