Contrappassi
"The CD entitled Contrappassi sees the two protagonists, Leonardo Zunica on piano and Leandro Lo Bianco on electric guitar, engaged in compositions by contemporary authors, with pieces that find poetic-musical inspiration in the fascinating and complex world of Dante. A program with broad musical visions that transport you to an unexpected soundscape, with the two performers who give life to moments and atmospheres of surprising suggestion.
The CD's lineup opens with the Sonata n. 1 "Dante Sonat…
Dioramas
*350 copies limited edition* On Andrew Chalk's 2025 album for An'archives, 'Dioramas,' he returns to the art of the miniaturist, after the long-form exploration of 2024's 'Songs Of The Sea.' It's an appropriate mode of address given the title - each of these fifteen pieces indeed feels like a replica of a specific scene, rendered in miniature. As with much of Chalk's music, they set out to explore humble terrain, a thread of melody in slow motion, or a weave of texture, sometimes in aquatic repo…
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, and conductors Enno Poppe, Peter Hirsch, David Niemann and Lin Liao. From a piano concerto and a concerto for double bass with accordion to an ensemble piece and a clarinet sextet, the album combines four of Ospald’s instrumental works from 2014 to 202…
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 with his piano quintet and clarinet quintet, spanning a period of almost four decades from 1984 to 2021. The WDR recordings are complemented by a 48-page bilingual booklet (EN, DE) with texts by Harry Vogt, Andreas Karl and an interview with the interpr…
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, violoncello and piano by Mikel Urquiza, Daniela Terranova, Jakub Rataj, Milica Djordjević, Matthias Kranebitter, Sara Glojnarić and Mart*in Schüttler, all commissioned for and premiered by Trio Catch. In addition to the recordings produced by the SWR, it al…
Sinfonien (Live)
2024 stock bastille musique presents its eighteenth release »Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Sinfonien (live)« featuring Emily Hindrichs (soprano), Anna Radziejewska (mezzo-soprano), Bettina Ranch (alto), Peter Tantsits (tenor), Hans Christoph Begemann (baritone), Otto Katzameier (bass), the WDR Sinfonieorchester and Emilio Pomàrico (conductor). The set comprises Zimmermann’s Sinfonie in einem Satz (1951) and Vokalsinfonie (1957-1963) from Die Soldaten, recorded live at the Kölner Philharmonie by the WD…
Lucier & Bach: Sitting In A Room
2024 stock bastille musique presents its seventeenth release »Lucier & Bach: Sitting in a Room« featuring Hanna Herfurtner (soprano, voice), Clara Blessing (oboe), Joosten Ellée (violin), Linda Mantcheva (violoncello) and Elina Albach (harpsichord, organ). The album combines Alvin Lucier’s sound art piece I am sitting in a room with arias by Johann Sebastian Bach (from BWV 61, 1, 58, 199, 57, 36, 248, 68). Recorded in co-production with Deutschlandfunk, the set also includes a 48-page bilingual …
Lonely Child
2024 stock bastille musique presents its thirteenth release »Claude Vivier: Lonely Child« featuring five works by Vivier from 1977 and 1980: Lonely Child performed by Katrien Baerts (soprano), the WDR Symphony Orchestra and Bas Wiegers (conductor), Shiraz by Akiko Okabe (piano), Pulau Dewata and Zipangu by the Holst-Sinfonietta and Klaus Simon (conductor), and Love Songs by the Neue Vocalsolisten. In addition to these recordings produced by the WDR, SWR and Deutschlandfunk Kultur, the set also i…
Kopernikus
2024 stock bastille musique presents its first release »Claude Vivier: Kopernikus« in a SWR studio recording by the Opera Factory Freiburg, the Holst-Sinfonietta and Klaus Simon (conductor). Besides the CD containing Vivier’s chamber opera from 1979, which he called opéra-rituel de mort, the lavish package includes a 64-pages trilingual booklet (EN, FR, DE) and two photo leaflets with previously unpublished pictures of Claude Vivier as well as the artists during a staged performance.
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 conditions of the moment in which we find ourselves. The here and now conveys a special feeling and a unique sound identity. Mason enables us to connect with times, places, people and situations that go far beyond the here and now. Mason is one of the most i…
Origami
*2025 stock* Since its birth 200 years ago, the accordion has experienced a wild odyssey through the most diverse (musical) worlds. Teodoro Anzellotti plays a decisive role in its integration into the world of new music. Anzellotti records five works for accordion solo at WDR, which were written on his skin. The pieces reveal the enormous range of the instrument among others composed by Georges Aperghis, awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2022.
Anzellotti, born in Italy, raised and res…
From the Diary of a Fly
For almost his entire life, Béla Bartók's music fell on deaf ears. Unnoticed by the general public, this extraordinary composer created a unique cosmos of Hungarian/South-Eastern European folk and art music. Like Schönberg and Stravinsky, he is one of the protagonists of 20th century musical art. A few years after his death, his music became a bestseller and this success has reached unimagined heights again in our time. Accordionist Teodoro Anzellotti presents an individual selection of Bartók's…
Ekecheiria (for voices and bass clarinet)
*2025 stock* Olympia 1972 and the musical avant-garde. A look back at the music program created for and around the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich causes astonishment. The people in charge give space to contemporary music. It is quite natural and apparently normal to rely on the avant-garde. This extraordinary musical framework program for the 1972 Olympics has almost been forgotten. The architecture with its transparent, glass tent roof is remembered as a sign of a new, cosmopolitan, modern and de…
Left, Alone
*2025 stock* Left, alone is Winter & Winter's seventh release of works by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen. The collaboration began in 2009 with »Schnee«, followed by »/Walden/Wald/«, »Zählen und Erzählen« [with Four Pieces for Orchestra, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra and Ten Studies for Piano], »Gifts and Greetings« for the 40th anniversary of the Arditti String Quartet, »let me tell you« with Barbara Hanningan, Andris Nelsons and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, which is one…
Sakamoto (On Guitar)
Jonathan Bockelmann is a classical guitarist and composer based in Munich who first made waves in 2023 with his debut album ‘Childish Mind’. His entry into composing were arrangements he had made of pieces by Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Some of these have been released digitally in three editions and are now available on vinyl for the first time. The record comes in high quality packaging with an embossed art print and features both some of Sakamoto’s lesser-known works like the ‘Suite f…
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 record positions it as somewhat of an outlier in Dillon's impressive catalogue of modern experimentation, and this latest collection, derived from a commission made by Mark Fell, represents a continuation of what now looks like a long established inter…
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 intricate (sometimes opaque, sometimes disorientingly transparent), florid weave of sound. But this virtuosity doesn’t assert dramatic effects; there are gestures here, but they’re the movements of sounding bodies, not the quasi-meaningful gesticulatio…
Collected Works
Bomb! Box set on Nonesuch with 27 discs (26 CDs + 1 DVD) in wallets, plus two booklets (132 + 120 pages). Nonesuch Records releases Steve Reich Collected Works, a twenty-seven-disc box set featuring music recorded during composer Steve Reich's forty years on the label, on March 14, 2025, available to pre-order here. The collection represents six decades of Reich’s compositions, ranging from It’s Gonna Rain (1965) to first recordings of his two latest works: Jacob’s Ladder (2023) and Traveler’s P…