Accordion

Nine new pieces with Latin titles by the Swiss accordionist and composer, his first album since the Invada diptych Introspectio and Repertio. Recorded and mixed by Nicola Jannuzzo at Veruston Studios.

Five works by Matthias Krüger (born 1987), from the organ piece conTemp[s]lations to rosebud for dancer, motion sensors and live electronics made at IRCAM, played by Tobias Hagedorn, Claudia Chan, Xavier Larsson Paez and others, with dancer Victor Virnot.

Four works by Swiss composer Stefan Keller, Schaukel, Breathe, Stück für Klavier and hybrid gaits (2017), played by Ensemble Ascolta conducted by Yalda Zamani, with the composer on live electronics. Mostly SWR productions, 2023.

Four contemporary saxophone concertos by Péter Eötvös, Georg Friedrich Haas, Vykintas Baltakas and Johannes Maria Staud, all premiered by soloist Marcus Weiss, with the WDR Sinfonieorchester, Teodoro Anzellotti and Windkraft Tirol. A WDR production.

Portrait CD of Eloain Lovis Hübner: crunch modes 1.0 and 3.0, [untitled] and Trauma und Zwischenraum 1-3, played by Schallfeld Ensemble, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna, AuditivVokal Dresden, airborne extended, the Arditti Quartet and Lange//Berweck//Lorenz.

Portrait album of Misha Cvijović: nine works from full orchestra to minimoog and tape, played by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Enno Poppe, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Sebastian Berweck and the Trio Splitsignals Berlin.

Portrait CD of Benjamin Scheuer: Impulsive Lieder, Sprachmaschine, Vier Attrappen, Regal and Lachtherapie, performed by Andreas Fischer and ensemble, Vanessa Porter, Schola Heidelberg under Walter Nußbaum, ensemble risonanze erranti and Nikolai Rosenberg.

Portrait CD of the Iranian composer Elnaz Seyedi: five works for duo, trio and ensemble, played by the Zöllner-Roche Duo, Alice Belugou and David Eggert, Trio Aventure, Ensemble Musikfabrik and the Kommas Ensemble, plus two online videos.

Portrait CD of Jonah Haven: six chamber and ensemble works, played by Wolftone, Ensemble Proton Bern under Gregor Mayrhofer, ensemble recherche, Trio Catch and Duo XAMP.

Portrait CD of Sergej Maingardt: Rush for orchestra, ensemble and electronics, Flower's silence in empty guns for piano, electronics and Wii sensors, and Declare Independence, with the Bundesjugendorchester under Lothar Zagrosek, Paulo Álvares and Ensemble electronic ID.

Former hardcore punks from Palembang who swapped amps for mandolin, accordion and Malay drums: pantun-inspired songs from 2009-2013, including unreleased material, sung by muezzin David Hersya.

Live recording from Donaueschingen, 17 October 1992: Michael Riessler's project on Abélard and Héloise, with Valentin Clastrier, Michel Godard, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Rabih Abou-Khalil and others, recorded by Südwestfunk.

Six chamber works by Younghi Pagh-Paan, including BIDAN-SIL (Silken Thread) and two TA-RYONG pieces, in first recordings by the E-MEX Ensemble conducted by Christoph Maria Wagner. Co-production with Deutschlandradio, 2020.

Six duos (2000-2016) by Tokyo-born composer Keiko Harada for pairs such as trombone and accordion or flute and koto, with Stefan Hussong, Carin Levine, Naoko Kikuchi, Yumiko Meguri, Jürgen Ruck and Mike Svoboda. First recordings, co-produced with Radio Bremen.

Six works (2008-2015) by Shanghai-born composer Ying Wang for solo instruments, ensemble and electronics, with Nikola Lutz, Teodoro Anzellotti, Nina Janßen-Deinzer, Isao Nakamura, Ensemble Phoenix Basel and MAM. Deutschlandfunk Forum neue Musik 2015 production.

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.

Bach's three gamba sonatas BWV 1027-1029, played on cello and accordion, alternating with Adriana Hölszky's Wolke und Mond, Miserere and Nouns to Nouns II, by Julius Berger and Stefan Hussong. Recorded 2001 and 2003.

Three works by Keiko Harada: F-fragments for accordion and piano (2012), Book I for accordion solo (2010) and seven pieces from Nach Bach for piano (2004), played by Stefan Hussong and Yumiko Meguri.

Four works by Sofia Gubaidulina for double bass: Sonata and Pantomime with piano, In Croce with bayan and the Preludes for solo bass, played by Daniele Roccato with Fabrizio Ottaviucci (piano) and Massimiliano Pitocco (bayan).

John Cage's Two3 (1991), one of his late Number Pieces for shō and five water-filled conch shells, performed by Wu Wei (sheng, conch shells) and Stefan Hussong (accordion, conch shells) over two CDs.

Five works (1996-2004) by Sebastian Claren, with Teodoro Anzellotti and trio recherche, ensemble mosaik under Enno Poppe, pianist Ernst Surberg and the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR under Matthias Hermann.

First portrait CD of the Serbian composer Milica Djordjević, seven works from 2008-2015 played by the Arditti Quartet, Teodoro Anzellotti, Ensemble Musikfabrik under Johannes Schöllhorn and soloists, recorded at Deutschlandfunk Cologne in 2016.

CD and DVD portrait of the Stuttgart-born composer Steffen Krebber, twelve works from 2008-2015 including the Konfusionen series, played by Ensemble Garage, Sonar Quartett, Ensemble Praesenz, LUX:NM and soloists.

Sofia Gubaidulina's Sieben Worte (1982) for cello, accordion and strings and In croce for cello and accordion, played by Julius Berger and Stefan Hussong with the Kammerorchester Diagonal under Florian Rosensteiner.

Six works by Klaus Hinrich Stahmer for East Asian and Western instruments (sheng, guzheng, koto, shakuhachi, kayagum, changgu, accordion, flutes, cello), with Wu Wei, Xu Fengxia, Makiko Goto, Stefan Hussong and others; recorded 2000-2007.

Thomas Demenga (cello) plays Bach's Cello Suites Nos. 5 and 6 between chamber works by Toshio Hosokawa and Isang Yun, with Teodoro Anzellotti, Asako Urushihara, Hansheinz Schneeberger, Thomas Larcher, Aurèle Nicolet and Heinz Holliger. Recorded 1985-2000.

Eleni Karaindrou's music for Wajdi Mouawad's play Tous des oiseaux and Payman Maadi's film Bomb, A Love Story, with Savina Yannatou, Sokratis Sinopoulos, a string orchestra led by Argyro Seira and the composer on piano; recorded at Sierra Studios, Athens, 2017-2018.

Accordion music by Bent Sørensen and Hans Abrahamsen played by Frode Haltli, solo, with the Trondheim Soloists and with the Arditti Quartet; recorded October-November 2014 at Selbu Kirke, Norway.

First portrait album of Dobrinka Tabakova: the Cello Concerto, Suite in Old Style, Insight, Frozen River Flows and Such Different Paths, with Maxim Rysanov, Kristina Blaumane, Janine Jansen and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, recorded in Vilnius and Berlin.

Live recording of Eleni Karaindrou's theatre and film music with guests Kim Kashkashian (viola) and Jan Garbarek (tenor saxophone), oboist Vangelis Christopoulos and the Camerata Orchestra under Alexandros Myrat, Megaron, Athens, 19 November 2010.

Eleni Karaindrou's score for Theo Angelopoulos's film Dust of Time, with Sergiu Nastasa (violin), Renato Ripo (cello), Maria Bildea (harp), the Camerata and the ERT orchestra under Alexandros Myrat, recorded January and March 2008 at the Megaron, Athens.

Kim Kashkashian plays works by Betty Olivero, Tigran Mansurian and Eitan Steinberg, with the Münchener Kammerorchester, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Kuss Quartett, Robyn Schulkowsky and Mansurian, recorded 2006-2008 in Munich, Poznań and Boston.

Encores and short pieces from Bach, Chopin, Fauré, Liszt and Webern to Tsintsadze and Demenga himself, played by cellist Thomas Demenga with Thomas Larcher (piano) and Teodoro Anzellotti (accordion). Recorded August 2004 in Sandhausen.

Heiner Goebbels's opera Landschaft mit entfernten Verwandten, with texts by Stein, Bruno, Michaux, Eliot, Leonardo and Poussin, performed by Georg Nigl, David Bennent, Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor under Franck Ollu, recorded live in October 2004 in Nanterre.

Debut solo album by Norwegian accordionist Frode Haltli: Nordic works by Sørensen, Lindborg, Ratkje (with the Vertavo String Quartet), Lindberg and Schaathun, recorded in August 2001 at Sofienberg Kirke, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Eleni Karaindrou's score for Theo Angelopoulos's 1998 film Eternity and a Day, played by La Camerata Athens under Loukas Karytinos with Greek soloists and the composer on piano, recorded March-April 1998 at the Athens Concert Hall.

Eleni Karaindrou's music for Theo Angelopoulos's 1995 film Ulysses' Gaze, with Kim Kashkashian (viola), soloists and a string orchestra conducted by Lefteris Chalkiadakis, recorded in December 1994 at Sound Studio, Athens, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Egberto Gismonti's suite Strawa no Sertão and other pieces, played by Bernard Wystraëte (flutes) and his Paris ensemble, with Gismonti as guest pianist. Recorded in Paris, 2001-2002. Carmo, 2005.

Different Rivers is Trygve Seim's 2000 ECM debut as a leader, for a thirteen-piece, mostly wind ensemble with Arve Henriksen, Sidsel Endresen and others, recorded at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, between December 1998 and December 1999.

Album by Tunisian oud player Anouar Brahem with Richard Galliano (accordion), François Couturier (piano, synthesizer), Palle Danielsson (double bass), Jon Christensen (drums) and others, recorded September 1994 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo. First released by ECM in 1995.