Cello
All records with cello · Solo cello only
Dispersion
Elliott Sharp's Dispersion: Flexagons, Dispersion of Seeds, The Hidden Variable and Palimpsest, four processes-based works for large ensemble, played by the young musicians of Veni Academy under Marián Lejava, with Sharp on electroacoustic guitar.
Absence
Four chamber works by Gerald Eckert from 2006 to 2015, for piccolos and percussion, voices, flute and cello, and violin and contrabass clarinet with electronics, played by Ensemble L'art pour l'art, Auditivvokal and Ensemble Reflexion K.
Negoum
Nine duo improvisations for guitars, bouzouki and cello by Ayman Fanous and Frances-Marie Uitti, recorded in the studio the day after their first concert together, the first release in the Fanous Edition.
The Complete Cello Works
Four late cello works by Horatiu Radulescu played by his widow Catherine Marie Tunnell, with Ian Pace at the piano: L'Exil Intérieur, Das Andere, Pre-Existing Soul of Then and Lux Animae. Recorded in 2018.
Works for Organ & for Cello
Second volume of the Horatiu Radulescu Edition: his complete organ works played by Christoph Maria Moosmann, plus Intimate Rituals III and Immersed in the Wonder II with cellist Catherine Marie Tunnell, all first recordings.
Naldjorlak I, II, III
Éliane Radigue's complete Naldjorlak trilogy (2004-2009): I for cello (Charles Curtis), II for two basset horns (Carol Robinson, Bruno Martinez), III for all three. Recorded in Paris in 2011 by Daniel Deshays. 3CD.
Pianos Quart de Ton
Music for two and four pianos tuned a quarter tone apart: Wyschnegradsky's Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra and 4e Fragment symphonique with ondes Martenot, plus new works by Alain Moëne and Alain Bancquart. Several first recordings.
Ascension to Purgatory
Recent works by Gerard Pape, 1998-2004, for voices, percussion, computer, amplified strings and ensemble, with Roland Auzet, Rohan de Saram, Irvine Arditti and others, on his third monographic CD for Mode.
Mexico: New Music For Strings
Six works by Mexican composers born between 1957 and 1977, for string quartet and solo violin, recorded in 2002 at the first Radar festival in Mexico City by the Arditti Quartet and Irvine Arditti.
String Quartet No. 1
Morton Feldman's String Quartet No. 1 in the longest recorded performance, with Structures and Three Pieces for String Quartet, played by the Flux Quartet. Two CDs plus a bonus DVD of the uninterrupted 90-minute audio.
Trio
Morton Feldman's Trio for violin, cello and piano, lasting one hour, 45 minutes, in a recording with Aki Takahashi, Marc Sabat and Rohan de Saram, two of whom worked closely with the composer.
String Quartet No. 2
Morton Feldman's String Quartet No. 2, a work of more than six hours, played by the FLUX Quartet on a deluxe five-CD box with liner notes by Christian Wolff and FLUX founder Tom Chiu.
Trajectories
Trajectories is the second full-length album by Michael Vincent Waller, featuring pianist R. Andrew Lee and cellist Seth Parker Woods. The album will be released on September 8th, 2017, on Sean McCann’s Los Angeles based label, Recital. The CD/LP editions include photography by Phill Niblock, liner notes by "Blue" Gene Tyranny, and mastering by Denis Blackham. "In these evocative works, Michael Vincent Waller details his responses to mostly situations of introspection, in which the compose…
Piano Sonatas & String Quartets 1
First volume of Horatiu Radulescu's Piano Sonatas and String Quartets, with String Quartet No. 5 and Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 and 5, the quartet and Sonata No. 5 first recordings, played by the JACK Quartet and Stephen Clarke.
Complete Cello Works
Roger Reynolds's complete works for cello, on 2CD and composer supervised, with many first recordings, played by Alexis Descharmes with Ensemble Court-circuit, violin, electronics and piano, and readings by the composer.
Complete String Quartets
The three string quartets of Helmut Lachenmann, Gran Torso, Reigen seliger Geister and Grido, played by the JACK Quartet in a recording endorsed by the composer.
Bouteilles de Klein
Natasha Barrett’s concert works and remixed installations from 2003 to 2008, from hydrophones at a Norwegian glacier and a 2000-geophone seismic recording to a cello piece with Tanja Orning, in stereo, surround and binaural mixes across two discs. DVD-Audio.
Charisma X
Charisma X, a 2008 documentary film by Efi Xirou on the life and work of Iannis Xenakis, from childhood to his last work Omega, with archive footage, interviews and performances of his music by Sylvio Gualda, Benny Sluchin and others.
I Must Be the Devil
Song album by Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir of múm, pieces for piano and voice written 2005-2017, produced by Kjartan Sveinsson and released in 2019 by Bel-Air Glamour Records with The Vinyl Factory.
Der Klang Der Offenbarung Des Göttlichen
Double 10" of Kjartan Sveinsson's four-part opera after Halldór Laxness's World Light, staged by Ragnar Kjartansson in Berlin in 2014, with the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg and Filmchor Berlin.