Trumpet
All records with trumpet · Solo trumpet only
Beckett Material
Morton Feldman's 1976 trilogy Orchestra, Elemental Procedures (soprano, choir, orchestra; Beckett text) and Routine Investigations, with Claudia Barainsky, WDR Rundfunkchor and WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln under Peter Rundel; recorded 2010 and 2013.
Lenz in Moskau / Im Nachtigallental / Ton für Ton (weiße Straßen Babylons) / Au bord d’une source
Four works by Rolf Riehm (2007-2011): Lenz in Moskau with Ensemble ascolta, Im Nachtigallental for cello (Erik Borgir), Ton für Ton for contrabass clarinet (Theo Nabicht) and Au bord d'une source with Jeremias Schwarzer and the hr-Sinfonieorchester under Sian Edwards.
Krönung
Edition Musikfabrik vol. 5: Baltakas's (co)ro(na), Saunders's cinnabar with Juditha Haeberlin and Marco Blaauw, Lindberg's Joy and Xenakis's Thalleïn, recorded live by Ensemble Musikfabrik in Cologne, 2004-2006.
Angels
Ten works for trumpet by Liza Lim, Rebecca Saunders, Georg Friedrich Haas, Carl Ruggles, Agata Zubel, Martin Smolka and others, mostly first recordings, played by Marco Blaauw on trumpet, double-bell trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn, with brass ensemble.
Kammermusik
Six chamber works (2005-2008) by Benjamin Schweitzer, including Abgesang from the chamber opera Dafne and Anfänge/Netze after Calvino, played by the Dresden ensemble courage under Titus Engel, recorded in Berlin in December 2011.
Stirrings Still
Five chamber works by Rebecca Saunders, four in first recordings, including blaauw for double-bell trumpet, vermilion and Stirrings Still, played by soloists of Ensemble Musikfabrik in coproduction with DeutschlandRadio.
Eirene / Räume / ... geraume Zeit ... / Begegnung / Rondino
Five orchestral works by Herbert Willi, including the trumpet concerto Eirene and the concerto for flute and oboe ... geraume Zeit ..., with Reinhold Friedrich, Wolfgang Schulz, Hansjörg Schellenberger and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, 1999-2004.
Music for Wind Ensemble and Concert Band
Works for wind ensemble and concert band by Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch, Hans Gál and Ernst Krenek, three of them written in 1926 for Donaueschingen, played by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Roger Epple.
Ain’t Nuthin’ but Fairy Dust
Portrait CD of Matthias Krüger: le vide à perdre, Wie ein Stück Fett (Redux) and Bellygoat Boom (substrate), played by Ensemble Ascolta under Nicholas Kok, Ensemble BRuCH and the WDR Sinfonieorchester under Elena Schwarz.
The Death of the Star-Knower
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.
Selected Recordings
ECM :rarum 19 (2004): thirteen pieces chosen by Arild Andersen from his ECM albums recorded 1975-1999, with Kenny Wheeler, Bill Frisell, Masqualero, Ralph Towner, Nana Vasconcelos, Vassilis Tsabropoulos and others.
Selected Recordings
ECM :rarum 17 (2004): twelve pieces chosen by Tomasz Stańko from seven ECM albums recorded 1975-1998, with Dave Holland, Edward Vesala, Gary Peacock, Jan Garbarek, Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin, Tony Oxley and others; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Selected Recordings
ECM :rarum 14 (2004): ten tracks chosen by John Abercrombie from ten ECM albums recorded 1974-2000, with Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Ralph Towner, Kenny Wheeler, Mark Feldman and others; original sessions produced by Manfred Eicher.
Selected Recordings
ECM :rarum volume VIII: Bobo Stenson's own selection of thirteen recordings from 1971 to 1999, with his trios (Arild Andersen, Anders Jormin, Jon Christensen) and with Jan Garbarek, Don Cherry, Charles Lloyd and Tomasz Stanko.
Bells For The South Side
Double album by Roscoe Mitchell with his four trios (Craig Taborn, Tyshawn Sorey, Hugh Ragin, William Winant and others), recorded live in September 2015 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago during the AACM's 50th anniversary.
Wisława
Double album of new compositions by Tomasz Stanko's New York Quartet with David Virelles (piano), Thomas Morgan (double bass) and Gerald Cleaver (drums), dedicated to Wisława Szymborska. Recorded at Avatar Studios, New York, in June 2012; ECM, 2013.
Magnetic Works 1993-2001
Two-CD anthology compiled by Jon Balke from the Magnetic North Orchestra albums Further (1993), Solarized (1998) and Kyanos (2001), with Anders Jormin, Audun Kleive, Per Jørgensen, Arve Henriksen, Morten Halle and string players including the Cikada String Quartet.
Resonance
Two-CD compilation of the Manfred Schoof Quintet's JAPO albums Scales, Light Lines and Horizons, with Michel Pilz, Jasper van 't Hof, Rainer Brüninghaus, Günter Lenz and Ralf-R. Hübner. Recorded 1976-1979 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg.
The Codona Trilogy
3-CD box collecting Codona's three ECM albums (Codona, Codona 2, Codona 3) by Collin Walcott, Don Cherry and Naná Vasconcelos, recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, in 1978, 1980 and 1982, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Rousilvo
Dine Doneff's Balkan-jazz folk opera on the abandoned village of Rousilvo (Xanthogeia) in northern Greece, mixing an ensemble, the Camea Quartet and archive voices. Recorded April 2004 at Agrotikon, Thessaloniki; neRED/1.