Viola
All records with viola · Solo viola only
Wechselspiele
Seven works (1994-2016) by the Bucharest-born composer Tom Sora, in first recordings by Sarah Maria Sun, TrioCoriolis, the Steuber-Öllinger guitar duo, Andreas Skouras, Thomas Hastreiter and Sora himself. Co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2017…
Streichquartette
Helmut Zapf's four string quartets (1984-2013), including Verschwommene Ränder after Hendrik Jackson, played by the Sonar Quartett in first recordings. Co-production with Deutschlandradio, released by Wergo in 2017.
Geste zu Vedova
Four string works by Wolfgang Rihm: the quartets of 1966 and 1968, Geste zu Vedova (2015) and Epilog for string quintet (2012/13). Minguet Quartett with cellist Jens Peter Maintz, recorded in Cologne in 2015/16, co-produced with Deutschlandradio.
Dystemporal
Six works (2005-2012) by Anthony Cheung in first recordings: Talea Ensemble under James Baker, Cheung on piano, and Dystemporal live by the Ensemble Intercontemporain under Susanna Mälkki (Paris, October 2012). Wergo, 2016.
Visionen
Five works by Dimitri Terzakis (1988-2009): Legetos, the Sappho-Zyklus, À une Madone, Visionen and Sonate infernale, with Brigitte Fassbaender, Tatjana Masurenko, the Thomanerchor Leipzig, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester and others.
Streichquartette 1, 3 & 4
Pēteris Vasks's String Quartets No. 4 (1999), No. 1 (1977/97) and No. 3 (1995), played by the Spīķeru String Quartet; recorded at the GORS concert hall, Rēzekne, in 2014.
TRACES
Chamber music by Detlev Müller-Siemens (2002-2009): String Trio, distant traces, ...called dusk and the piano quartet lost traces, two of them in memory of György Ligeti, played by the Mondrian Ensemble Basel; a co-production with Radio SRF 2 Kultur.
Liebeslieder
Twenty-nine love songs commissioned by ensemble recherche for its 25th anniversary in 2010, by Abrahamsen, Czernowin, Haas, Huber, Poppe, Widmann, Zender and others, plus Sciarrino's Mozart arrangement. A WDR production.
Serenade op. 24
Arnold Schoenberg's Serenade op. 24 for seven instruments and low male voice, conducted by Pierre Boulez with bass Louis-Jacques Rondeleux, recorded in Paris in 1961 and reissued in Wergo's studio reihe series.
Quintets & Solos
Toshio Hosokawa's Landscape V, Landscape II and Fragmente II for string quartet with shō, harp and recorder, and the solos Elegy, Threnody and Small Chant, played by the Arditti Quartet with Mayumi Miyata, Naoko Yoshino and Tosiya Suzuki.
Silent Flowers
Six string quartets by Toshio Hosokawa from 1980 to 2009, including Blossoming, Silent Flowers and the first recording of Kalligraphie, played by the Arditti Quartet, recorded in Baden-Baden in February 2012 with Südwestrundfunk.
11. Streichquartett / Interscriptum / Grave
Wolfgang Rihm's 11th String Quartet (1998/2010), Interscriptum for string quartet and piano and Grave in memoriam Thomas Kakuska, played by the Minguet Quartett with pianist Markus Bellheim, a co-production with Deutschlandradio.
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.
Initiale
Complete songs and early chamber music by Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1939-1950), with soprano Anna Prohaska, pianist Cordelia Höfer, violinists Alessandro Cappone and Rachel Schmidt and the Trio Berlin, recorded 2009-2010 in Berlin.
Hommages
Chamber and solo pieces by Hans Werner Henze dedicated to friends and colleagues, most in first recordings, performed by ensemble recherche, a coproduction with Westdeutscher Rundfunk.
Concerto funebre / Burleske Musik / Konzert für Klavier, Bläser und Schlagzeug / Konzert für Viola und Klavier
Four concertante works by Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1931-1955), including the Concerto funebre, with Benjamin Schmid, Elisabeth Kufferath, Yorck Kronenberg, Florian Uhlig and the SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern under Paul Goodwin, recorded 2004-200…
Sphäre um Sphäre / Frage
First recordings of Wolfgang Rihm's Sphäre um Sphäre for ensemble and Frage for female voice and ensemble, played by ensemble recherche, which premiered both, with Salome Kammer and conductor Lucas Vis. A coproduction with WDR.
Griechenland / Trio für Oboe, Viola und Harfe / Diaphonie
Orchestral and chamber works by Frank Michael Beyer: Griechenland (1981), the Trio for oboe, viola and harp (1980) with Heinz and Ursula Holliger and Hirofumi Fukai, and Diaphonie (1975), from radio recordings of 1978-1983.
Streichquartett Nr. 2 F-Moll, op. 10 / Streichquartett Nr. 6 in Es
Hindemith's String Quartets No. 2 in F minor, op. 10, and No. 6 in E flat (1943), played by the Juilliard String Quartet (Mann, Smirnoff, Rhodes, Krosnick), recorded in New York in June 1996 for the Edition Paul Hindemith.
Naturell / Concent / Lack / Infrarot / Sepia / Aceton
Portrait CD of Achim Bornhöft: six works from 1999-2010 for computer, string quartet, flute and clarinet, percussion quartet, quintet and four electric guitars with live electronics, played by Helios Streichquartett, Ensemble Phorminx, Freiburger Sch…