Violin
All records with violin · Solo violin only
Lauds and Lamentations - Music of Elliott Carter and Isang Yun
Elliott Carter's Oboe Quartet and solo pieces, and Isang Yun's Piri and Quartet for oboe and string trio, played by Heinz Holliger, Thomas Zehetmair, Ruth Killius and Thomas Demenga. Recorded 2001-2002 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.
Toshio Hosokawa / J.S. Bach / Isang Yun
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-…
Edition Lockenhaus
Five-CD box for the 30th anniversary of Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus festival: Kremerata Baltica under Simon Rattle (Strauss, 2001) and Roman Kofman (Messiaen, 2008), plus Edition Lockenhaus Vols. 1/2 and 4/5, recorded at Lockenhaus 1981-86. ECM New Ser…
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 …
Selected Signs III - VIII
Six-CD anthology compiled by Manfred Eicher and Steve Lake for the exhibition ECM: A Cultural Archaeology (Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2012-13): recordings from 1961 to 2012 by Steve Reich, Arvo Pärt, Eleni Karaindrou, Old and New Dreams and many others.
Prokofiev, Pärt, Schnittke
Duo Gazzana (Natascia Gazzana, violin; Raffaella Gazzana, piano) play Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 1 and Five Melodies, Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel and Schnittke's Gratulationsrondo. Recorded February 2025 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt; produced by Manf…
Brahms / Schumann
Yuuko Shiokawa (violin) and András Schiff (piano) in Brahms's Violin Sonata No. 1, op. 78, and Schumann's Violin Sonata No. 2, op. 121. Recorded December 2015 (Brahms) and January 2019 (Schumann) at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano.
Samuel Beckett, Trevor Bača: Stirrings Still
Samuel Beckett's last prose work, read by Paul Griffiths, with Trevor Bača's score for narrator and string quartet (2016-18) played by the JACK Quartet. Recorded May 2023 and September 2024 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano; produced by Manfred Ei…
Reminiscentiae
Choral and orchestral works by Veljo Tormis, including the four Reminiscentiae seasonal cycles for strings and The Tower Bell in My Village, by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra under Tõnu Kaljuste. Recorded autumn…
Keel Road
The Danish String Quartet (Frederik Øland, Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, Asbjørn Nørgaard, Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin) in their own arrangements of folk tunes from around the North Sea, with pieces by O'Carolan and new tunes by members. Recorded November 2022…
Streichquartette op. 51
Brahms's String Quartets Op. 51 Nos. 1 and 2 played by the Zehetmair Quartett (Thomas Zehetmair, Jakub Jakowicz, Ruth Killius, Christian Elliott). Recorded November 2021 at Konzerthaus Blaibach; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Paul Giger, Marie-Louise Dähler, Pudi Lehmann, Franz Vitzthum, Carmina Quartet
ars moriendiPaul Giger (violin, violino d'amore) with Marie-Louise Dähler, Pudi Lehmann, Franz Vitzthum and the Carmina Quartett in his own pieces and Bach, much of it from a film score on Giovanni Segantini. Recorded January 2015 in Maloja, with Guggisberglied …
Mieczysław Weinberg, Giedrius Kuprevičius, Raminta Šerkšnytė, Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica, Vida Miknevičiūtė
Songs of FateGidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica and soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė play Weinberg, Kuprevičius, Šerkšnytė and Jančevskis in a programme on Jewish and Baltic heritage. Recorded July 2019 in Vilnius and live in July 2022 at Lockenhaus; produced by Manfred Ei…
Im wachen Traume - Schumann/Reimann, Byrd/Pierini, Purcell
Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben in Aribert Reimann's arrangement for soprano and string quartet, framed by Byrd and Purcell arranged by Stefano Pierini. Delian Quartett with Claudia Barainsky and Mikhail Timoshenko, recorded October 2021 at Abtei Ma…
L'Aurore
Solo violin recital by Carolin Widmann: Hildegard von Bingen, Enescu's Fantaisie concertante, George Benjamin's Three Miniatures, Ysaÿe's Sonata No. 5 and Bach's Partita No. 2; recorded July 2021 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manf…
Kõrvits, Schumann, Grieg
Duo Gazzana (Natascia Gazzana, violin; Raffaella Gazzana, piano) play Schumann's Sonata No. 1, Grieg's Sonata No. 3 and the premiere recordings of Tõnu Kõrvits' Stalker Suite and notturni; recorded November 2021 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt, produced …
Sonatas for Violin Solo
Mieczysław Weinberg's three sonatas for solo violin (1964, 1967, 1979) played by Gidon Kremer; No. 3 recorded live at Lockenhaus in July 2013, Nos. 1 and 2 at Studio Residence Paliesius, Lithuania, in December 2019.
Con Anima
Chamber music by Tigran Mansurian (1993-2015) for his 80th birthday, led by violist Kim Kashkashian and violinist Movses Pogossian with Varty Manouelian, Karen Ouzounian and others; recorded January-April 2019 at UCLA's Ostin Music Center, Los Angele…
Sun Triptych
Chamber and string orchestra works by Dobrinka Tabakova, played by Maxim Rysanov, Dasol Kim, Roman Mints, Kristina Blaumane and the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by the composer. Recorded August 2020 (Meistersaal, Berlin) and July 2021 (Watford Col…
Lost Prayers
Chamber music by Erkki-Sven Tüür: two piano trios, a violin-cello duo and the String Quartet No. 2, played by Harry Traksmann, Leho Karin, Marrit Gerretz-Traksmann, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff and the Signum Quartett. Recorded April 2019, Sendes…