Violin
All records with violin · Solo violin only
Eislermaterial
Heiner Goebbels's homage to Hanns Eisler, built from Eisler's songs, instrumental music and recorded voice, performed by Ensemble Modern with actor Josef Bierbichler, recorded live at the Hebbel-Theater, Berlin, in October 1998.
Anja Lechner, Silke Avenhaus, Maacha Deubner, Simon Fordham, Valentin Silvestrov, Rosamunde Quartett
leggiero, pesanteChamber music by Valentin Silvestrov (1974-2001) played by Anja Lechner, Silke Avenhaus, Maacha Deubner, Simon Fordham and the Rosamunde Quartett, with the composer at the piano; recorded January 2001 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt.
Sofia Gubaidulina, Elsbeth Moser, Boris Pergamenschikow, Münchener Kammerorchester, Christoph Poppen
Sofia GubaidulinaSofia Gubaidulina's Seven Words, Ten Preludes and De Profundis, played by Elsbeth Moser (bayan), Boris Pergamenschikow (cello) and the Münchener Kammerorchester under Christoph Poppen; recorded January 2001 in Munich.
Morimur
Bach's Partita in D minor BWV 1004 played by Christoph Poppen on baroque violin, interleaved with chorales sung by The Hilliard Ensemble after Helga Thoene's analysis; recorded September 2000 at Propstei St. Gerold, Austria.
Scardanelli
German-language audio book from Harald Bergmann's 2000 film on Hölderlin's last 36 years in Tübingen: poems read by Walter Schmidinger, testimony voiced by actors, music by Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Peter Schneider. Recorded 1997-1998.
The Seven Words
Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross in its string quartet version, played by the Rosamunde Quartett (Reiner, Fordham, Nicolai, Lechner). Recorded May 2000 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt am Main.
Signs, Games and Messages - Friedrich Hölderlin / Samuel Beckett
Three cycles by György Kurtág: Hölderlin-Gesänge op. 35a and ...pas à pas – nulle part... op. 36 sung by baritone Kurt Widmer, and Signs, Games and Messages for strings, with the Orlando Trio and Mircea Ardeleanu. Recorded 2002 at Radio Studio DRS, Z…
Wenn Wasser wäre - T.S. Eliot / Giorgos Seferis
Bruno Ganz reads T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (German translation by Ernst Robert Curtius) and poems by Giorgos Seferis, linked by music by György Kurtág, Giya Kancheli and Nikos Xydakis. Recorded 1999 in Zürich and Basel.
Elogio per un'ombra
Violin recital by Michelle Makarski, with Thomas Larcher on piano in Dallapiccola and Berio, setting Tartini's Sonata No. 7 among works by Petrassi, Carter, Rochberg and a 14th-century Lamento. Recorded May 1999 at Radio DRS, Zürich.
Eternity And A Day - Film by Theo Angelopoulos
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.
Lament
Giya Kancheli's Lament, music of mourning in memory of Luigi Nono, for violin, soprano and orchestra, performed by Gidon Kremer, Maacha Deubner and the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra under Jansug Kakhidze, recorded in Tbilisi in March 1998.
Ceremony
Maya Homburger (baroque violin) and Barry Guy (double bass) play Biber's Annunciation prelude and five pieces by Guy, one for violin and seven-track tape, recorded in April and July 1997 at Propstei St. Gerold and Rainbow Studio, Oslo.
Kultrum
Eight pieces by Dino Saluzzi for bandoneon and string quartet, played by Saluzzi with the Rosamunde Quartett (Andreas Reiner, Simon Fordham, Helmut Nicolai, Anja Lechner), recorded in March 1998 at Propstei St. Gerold and produced by Manfred Eicher.
J.S. Bach / B.A. Zimmermann
Thomas Demenga's fourth ECM New Series pairing of Bach and the 20th century: Bach's Cello Suite No. 2, BWV 1008, with Bernd Alois Zimmermann's solo sonatas for violin (Thomas Zehetmair), viola (Christoph Schiller) and cello, recorded in 1995 in Sandh…
Giya Kancheli, Maacha Deubner, Natalia Pschenitschnikova, Catrin Demenga, Ruth Killius, Rebecca Firth, Christian Sutter, Wladimir Jurowski
ExilGiya Kancheli's Exil (1994), settings of Psalm 23 and poems by Paul Celan and Hans Sahl for soprano, instruments and tape, sung by Maacha Deubner with a chamber ensemble conducted by Wladimir Jurowski, recorded in May 1994 at Propstei St. Gerold.
Chartres
Solo violin album by Swiss violinist Paul Giger, his first for ECM New Series: five largely improvised pieces recorded at night in the crypt and upper church of Chartres Cathedral around the summer solstice of 1988, produced by Manfred Eicher. Releas…
Guitarreros
Guitar duo album by Ernesto Snajer (10-, 6- and 12-string guitars, charango) and Palle Windfeldt (6-string and western guitars), with Danish guests, recorded at Sound Lab Studio, Copenhagen, in 1998. Carmo, 1999.
Black Angels and Makrokosmos III
Two George Crumb works of the 1970s: Black Angels in an arrangement for string quartet and string orchestra, with Cuarteto Latinoamericano, and Makrokosmos III for two amplified pianos and percussion, conducted by Juan Pablo Izquierdo.
So There
So There (XtraWATT, 2006) sets readings by poet Robert Creeley to music by Steve Swallow (bass), with Steve Kuhn (piano) and the Cikada String Quartet; recorded 25 August 2001 in West Shokan, NY, and 27-28 August 2005 in Oslo.
Many Have No Speech
Michael Mantler's 1988 WATT song cycle on poems by Beckett, Soupault and Meister, sung by Jack Bruce, Marianne Faithfull and Robert Wyatt with the Danish Concert Radio Orchestra and Rick Fenn (guitar), recorded in 1987 in Copenhagen, London, Willow N…