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Works for saxophone, piano and percussion by Helmut Lachenmann, Martin Schüttler, Yu Kuwabara, Martin Smolka and Michael Finnissy, played by Trio Accanto (Marcus Weiss, Nicolas Hodges, Christian Dierstein), with Lachenmann as voice. An SWR production…

First recordings of Alberto Posadas's Poética del Laberinto (2016/17), a cycle of three pieces for saxophone quartet, played by Sigma Project (Andrés Gomis, Ángel Soria, Alberto Chaves, Josetxo Silguero), recorded in Burgos in 2018.

First recording of Enno Poppe's Rundfunk for nine synthesizers (2015-2018), played by Ensemble Mosaik with audio software by Wolfgang Heiniger, recorded in 2019 at the Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin. Co-production with Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

Piano music for two and four hands by Erwin Schulhoff, 1919 to 1927: Piano Sonata No. 3, Ironien op. 34, 10 Klavierstücke op. 30, Musik für Klavier op. 35 and 11 Inventionen op. 36, played by Monica Gutman with Erika Le Roux.

First recording of Michel Roth's Im Bau, fifteen sound spaces after Kafka for mezzo-soprano, ensemble and live electronics, in its radiophonic version, with Anne-May Krüger and ensemble æquatuor, recorded in Basel in 2017.

First recording of Manfred Trojahn's String Quartet No. 2 (1979/80) with clarinet and mezzo-soprano, setting three poems by Georg Trakl, played by the Minguet Quartett with Tanja Ariane Baumgartner and Thorsten Johanns. Co-production with Deutschland…

Andreas H. H. Suberg's Leonardo-Zyklus, ten music scenarios after Leonardo da Vinci's prophecies, for countertenor (Daniel Gloger), trumpet and alphorn (Paul Hübner), percussion (Olaf Tzschoppe) and electronics (Suberg). Recorded September 2017.

Mark Andre's hij 1 for orchestra (WDR Sinfonieorchester, Mariano Chiacchiarini, 2015) and hij 2 for 24 voices and live electronics (SWR Vokalensemble, Marcus Creed, SWR Experimentalstudio, live 2013). First recordings.

Emmanuel Nunes's Minnesang for twelve voices a cappella on texts by Jakob Böhme (SWR Vokalensemble, prepared by Marcus Creed) and Musivus for orchestra in four groups (WDR Sinfonieorchester), conducted by Emilio Pomàrico.

Alberto Posadas's six-part piano cycle Erinnerungsspuren (2014-2018), echoes of Couperin, Debussy, Schumann, Scelsi, Stockhausen and B. A. Zimmermann, in first recordings by pianist Florian Hoelscher.

Decoder Ensemble plays first recordings of works on remix, sampling and copy-paste by Brigitta Muntendorf, Ole Hübner, Stefan Prins, Matthias Kranebitter and Leopold Hurt, most commissioned for its 2017 Big Data Weekend. Coproduced with Deutschlandfu…

Percussionist Leonie Klein's debut: solo works by Stockhausen (Zyklus), Xenakis (Psappha), Lachenmann (Intérieur I), Nicolaus A. Huber (Póthos), Peter Eötvös (Thunder) and Johannes Julius Fischer (Gathering, first recording). Recorded May 2018 with S…

Eight chamber works (1968-2006) by Uruguayan composer Coriún Aharonián (1940-2017), played by Ensemble Aventure, and the orchestral Mestizo (1993) with the SWF-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden under Zoltán Peskó.

Rolf Riehm's Die schrecklich-gewaltigen Kinder (Piia Komsi, Ensemble Modern, Hermann Bäumer, Frankfurt 2003) and O Daddy for orchestra and recorded sounds (SWF-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden, Kazimierz Kord, Donaueschingen 1984), both live premiere re…

Three chamber works by Marco Stroppa, Un segno nello spazio for string quartet, Hommage à Gy. K. for clarinet, viola and piano, and Osja for piano trio, in first recordings by Ensemble KNM Berlin. A WDR production.

Trio Omphalos (Stefan Hülsermann, clarinet; Olaf Pyras, percussion; Ji-Youn Song, piano) plays its own arrangements of John Cage's Chess Pieces and Four Dances and of thirteen of Tom Johnson's Rational Melodies, plus Johnson's Counting Duets No. II.

Jörg Widmann's Polyphone Schatten (Lichtstudie II) for viola, clarinet and orchestral groups and Drittes Labyrinth for soprano and orchestral groups, in their 2002 and 2014 Cologne premiere recordings with the WDR Sinfonieorchester under Heinz Hollig…

Organist Dominik Susteck plays John Cage's Organ²/ASLSP and Toshio Hosokawa's Cloudscape and Sen IV, with three of his own improvisations using mobile MIDI instruments by Gerhard Kern, at Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne. Deutschlandfunk, 2015.

Helmut Lachenmann's Got Lost for high soprano and piano (2007/08), Streichtrio (1965) and Serynade for piano (1997/98), performed by soprano Yuko Kakuta, pianist Yukiko Sugawara and trio recherche. A Südwestrundfunk production.

Five works (2013-2015) by Sarah Nemtsov for amplified instruments, effect pedals, loop station, kaoss pad and Electribe SX, played by Ensemble Adapter, Sonar Quartett, members of ensemble mosaik and the composer. First recordings, coproduced with Deu…