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Schattenspiele
Edition Musikfabrik vol. 4: works for soloist and ensemble by Michael Jarrell, Stefano Gervasoni, Joël-François Durand and Brian Ferneyhough, with Hae-Sun Kang, Michael Tiepold, Helen Bledsoe and Omar Ebrahim; conductors Masson, Siebens, Wood.
Vom Himmel zur Hölle
Edition Musikfabrik vol. 3: Martin Smolka's Rush (Hour in Celestial Streets), Mauricio Kagel's Orchestrion-Straat and Louis Andriessen's Racconto dall'Inferno with Cristina Zavalloni, conducted by Peter Rundel and Reinbert de Leeuw.
Sichtbare Spuren
Edition Musikfabrik vol. 2: Rebecca Saunders's a visible trace, Mauro Lanza's Vesperbild, Nicolaus A. Huber's Music on Canvas and Bernd Alois Zimmermann's film music Metamorphose, played by Ensemble Musikfabrik under Rundel, Siebens and Masson.
A Bag of Bagatelles
Nicolas Hodges alternates Beethoven's Fantasie op. 77, Bagatelles op. 126 and Allegretto WoO 61 with Harrison Birtwistle's Variations from the Golden Mountain, Gigue Machine and Dance of the metro-gnome. WDR recording, November 2019.
Monolithen
Debussy's En blanc et noir, Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Monologe and Stravinsky's four-hand version of Le Sacre du printemps, played by the klavierduo huber|thomet (Susanne Huber, André Thomet).
Wolke und Mond
Bach's three gamba sonatas BWV 1027-1029, played on cello and accordion, alternating with Adriana Hölszky's Wolke und Mond, Miserere and Nouns to Nouns II, by Julius Berger and Stefan Hussong. Recorded 2001 and 2003.
Craquelé
Four works by Franz Martin Olbrisch: Grain (2005) and craquelé (2010) for orchestra, played by the hr-Sinfonieorchester under Sian Edwards and Roland Kluttig, plus two pieces with live electronics. Productions of Hessischer Rundfunk.
Kontrapunkte
Six works by Jörg-Peter Mittmann (1997-2009) built on Bach, Monteverdi, Beethoven and Mahler, played by Ensemble Horizonte with Katrin Bähre, Nicole Pieper and Mareike Neumann. A coproduction with Deutschlandradio.
One7 / Four6
John Cage's Number Pieces One7 and Four6 (both 1990) in their first recordings for piano, by Sabine Liebner, who plays all four layers of Four6 by overdubbing. Recorded 2012 and 2013, coproduced with Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Suite 9 & 10 per Pianoforte
Giacinto Scelsi's Suite n. 9 "Ttai" (1953) and Suite n. 10 "Ka" (1954) for piano, played by Sabine Liebner, recorded in 2014 at the Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal in Cologne.
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.
Wie ein gläsernes Meer, mit Feuer gemischt
Three works for organ by Adriana Hölszky: ... und ich sah wie ein gläsernes Meer, mit Feuer gemischt ... (1996/97), Efeu und Lichtfeld with violin (2008) and ... und wieder Dunkel I with percussion (1985/90), played by Dominik Susteck, Akiko Ahrendt and Jens Brülls.
Movimento Perpetuo - Preludi per Pianoforte
Renato de Grandis's 48 Preludi per pianoforte (1998-2002), four books of twelve preludes, recorded complete by pianist Antonio Tarallo between February and June 2013.
F-fragments
Three works by Keiko Harada: F-fragments for accordion and piano (2012), Book I for accordion solo (2010) and seven pieces from Nach Bach for piano (2004), played by Stefan Hussong and Yumiko Meguri.
Amour / Der kleine Harlekin / Wochenkreis
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Amour (1974/76), Der kleine Harlekin (1975) and Wochenkreis from Montag aus Licht (1986/88), played by clarinettist and basset horn player Michele Marelli with Antonio Pérez Abellán on synthesizer, recorded in March 2013.
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.
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.
Solo for Piano
John Cage's Solo for Piano, the piano part of the Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957/58), in a 70-minute realisation by Sabine Liebner, co-produced with Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Aus dem Leopardi-Zyklus
Three works from Klaus Ospald's Leopardi cycle: Così, dell'uomo ignara ..., Sovente in queste rive ... and Sopra un basso rilievo antico sepolcrale ..., with Collegium Novum Zürich, the WDR Sinfonieorchester and WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Schlagquartett Köln and Hans Nickel.