★Wergo

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.

Hans Werner Henze's Symphony No. 2 (1949) and Sinfonia N. 10 (1997-2000), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Marek Janowski, recorded in 2012 and 2013, completing their Henze symphony cycle.

Hans Werner Henze's Sinfonia N. 9 for chorus and orchestra, text by Hans-Ulrich Treichel after Anna Seghers's The Seventh Cross, with Rundfunkchor Berlin and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Marek Janowski, recorded November 2008.

Live recording of Aribert Reimann's opera Melusine after Yvan Goll, libretto by Claus H. Henneberg, with Marlene Mild in the title role and the Nürnberger Philharmoniker under Peter Hirsch, Staatstheater Nürnberg, 12 May 2007.

Five works by Gerhard Stäbler for percussion, soprano and percussion quartet, conception for any number of players, and percussion with tape, performed by Schlagquartett Köln with soprano Annette Robbert.

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 2004-2007.

Three works by Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks, Musica adventus and Viatore for string orchestra and the Concerto for cor anglais, played by Sinfonietta Rīga with Normunds Šnē as conductor and soloist, recorded in Riga in June 2007.

Piano works by Tobias Picker, mostly first recordings, played by Ursula Oppens, with the composer at the second piano in Keys to the City; recorded September/October 2007 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.

Five chamber works by Rebecca Saunders, four in first recordings, including blaauw for double-bell trumpet, vermilion and Stirrings Still, played by soloists of Ensemble Musikfabrik in coproduction with DeutschlandRadio.

Works for cello by John Cage from 1953 to 1978, including Solo for Cello, 59 1/2 Seconds for a String Player, Atlas Eclipticalis for two cellos, Variations I and Etudes Boréales, played by Friedrich Gauwerky, coproduced with Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Alexander Goehr's piano cycle Symmetry Disorders Reach op. 73 (2002), after W. H. Auden, played by his former pupil Huw Watkins, recorded on 20-21 December 2005 at the Jerusalem Music Centre.

Rodion Shchedrin plays his Piano Sonata op. 25, Notebook for the Youth op. 59 and Piano Pieces op. 20, Melodiya recordings made at night in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, issued by Wergo in 2007.

Rodion Shchedrin plays his Polyphonic Notebook op. 50 and the 24 Preludes and Fugues op. 29 and op. 45, Melodiya recordings made in Moscow in 1966, 1971 and 1973, issued on two CDs by Wergo in 2007.

Portrait CD of Ulrich Stranz: six works from 1971-2001 for chamber ensemble, strings, piano and orchestra, winds and solo piano, with Tzimon Barto, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under Christoph Eschenbach, Münchener Kammerorchester, Banda Classica and Linos-Ensemble.

Poems by South African poet Sandile Dikeni, recited from memory in Johannesburg in 2005, alternating with Klaus Hinrich Stahmer's works for flutes, piano, percussion, African drums and two pianos, recorded in Würzburg and Münster in 2004-2005.

Hans Werner Henze's two Orpheus works: Orpheus behind the Wire for a cappella choir on Edward Bond, and the first recording of Aristaeus for speaker and orchestra, recorded live in Berlin on 1 February 2004 with Rundfunkchor Berlin and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Marek Janowski.

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.

Live recording of Dieter Schnebel's Orchestra, symphonic music for mobile musicians, at his 70th birthday concert on 14 March 2000 at the Universität der Künste Berlin, played by students and teachers under three central conductors.

Five orchestral works by Herbert Willi, including the trumpet concerto Eirene and the concerto for flute and oboe ... geraume Zeit ..., with Reinhold Friedrich, Wolfgang Schulz, Hansjörg Schellenberger and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, 1999-2004.

Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Un petit rien, Das Gelb und das Grün, the serial cantata Omnia tempus habent and the film music Metamorphose, with soprano Angelika Luz and the Collegium Novum Zürich under Peter Hirsch.