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Secret History - Josquin / Victoria
John Potter (tenor) and Anna Maria Friman (soprano) with vihuelas and viola da gamba perform Victoria's Missa Surge propera and motets by Josquin in versions modelled on Renaissance lute arrangements. Recorded at Propstei St. Gerold, produced by Manf…
Dario Castello, Giovanni Battista Fontana: Sonate concertate in stil moderno
Sonatas by Dario Castello and Giovanni Battista Fontana played by John Holloway (violin), Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) and Jane Gower (dulcian). Recorded in June 2008 at Propstei St. Gerold, Austria.
Robert Schumann / Heinz Holliger
Alexander Lonquich plays the 1838 first edition of Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana op. 16 and Heinz Holliger's Partita (1999). Recorded November 2008 at the Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Dust of Time - Music for the film by Theo Angelopoulos
Eleni Karaindrou's score for Theo Angelopoulos's film Dust of Time, with Sergiu Nastasa (violin), Renato Ripo (cello), Maria Bildea (harp), the Camerata and the ERT orchestra under Alexandros Myrat, recorded January and March 2008 at the Megaron, Ath…
Notturno
Othmar Schoeck's Notturno Op. 47 (1931-33), five movements for baritone and string quartet on poems by Lenau and a Keller fragment, performed by Christian Gerhaher and the Rosamunde Quartett, recorded in December 2007 at the Historischer Reitstadel, …
Inventionen und Sinfonien / Französische Suite V
Till Fellner plays Bach's two-part Inventions, three-part Sinfonias and French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816, on piano; recorded in July 2007 at the Mozartsaal, Wiener Konzerthaus, and produced by Manfred Eicher.
Bagatellen und Serenaden
Valentin Silvestrov plays his piano Bagatellen; Alexei Lubimov, the Münchener Kammerorchester and Christoph Poppen play his works for strings and for strings and piano. Recorded February 2006 at the Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich.
Musica del Delphin
Pablo Márquez plays seventeen pieces from Luys de Narváez's Los seys libros del Delphin (Valladolid, 1538) on modern guitar, recorded in April 2006 at the Kulturbühne AmBach, Götzis.
Encores after Beethoven
András Schiff plays the encores from his live Beethoven sonata cycle at the Tonhalle Zürich (2004-2006): Schubert, Mozart, Haydn, Bach and Beethoven's Andante favori. Released 2016.
Musical Banquet
Soprano Monika Mauch and lutenist Nigel North in 24 songs and lute solos from Robert Dowland's 1610 anthology A Musicall Banquet, with music by John Dowland, Caccini, Guédron and others. Recorded May 2005 at Propstei St. Gerold.
D'Amore
Garth Knox on viola d'amore, with cellist Agnès Vesterman, in music by Hume, Marais, Ariosti, Klaus Huber, Roland Moser, Knox himself and Celtic traditional tunes. Recorded September 2006 at Propstei St. Gerold.
Chonguri
Encores and short pieces from Bach, Chopin, Fauré, Liszt and Webern to Tsintsadze and Demenga himself, played by cellist Thomas Demenga with Thomas Larcher (piano) and Teodoro Anzellotti (accordion). Recorded August 2004 in Sandhausen.
there is still time
Seventeen scenes for speaking voice and cello: Paul Griffiths reads his poems drawn from Ophelia's words in Hamlet, Frances-Marie Uitti plays her own music. Recorded August 2003 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher.
to be sung on the water
Michelle Makarski plays three solo violin sonatas by Giuseppe Tartini and two works by Donald Crockett, one with violist Ronald Copes, recorded in March 2004 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.
Soir, dit-elle
Trio Mediaeval (Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum) sing Leonel Power's Missa Alma redemptoris mater alongside new works by Gavin Bryars, Ivan Moody, Andrew Smith and Oleh Harkavyy, recorded in April 2003 at Propstei St. Ger…
Robert Schumann
Schumann's String Quartets No. 1 in A minor and No. 3 in A major, Op. 41, played by the Zehetmair Quartett (Thomas Zehetmair, Matthias Metzger, Ruth Killius, Françoise Groben), recorded at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich, in July and August 2001.
Odradek
Premiere recordings of three works by Israeli composer Gideon Lewensohn: the Piano Quintet and Odradek Quartet played by the Auryn Quartett and Alexander Lonquich (Zürich, February 2001), and the Postlude for piano, also heard played by Ora Rotem Nel…
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.
Der Bote - Elegies for piano
Alexei Lubimov plays ten piano elegies from C.P.E. Bach, Liszt, Glinka, Chopin, Debussy and Bartók to Cage, Mansurian and Silvestrov; recorded December 2000 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich, produced by Manfred Eicher.