Intimate
Oracula Sibyllae
Five works by Balz Trümpy (2005-2013), including Oracula Sibyllae for soprano, baritone, flute and percussion on Sibylline oracles and Virgil, played by the El Cimarrón Ensemble; all first recordings.
Being Beauteous / Kammermusik 1958
Hans Werner Henze's cantata Being Beauteous (Rimbaud) with Anna Prohaska, and Kammermusik 1958 (Hölderlin) with Peter Gijsbertsen and Jürgen Ruck, first recording of the string orchestra version; NDR Sinfonieorchester, Peter Ruzicka, Hamburg 2013 and 2015.
Visionen
Five works by Dimitri Terzakis (1988-2009): Legetos, the Sappho-Zyklus, À une Madone, Visionen and Sonate infernale, with Brigitte Fassbaender, Tatjana Masurenko, the Thomanerchor Leipzig, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester and others.
Amiable Conversation
Piano music by Henry Cowell and John Cage (1912-1948), including The Banshee, Aeolian Harp, The Perilous Night and Dream, played by Sabine Liebner; recorded at Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, December 2014.
Diary; Tagebuch
Violeta Dinescu's works for flute (1983-2015), the cycles Aus dem Tagebuch and Blicke with chamber pieces for flute and horn quartet, piano, harp and violin; Carin Levine with the Dauprat-Hornquartett, Stephan Rahn and others.
Equal Ways of Difference
Chamber music by Charlotte Seither (1994-2011), the piano trios Champlève and Equal Ways of Difference with duo and solo works, played by the elole piano trio (Uta-Maria Lempert, Matthias Lorenz, Stefan Eder).
TRACES
Chamber music by Detlev Müller-Siemens (2002-2009): String Trio, distant traces, ...called dusk and the piano quartet lost traces, two of them in memory of György Ligeti, played by the Mondrian Ensemble Basel; a co-production with Radio SRF 2 Kultur.
Tongue of the Invisible
Liza Lim's song cycle Tongue of the Invisible (2010-11) after Hafiz, for improvising pianist, baritone and 16 musicians, recorded live in Cologne by Uri Caine, Omar Ebrahim and Ensemble Musikfabrik under André de Ridder.
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.
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.
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.
Játékok - Games
György Kurtág's complete works for piano duet and two pianos from Játékok (Games) volumes I, III, IV and VIII, plus the 1956 Suite and transcriptions from Machaut to Bach, played by the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo, co-produced with Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Initiale
Complete songs and early chamber music by Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1939-1950), with soprano Anna Prohaska, pianist Cordelia Höfer, violinists Alessandro Cappone and Rachel Schmidt and the Trio Berlin, recorded 2009-2010 in Berlin.
Hommages
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.
Piano Sonata / Notebook for the Youth / Piano Pieces
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.
Polyphonic Notebook for Piano / 24 Preludes and Fugues for Piano
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.
Bread and Roses
Christian Wolff's For 1, 2 or 3 People, Exercise 27, Bread and Roses and Edges, played by violinist Malcolm Goldstein and percussionist Matthias Kaul (also voice and hurdy-gurdy), recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk in 1999 and 2002.
An John Field / Vier neue Klavierstücke / Klavieralbum mit Sphinxen
Piano works by Wilhelm Killmayer written 1975-1999: An John Field (five nocturnes), Vier neue Klavierstücke and Klavieralbum mit Sphinxen, played by his former pupil Siegfried Mauser.
Trois Etudes blanches / Douze Etudes transcendentales / Drei verstreute Klavierstücke: Canto melismatico / Albumblatt / Frühlingslied / Rundgesänge und Morgenlieder
Piano works by Wilhelm Killmayer, from the Trois Etudes blanches and Douze Etudes transcendentales to Rundgesänge und Morgenlieder and three pieces from 1957-1968, played by Siegfried Mauser.
Scharlachrote Buchstaben
Piano works by the German composer Barbara Heller (born 1936), including Scharlachrote Buchstaben, Currants - Johannisbeeren, Das Quintenbuch and Un Poco, played by Deborah Richards.