Meditative
Seidener Faden - Silken Thread
Six chamber works by Younghi Pagh-Paan, including BIDAN-SIL (Silken Thread) and two TA-RYONG pieces, in first recordings by the E-MEX Ensemble conducted by Christoph Maria Wagner. Co-production with Deutschlandradio, 2020.
Minnesang für zwölf Stimmen / Musivus für Orchester
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.
John Cage: Organ2/ASLSP; Toshio Hosokawa: Cloudscape; Sen IV
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.
Disseminate
Three 22-minute drone works by Phill Niblock: Disseminate Ostrava for orchestra, Kontradictionaries for the Kontra-Trio of contrabass flute, saxophone and tuba, and Disseminate Q-O2 for the Q-O2 Ensemble.
Adónde? Wohin?
Hans Zender's four Canciones on St John of the Cross (2008-14), with Angelika Luz, Ernst Kovacic, Klangforum Wien, the Bavarian Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Vokalensemble and SWR Sinfonieorchester; four conductors.
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.
Streichquartette 1, 3 & 4
Pēteris Vasks's String Quartets No. 4 (1999), No. 1 (1977/97) and No. 3 (1995), played by the Spīķeru String Quartet; recorded at the GORS concert hall, Rēzekne, in 2014.
Sala / Musica Appassionata / Credo
Pēteris Vasks's Sala (2006), Musica appassionata for strings (2002) and Credo (2009), played by the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra under Atvars Lakstīgala; recorded at the Liepāja Latvian Society House in 2014.
Cage After Cage
Six works by John Cage for solo percussion, among them Variations I, Child of Tree, Inlets and 27'10.554", performed by Matthias Kaul on some ninety instruments and objects; recorded at Deutschlandfunk, Cologne, April 2014.
Scherben
Edition Musikfabrik: Jonathan Harvey's Sringāra Chaconne, Enno Poppe's Scherben, Kaija Saariaho's cello concerto Notes on Light (with Dirk Wietheger) and Emmanuel Nunes' Chessed I, recorded live 2005-2010 by Ensemble Musikfabrik with four conductors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Logos-Fragmente (Canto IX)
First complete recording of Hans Zender's Logos-Fragmente (Canto IX) for 32 voices and four orchestral groups, on early Christian and Gnostic texts, with the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart and SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg under Emilio …
Silent Flowers
Six string quartets by Toshio Hosokawa from 1980 to 2009, including Blossoming, Silent Flowers and the first recording of Kalligraphie, played by the Arditti Quartet, recorded in Baden-Baden in February 2012 with Südwestrundfunk.
Early Piano Pieces
Piano music by Morton Feldman from 1950 to 1977, from the Intermissions and Nature Pieces to Last Pieces and Piano, played by Sabine Liebner on two CDs, a coproduction with Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Da Lontano
Trombonist and tubist Mike Svoboda plays Scelsi's Mantram, Cage's Solo for Sliding Trombone in a version for eight trombones, Stockhausen's Signale zur Invasion and Nono's Post-prae-ludium per Donau with Holger Stenschke on live electronics.