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…
Phantasy of Spring - Feldman / Zimmermann / Schönberg / Xenakis
Carolin Widmann (violin) and Simon Lepper (piano) play duos by Feldman (Spring of Chosroes), Zimmermann (Sonata, 1950), Schoenberg (Phantasy op. 47) and Xenakis (Dikhthas). Recorded October and December 2006 at the WDR Funkhaus, Cologne.
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.
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…
Neharót - Betty Olivero / Tigran Mansurian / Eitan Steinberg
Kim Kashkashian plays works by Betty Olivero, Tigran Mansurian and Eitan Steinberg, with the Münchener Kammerorchester, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Kuss Quartett, Robyn Schulkowsky and Mansurian, recorded 2006-2008 in Munich, Poznań and Boston.
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, …
Heinz Holliger, Clara Schumann, Christoph Richter, Dénes Várjon, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Heinz Holliger / Clara Schumann: RomancendresClara Schumann's Drei Romanzen Op. 22 and Heinz Holliger's Romancendres, played by Christoph Richter (cello) and Dénes Várjon (piano) in Lugano in 2008, with Holliger's Gesänge der Frühe for choir, orchestra and tape, recorded in Sindelfingen in 2007…
Farewell - Joseph Haydn / Isang Yun
Haydn's Symphonies No. 39 and No. 45 'Farewell' with Isang Yun's Chamber Symphony I (1987), played by the Münchener Kammerorchester under Alexander Liebreich; recorded in May 2007 at the Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich-Sendling.
Towards Silence
Swiss violinist Paul Giger (violin, violino d'amore) and harpsichordist Marie-Louise Dähler alternate Bach's Sonata BWV 1018 and the Goldberg Aria with their own pieces and improvisations. Recorded October 2006 at Propstei St. Gerold.
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.
Gurdjieff & Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns & Dances
Anja Lechner (cello) and Vassilis Tsabropoulos (piano) play music by G.I. Gurdjieff arranged for their duo, with Tsabropoulos's own pieces after Byzantine hymns. Recorded December 2003 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Friedrich Cerha / Franz Schreker
Friedrich Cerha's Cello Concerto (1989/1996), with its dedicatee Heinrich Schiff as soloist, and Franz Schreker's Chamber Symphony (1916), played by the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra under Peter Eötvös. Recorded September 2003 in Hilversum.
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.
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.
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.
The Seven Words
Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross in its string quartet version, played by the Rosamunde Quartett (Reiner, Fordham, Nicolai, Lechner). Recorded May 2000 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt am Main.
Hayren - Music of Komitas and Tigran Mansurian
Kim Kashkashian (viola), Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion) and Tigran Mansurian (piano, voice) play two Mansurian works of 1998 and his arrangements of Komitas songs. Recorded May 2000 at Teldec Studio, Berlin.
Signs, Games and Messages - Friedrich Hölderlin / Samuel Beckett
Three cycles by György Kurtág: Hölderlin-Gesänge op. 35a and ...pas à pas – nulle part... op. 36 sung by baritone Kurt Widmer, and Signs, Games and Messages for strings, with the Orlando Trio and Mircea Ardeleanu. Recorded 2002 at Radio Studio DRS, Z…