On an overgrown path
Janáček's piano cycle On an Overgrown Path in Daniel Rumler's string orchestra arrangement, with Suk's St. Wenceslas Meditation, Dvořák's Notturno and poems read by Maïa Brami. Camerata Zürich led by Igor Karsko; recorded 2017 at Radiostudio Zürich.
John Casken, Béla Bartok, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Zehetmair, Ruth Killius, Royal Northern Sinfonia
Bartók, Casken, BeethovenLive recording of Thomas Zehetmair's June 2014 farewell concert as Music Director of the Royal Northern Sinfonia at The Sage Gateshead: John Casken's double concerto That Subtle Knot with Ruth Killius (viola), Bartók's Viola Concerto and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5.
Prism V - Beethoven, Webern, Bach
Fifth and final volume of the Danish String Quartet's Prism series: Beethoven's String Quartet No. 16 Op. 135, Webern's String Quartet (1905), Bach's chorale prelude BWV 668 and Contrapunctus 14. Recorded June 2021 at the Festsal KFUM/KFUK, Copenhagen; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Prism II - Beethoven, Schnittke, Bach
Bach's Fugue in B minor BWV 869 (arr. Förster), Schnittke's String Quartet No. 3 and Beethoven's Op. 130 with the Grosse Fuge as finale, played by the Danish String Quartet; recorded May 2017 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Prism I - Beethoven, Shostakovich, Bach
Bach's Fugue BWV 876 in Mozart's arrangement, Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 15 and Beethoven's Op. 127, played by the Danish String Quartet; recorded November 2016 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt, produced by Manfred Eicher. First volume of the Prism series.
Ravel, Franck, Ligeti, Messiaen
Violin and piano works by Ravel (Sonate posthume), Franck (Sonata in A major), Ligeti (Duo, first recording) and Messiaen (Thème et variations), played by Natascia and Raffaella Gazzana; recorded March 2017 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano.
De la nuit
Hungarian pianist Dénes Várjon plays Schumann's Fantasiestücke op. 12, Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit and Bartók's Im Freien. Recorded in April 2016 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Giovanni Legrenzi, Luciano Berio, Giovanni Gabrieli, Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Dennis Russell Davies
Now, And ThenBruno Maderna's chamber orchestra transcriptions of Frescobaldi, Legrenzi, Gabrieli, Viadana and Wassenaer, with the first recording of Luciano Berio's Chemins V (Pablo Márquez, guitar); Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Dennis Russell Davies, recorded in Lugano in August 2015.
Thomas Adès, Per Nørgård, Hans Abrahamsen
The Danish String Quartet's ECM debut: first string quartets by Thomas Adès (Arcadiana, 1994), Per Nørgård (Quartetto Breve, 1952) and Hans Abrahamsen (10 Preludes, 1973), recorded in May 2015 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt, and produced by Manfred Eicher.
Béla Bartók, Alfred Schnittke, Witold Lutosławski
Violin sonatas by Bartók (No. 2, 1922) and Schnittke (Quasi una sonata, 1967-68) and Lutosławski's Partita (1984), played by Miranda Cuckson and Blair McMillen; recorded in Lugano in January 2015, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Chiaroscuro
Two first recordings of works by Giya Kancheli, Chiaroscuro (2010) and Twilight (2004), played by Gidon Kremer, Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Kremerata Baltica; recorded in Vilnius in late 2014 and produced by Manfred Eicher.
Ensemble Music Vol.2
Five Xenakis works for ensemble recorded in New York in 1996 with the composer's participation: Akrata, Echange, Xas, Okho and the first recording of A la Mémoire de Witold Lutoslawski, by the ST-X Ensemble.
Ensemble Music Vol.1
Xenakis's works for ensemble and voice recorded in concert by New York's ST-X Ensemble under Charles Zachary Bornstein: Plektó (first recording), Eonta, Akanthos, Rebonds and N'Shima.
Percussion Works
First complete set of Iannis Xenakis's percussion works on three CDs: sextets, duos and solos, including Persephassa, Pléïades, Psappha, Kassandra and Rebonds, played by Steven Schick and the ensemble red fish blue fish.
Music for Strings
All of Xenakis's chamber music for strings except the quartets, from Syrmos (1959) to the first recording of Ittidra (1996), played by Ensemble Resonanz under Johannes Kalitzke, with John Eckhardt on solo contrabass in Theraps.
Visions fugitives
Solo piano recital by Anna Gourari: Prokofiev's complete Visions fugitives op. 22, Medtner's Fairy Tale op. 26/3 and Chopin's Sonata No. 3 op. 58, recorded in October 2013 at the Historischer Reitstadel, Neumarkt, and produced by Manfred Eicher.
El Cuchi bien temperado
Guitarist Pablo Márquez plays his own solo arrangements of seventeen songs by the Salta composer Gustavo "Cuchi" Leguizamón, recorded in May 2012 at the Auditorio RSI in Lugano and produced by Manfred Eicher.
Imágenes - Music for Piano
Argentine pianist Horacio Lavandera plays ten piano pieces written by bandoneon player Dino Saluzzi between 1960 and 2002, recorded with the composer present in October 2013 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Erik Satie, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Kim Kashkashian, Sarah Rothenberg, Steven Schick, Houston Chamber Choir, Robert Simpson
Rothko ChapelMorton Feldman's Rothko Chapel with music by Satie and Cage, played by Kim Kashkashian (viola), Sarah Rothenberg (piano, celesta), Steven Schick (percussion) and the Houston Chamber Choir under Robert Simpson, recorded in Houston in May 2012 and February 2013.
Arcanum - Dmitri Shostakovich, Lera Auerbach
Violist Kim Kashkashian and pianist Lera Auerbach play Auerbach's viola and piano transcription of Shostakovich's 24 Preludes op. 34 and her sonata Arcanum (2013), recorded in October 2013 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.