Occam Ocean Vol. 2
Second instalment of Éliane Radigue's Occam Ocean, a long suite for the 30-piece ONCEIM orchestra conducted by Frédéric Blondy: accordion, guitars, clarinets, saxophones, strings and brass merged into one slowly breathing tone.
Asiago
New music for cello from the Asiago plateau and its Cimbrian community, by De Marzi, Gárdonyi, Sollima, Schmitt, Dreyer, Ali-Zadeh and Silvestrov, played by Julius and Hyun-Jung Berger with guests; mostly first recordings.
SAX - Contemporary Concertos for Saxophone
Four contemporary saxophone concertos by Péter Eötvös, Georg Friedrich Haas, Vykintas Baltakas and Johannes Maria Staud, all premiered by soloist Marcus Weiss, with the WDR Sinfonieorchester, Teodoro Anzellotti and Windkraft Tirol. A WDR production.
Ein Traumspiel / Denn Bleiben ist nirgends
Aribert Reimann's first opera Ein Traumspiel after Strindberg, live at Theater Hof on 17 March 2018 (Franziska Rabl, Hofer Symphoniker, Walter E. Gugerbauer), with the Rilke melodrama Denn Bleiben ist nirgends (Martin Engler, DSO Berlin, Manuel Nawri).
Hans Werner Henze Edition: Orchestra
Hans Werner Henze's orchestral works and concertos on four CDs, played by the NDR Sinfonieorchester under Peter Ruzicka, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Oliver Knussen with Anssi Karttunen, and Daniele Roccato with the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese; volume 2 of Wergo's Henze Edition.
Hans Werner Henze Edition: Sinfonia
The ten symphonies of Hans Werner Henze (1947-2000), including the choral Ninth after Anna Seghers, played by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Rundfunkchor Berlin under Marek Janowski, recorded 2008-2014; first box of Wergo's Henze centenary Edition.
Vida
Portrait album of Misha Cvijović: nine works from full orchestra to minimoog and tape, played by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Enno Poppe, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Sebastian Berweck and the Trio Splitsignals Berlin.
In-between
Portrait CD of Turgut Erçetin: five works including the cycle Das Phonem zwischen zwei Wörtern for Baroque ensemble and orchestra, played by Ensemble Musikfabrik, the ELISION Ensemble and the SWR Symphonieorchester under Brad Lubman.
Absolutio / Abgesang / da ispravitsja - gebetsraum mit nachtwache
Portrait CD of Marko Nikodijević: three orchestral works, Absolutio, Abgesang with soprano Anna Sohn and da ispravitsja with organist Jakub Sawicki, played by the hr-Sinfonieorchester and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Jonathan Stockhammer and Vladimir Jurowski.
Couture
Portrait CD of Genoël von Lilienstern: Voz Comercial, Couture, Big Picture and Top, with Johanna Vargas, Soetkin Elbers, Ensemble Garage, the SWR Symphonieorchester under Ilan Volkov and Ensemble Interface.
Straight Run
Portrait CD of Sergej Maingardt: Rush for orchestra, ensemble and electronics, Flower's silence in empty guns for piano, electronics and Wii sensors, and Declare Independence, with the Bundesjugendorchester under Lothar Zagrosek, Paulo Álvares and Ensemble electronic ID.
Rota II / Ricordanza / Symphonia Sacra
Portrait of Bengt Hambræus, no. 20 of the Caprice Composers Series: Rota II for multi-channel loudspeakers, made from processed bells and organ, the orchestral Ricordanza and Symphonia Sacra for choir, winds and percussion.
New Orchestral Music from Mexico
Five world premiere recordings of orchestral works by Mexican composers Hilda Paredes, Ana Lara, Andrea Chamizo, Marcela Rodríguez and Georgina Derbez, with the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Scott Yoo.
In C - 60th Birthday Full Moon Celebration At Kiyomizu-dera Temple
Big tip! Sixty years after the groundbreaking premiere of In C forever changed the course of contemporary music, Terry Riley celebrates the work's enduring legacy with a historic live recording captured at Kyoto's Unesco World Heritage site, Kiyomizu-dera Temple.
One of the most influential composers of our time, Terry Riley has continually redefined the possibilities of music through a career marked by innovation and originality. Described by Riley himself as his signature composition, In C (19…
Yet
“Most times in trauma, there is no exit,” composer Sarah Genevieve Burghart Rice writes in her album introduction. “Yet every once in a while, a door is ajar and we are left to wonder if we really could leave. All the music of Yet revolves around suffering in captivity juxtaposed with the possibility of liberation.” Yet is a powerfully imaginative and intimate collection of contemporary classical music that navigates the stark – sometimes Surreal and satirical – landscapes of trauma and hope.
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Crow on the Dark Side of Gloss
First recordings of two long microtonal works by Kraig Grady, The Molten Wind and Crow on the Dark Side of Gloss, built from individually recorded single notes played by an international group of soloists in Grady's just-intonation tunings.
Beethoven Square
This 7" single is the first release in a fictitious series of avant-garde music packaged in those cheap generic covers of hit singles from the 1950s and 1960s. The series opens with Nikolaus Gerszewski's 7-minute orchestral piece Beethoven Square, pragmatically split into parts I & II across the two sides of the record. The cover advertises the history of Edition Telemark, but is also an homage to the elegant product design of the period, which had drawn inspiration from Constructivism, the …
Symphony No.5.: The Last Light is Your Own Star
The latest album from Michael Cashmore (formerly of Current 93, plus known for his work as Nature and Organisation and collaborations with artists such as Marc Almond, Nick Cave, Bill Fay, Rose McDowell and Antony and the Johnsons, amongst others) veers from the paths his previous releases have been on into an area altogether more grandiose or stately. While all of his recordings under his own name have alluded to orchestral or soundtrack work to varying degrees, he has long committed himself to…
Atlas Eclipticalis With Winter Music (4LP box)
Live 1983 recordings from the Cornish Institute in Seattle of John Cage's Atlas Eclipticalis performed simultaneously with Winter Music, conducted by the composer. Originally released by Mode Records in 1986 as a 4LP box.
Perseverantia
On Perseverantia, Vadim Neselovskyi turns his lyric, classically infused jazz language into a meditation on endurance, carving spacious, song‑like structures where fragile melodies, sudden storms and long silences feel like different faces of the same stubborn hope.