Contemporary Composition / Spectralism

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.

Edition Musikfabrik vol. 6: Ian Willcock's Grave, Mark Andre's ni and Kaija Saariaho's violin concerto Graal théâtre (chamber version), played live in Cologne in 2004-2007 by Ensemble Musikfabrik with Hannah Weirich, conducted by James Wood, Rupert H…

Edition Musikfabrik vol. 5: Baltakas's (co)ro(na), Saunders's cinnabar with Juditha Haeberlin and Marco Blaauw, Lindberg's Joy and Xenakis's Thalleïn, recorded live by Ensemble Musikfabrik in Cologne, 2004-2006.

String Quartet No 4, opus 33 (1976-87). Performed by the Arditti String Quartet. "infinite to be cannot be infinite, infinite anti-be could be infinite" (for nine string quartets or a string quartet surrounded by an imaginary 128 string-"viola da gam…

**Restock of a rare, must-have record for contemporary music lovers. Comes with 4-page 12" booklet ** Great dense orchestral scraping and bowing from 1982 & 1983 by Romanian composer Horatiu Radulescu (1942-2008), among the great masters of Spectrali…

First ECM album of the Estonian composer Helena Tulve: six chamber works (1997-2004) played by the NYYD Ensemble under Olari Elts, Arianna Savall, the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet and the Silesian String Quartet, recorded in Tallinn between 1997 and 2…

String quartets by Kaija Saariaho (Nymphéa, with live electronics), John Cage and Bruno Maderna played by the Cikada String Quartet, recorded in August 2001 at Sofienberg Church, Oslo, and released by ECM New Series in 2005.

Aki Takahashi plays Giacinto Scelsi's piano works in 2005 recordings, mostly pieces she prepared with the composer, including the Quattro Illustrazioni depicting the incarnations of Vishnu.