Sun Triptych
Chamber and string orchestra works by Dobrinka Tabakova, played by Maxim Rysanov, Dasol Kim, Roman Mints, Kristina Blaumane and the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by the composer. Recorded August 2020 (Meistersaal, Berlin) and July 2021 (Watford Colosseum).
Tous des oiseaux
Eleni Karaindrou's music for Wajdi Mouawad's play Tous des oiseaux and Payman Maadi's film Bomb, A Love Story, with Savina Yannatou, Sokratis Sinopoulos, a string orchestra led by Argyro Seira and the composer on piano; recorded at Sierra Studios, Athens, 2017-2018.
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.
Air - Bent Sørensen, Hans Abrahamsen
Accordion music by Bent Sørensen and Hans Abrahamsen played by Frode Haltli, solo, with the Trondheim Soloists and with the Arditti Quartet; recorded October-November 2014 at Selbu Kirke, Norway.
Carlo Gesualdo, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Brett Dean, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste
GesualdoMusic by Carlo Gesualdo alongside Brett Dean's Carlo and Erkki-Sven Tüür's L'ombra della croce and Psalmody, performed by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra under Tõnu Kaljuste; recorded in Tallinn in February 2014.
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.
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.
Tõnu Kõrvits, Veljo Tormis, Anja Lechner, Kadri Voorand, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tõnu Kaljuste
MirrorSix works by Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvits, three of them based on songs by Veljo Tormis, with cellist Anja Lechner, singer Kadri Voorand, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Tõnu Kaljuste, recorded February 2013 in Tallinn.
Quasi parlando
Four works for soloists and string orchestra by Tigran Mansurian (1978-2012), with Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Anja Lechner (cello) and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta led by Candida Thompson. Recorded October 2012 at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam.
String Paths
First portrait album of Dobrinka Tabakova: the Cello Concerto, Suite in Old Style, Insight, Frozen River Flows and Such Different Paths, with Maxim Rysanov, Kristina Blaumane, Janine Jansen and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, recorded in Vilnius and Berlin.
Pavans and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland
John Holloway and a string consort (Monika Baer, Renate Steinmann, Susanna Hefti, Martin Zeller) play Dowland's seven Lachrimae pavans alternated with consort works by Purcell, Lawes, Jenkins, Morley and Locke. Recorded March 2013, Radio Studio Zürich.
Witold Lutosławski / Béla Bartók: Musique funèbre
Lutosławski's Musique funèbre and Bartók's Divertimento, Romanian Folk Dances and seven choruses, played by the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester under Dennis Russell Davies with the Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, recorded at the Liederhalle, Stuttgart, in 2004 and 2010.
Landscapes
Four works by Toshio Hosokawa, three featuring Mayumi Miyata on shō, with the Münchener Kammerorchester conducted by Alexander Liebreich. Recorded October 2009 at the Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich-Sendling; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Gustav Mahler / Dmitri Shostakovich
Kremerata Baltica directed by Gidon Kremer play Mahler's Adagio from Symphony No. 10 (strings version, Riga, October 2001) and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 with Yulia Korpacheva and Fyodor Kuznetsov (live, Musikverein Vienna, November 2004).
Bagatellen und Serenaden
Valentin Silvestrov plays his piano Bagatellen; Alexei Lubimov, the Münchener Kammerorchester and Christoph Poppen play his works for strings and for strings and piano. Recorded February 2006 at the Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich.
Sofia Gubaidulina, Elsbeth Moser, Boris Pergamenschikow, Münchener Kammerorchester, Christoph Poppen
Sofia GubaidulinaSofia Gubaidulina's Seven Words, Ten Preludes and De Profundis, played by Elsbeth Moser (bayan), Boris Pergamenschikow (cello) and the Münchener Kammerorchester under Christoph Poppen; recorded January 2001 in Munich.
El Encuentro
Four works by Dino Saluzzi for bandoneon, cello and string orchestra, with Anja Lechner (cello), Felix Saluzzi (tenor saxophone) and the Metropole Orchestra strings under Jules Buckley. Recorded live on 13 February 2009 at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam; released 2010.
Q.E.D.
Two concert works by Terje Rypdal for electric guitar and ensemble, Q.E.D. Opus 52 and Largo Opus 55, played by Rypdal with the Borealis Ensemble conducted by Christian Eggen. Recorded August and December 1991, Rainbow Studio, Oslo. ECM 1474, 1993.