Program: Pierre Boulez (1925–2016) [01] Anthèmes 1 for violin solo (1991) 08:52 Carolin Widmann, Violin Dialogue de l'ombre double (1985) 19:32 pour clarinette/première sur scène et clarinette/double enregistrée Version aux chiffres romains [02] Sigle initial 01:07 [03] Verse I 02:16 [04] Transition I à II 01:09 [05] Verse II 01:38 [06] Transition II à III 02:05 [07 ] Verse III 01:30 [08] Transition III à IV 00:54 [09] Verse IV 01:41 [10] Transition IV à V 00:26 [11] Verse V 01:10 [12] Transition […]

Info text: IM LAUTEREN BEING Works for various ensemble combinations by René Wohlhauser Geworf'ne Akrobaten version for soprano, baritone, flute, clarinet, violin and cello (2018), based on a poem by the composer, Ergon 68, No. 2, musical work number 1855 Composition commission from the Basel-City and Baselland Music Committee The recording is a studio production with the “Ensemble Polysono”, which […]

Program: Noriko Kawakami (*1955) [01] luft.strömungen For soprano, flute, guitar and drums (2015) 09:25 Julia Spaeth, soprano ensemble L'ART POUR L'ART [02] Color shading for saxophone, accordion and cello (2007) 09:57 trio ecco (Christoph Kirschke, saxophone · Primož Parovel, accordion · Moritz Müllenbach, cello) [03] Oh, the wild rose blooms... for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion (2004) 11 :40 Thürmchen Ensemble Cologne Erik Oña, conductor […]

Info text: GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS A shadow play · 4th and 7th string quartet Georg Friedrich Haas is currently considered the most important representative of microtonal composing. That's basically true, but it falls a bit short, as if this composer was only interested in technical problems and was still in the advanced tradition of studying and exploring musical [...]

Info text: MAGNUS LINDBERG · COMPLETE WORKS FOR ACCORDION Magnus Lindberg is an orchestral composer through and through. The energy of the mass, its physical discharge and its motor possibilities inspire the Finn to create monumental large-scale forms, which made him one of the most sought-after contemporary composers. He started with the accordion, which he played at the age of six [...]

Info text: SANGUE INVERSO - INVERSO SANGUE IN THE REALM OF THE POSSIBLE THE DAWNING OF NEW STARS AND THE REALM BECOMES MORE MAGNIFICENT THE POSSIBILITY EXPANDS THE TWILIGHT MORE TENDER THE STARS MORE ALIVE... Magnetite - since there is there there are the sounds of what is incomprehensible to you, invisible to you is Amethyst – fear not! not just sounds […]

Info text: Hovering like morning mist above the mirror-lake (Allan Marett, Eliza) This work developed over a period of around twelve years, although some of the sound images are a little older; they come from my time as a composition student in the 1980s. I performed earlier versions of some movements at numerous concerts and Shakuhachi festivals in Europe, Japan and […]

Info text: YOUNGHI PAGH-PAAN · CHAMBER MUSIC MAN-NAM I (Encounter) for clarinet and string trio (1977) was written three years after Younghi Pagh-Paan's arrival in Germany, when the composer was urgently looking for a way out of a strenuous life situation in which she - triggered by the confrontation with a culture, no matter how foreign it was. To overcome the culture shock in her […]

Info text: SONIC METAMORPHOSES Works by important composers have come down to us in different versions. The changes range from small retouches to the instrumentation to complete line-up changes to a kind of new composition. Sometimes the authors carried out these adaptations themselves and published several versions of a work, sometimes contemporaries or later generations took on these compositions and gave them to [...]

Info text: Gimi's piano concerto Why should you compose a piano concerto in 2020? Hasn't this leading genre of absolute music been exhausted for decades? Gunnar Geisse's piano concerto, which premieres on this CD, definitely adds a new facet to the genre, one that is not sure whether it [...]

Info text: THE SNOW QUEEN A musical story for soprano, two speakers and orchestra »The cold of the Snow Queen has many different sounds. Their sound appears as clear and transparent as frozen crystals. The serial techniques that always accompany the appearance of the icy ones also seem frosty and cool - academic calculation games that solidify into lifeless formulas. In sharp contrast […]

Program: Mark Andre (*1964) [01] rwḥ 1 for ensemble and electronics (2019) 21:49 p.m. premiere · Live commissioned work by the SWR Ensemble resonance Bas Wiegers, conductor SWR Experimentalstudio Johannes Boris Borowski (*1979) [02] Alone for ensemble (2018–2019) 13:48 p.m. World premiere · Live commissioned work by the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the SWR Ensemble Intercontemporain Matthias Pintscher, conductor Eva Reiter (*1976) [03] Guardian for double bass flutes and reed orchestra (2019) 23:14 p.m. World premiere · Live commissioned work by the SWR , With friendly support from […]