Info text: The Tower of Babel Oratorio in 8 parts (1981 / 82) for 3 orchestral groups, 3 choirs, 2 vocal solos (soprano and baritone), speaker, quadrophonic feeder tape and live electronics, based on texts by Friedrich Schiller, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche , Richard Wagner, Niccolò Machiavelli and Kurt Tucholsky On composing in the time-critical subject »Nothing sensual is sublime, and the more the market […]

Info text: CHRISTIAN OFENBAUER · DESTRUCTION OF THE ROOM / TIME As enigmatically abstract and hermetic as Christian Ofenbauer's music may sometimes be, it reacts sensitively to the context in which it is created, to the performers for whom it is intended, to their framework conditions. Certainly, everything composed communicates, be it through [...]

Info text: CLEMENS VON REUSNER · IDEAL LANDSCAPE Electro-acoustic works Surprisingly, immediately after attending a concert, people, when asked about the character of the music they heard, often speak in visual analogies, namely of landscapes - from the Alps to swaying wheat fields to the foaming sea. What is imaginable in the mind's eye distorts or replaces the memorable sound event. Himself […]

Program: Figures of Longing Works for mean-tone accordion Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) [01] Toccata avanti la messa della Madonna (from Fiori musicali, 1635) 01:03 [02] Toccata per l'Elevatione (from Fiori musicali, 1635 ) 02:33 [03] Canzon terza detta La Crivelli (from Canzoni alla Francese, 1645) 03:28 Nikolaus Brass (*1949) [04] Harmonies I (2014) 07:25 Johann Jakob Froberger (1616–1667) [05 ] Fantasia II in a, FbWV 202 (from Libro secondo, 1649) 04:02 [06] Fantasia V […]

Program: [01] atsiminimas for bass flute (2016) 13:58 [02] coincidentia oppositorum for alto flute (1986) 07:21 [03] La terreur d'ange nouveau for flute (1997-1999) 12:03 [04] Finite Jest for flute and soprano (2014) 10:52 [05] succolarity for flute (1989) 06:20 [06] Kurtág-Cantus II for piccolo (2013) 12:31 Total playing time: 64:00 Shanna Pranaitis, flute Frauke Aulbert, Soprano debut recordings

Info text: PAUL HINDEMITH »1922« Suite for Piano · Three Piano Sonatas »Can you also use Fox trots, Bostons, Rags and other kitsch? When I can't think of any decent music, I always write stuff like that. I do it very well, and I think you could do more business with a piece like this than with my best […]

Info text: ERHARD GROSSKOPF – SprachKlang · VoiceSound Electroacoustic works “Composing sound is different than composing with sounds,” said Erhard Grosskopf in a portrait program on Deutschlandfunk Kultur in March 2020. His electroacoustic works published here had special conditions during the creation process between 1969 and 1972: analog studio technology and multi-channel, spatial sound projections. What these early electronic compositions by Grosskopf have in common […]

Info text: ReBruAla works in various instrumentations by René Wohlhauser The great vocal trilogy “Three Songs” (2016) for soprano, baritone, bass flute, bass clarinet and cello 1. Lost Future · Version for soprano and cello 2. Disturbed Songs · Version for baritone, bass flute and bass clarinet 3. Quala Mirs · Version for soprano, baritone, bass flute, bass clarinet and violoncello Composition commission from the Music Basel-Stadt and Baselland expert committee Lost future […]

Program: [01] Sound drawing for double bass solo (2009) 07:58 Tobias Eduard Schick, double bass Live Recording [02] BÄM (without self-sabotage) for ensemble (2013) 23:21 El Perro Andaluz (Arnfried Falk, oboe · Albrecht Scharnweber, clarinet · Philipp Lamprecht, percussion · Ruslan Kratschkowski, accordion · Aline Khouri, harp · Emily Yabe, violin · Nadejda Krasnovid, cello · Konrad Hartig, double bass) Lennart Dohms, conductor […]

Info text: ON THE DESIRE OF THE DRUMS Nicolaus A. Huber's latest works for percussion The exotic regions beyond the traditional boundaries of the musical fruitland, which the percussion once opened up to new music since Edgard Varèse's Ionization for thirteen percussionists (1929–1931), are now long gone developed and reclaimed. Anyone who goes by Varèse, Cage, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Nono, Kagel, Riedl, Berio and […]

Programme: Scrapes and Soundscapes Works for Cello and Percussion André Chini (*1945) [01] Gina et Fio (2014) 11:50 Jenny Hettne (*1977) [02] Bells and Tides (2016) 09:58 Ricardo Eizirik (* 1985) [03] re / wind / re / write – fast-forward version (2014) 04:00 Esaias Järnegard (*1983) [04] Stenar – Aska, aska (2011) 08:28 Leilei Tian (*1971) [ 05] Never-Ending Journey (2016) 09:35 Ivo Nilsson (*1966) [06] Whereabout I (2017) 12:32 Farangis Nurulla-Khoja (*1972) [07] Se… (2018) 05:44 total playing time: 62:12 UmeDuo – Karolina Öhman, cello & Erika Öhman, drums

Program: [01] Alice… for bass clarinet, percussion and ensemble (2011) 11:43 [02] Estudio sobre el gris y el verde for ensemble (2011) 11:55 [03] Homenaje a Francisco Toledo for saxophone and ensemble ( 2014) 10:02 [04] Paris wind behind me… for ensemble (2016) 10:39 [05] Química del agua for ensemble (2015) 09:15 [06] La dimensión frágil for ensemble (2015) 10:49 total playing time: 64:37 Vertixe Sonora Angélica V. Salvi, harp [01, 03] Antonio […]