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: FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY Music by Werner Heider When Werner Heider was asked in 2006, on the occasion of the premiere of his orchestral work Architecture at the Munich musica viva, which metaphysical or symbolic ideas were hidden behind the formal floor plan, he amazed his counterpart with a very clear one Answer: »My piece is simply a composition of musical architecture. There should […]

Program: Dániel Péter Biró (*1969) Mishpatim (Laws) Six-Part Composition Cycle (2003–2016) SACD 1 total playing time: 67:00 [01] Mishpatim (Laws) Part I: Lo Tisa (Do Not Accept) 14 :19 for speaking percussionist, voices and ensemble (2003, rev. 2015 / 2016) [02] Mishpatim (Laws) Part II: VeShesh Shanim (Six Years) 17:08 for voices, speaking percussionist and ensemble (2005–2006, rev . 2015 / 2016) [03] Mishpatim (Laws) Part III: […]

Program: SACD 1 total playing time: 68:51 Ivan Fedele (*1953) Air on Air for amplified basset horn and orchestra (2018) 17:28 [01] I Floating on air… 04:04 [02] II Squalls on the water surface… 02:01 [03] III Calm… 02:25 [04] IV In the eye of the storm… 02:15 [05] V The pounding sound of the storm… 02:50 [06] VI Crumbled air… 03:51 World premiere · Live recording Commissioned by SWR […]

Info text: WOLFGANG JACOBI – A MODERN CLASSIC »Jacobi is neither a prolific nor a fast writer. In each of his works you can notice the care of the design process, the precise sense of responsibility towards every note and pause, the self-critical shyness [...] of too much and too little," said the musicologist Erich Valentin in 1958 about Wolfgang Jacobi's work. And […]

Info text: STEFAN SCHULZKI · CHAMBER MUSIC At the beginning of my work on the piano concerto, I was looking for clusters of tones that usually combined the material of several major chords. The association of mirror-smooth mountain lakes suggested to me a slow movement, the irritation of which should serve to build up a certain tension despite the contemplation. The following, fast section is also characterized by major keys and dissonances. […]

Program: SACD 1 total playing time: 73:22 Emmanuel Nunes (1941–2012) Un calendrier révolu for 14 instruments (1968 / 1969) 51:23 [01] Game I 20:16 [02] Game II 31:07 World premiere · Live recording Remix Ensemble Casa da Música Emilio Pomàrico, conductor Eivind Buene (*1973) Lessons in Darkness for ensemble (2017) 21:57 [03] First Lesson 05:22 [04] Second Lesson 06:49 [05] Third Lesson 09:46 World premiere · Live recording Commissioned by SWR and The […]

Info text: STRUCTURES MADE OF LIGHT AND SPRUCE When I tackle certain topics such as the construction of a string instrument or the noise in front of a subway stop, my goal is to reinforce the poetry that is inhibited in these actions and in these places. To my ears, every sound that occurs in our everyday reality has a potential musicality, and […]

Info text: THE HORIZON OF POSSIBILITY CLOUDS 2 Peter Ruzicka composed CLOUDS on behalf of the Hessischer Rundfunk for the Rheingau Festival 2012. After the premiere, he revised the score and created an expanded version as CLOUDS 2. With the newly composed second movement, the string quartet, which, compared to the orchestra, adds a second level to the sound architecture of the work, a […]

Program: SACD 1 total playing time: 74:32 Rebecca Saunders (*1967) [01] Skin for soprano and 13 instruments (2015 /16) 26:02 World premiere Co-commissioned by SWR, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Casa da Música Porto Juliet Fraser soprano Klangforum Wien Vera Fischer / Eva Furrer, flutes · Markus Deuter, oboe Bernhard Zachhuber / Olivier Vivares, clarinets · Lorelei Dowling, bassoon Gerald Preinfalk, […]

Program: [01] Salut for clarinet solo (1997) 04:41 SPUR for two clarinets and string trio (2010) 16:11 [02] I. flowing, floating 05:11 [03] II. fast 03:37 [04 ] III. Intermezzo 02:40 [05] IV. Quarter = 80 04:43 Dialoghi d'amore VI for two clarinets (2009 / 2011) 10:11 [06] 1. moving 03:49 [07] 2. calm 04:41 [ 08] 3rd quarter = 80 01:42 [09] Verses for viola and two clarinets (2015) 07:49 5. String quartet 19:01 with two obbligato clarinets (2013) “From the Dictionary of Lovers” […]

Info text: Homage to Heinrich Schiff 17 CD box with 62 works by 30 composers, including 25 first releases of the recordings Orchestras and ensembles: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Berlin Philharmonic, Camerata Salzburg, The Vienna Wind Ensemble, German State Philharmonic Rhineland-Palatinate, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Northern Sinfonia, […]