Info text: As every year, NEOS presents the live recordings of the most important premieres at the Donaueschinger Music Days from last year - but this time with an additional special feature: the jazz session is now also included! Mark Andre, Arnulf Herrmann, Klaus Huber, Helmut Oehring, Enno Poppe, François Sarhan, James Sauners, Hans Thomalla, Hans Zender are the names […]

Info text: MUSIC AS THE ART OF LIGHTNESS There is 'heavy', earthy music that blows at us from below, paralyzing us in a beneficial way by moving us: Think of the virile power of rock music, of the chthonic masses of Xenakis or of the drums from Burundi… And then there is “light” music that […]

Info text: "SHE TAKES NO PRISONERS" Anders Eliasson and the art of infinite presence "Music was my only way to survive in this world." As a small boy, Anders Eliasson formed his toy soldiers into an orchestra, sat down in front of them and sang, imitated the voices of the instruments. The first music he can remember […]

Info text: MUSIC AND TEXT IN AN UNUSUAL LIAISON “From Trachila” by Thomas Hummel The problem of understanding has become the subject of various discourses in recent art studies, which extend to theories of incomprehension or illegibility. Music, as the most abstract of all arts, has always carried a considerable degree of indeterminacy. Today, not least […]

Info text: Orchestral works by Ernst Helmuth Flammer The shape of time, thinking about time as a phenomenological category, i.e. the content that is articulated through the shape of time in music, has always been important to me as a composer. Time thinking is to be understood both structurally and in categories of history and present, tradition and aesthetic […]

Info text: SPACIOUS AND WEIGHTLESS As filigree and aesthetically balanced as Eckert's scores appeal to the viewer, they demand from the interpreters an extremely differentiated sound spectrum and dynamic gradations that go to the limits of what is possible, the edges of perception and technology Mark assets, but are binding, extremely binding in fact. Gestures and […]

Info text: ROBIN HOFFMANN LOCKEN for Birkhahn-Septett (2006) Who is actually luring whom here? Is it the hunter luring the black grouse in front of the gun? Or has the Weidmann, when he brings the bird out from behind the bush with his whistle, just followed the great call of nature? – At their sound, all the arts of self-proclaimed rat catchers fade away. So […]

Info text: GUAI AI GELIDI MOSTRI – WOE TO THE ICE COLD MONSTERS »I felt and feel that I had to make unforeseen and unforeseeable music for Carnevali. Personally, I'm interested [...] not only in the gray, not only in the fractures that have been created, but in the BEAUTIFUL NEW THAT EXPLODES - TRAGIC - EVEN VIOLENT - BUT STRIVING FOR THE MOST GENTLE [...]

Info text: THE PIANO WORK OF WOLFGANG RIHM My first contact with Wolfgang Rihm's piano music came relatively late. About eight years ago I heard the piano piece 5 “Tombeau” in a concert. I was spontaneously carried away by the dark power of this music. Like an outcry, a dark rebellion, with three exclamation marks after it... The strong architectural [...]

Info text: ROBERT HP PLATZ: PIANO PIECES Robert HP Platz pursues a stringent artistic concept. All pieces written since 1989 fit into an 'integral' body of work in which each building block is independent and can be performed separately, but is designed with a view to its integration into an overarching 'form-polyphonic' fabric. Also place' piano music […]

Info text: COMPLEXITY - UNPLAYABILITY - FAITHFULNESS IANNIS XENAKIS' COMPOSITIONS FOR SOLO PIANO AND SOLO CEMBALO REALIZED ON THE COMPUTER In Iannis The structures of his essentially emotional pieces should be understood as ciphers of human existence. For the interpreters of his music this means trying to interpret the 'notes' in such a way [...]

Program: [01] 10:20 Tilbury I (1969) Keyboard Miscellany (1988–) [02] 00:39 2. [03] 04:19 3. [04] 00:35 4. [05] 03:13 5 . [06] 01:27 Earle Brown [07] 01:06 To Howard Skempton on his 50th birthday [08] 00:56 6. [09] 00:17 7. [10] 00:35 8. [11] 00 :47 11. [12] 10:06 Variations on Morton Feldman's Piano Piece 1952 [13] 03:00 13. [14] 00:28 10. [15] 00:09 9. [16] 02:30 12. [ 17] 03:37 Tilbury II (1969) [18] 05:57 A Piano […]