Info text: CARNIVAL OF THE INSECTS Dan Dediu plays piano music by Dan Dediu Dan Dediu was born in 1967 in Braila/Romania, in a city about which there is nothing to report. At the age of thirteen he came to the Romanian capital, to the Bucharest Music High School. It's winter and the heating has broken down again - the years of shortages have already begun. […]

Info text: Tschappina Variations – Concerto for Ensemble and Violin One quickly notices the great linguistic nature of Klaus Ospald's music; His instrumental music also gives the listener the impression that something that is clearly comprehensible in language is being communicated to him. In addition to the unmistakable rhythm design, which knows many states between the poles of almost rigidity and driven rush and the progressions [...]

Program: Mauricio Kagel (*1931) [01] 27:39 Divertimento? (2005/2006) Farce for Ensemble Schönberg Ensemble Amsterdam Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor Alberto Posadas (*1967) [02] 22:27 Anamorfosis (2006) for large ensemble Schönberg Ensemble Amsterdam Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor overall 50:06 Press reviews: 11 -12/2008 On my first listening to this disc—with the somewhat undescriptive title “Donaueschinger Musiktage 2006, Vol. 4”—these two works seemed odd discmates indeed. […]

Info text: Martin Smolka (*1959) 43:43 Semplice (2006) for old and new instruments in six movements [01] 09:55 I. [02] 06:55 II. [03] 08:20 III. [04] 05:50 IV. [05] 09:33 V. [06] 03:10 VI. ensemble recherche Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Lucas Vis, conductor Wolfgang Mitterer (*1958) 22:39 internally detached (2006) for baroque orchestra, ensemble and electronics [07] 01:11 empty and plaintive [08] 03:05 fast […]

Program: Georg Friedrich Haas (*1953) [01] 40:13 Hyperion (2006) for light and orchestra SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg Rupert Huber, direction rosalie, light installation Jörg Widmann (*1973) [02] 13:40 Second Labyrinth (2006) for orchestra groups SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg Hans Zender, direction overall 53:53 Press reviews: 03/2008 December 11.12.2007, XNUMX Light Game Music Interpretation: Sound quality: Repertoire value: Booklet: The Donaueschinger Musiktage is one of the few [… ]

Program: Ole-Henrik Moe (*1966) [01] 13:43 Lenger (2006) for string quartet and solo violin Arditti Quartet Ole-Henrik Moe, violin Saed Haddad (*1972) 17:26 Joie voilée (2005/2006) for string quartet [02] 00:10 Prologue 00:10 [03] 01:00 1. On Purity [04] 02:06 2. On Happiness [05] 01:54 3. On Warmth [06] 01:12 4. On Moderateness [07] 00:51 5. On Serenity [08] 01:49 6. On Collectiveness [09] 00:59 7. On Togetherness [10] 01:46 8. On the […]

Info text: Illuviation is an attempt to start and think ahead exactly where it becomes “dangerous” for many makers and listeners of jazz to exceed a certain tolerance limit. Illuviation is also an attempt to let initially seemingly incompatible styles and sound worlds collide, but not to mercilessly blur them, as with cross-overs, or to let one “world” replace the other […]

Info text: Elliott Sharp: Orchestra Carbon – Larynx Larynx is an analogy; the orchestra as a throat. A reversal of the fact that the throat can also be an orchestra: as in the throat songs of the Inuit in the Canadian Arctic, in the Khöömej songs of Mongolia, or even in the distantly related oral cavity technique of the Jew's harp, which is called [ …]

Info text: Elliott Sharp: SyndaKit I wrote SyndaKit in 1998 for my ensemble Orchestra Carbon. The piece translates images from biology into music; it creates a constantly changing breeding ground of rhythms and timbres. It has an improvisational character and works with algorithms, but it is not improvisation. SyndaKit is primarily a changing organism, consisting of 144 […]

Info text: Elliott Sharp: Tectonics – ERRATA As a child, I was fascinated by everything that was futuristic and electronic. My Tectonics project may have its roots here. I read science fiction books from a young age and planned to become a scientist. Anyone who grew up in the USA in the 1950s was constantly and unscrupulously bombarded with propaganda about “scientific progress” […]

Info text: The word “arbitrary” means free, arbitrary and arbitrary – in other words, that would have to be jazz first and foremost. However, the improvisation here is not with small musical material such as phrases or themes, but with musical auras. In Arbitrary the musicians “take possession” of auras that are clear and to the point: mainly the aura of the Electric period of […]

Info text: In all three pieces, guitar quartet, string quartet and clarinet quintet, the melody is the comforting hand that was perhaps the oasis of peace for St. Augustine. Just as his perception, shaken by the collision with the ego, migrated back to the content of perception, the melodies from Machaut migrate to me and perhaps back - more melodic mass than quotation, [...]