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 [...]

Info text: JS BACH: GOLDBERG VARIATIONS BWV 988 Thoughts on the work and interpretation Whether string trio, harpsichord or piano – the Goldberg Variations cannot be captured with terms such as “interpretation style” or “faithfulness to the work”. As is well known, the character and value of an interpretation depend only to a very limited extent on the question of “stylistic appropriateness” or the “tone color” of the chosen instrument, although criticism and […]

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 […]

Info text: Volume 17 of the MUSICA VIVA series, which NEOS developed in exclusive collaboration with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra: Four heavyweight works by the Italian composer eccentric from La Spezia, which have not yet been represented in the catalog in sufficient quality. Scelsi – he died on August 9, 1988 in Rome – can still be celebrated as a discovery: In […]

Program: IN-BETWEEN blues pieces [01] 08:11 rise [02] 05:21 impasse [03] 05:08 plosion [04] 08:17 lapse [05] 05:20 submerged [06] 05:26 nite out [07] 05:21 washed over [08] 05:20 cwm [09] 08:08 in-between total time 56:51 Jens Joneleit: drums, bass, and piano Recorded using multitracking with each individual track recorded live without editing session dates: January 31, […]

Program: MAZE drum solo [01] 26:29 intro … [02] 28:46 … wall-of-sound homage to Sunny Murray [03] 14:51 energy piece … total time 70:01 This recording is dedicated to my friend and teacher Famoudou Don Moye Jens Joneleit, drums Recorded live on July 2, 2004 at Audio for the Arts Studio, Madison, WI, USA The recording was engineered […]

Info text: Elliott Sharp: Spring & Neap – RE:ITERATIONS Spring & Neap In 1996 I went on tour with Orchestra Carbon to Japan; A highlight was the Music Merge Festival in Tokyo. A colorful selection of wonderful musicians from the international scene met there for three days at the Shinjuku Pit Inn: Michiyo Yagi, Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Jim O'Rourke, […]

Info text: Elliott Sharp: Orchestra Carbon – Rheo~Umbra “Schattenflut”: this is how I would translate the unconventional title of this piece that I composed for Orchestra Carbon in 1997 - and this is also how I would describe the musical movements that occur in it. Rheo~Umbra has seven parts; In them, through-composed passages, algorithmically controlled ensemble playing and solo improvisations overlap. Regarding the algorithmic […]

Program: [01] 20:00 Seven (1988) for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola and cello Quartets I–VIII (1976) for 24 instruments [02] 09:38 Quartet I [03] 11:45 Quartet II [04] 02:14 Quartet III [05] 04:17 Quartet IV [06] 01:48 Quartet V [07] 00:48 Quartet VI [08] 05:26 Quartet VII [09] 04:04 Quartet VIII Total time 60:48 Orchestra Jakobsplatz Munich Daniel Grossmann, conductor

Info text: The turn of the year 1929/1930 marked a break in Stefan Wolpe's life: after long years and many attempts to find his place in the avant-garde cultural life of the Weimar Republic, around this time he finally turned to work as a political composer and became intensively involved in the field of workers' music and agitprop. Without his, at the […]