Info text: Sinfoniettas No. 1 & 3 · Piano Concerto No. 3 Ladislav Kubík (born 1946 in Prague) had already been following his own and very personal path since the 1974s, when he became a laureate of the UNESCO International Composers' Tribune (in 1 in Paris with Lament of the Warrior's Wife and the Piano Concerto No. XNUMX). Kubík is from both the Western European avant-garde […]

Info text: Bruno Maderna · Orchestral works · Vol. 3 Bruno Maderna was the embodiment of the free spirit among the protagonists of the European post-war avant-garde. More than anyone else, he was both a visionary and a practitioner and, with unpretentious understatement, described his oeuvre as “Kapellmeister music”. The truth about it was that he was an expressive and highly sensitive conductor who had nothing of dry [...]

Program: Manos Tsangaris (*1956) Batsheba. Eat The History! Radio play after an installation opera for actors, singers, chorus, orchestra and electronics (2008/2009) Mäander : Doku World premiere · Work commissioned by SWR [01] ru here 05:11 [02] yes 05:30 [03] now ic it 05:34 [04] i cant sleep or eat or do anything anymore 06:56 [05] my grades r dropping 05:28 [06] mine 2 05:11 [07] that […]

Program: Franck Bedrossian (*1971) [01] Swing for 11 instruments (2009) 21:10 World premiere · Work commissioned by SWR Ictus Ensemble · Georges-Elie Octors, conductor Raphaël Cendo (*1975) Introduction Aux Ténèbres 39:46 to three texts of the Apocalypse for bass-baritone solo, double bass solo, 13 players and live electronics (2009) [02] I. Prologue 05:06 [03] II. Premier chant (révélation 8) 06:06 [04] III . Interlude I 02:46 [05] IV. […]

Program: Salvatore Sciarrino (*1947) Libro notturno delle voci 31:47 for flute and orchestra (2009) [01] I. In val d'abisso 11:13 [02] II. Fauci dell'emozione 09:43 [03] III. Mario Caroli and the iridescence of a Re 10:43 World Premiere · Work commissioned by SWR Mario Caroli, flute SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg Beat Furrer, conductor Beat Furrer (*1954) Apon 17:12 for orchestra and speaking voice ( 2009) Text […]

Info text: "The meadow is not only beautiful..." Niccolò Castiglioni spent the last years of his life in the Dolomites. From Brixen his hikes took him across meadows and streams into the solitude of the summit regions. When he saw a flowering alpine pasture, he once told the musicologist Enzo Restagno that this meadow was not only “beautiful,” it was also “good.” If […]

Info text: Boulez, Brown, Brün, Cârneci, Finnissy, Fortner, Furrer, Kagel, Kalitzke, Krenek, Leibowitz, Maderna, Mihály, Müller-Hornbach, Otte, Platz, Pousseur, Stiebler, Stockhausen, Trojahn DARMSTADT AURAL DOCUMENTS Foreword by Thomas Schäfer , Director of the International Music Institute Darmstadt The terms “cultural heritage” or “cultural property” do not necessarily mean works, objects or materials from recent history, but rather finds from the past […]

Info text: MOZART – LISZT – BARTÓK The three pieces on this CD were composed by virtuoso piano-playing composers for piano partners: for sister, student, wife. These women were obviously emancipated in their profession - judging by the pianistic difficulty of the pieces, the authors certainly did not count on a weaker gender. In 1922, 19-year-old Ditta Pásztory came to […]

Info text: PASSAGES - MEXICO In Mexico, an old cultural nation that sees itself in the tradition of pre-Columbian advanced cultures and the colonial Spanish legacy, different cultures, social worlds, languages ​​and traditions flow into one another. In 2010, Mexico celebrates the "Bicentenario", the anniversary commemorating Mexican independence and revolution. History and the present leave their mark, and the ensemble Intégrales is [...]

Info text: Timing by Numbers John Cage's "Number Pieces" for piano Almost the entire output of John Cage's work in recent years (1987-92) consists of the so-called Number Pieces. The title (a written number) simply refers to the number of performers. Where there are multiple pieces for the same number of participants, the additional numbering indicates […]

Info text: John Cage: ASLSP How slow is “as slow as possible”? John Cage composed ASLSP for solo piano in 1985. In July 1987, at the suggestion of organist Gerd Zacher, he undertook the legendary arrangement for organ entitled Organ 2/ASLSP. ASLSP stands for “as slow as possible”. These playing instructions have informed the performers [...]

Info text: PETER RUZICKA – PIANO WORKS FIVE SCENES Peter Ruzicka noted in 2009 on the occasion of a new production of his opera CELAN that some central moments of the large orchestral score could be “represented” in a new aesthetic form in the linearity of the piano writing. In this opera, key traumatic experiences in the life of the poet, who survived the Holocaust, are revisited in many ways [...]