Info text: Works for Piano - Works for Flute and Piano Musical poetry is of course also conceivable without a text set to music: when the musical metric defies conventions, when the timbre and the structural meaning of a sound coincide, when the artist is concerned with condensed, pictorial formulations wrestles. Jonathan Harvey's short piano piece Verse is such a lyrical […]

Info text: Two incredibly intense works on the Good Friday event: Liszt wished for the renewal of Catholic church music, which was not least inspired by the Protestant legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach. However, Franz Liszt places Bach's legacy in a musical landscape that touches the boundaries of tonality. Although the music emphasizes its folk character, […]

Info text: JOMO Mary Oliver, violin & viola Johanna Varner, cello Johanna Varner, cellist, scholarship holder from the city of Munich and initiator of numerous concert series in Munich and Mary Oliver from USA, member of the ICP Orkest, Dr. Phil. of music theory and soloist on the viola and violin, founded the duo JOMO in 2008. The two experimental and non-conformist musicians […]

Info text: After the arrest of Jesus of Nazareth in the Garden of Gethsemane, the guards of the Sanhedrin search for Lazarus. He flees to his house, where he lives with his sisters Marta and Maria, and finally finds refuge in his own crypt. There he relives his death in a dream and meets the four [...]

Info text: After the arrest of Jesus of Nazareth in the Garden of Gethsemane, the guards of the Sanhedrin search for Lazarus. He flees to his house, where he lives with his sisters Marta and Maria, and finally finds refuge in his own crypt. There he relives his death in a dream and meets the four [...]

Info text: CONGRATULATIONS, ELLIOTT CARTER! Elliott Carter celebrates his 11th birthday on December 2008, 100. And to this day he tirelessly writes new and outstanding music full of ingenious invention, vitality and sophistication. The present recordings of recent and recent works - three of them as world premiere recordings - are witnesses to our great admiration, our eternal gratitude and [...]

Info text: NEOCLASSICAL MODERN AND EXPRESSIVE CLASSICITY Works by Otto Siegl, Rebecca Clarke, Paul Hindemith, Günter Raphael, Witold Lutoslawski, Darius Milhaud and Siegmund Schul The name OTTO SIEGL (1896–1978) is only marginally familiar today to passionate rarity hunters. The native of Graz wrote in 1946 that he played “a lot of chamber music, like most conductors and composers, mainly viola. […] In the […]

Info text: ... A BEAUTIFUL NIGHTMARE ... Igor Stravinsky and Claude Debussy, although contemporaries, pursued very different musical approaches. While Stravinsky shocked the world with new rhythmic-metric sound attacks, Debussy revolutionized music with much more subtle elements: with a harmony that no longer had a tonal basis and a musical language that gave freedom to Stravinsky's ruthless logic.

Info text: VIRTUOSITY AND PATHOS, BEAUTY AND TRUTH Kaya Han with the piano work of Isang Yun and Beethoven's ›Pathétique‹ In Johann Georg Sulzer's General Theory of Fine Arts (Leipzig 1793) ›Pathos; Pathetic” especially to those passions “which fill the mind with fear, terror [sic!] and dark sadness”, i.e. to those feelings that arise as a result of […]

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: 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: 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 […]