Info text: CHESS SHOW (OTHER MEMORIES OF JOHN CAGE) »The sound is transformed and restored, but in an unrecognizable way! He will be reborn. It is a perpetual rebirth or reincarnation. It's life. And it goes on and on.« This quote from John Cage's book For the Birds resonates in the individual versions of Chess Show, a […]

Info text: SEYED SINA SADEGHPOUR – MOSAIC. SONIC PERSPECTIVES ON IRAN Chamber music for soprano and mixed ensemble In the years after the Islamic Revolution, the situation for art and culture in my home country of Iran changed fundamentally. Musicians, especially female musicians, are confronted with major restrictions and limitations. For a long time I have […]

Info text: DAVID MOLINER ∙ PHYSICAL SOUND »The encounter with the music of David Moliner while preparing this CD was a really pleasant surprise for me. I discovered an artist who combines mastery of his craft with a feel for sound and a communicative parlando to express his music.« (Fabián Panisello) Already with my first [...]

Info text: WORKS BY FRIEDRICH GOLDMANN AND GEORG KATZER Friedrich Goldmann (1941–2009) and Georg Katzer (1935–2019) were influential figures in the GDR in a group of younger composers who had been growing since the end of the 1960s and who followed the official demands for »Socialist Realism « contradicted increasingly audibly in artistic creation. They counteracted the clichés of musical solidarity with the people and mass appeal [...]

Info text: DANIEL OSORIO: ZIKKUS The Zikkus series begins in 2007, while the composer was studying at the Saar University of Music, and in retrospect reflects his artistic career and his political feelings and thoughts. Studying composition as a self-imposed »exile« triggers a longer development process for Daniel Osorio in which, among other things, he questions his European music training and establishes connections […]

Info text: MUSICA RITROVATA Gianluca Verlingieri, the structuralist of electronic music Gianluca Verlingieri has chosen Musica Ritrovata as the title for his CD. He presents his chamber music of the last fifteen years under this motto, as music that has been rediscovered from other eras, found again and newly composed in the musical language of our time. According to his idea, she […]

Program: Ralf Hoyer (*1950) [01] residual_risk Electroacoustic composition for 4 channels / stereo version / video optional (2011/2013) 11:34 4worte09 Electroacoustic composition for 6 channels / stereo version (2010) [02] 4worte09 – Scrapping bonus 03:44 [03] 4worte09 – war-like conditions 02:57 [04] 4worte09 – swine flu 02:34 [05] 4worte09 – Bad Bank 03:07 TIME-drawn electro-acoustic composition for 6 channels / stereo version [06] Acceleration (ZEIT-drawn 1 ) (2010/2019) 07:51 [07] The displaced nightingale (ZEITzieh 2) (2010/2021) 04:48 [08] La […]

Program: Chengbi An (*1967) [01] L'assemblage sonore (Sound Assembly) 12:11 for piano and electronics (2019) Commissioned work by the Studio for Electro-Acoustic Music of the Academy of Arts Berlin for the festival KONTAKTE '19 With the kind support of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Prodromos Symeonidis, piano [02] Constellation for violin and piano (2003) 12:48 Commissioned by the Kumho Cultural Foundation Melise Mellinger, violin Prodromos Symeonidis, piano [03] Hyun.Oh (Le rêve d'un […]

Programme: H. E. Erwin Walther (1920–1995) Concerto for four solo wind instruments and string orchestra (1960) 34:48 [01] I. Allegro assai 13:06 [02] II. Largo 12:41 [03] III. Allegro 09:01 Katrin Klose (*1990) [04] Color clouds for large ensemble (2019/20) 14:55 Christof Johannes Weiß (*1986) [05] Chamber symphony “into the uncertain” (2019/20) 21:54 total playing time : 72:00 Tobias Kaiser, flute Claire Sirjacobs, oboe Enrico Toffano, bassoon Matthew Sadler, trumpet of the/yellow/sound Armando Merino, conductor World premiere recordings

Program: Vito Žuraj (*1979) [01] The Verwandler for mixed choir and symphony orchestra (2018) 23:30 Libretto by Aleš Šteger SWR Vocal Ensemble Michael Alber, choir director SWR Symphony Orchestra Brad Lubman, conductor [02] i-Formation for two orchestras and two Conductors (2016) 18:18 Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne François-Xavier Roth, conductor WDR Symphony Orchestra Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor Thierry Mechler, organ Alavò for soprano, piano and instrumental groups (2017) 32:43 Libretto by Patrick Hahn […]

Info text: ERNST HELMUTH FLAMMER · ORCHESTRA WORKS · VOL. 3 What can I basically say about space and time, about polyphony, about special articulatory and textual questions as well as questions about the polyphony of my composing for orchestra, especially in those places where it goes against the grain of convention, and further about its methodology is, may […]

Info text: GEORG KATZER · THE LATE WORK Vladimir Jurowski on the music of Georg Katzer My earliest memories from my childhood are associated with the music and person of Georg Katzer. I was six years old when my father conducted Georg Katzer's ballet Black Birds, first at Moscow's Stanislawski Theater and later at the Komische Oper Berlin. […]