Info text: SANGUE INVERSO - INVERSO SANGUE IN THE REALM OF THE POSSIBLE THE DAWNING OF NEW STARS AND THE REALM BECOMES MORE MAGNIFICENT THE POSSIBILITY EXPANDS THE TWILIGHT MORE TENDER THE STARS MORE ALIVE... Magnetite - since there is there there are the sounds of what is incomprehensible to you, invisible to you is Amethyst – fear not! not just sounds […]

Info text: Hovering like morning mist above the mirror-lake (Allan Marett, Eliza) This work developed over a period of around twelve years, although some of the sound images are a little older; they come from my time as a composition student in the 1980s. I performed earlier versions of some movements at numerous concerts and Shakuhachi festivals in Europe, Japan and […]

Info text: YOUNGHI PAGH-PAAN · CHAMBER MUSIC MAN-NAM I (Encounter) for clarinet and string trio (1977) was written three years after Younghi Pagh-Paan's arrival in Germany, when the composer was urgently looking for a way out of a strenuous life situation in which she - triggered by the confrontation with a culture, no matter how foreign it was. To overcome the culture shock in her […]

Info text: SONIC METAMORPHOSES Works by important composers have come down to us in different versions. The changes range from small retouches to the instrumentation to complete line-up changes to a kind of new composition. Sometimes the authors carried out these adaptations themselves and published several versions of a work, sometimes contemporaries or later generations took on these compositions and gave them to [...]

Info text: Gimi's piano concerto Why should you compose a piano concerto in 2020? Hasn't this leading genre of absolute music been exhausted for decades? Gunnar Geisse's piano concerto, which premieres on this CD, definitely adds a new facet to the genre, one that is not sure whether it [...]

Info text: THE SNOW QUEEN A musical story for soprano, two speakers and orchestra »The cold of the Snow Queen has many different sounds. Their sound appears as clear and transparent as frozen crystals. The serial techniques that always accompany the appearance of the icy ones also seem frosty and cool - academic calculation games that solidify into lifeless formulas. In sharp contrast […]

Program: Mark Andre (*1964) [01] rwḥ 1 for ensemble and electronics (2019) 21:49 p.m. premiere · Live commissioned work by the SWR Ensemble resonance Bas Wiegers, conductor SWR Experimentalstudio Johannes Boris Borowski (*1979) [02] Alone for ensemble (2018–2019) 13:48 p.m. World premiere · Live commissioned work by the Ensemble Intercontemporain and the SWR Ensemble Intercontemporain Matthias Pintscher, conductor Eva Reiter (*1976) [03] Guardian for double bass flutes and reed orchestra (2019) 23:14 p.m. World premiere · Live commissioned work by the SWR , With friendly support from […]

Info text: The Tower of Babel Oratorio in 8 parts (1981 / 82) for 3 orchestral groups, 3 choirs, 2 vocal solos (soprano and baritone), speaker, quadrophonic feeder tape and live electronics, based on texts by Friedrich Schiller, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche , Richard Wagner, Niccolò Machiavelli and Kurt Tucholsky On composing in the time-critical subject »Nothing sensual is sublime, and the more the market […]

Info text: CHRISTIAN OFENBAUER · DESTRUCTION OF THE ROOM / TIME As enigmatically abstract and hermetic as Christian Ofenbauer's music may sometimes be, it reacts sensitively to the context in which it is created, to the performers for whom it is intended, to their framework conditions. Certainly, everything composed communicates, be it through [...]

Info text: CLEMENS VON REUSNER · IDEAL LANDSCAPE Electro-acoustic works Surprisingly, immediately after attending a concert, people, when asked about the character of the music they heard, often speak in visual analogies, namely of landscapes - from the Alps to swaying wheat fields to the foaming sea. What is imaginable in the mind's eye distorts or replaces the memorable sound event. Himself […]

Program: Figures of Longing Works for mean-tone accordion Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) [01] Toccata avanti la messa della Madonna (from Fiori musicali, 1635) 01:03 [02] Toccata per l'Elevatione (from Fiori musicali, 1635 ) 02:33 [03] Canzon terza detta La Crivelli (from Canzoni alla Francese, 1645) 03:28 Nikolaus Brass (*1949) [04] Harmonies I (2014) 07:25 Johann Jakob Froberger (1616–1667) [05 ] Fantasia II in a, FbWV 202 (from Libro secondo, 1649) 04:02 [06] Fantasia V […]

Program: [01] atsiminimas for bass flute (2016) 13:58 [02] coincidentia oppositorum for alto flute (1986) 07:21 [03] La terreur d'ange nouveau for flute (1997-1999) 12:03 [04] Finite Jest for flute and soprano (2014) 10:52 [05] succolarity for flute (1989) 06:20 [06] Kurtág-Cantus II for piccolo (2013) 12:31 Total playing time: 64:00 Shanna Pranaitis, flute Frauke Aulbert, Soprano debut recordings