Info text: PAUL HINDEMITH »1922« Suite for Piano · Three Piano Sonatas »Can you also use Fox trots, Bostons, Rags and other kitsch? When I can't think of any decent music, I always write stuff like that. I do it very well, and I think you could do more business with a piece like this than with my best […]

Info text: ERHARD GROSSKOPF – SprachKlang · VoiceSound Electroacoustic works “Composing sound is different than composing with sounds,” said Erhard Grosskopf in a portrait program on Deutschlandfunk Kultur in March 2020. His electroacoustic works published here had special conditions during the creation process between 1969 and 1972: analog studio technology and multi-channel, spatial sound projections. What these early electronic compositions by Grosskopf have in common […]

Info text: ReBruAla works in various instrumentations by René Wohlhauser The great vocal trilogy “Three Songs” (2016) for soprano, baritone, bass flute, bass clarinet and cello 1. Lost Future · Version for soprano and cello 2. Disturbed Songs · Version for baritone, bass flute and bass clarinet 3. Quala Mirs · Version for soprano, baritone, bass flute, bass clarinet and violoncello Composition commission from the Music Basel-Stadt and Baselland expert committee Lost future […]

Program: [01] Sound drawing for double bass solo (2009) 07:58 Tobias Eduard Schick, double bass Live Recording [02] BÄM (without self-sabotage) for ensemble (2013) 23:21 El Perro Andaluz (Arnfried Falk, oboe · Albrecht Scharnweber, clarinet · Philipp Lamprecht, percussion · Ruslan Kratschkowski, accordion · Aline Khouri, harp · Emily Yabe, violin · Nadejda Krasnovid, cello · Konrad Hartig, double bass) Lennart Dohms, conductor […]

Info text: ON THE DESIRE OF THE DRUMS Nicolaus A. Huber's latest works for percussion The exotic regions beyond the traditional boundaries of the musical fruitland, which the percussion once opened up to new music since Edgard Varèse's Ionization for thirteen percussionists (1929–1931), are now long gone developed and reclaimed. Anyone who goes by Varèse, Cage, Stockhausen, Xenakis, Nono, Kagel, Riedl, Berio and […]

Programme: Scrapes and Soundscapes Works for Cello and Percussion André Chini (*1945) [01] Gina et Fio (2014) 11:50 Jenny Hettne (*1977) [02] Bells and Tides (2016) 09:58 Ricardo Eizirik (* 1985) [03] re / wind / re / write – fast-forward version (2014) 04:00 Esaias Järnegard (*1983) [04] Stenar – Aska, aska (2011) 08:28 Leilei Tian (*1971) [ 05] Never-Ending Journey (2016) 09:35 Ivo Nilsson (*1966) [06] Whereabout I (2017) 12:32 Farangis Nurulla-Khoja (*1972) [07] Se… (2018) 05:44 total playing time: 62:12 UmeDuo – Karolina Öhman, cello & Erika Öhman, drums

Program: [01] Alice… for bass clarinet, percussion and ensemble (2011) 11:43 [02] Estudio sobre el gris y el verde for ensemble (2011) 11:55 [03] Homenaje a Francisco Toledo for saxophone and ensemble ( 2014) 10:02 [04] Paris wind behind me… for ensemble (2016) 10:39 [05] Química del agua for ensemble (2015) 09:15 [06] La dimensión frágil for ensemble (2015) 10:49 total playing time: 64:37 Vertixe Sonora Angélica V. Salvi, harp [01, 03] Antonio […]

Info text: FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY Music by Werner Heider When Werner Heider was asked in 2006, on the occasion of the premiere of his orchestral work Architecture at the Munich musica viva, which metaphysical or symbolic ideas were hidden behind the formal floor plan, he amazed his counterpart with a very clear one Answer: »My piece is simply a composition of musical architecture. There should […]

Info text: ERNST HELMUTH FLAMMER – ORCHESTRA WORKS VOL. 2 The shape of time, thinking about time as a phenomenological category, i.e. the content that is articulated through the shape of time in music, has always been important to me as a composer. Time thinking is to be understood both structurally and in categories of history and the present, [...]

Program: Dániel Péter Biró (*1969) Mishpatim (Laws) Six-Part Composition Cycle (2003–2016) SACD 1 total playing time: 67:00 [01] Mishpatim (Laws) Part I: Lo Tisa (Do Not Accept) 14 :19 for speaking percussionist, voices and ensemble (2003, rev. 2015 / 2016) [02] Mishpatim (Laws) Part II: VeShesh Shanim (Six Years) 17:08 for voices, speaking percussionist and ensemble (2005–2006, rev . 2015 / 2016) [03] Mishpatim (Laws) Part III: […]

Program: SACD 1 total playing time: 68:51 Ivan Fedele (*1953) Air on Air for amplified basset horn and orchestra (2018) 17:28 [01] I Floating on air… 04:04 [02] II Squalls on the water surface… 02:01 [03] III Calm… 02:25 [04] IV In the eye of the storm… 02:15 [05] V The pounding sound of the storm… 02:50 [06] VI Crumbled air… 03:51 World premiere · Live recording Commissioned by SWR […]

Info text: THE MUSIC OF JORGE E. LÓPEZ Jorge E. López has often stated that his composing is, on the one hand, rooted in the music of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and, on the other hand, influenced by ideas of surrealism. Of course, this anchoring does not mean a stylistic reference. It concerns more the ethos and methodology of […]