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Señales
Five first recordings of chamber works by Hilda Paredes, written between 1995 and 2013: Señales with Irvine Arditti and Ensemble Signal, solo pieces for piano and for bass clarinet, and two works played by ensemble recherche.
Piano Sonatas & String Quartets 1
First volume of Horatiu Radulescu's Piano Sonatas and String Quartets, with String Quartet No. 5 and Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 and 5, the quartet and Sonata No. 5 first recordings, played by the JACK Quartet and Stephen Clarke.
On the Edges
Three works for large chamber ensemble by Hamburg-based composer Gerald Eckert, who conducts ensemble reflexion K in music that works on the edges of sound, between near silence and explosion.
Complete Early Works for Percussion
Karlheinz Stockhausen's early percussion works on DVD-Audio with surround sound: Zyklus, Kontakte for piano and percussion with tape, Mikrophonie for tam-tam, Refrain and Schlagtrio, from new transfers of the analog tapes.
Brazil 84
Phill Niblock's 16mm film Brazil 84, from his series The Movement of People Working, shot along the Brazilian coast in 1984, with his music as soundtrack in stereo and surround: Three Orchids and Two by Tom. 77 minutes.
The Works for Percussion 3
John Cage's works for solo percussionist played by D'Arcy Philip Gray: Child of Tree, Branches, One⁴ and three versions of c/Composed Improvisation, volume 3 of the Mode percussion series (Cage Edition 50).
Complete String Quartets
The three string quartets of Helmut Lachenmann, Gran Torso, Reigen seliger Geister and Grido, played by the JACK Quartet in a recording endorsed by the composer.
Music in 2 Dimensions – Works for Flute
The first complete CD of Bruno Maderna's music for flute, played by Roberto Fabbriciani for the 40th anniversary of the composer's death: works for flute and tape, piano and orchestra, and three first recorded arrangements.
The Piano Works 9
First recordings of two major piano works by John Cage from 1950-51 found at the New York Public Library: Haiku and the solo piano version of Sixteen Dances, played by Jovita Zähl, with Thomas Meixner on percussion in two alternate dances.
The Works for Violin
The first complete recording of Giacinto Scelsi's works for solo violin, including the first recording of Divertimento No. 2, played by Weiping Lin, assistant concertmaster of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Zwei Gefühle and Solo Works
Helmut Lachenmann performs with and supervises Ensemble Signal in Zwei Gefühle, Musik mit Leonardo for speaker and ensemble, and plays three of his own piano works, recorded after a four-concert tour of the programme.
Songs Of Innocence & Experience
The first complete recording of Walter Zimmermann's string quartets by the Sonar Quartett, with Songs of Innocence & Experience after William Blake, Festina Lente and Fränkische Tänze, plus solo works for violin and for viola with voice.
The Works for Percussion 2
John Cage's early percussion chamber works from 1935-1942, including the three Constructions, Trio, Quartet and Living Room Music, played by Third Coast Percussion, with the first movement of Living Room Music recorded in the Ford House.
Electronic Works 3
Morton Subotnick's electronic works: the first CD and surround release of the quadrophonic tape piece Four Butterflies, and Until Spring: Revisited, a live recomposition of his 1975 Buchla work. The DVD adds A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur: Revisited.
Madame De Shanghai - Après Presque Rien - Visage 2
Three works by Luc Ferrari: Visage 2 (1955-56) and Après presque rien (2004), both first recordings with Musiques Nouvelles and Art Zoyd, and Madame de Shanghai for three flutes and digital sounds.
The Piano Works 4
Fourth volume of Giacinto Scelsi's piano works: Hispania, Suite No. 5 Il Circo and Suite No. 6 I Capricci di Ty, three first recordings of large early works from the 1930s, played by Stephen Clarke.
Works With Flutes
Aldo Clementi's works for flutes, issued for his 75th birthday: Fantasia su roBErto FABbriCiAni, Ouverture for 12 flutes, Passacaglia, luCiAno BErio and Parafrasi 2, played by Roberto Fabbriciani with tapes restored by Alvise Vidolin.
The Works For Saxophone 3 & 4
Two CDs of John Cage works for saxophones and other instruments, played by Ulrich Krieger and Intersax, including the only available recording of Party Pieces, written with Cowell, Harrison and Thomson.
Complete String Quartets
Xenakis Edition volume 10 and the first complete recording of Iannis Xenakis's string quartets, played by the JACK Quartet: Tetras, Tetora, ST/4-1,080262 and Ergma, the last quartet, released on CD and surround-sound DVD.
The Number Pieces 5 - Two2
John Cage's Two2 (1989) for two pianos, a renga-based number piece built on time brackets, played in a 74-minute performance by Rob Haskins and Laurel Karlik Sheehan, from the Complete John Cage Edition.