Music For High Winds
Giacinto Scelsi's music for high winds, solo and duo pieces for clarinet, flute, piccolo and oboe written between 1953 and 1970, played by Carol Robinson, Clara Novakova and Cathy Milliken. Volume 3 of Mode's Scelsi Edition.
Musica Da Camera
Chamber works by Luigi Dallapiccola and Goffredo Petrassi, alternated for comparison, played by Naples-based Ensemble Dissonanzen: Quaderno musicale di Annalibera, Tartiniana seconda, Parole di S. Paolo, Sestina d'autunno and Seconda serenata-Trio.
Mexico: New Music For Strings
Six works by Mexican composers born between 1957 and 1977, for string quartet and solo violin, recorded in 2002 at the first Radar festival in Mexico City by the Arditti Quartet and Irvine Arditti.
Complete Music For Violin & Piano
Morton Feldman's complete music for violin and piano, from Piece for Violin and Piano (1950) to For John Cage (1982), which spans both discs, played by Marc Sabat and Stephen Clarke.
Music from the Ether
Original works for theremin from the 1920s "golden age" to the 1990s, all first recordings, by Schillinger, Grainger, Martinu, Achron, Antunes, Komarov and Lydia Kavina, played by Kavina with piano, string quartet and soprano.
The Orchestral Works 1: Hymnos, Hurqualia, Konx-Om-Pax
Volume 2 of Mode's Scelsi Edition: the orchestral works Hymnos, Hurqualia and Konx-Om-Pax, played by the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic and Concert Choir under Juan Pablo Izquierdo, interspersed with Canti del Capricorno sung by Pauline Vaillancourt and Douglas Ahlstedt.
The Number Pieces 2: Five³
John Cage's Five³ (1991), one of the late number pieces, for trombone and string quartet, played by Monique Buzzarté and the Arditti String Quartet. Cover etching by Cage, liner notes by James Pritchett.
Tilbury Pieces
First recordings of Christian Wolff's Tilbury pieces (1969-70), Snowdrop (1970) and Tilbury 5 (1996), minimalist open-form works played by trombonist Roland Dahinden, pianist Hildegard Kleeb and violinist Dimitrios Polisoidis.
String Quartet No. 1
Morton Feldman's String Quartet No. 1 in the longest recorded performance, with Structures and Three Pieces for String Quartet, played by the Flux Quartet. Two CDs plus a bonus DVD of the uninterrupted 90-minute audio.
Trio
Morton Feldman's Trio for violin, cello and piano, lasting one hour, 45 minutes, in a recording with Aki Takahashi, Marc Sabat and Rohan de Saram, two of whom worked closely with the composer.
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.
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.
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.
Cage Edition Vol.52 : The Works for Percussion 4
John Cage works for a speaking percussionist, including Bonnie Whiting's realization 51'15.657" and Music for Two (By One), the early voice and piano songs, and a piece by Allen Otte built on Cage's methods.
Modern Lied
Six modern song cycles for soprano and piano by Holliger, Sciarrino, Lachenmann, Kurtág, Rihm and Bernhard Lang, sung by Sarah Maria Sun with pianist Jan Philip Schulze, with several first recordings.
Xenakis Edition 15, Orchestral Works
Three orchestral works by Iannis Xenakis: Metastaseis A in its original version for 65 musicians (first recording), with the Orchestra Sinfonica RAI, and Terretektorh and Nomos Gamma, with the Residentie Orkest The Hague under Arturo Tamayo.
String Quartet No. 2
Morton Feldman's String Quartet No. 2, a work of more than six hours, played by the FLUX Quartet on a deluxe five-CD box with liner notes by Christian Wolff and FLUX founder Tom Chiu.
The Great Works For Voice
Vocal works by Luciano Berio, among them Folk Songs, Sequenza III, Chamber Music, O King and Circles, sung by Christine Schadeberg with Musicians Accord, reissued with the first recording of Quattro Canzoni Popolari.
Sonic Encounters
Margaret Leng Tan's second recording, on piano: Cage's Primitive and In the Name of the Holocaust (first recordings), Hovhaness, Crumb, Satoh's Cosmic Womb for two pianos with digital delay, and Ge Gan-ru's Gu Yue. Released in 1988.
The Early Immersive Music of Joan La Barbara
Three long-form works from Joan La Barbara's first decade of recordings, with new stereo and surround mixes from the analogue tapes: As Lightning Comes In Flashes (1981), Autumn Signal (1978) and the previously unreleased CYCLONE (1976-77).