Night Sessions
The Dowland Project (John Potter, Stephen Stubbs, John Surman, Barry Guy, Maya Homburger, Miloš Valent) improvise on medieval poems and early music fragments. Recorded September 2001 and January 2006 at Propstei St. Gerold.
Towards Silence
Swiss violinist Paul Giger (violin, violino d'amore) and harpsichordist Marie-Louise Dähler alternate Bach's Sonata BWV 1018 and the Goldberg Aria with their own pieces and improvisations. Recorded October 2006 at Propstei St. Gerold.
Bagatellen und Serenaden
Valentin Silvestrov plays his piano Bagatellen; Alexei Lubimov, the Münchener Kammerorchester and Christoph Poppen play his works for strings and for strings and piano. Recorded February 2006 at the Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich.
Musica del Delphin
Pablo Márquez plays seventeen pieces from Luys de Narváez's Los seys libros del Delphin (Valladolid, 1538) on modern guitar, recorded in April 2006 at the Kulturbühne AmBach, Götzis.
Alexander Knaifel, Ivan Monighetti, Tatiana Melentieva, Piotr Migunov, State Hermitage Orchestra, Lege Artis Choir
BlazhenstvaTwo works by Alexander Knaifel: Lamento for solo cello (1967, rev. 1987) and Blazhenstva (The Beatitudes, 1996) for soloists, orchestra and choir, with Ivan Monighetti, the State Hermitage Orchestra and the Lege Artis Choir, recorded in St. Petersburg in March 2006.
Helena Tulve, Arianna Savall, Emmanuelle Ophèle-Gaubert, Mihkel Peäske, NYYD Ensemble, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Silesian String Quartet, Olari Elts
LijnenFirst ECM album of the Estonian composer Helena Tulve: six chamber works (1997-2004) played by the NYYD Ensemble under Olari Elts, Arianna Savall, the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet and the Silesian String Quartet, recorded in Tallinn between 1997 and 2006.
Encores after Beethoven
András Schiff plays the encores from his live Beethoven sonata cycle at the Tonhalle Zürich (2004-2006): Schubert, Mozart, Haydn, Bach and Beethoven's Andante favori. Released 2016.
The Piano Sonatas, Volume IV
András Schiff plays Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Opp. 26, 27 Nos. 1 and 2 ("Moonlight") and 28 ("Pastorale"), recorded live at the Tonhalle Zürich in April 2005. Volume IV of his ECM cycle.
Musical Banquet
Soprano Monika Mauch and lutenist Nigel North in 24 songs and lute solos from Robert Dowland's 1610 anthology A Musicall Banquet, with music by John Dowland, Caccini, Guédron and others. Recorded May 2005 at Propstei St. Gerold.
Johann Ludwig Trepulka / Norbert von Hannenheim: Klavierstücke und Sonaten
Herbert Henck plays the surviving piano music of Johann Ludwig Trepulka (Klavierstücke op. 2) and Norbert von Hannenheim (Sonatas Nos. 2, 4, 6, 12 and a concerto fragment). Recorded April 2005 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt am Main.
Thomas Tallis / Christopher Tye / John Sheppard - Audivi vocem
The Hilliard Ensemble sing sacred polyphony by Thomas Tallis, Christopher Tye and John Sheppard, built around movements of Tye's Missa sine nomine. Recorded March 2005 at Propstei St. Gerold, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Stella Maris
Trio Mediaeval (Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum) sing 12th- and 13th-century English and Notre Dame pieces with Sungji Hong's Missa Lumen de lumine (2002). Recorded February 2005 at Propstei St. Gerold.
D'Amore
Garth Knox on viola d'amore, with cellist Agnès Vesterman, in music by Hume, Marais, Ariosti, Klaus Huber, Roland Moser, Knox himself and Celtic traditional tunes. Recorded September 2006 at Propstei St. Gerold.
Erkki-Sven Tüür, Pedro Carneiro, Leho Karin, Marrit Gerretz-Traksmann, Vox Clamantis, NYYD Ensemble, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Olari Elts
OxymoronFour works by Erkki-Sven Tüür (1990-2005): Salve Regina, the marimba concerto Ardor with Pedro Carneiro, Dedication and Oxymoron, with Vox Clamantis, NYYD Ensemble and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra under Olari Elts. Recorded in Tallinn, 2003 and 2006.
Chonguri
Encores and short pieces from Bach, Chopin, Fauré, Liszt and Webern to Tsintsadze and Demenga himself, played by cellist Thomas Demenga with Thomas Larcher (piano) and Teodoro Anzellotti (accordion). Recorded August 2004 in Sandhausen.
Violinkonzert "Hommage à Louis Soutter"
Heinz Holliger's Violin Concerto "Hommage à Louis Soutter", played by Thomas Zehetmair with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg under the composer, preceded by Ysaÿe's Sonata No. 3. Recorded September and December 2002 in St. Gerold and Freiburg.
Gurdjieff & Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns & Dances
Anja Lechner (cello) and Vassilis Tsabropoulos (piano) play music by G.I. Gurdjieff arranged for their duo, with Tsabropoulos's own pieces after Byzantine hymns. Recorded December 2003 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Friedrich Cerha / Franz Schreker
Friedrich Cerha's Cello Concerto (1989/1996), with its dedicatee Heinrich Schiff as soloist, and Franz Schreker's Chamber Symphony (1916), played by the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra under Peter Eötvös. Recorded September 2003 in Hilversum.
there is still time
Seventeen scenes for speaking voice and cello: Paul Griffiths reads his poems drawn from Ophelia's words in Hamlet, Frances-Marie Uitti plays her own music. Recorded August 2003 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher.
to be sung on the water
Michelle Makarski plays three solo violin sonatas by Giuseppe Tartini and two works by Donald Crockett, one with violist Ronald Copes, recorded in March 2004 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.