Prism III - Beethoven, Bartók, Bach
Third volume of the Danish String Quartet's Prism series: Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 Op. 131, Bartók's String Quartet No. 1 and Bach's Fugue BWV 849 (arr. Förster). Recorded November 2017 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Prism II - Beethoven, Schnittke, Bach
Bach's Fugue in B minor BWV 869 (arr. Förster), Schnittke's String Quartet No. 3 and Beethoven's Op. 130 with the Grosse Fuge as finale, played by the Danish String Quartet; recorded May 2017 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Prism I - Beethoven, Shostakovich, Bach
Bach's Fugue BWV 876 in Mozart's arrangement, Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 15 and Beethoven's Op. 127, played by the Danish String Quartet; recorded November 2016 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt, produced by Manfred Eicher. First volume of the Prism series.
Quasi morendo - Johannes Brahms, Gérard Pesson, Salvatore Sciarrino
Brahms's Clarinet Quintet Op. 115 framed by Sciarrino's solo Let Me Die Before I Wake and Pesson's Nebenstück, played by clarinettist Reto Bieri and the Finnish quartet Meta4; recorded at RSI Studio Zürich, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Ravel, Franck, Ligeti, Messiaen
Violin and piano works by Ravel (Sonate posthume), Franck (Sonata in A major), Ligeti (Duo, first recording) and Messiaen (Thème et variations), played by Natascia and Raffaella Gazzana; recorded March 2017 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano.
Die Nacht
Songs and the Arpeggione Sonata by Franz Schubert, with three Nocturnes by Friedrich Burgmüller, played by cellist Anja Lechner and guitarist Pablo Márquez; recorded November 2016 in the Spiegelsaal, Residenz Eichstätt, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Anájikon
Chamber and orchestral works by Konstantia Gourzi: Hommage à Mozart (Nils Mönkemeyer, William Youn), Ny-él (Lucerne Academy Orchestra conducted by the composer, August 2016) and String Quartet No. 3 Anájikon (Minguet Quartett, March 2018).
De la nuit
Hungarian pianist Dénes Várjon plays Schumann's Fantasiestücke op. 12, Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit and Bartók's Im Freien. Recorded in April 2016 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Seven Songs
Solo piano music by Komitas (Seven Songs, Msho Shoror, Seven Dances, Pieces for Children, Toghik) played by Lusine Grigoryan. Recorded in February 2015 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Elegie an John Donne
Christian Reiner reads Joseph Brodsky in German: the Große Elegie an John Donne in two translations plus seven shorter poems (1958-1992). Recorded from 2014 at Garnison 7, Vienna, produced by Manfred Eicher and Wolf Wondratschek.
In Concert - Beethoven / Liszt
Till Fellner in concert: Liszt's Années de pèlerinage, Première année: Suisse (Vienna Musikverein, June 2002) and Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32 Op. 111 (Middlebury, Vermont, October 2010).
Bach, Busoni, Beethoven
Yuuko Shiokawa (violin) and András Schiff (piano) play sonatas by Bach (BWV 1016), Busoni (No. 2, Op. 36a) and Beethoven (No. 10, Op. 96); recorded in December 2016 at the Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano.
Debussy & Hosokawa: Point and Line
Momo Kodama plays Debussy's twelve Etudes (1915) interleaved with Toshio Hosokawa's six Etudes (2011-13); recorded in January 2016 at the Historischer Reitstadel, Neumarkt, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Air - Bent Sørensen, Hans Abrahamsen
Accordion music by Bent Sørensen and Hans Abrahamsen played by Frode Haltli, solo, with the Trondheim Soloists and with the Arditti Quartet; recorded October-November 2014 at Selbu Kirke, Norway.
Giovanni Legrenzi, Luciano Berio, Giovanni Gabrieli, Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Dennis Russell Davies
Now, And ThenBruno Maderna's chamber orchestra transcriptions of Frescobaldi, Legrenzi, Gabrieli, Viadana and Wassenaer, with the first recording of Luciano Berio's Chemins V (Pablo Márquez, guitar); Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, Dennis Russell Davies, recorded in Lugano in August 2015.
The Deer's Cry
Thirteen choral works by Arvo Pärt from 1977 to 2014, including two first recordings, sung by the Estonian ensemble Vox Clamantis under Jaan-Eik Tulve; recorded mainly in Tallinn in 2013 and 2014, with Veni Creator from Haapsalu in 2007.
Thomas Adès, Per Nørgård, Hans Abrahamsen
The Danish String Quartet's ECM debut: first string quartets by Thomas Adès (Arcadiana, 1994), Per Nørgård (Quartetto Breve, 1952) and Hans Abrahamsen (10 Preludes, 1973), recorded in May 2015 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt, and produced by Manfred Eicher.
Carlo Gesualdo, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Brett Dean, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste
GesualdoMusic by Carlo Gesualdo alongside Brett Dean's Carlo and Erkki-Sven Tüür's L'ombra della croce and Psalmody, performed by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra under Tõnu Kaljuste; recorded in Tallinn in February 2014.
Béla Bartók, Alfred Schnittke, Witold Lutosławski
Violin sonatas by Bartók (No. 2, 1922) and Schnittke (Quasi una sonata, 1967-68) and Lutosławski's Partita (1984), played by Miranda Cuckson and Blair McMillen; recorded in Lugano in January 2015, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Chiaroscuro
Two first recordings of works by Giya Kancheli, Chiaroscuro (2010) and Twilight (2004), played by Gidon Kremer, Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Kremerata Baltica; recorded in Vilnius in late 2014 and produced by Manfred Eicher.