Composition / All styles

Chamber works and songs by Harrison Birtwistle (1998-2011): two sets of Lorine Niedecker settings, the Trio and Bogenstrich, played by Till Fellner, Lisa Batiashvili, Adrian Brendel, Amy Freston and Roderick Williams, recorded at the Herkulessaal, Munich.

Henry Purcell's twelve Fantazias in three and four parts (1680), played by the John Holloway Ensemble (violin, two violas, cello), recorded in March 2015 at Radiostudio DRS, Zürich, and released by ECM New Series in 2023.

Hungarian pianist Dénes Várjon's first solo ECM New Series album: Berg's Piano Sonata op. 1, Janáček's In the mists and Liszt's Sonata in B minor, recorded in April 2011 at the RSI Auditorio in Lugano and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Five works by Estonian composer Helena Tulve, with soprano Arianna Savall, Vox Clamantis, Ensemble Hortus Musicus and the NYYD Quartet under Jaan-Eik Tulve and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra under Olari Elts, recorded in Tallinn in 2009 and 2010.

Kim Kashkashian plays György Kurtág's Signs, Games and Messages for solo viola (nineteen pieces) and György Ligeti's Sonata for viola solo (1991-94), recorded in May 2011 at Propstei St. Gerold and produced by Manfred Eicher.

First portrait album of Dobrinka Tabakova: the Cello Concerto, Suite in Old Style, Insight, Frozen River Flows and Such Different Paths, with Maxim Rysanov, Kristina Blaumane, Janine Jansen and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, recorded in Vilnius and Berlin.

Debut album of the Italian sisters Natascia (violin) and Raffaella Gazzana (piano), playing Takemitsu's Distance de fée, Hindemith's Sonata in E, Janáček's Sonata and Silvestrov's Five Pieces, recorded in March 2011 at the RSI Auditorio in Lugano.

Eight choral works by Arvo Pärt, led by the 24-minute Adam's Lament, sung and played by Latvian and Estonian choirs and string orchestras under Tõnu Kaljuste, recorded at Niguliste Church, Tallinn, in 2007 and 2011.

Heinz Holliger's Machaut-Transkriptionen (2001-2009) for four voices and three violas, alternating with Machaut originals, sung by The Hilliard Ensemble with violists Geneviève Strosser, Jürg Dähler and Muriel Cantoreggi, recorded November 2010 in Zürich.

Eleni Karaindrou's stage cantata on an anonymous 18th century verse drama from Chios, with violist Kim Kashkashian, mezzo Irini Karagianni, baritone Tassis Christoyannopoulos, ERT Choir, Camerata Orchestra under Alexandros Myrat, recorded live at the Athens Megaron, November 2010.

Live recording of Eleni Karaindrou's theatre and film music with guests Kim Kashkashian (viola) and Jan Garbarek (tenor saxophone), oboist Vangelis Christopoulos and the Camerata Orchestra under Alexandros Myrat, Megaron, Athens, 19 November 2010.

Hildegard of Bingen's sung morality play Ordo Virtutum (c. 1150) in a free, contemporary-minded arrangement by Dietburg Spohr for the Ensemble Belcanto, recorded October 2010 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt am Main.

Valery Afanassiev plays Schubert's six Moments musicaux D. 780 and the Piano Sonata in D major D. 850. Recorded September 2010 at the Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Gidon Kremer (violin), Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė (cello) and Khatia Buniatishvili (piano) play Victor Kissine's Zerkalo (2009), dedicated to them, and Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio op. 50. Recorded August 2010, Himmelfahrtskirche Sendling, Munich.

Chamber and vocal works by Heinz Holliger: Puneigä (soprano Sylvia Nopper), Induuchlen (countertenor Kai Wessel, horn Olivier Darbellay), Toronto-Exercises and Ma'mounia, with the Swiss Chamber Soloists under Holliger. Recorded 2006-2010.

The Keller Quartett plays György Ligeti's String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 with the Molto adagio from Samuel Barber's String Quartet op. 11 between them. Recorded June 2007 and October 2011 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.

John Holloway and a string consort (Monika Baer, Renate Steinmann, Susanna Hefti, Martin Zeller) play Dowland's seven Lachrimae pavans alternated with consort works by Purcell, Lawes, Jenkins, Morley and Locke. Recorded March 2013, Radio Studio Zürich.

The Hilliard Ensemble, joined by soprano Monika Mauch and countertenor David Gould, sings Carlo Gesualdo's complete Fifth Book of five-voice madrigals (1611), recorded in November 2009 at Propstei St. Gerold.

One-page string quartets and settings of phrases from the Song of Songs by Boris Yoffe, played by the Rosamunde Quartett with the four singers of The Hilliard Ensemble, recorded in November 2009 at Propstei St. Gerold.

Lutosławski's Musique funèbre and Bartók's Divertimento, Romanian Folk Dances and seven choruses, played by the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester under Dennis Russell Davies with the Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, recorded at the Liederhalle, Stuttgart, in 2004 and 2010.

Trio Mediaeval (Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum) sing a reconstructed 13th-century Marian Mass from the Worcester Fragments, with a Credo and Benedicamus Domino by Gavin Bryars, recorded in February 2010 at Propstei St. Gerold.

Garth Knox (viola d'amore, viola, fiddle) with cellist Agnès Vesterman and percussionist Sylvain Lemêtre in music from Hildegard von Bingen to Kaija Saariaho, recorded in December 2009 at the RSI Auditorio in Lugano.

Juliane Banse (soprano) and Aleksandar Madžar (piano) in Alban Berg's early songs and Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Lamento after Andreas Gryphius. Recorded March 2009 at the Historischer Reitstadel, Neumarkt.

Solo cello recital by Miklós Perényi: Britten's Third Suite op. 87, Bach's Suite No. 6 BWV 1012 and Ligeti's Sonata. Recorded November 2009 at the RSI Auditorio in Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Duo recital by Thomas Zehetmair (violin) and Ruth Killius (viola) with works by Scelsi, Holliger, Bartók, Skalkottas, Maxwell Davies, Martinů, Rainer Killius and Nied. Recorded May 2009 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.

Peter-Anthony Togni's concerto for bass clarinet and choir on the Lamentations of Jeremiah, with Jeff Reilly (bass clarinet), soprano Rebecca Whelan and the Elmer Iseler Singers under Lydia Adams. Recorded October 2008 in Halifax.

Third album by Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones) and The Hilliard Ensemble, centred on Armenian sacred music arranged by Komitas, with chant, Pérotin and Pärt. Recorded at Propstei St. Gerold in summer 2009.

John Potter (tenor) and Anna Maria Friman (soprano) with vihuelas and viola da gamba perform Victoria's Missa Surge propera and motets by Josquin in versions modelled on Renaissance lute arrangements. Recorded at Propstei St. Gerold, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Carolin Widmann (violin) and Simon Lepper (piano) play duos by Feldman (Spring of Chosroes), Zimmermann (Sonata, 1950), Schoenberg (Phantasy op. 47) and Xenakis (Dikhthas). Recorded October and December 2006 at the WDR Funkhaus, Cologne.

Jörg Widmann's Messe and Elegie, played by the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie under Christoph Poppen with Widmann as clarinet soloist, plus Fünf Bruchstücke with Heinz Holliger on piano. Recorded 2008 in Saarbrücken and 2009 in Cologne.

Sonatas by Dario Castello and Giovanni Battista Fontana played by John Holloway (violin), Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) and Jane Gower (dulcian). Recorded in June 2008 at Propstei St. Gerold, Austria.

Robert Levin plays Henri Dutilleux's music for piano, from the 1946-48 Sonata to the three Préludes, joined by Ya-Fei Chuang in Figures de résonances for two pianos. Recorded in December 2008 at Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Alexander Lonquich plays the 1838 first edition of Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana op. 16 and Heinz Holliger's Partita (1999). Recorded November 2008 at the Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano; produced by Manfred Eicher.

Four works by Toshio Hosokawa, three featuring Mayumi Miyata on shō, with the Münchener Kammerorchester conducted by Alexander Liebreich. Recorded October 2009 at the Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich-Sendling; produced by Manfred Eicher.

String quartet arrangements by Stefano Scodanibbio of three Contrapuncti from Bach's Art of Fugue, Spanish guitar pieces and Mexican songs, played by Quartetto Prometeo. Recorded January 2011 at Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Pollenza.

Tenor John Potter sings fragments of songs and sacred works by Guillaume Dufay inside seven electronic pieces by Ambrose Field. Voice recorded in 2007 at Bishopthorpe, North Yorkshire; mixed in 2008 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Eleni Karaindrou's score for Theo Angelopoulos's film Dust of Time, with Sergiu Nastasa (violin), Renato Ripo (cello), Maria Bildea (harp), the Camerata and the ERT orchestra under Alexandros Myrat, recorded January and March 2008 at the Megaron, Athens.

Kim Kashkashian plays works by Betty Olivero, Tigran Mansurian and Eitan Steinberg, with the Münchener Kammerorchester, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Kuss Quartett, Robyn Schulkowsky and Mansurian, recorded 2006-2008 in Munich, Poznań and Boston.

Othmar Schoeck's Notturno Op. 47 (1931-33), five movements for baritone and string quartet on poems by Lenau and a Keller fragment, performed by Christian Gerhaher and the Rosamunde Quartett, recorded in December 2007 at the Historischer Reitstadel, Neumarkt.

Clara Schumann's Drei Romanzen Op. 22 and Heinz Holliger's Romancendres, played by Christoph Richter (cello) and Dénes Várjon (piano) in Lugano in 2008, with Holliger's Gesänge der Frühe for choir, orchestra and tape, recorded in Sindelfingen in 2007 under the composer.