Cello
All records with cello · Solo cello only
Sieben Worte / In Croce
Sofia Gubaidulina's Sieben Worte (1982) for cello, accordion and strings and In croce for cello and accordion, played by Julius Berger and Stefan Hussong with the Kammerorchester Diagonal under Florian Rosensteiner.
Lamento, vier Intermezzi und Marsch / 'Herbstzeit - Autumn' / Streichquartett Nr. 4 'Assonanzen'
Günter Bialas's Lamento, vier Intermezzi und Marsch for piano, the piano quartet Herbstzeit and String Quartet No. 4 Assonanzen, played by Siegfried Mauser, Christian Altenburger, Barbara Westphal, Julius Berger and the Auryn Quartet. Recorded 1988-8…
Bildnisse I / Der blaue Harlekin / Trio / Nachtstück
Volker David Kirchner's Bildnisse I, Der blaue Harlekin, Trio and Nachtstück, played by the Hessisches Staatsorchester Wiesbaden (Siegfried Köhler), Bläser Ensemble Mainz, Kreisler Trio and violist Bodo Hersen. CD reissue (1991) of a 1985 Wergo LP.
Werke für Violoncello und Klavier - Vol. II
Hindemith's late music for cello and piano: the Sonata (1948), Drei leichte Stücke (1938), Kleine Sonate (1942) and the variations A Frog He Went A-Courting (1941). Julius Berger and Siegfried Mauser, recorded in Munich 1988-89.
Werke für Violoncello und Klavier - Vol. I
Hindemith's Three Pieces for cello and piano, Op. 8 (1917), and the Cello Sonata, Op. 11 No. 3 (1919-21), played by Julius Berger and Siegfried Mauser. Volume I of their Hindemith cello and piano series.
Dinosaur Music
Five computer music works by Chris Chafe, David Jaffe and William Schottstaedt, made at CCRMA, Stanford, between 1982 and 1986 with the Samson Box digital synthesizer; produced by David Jaffe.
Terrains Vagues
Portrait of Portuguese composer Luís Antunes Pena: works for double bass and drummers, organ, cello, thirty cymbals and electronics (2000-2012), with Edicson Ruiz, Drumming Grupo de Percussão, Dominik Susteck and Francesco Dillon. Released 2013.
Silence Is the Only Music
Six works by Klaus Hinrich Stahmer for East Asian and Western instruments (sheng, guzheng, koto, shakuhachi, kayagum, changgu, accordion, flutes, cello), with Wu Wei, Xu Fengxia, Makiko Goto, Stefan Hussong and others; recorded 2000-2007.
Complete string quartets, volume 2
Two string quartets by John Cage played by the Arditti Quartet: String Quartet in Four Parts (1949-50), in a new recording, and Four (1989), a first recording written for the ensemble. Composer-supervised sessions.
Selected Recordings
ECM :rarum 11 (2004): nine pieces chosen by Egberto Gismonti from seven of his ECM albums recorded 1977-1995, solo and with Naná Vasconcelos, his Brazilian groups and the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra.
Chamber Symphonies & Piano Quintet
Kremerata Baltica and Gidon Kremer play Weinberg’s four Chamber Symphonies and the 1944 Piano Quintet (arranged, with Yulianna Avdeeva). Recorded June 2015 at the Musikverein, Vienna (live) and in Riga.
Suiten für Violoncello
Swiss cellist Thomas Demenga’s second recording of Bach’s six cello suites BWV 1007-1012, played with gut strings and a Baroque bow. Recorded February 2014 at the Hans Huber-Saal, Basel; released 2017.
Mieczysław Weinberg
Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica, with Daniil Trifonov, Daniil Grishin and Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, in Weinberg's Violin Sonata No. 3, Trio Op. 48, Sonatina Op. 46, Concertino Op. 42 and Symphony No. 10. Recorded 2012-2013 in Neuhardenberg and Locken…
Beethoven - Bruckner - Hartmann - Holliger
Zehetmair Quartett in string quartets by Beethoven (Op. 135), Bruckner (C minor), Holliger (No. 2), recorded Zürich 2010, and Hartmann (No. 2), recorded 2002 with cellist Françoise Groben.
Lauds and Lamentations - Music of Elliott Carter and Isang Yun
Elliott Carter's Oboe Quartet and solo pieces, and Isang Yun's Piri and Quartet for oboe and string trio, played by Heinz Holliger, Thomas Zehetmair, Ruth Killius and Thomas Demenga. Recorded 2001-2002 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.
Complete Music for Piano and Violoncello
András Schiff (piano) and Miklós Perényi (cello) play Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano: five sonatas, the Op. 17 sonata and three sets of variations. Recorded December 2001 and August 2002, Reitstadel, Neumarkt.
Toshio Hosokawa / J.S. Bach / Isang Yun
Thomas Demenga (cello) plays Bach's Cello Suites Nos. 5 and 6 between chamber works by Toshio Hosokawa and Isang Yun, with Teodoro Anzellotti, Asako Urushihara, Hansheinz Schneeberger, Thomas Larcher, Aurèle Nicolet and Heinz Holliger. Recorded 1985-…
Edition Lockenhaus
Five-CD box for the 30th anniversary of Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus festival: Kremerata Baltica under Simon Rattle (Strauss, 2001) and Roman Kofman (Messiaen, 2008), plus Edition Lockenhaus Vols. 1/2 and 4/5, recorded at Lockenhaus 1981-86. ECM New Ser…
Magnetic Works 1993-2001
Two-CD anthology compiled by Jon Balke from the Magnetic North Orchestra albums Further (1993), Solarized (1998) and Kyanos (2001), with Anders Jormin, Audun Kleive, Per Jørgensen, Arve Henriksen, Morten Halle and string players including the Cikada …
Selected Signs III - VIII
Six-CD anthology compiled by Manfred Eicher and Steve Lake for the exhibition ECM: A Cultural Archaeology (Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2012-13): recordings from 1961 to 2012 by Steve Reich, Arvo Pärt, Eleni Karaindrou, Old and New Dreams and many others.