Piano
All records with piano · Solo piano only
Im Bau
First recording of Michel Roth's Im Bau, fifteen sound spaces after Kafka for mezzo-soprano, ensemble and live electronics, in its radiophonic version, with Anne-May Krüger and ensemble æquatuor, recorded in Basel in 2017.
Erinnerungsspuren
Alberto Posadas's six-part piano cycle Erinnerungsspuren (2014-2018), echoes of Couperin, Debussy, Schumann, Scelsi, Stockhausen and B. A. Zimmermann, in first recordings by pianist Florian Hoelscher.
Big Data
Decoder Ensemble plays first recordings of works on remix, sampling and copy-paste by Brigitta Muntendorf, Ole Hübner, Stefan Prins, Matthias Kranebitter and Leopold Hurt, most commissioned for its 2017 Big Data Weekend. Coproduced with Deutschlandfunk.
Una Carta
Eight chamber works (1968-2006) by Uruguayan composer Coriún Aharonián (1940-2017), played by Ensemble Aventure, and the orchestral Mestizo (1993) with the SWF-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden under Zoltán Peskó.
Space
Three chamber works by Marco Stroppa, Un segno nello spazio for string quartet, Hommage à Gy. K. for clarinet, viola and piano, and Osja for piano trio, in first recordings by Ensemble KNM Berlin. A WDR production.
John Cage: Chess Piece / John Cage: Four Dances / Tom Johnson: Rational Melodies
Trio Omphalos (Stefan Hülsermann, clarinet; Olaf Pyras, percussion; Ji-Youn Song, piano) plays its own arrangements of John Cage's Chess Pieces and Four Dances and of thirteen of Tom Johnson's Rational Melodies, plus Johnson's Counting Duets No. II.
Got Lost
Helmut Lachenmann's Got Lost for high soprano and piano (2007/08), Streichtrio (1965) and Serynade for piano (1997/98), performed by soprano Yuko Kakuta, pianist Yukiko Sugawara and trio recherche. A Südwestrundfunk production.
Canons
Brice Pauset's complete cycle of 24 canons for piano (1989-2010) and Perspectivæ Sintagma I for piano and live electronics (1997), first recordings by Nicolas Hodges with IRCAM electronics. Produced by WDR Köln in 2016.
Songs and Poems
Trio Accanto (Marcus Weiss, saxophones; Nicolas Hodges, piano; Christian Dierstein, percussion) plays first recordings of works by Andreas Dohmen, Hans Thomalla, Walter Zimmermann, Wolfgang Rihm and Aldo Clementi. A WDR production.
Mimetics
Sabine Liebner plays Mauricio Kagel's Metapiece (Mimetics) of 1961 interleaved with his Cuatro piezas para piano, An Tasten and MM 51, then Metapiece solo. Recorded in 2017 at the Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, with first recordings.
Libres en el Sonido
Seven chamber works (1984-2013) by Graciela Paraskevaídis (1940-2017), the Argentine composer who worked in Uruguay, four in first recordings, played by Ensemble Aventure. Coproduced with Deutschlandradio.
The Philosophy of Composition
Eight works for cello and piano by South African composer Michael Blake (1951), from Song Without Words (1972) to the Sonata (Hours with the Masters) of 2016, in first recordings by Friedrich Gauwerky and Daan Vandewalle. Coproduced with Deutschlandradio.
Funambules
Trio Accanto (Marcus Weiss, Nicolas Hodges, Christian Dierstein) plays four works written for them in 2014-15 by Georges Aperghis, Rolf Riehm, Johannes Schöllhorn and Stefan Prins. First recordings, SWR productions.
Voces Abandonadas
Walter Zimmermann's piano works of 2001-2006, including the 38-minute Voces abandonadas after Antonio Porchia's aphorisms, played by Nicolas Hodges. A production of Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, released by Wergo in 2016.
Midstream
Six duos (2000-2016) by Tokyo-born composer Keiko Harada for pairs such as trombone and accordion or flute and koto, with Stefan Hussong, Carin Levine, Naoko Kikuchi, Yumiko Meguri, Jürgen Ruck and Mike Svoboda. First recordings, co-produced with Radio Bremen.
Musik für Saxophone
Paul Hindemith's works with saxophone, including the Trio op. 47 and the Konzertstück, plus pieces arranged by Christoph Enzel, played by the clair-obscur saxophone quartet with Barbara Buntrock, Robert Kolinsky and Florian von Radowitz. Recorded in Berlin in 2016.
Sommersneige
Wilhelm Killmayer's songs for tenor and piano on poems by Eichendorff, Hölderlin and Trakl, sung by Markus Schäfer with Siegfried Mauser. Co-production with BR Klassik, recorded in Munich in 2016, released in 2017.
Wechselspiele
Seven works (1994-2016) by the Bucharest-born composer Tom Sora, in first recordings by Sarah Maria Sun, TrioCoriolis, the Steuber-Öllinger guitar duo, Andreas Skouras, Thomas Hastreiter and Sora himself. Co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2017.
Dystemporal
Six works (2005-2012) by Anthony Cheung in first recordings: Talea Ensemble under James Baker, Cheung on piano, and Dystemporal live by the Ensemble Intercontemporain under Susanna Mälkki (Paris, October 2012). Wergo, 2016.
Klavierstücke I - XI
Stockhausen's complete Klavierstücke I-XI (1952-61) played by Sabine Liebner, with Klavierstück XI in two versions. Two CDs, a co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk, released by Wergo in 2018.