Soprano Saxophone

Four contemporary saxophone concertos by Péter Eötvös, Georg Friedrich Haas, Vykintas Baltakas and Johannes Maria Staud, all premiered by soloist Marcus Weiss, with the WDR Sinfonieorchester, Teodoro Anzellotti and Windkraft Tirol. A WDR production.

Portrait CD of the Iranian-born composer Farzia Fallah: five works from solo violin to nonet, played by Benedikt Bindewald, the guitar duo Henrik Dewes and Tobias Klich, Sonar Quartett, Ensemble DEHIO and Ensemble Aventure.

Four works written for Trio Accanto by Beat Furrer, Brice Pauset, Misato Mochizuki and Rebecca Saunders, recorded in 2024 by Marcus Weiss, Nicolas Hodges and Christian Dierstein, a WDR production.

John Coltrane live at the Village Vanguard, New York, 2 and 3 November 1961, with Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones, first released by Impulse! in 1962. Acoustic Sounds Series reissue, 2022.

Elvin Jones' first Blue Note album as a leader, a piano-less trio with Joe Farrell and Jimmy Garrison recorded on April 8, 1968 at Van Gelder Studio, produced by Duke Pearson and first released in 1968.

Works for saxophone, piano and percussion by Helmut Lachenmann, Martin Schüttler, Yu Kuwabara, Martin Smolka and Michael Finnissy, played by Trio Accanto (Marcus Weiss, Nicolas Hodges, Christian Dierstein), with Lachenmann as voice. An SWR production, 2020.

First recordings of Alberto Posadas's Poética del Laberinto (2016/17), a cycle of three pieces for saxophone quartet, played by Sigma Project (Andrés Gomis, Ángel Soria, Alberto Chaves, Josetxo Silguero), recorded in Burgos in 2018.

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.

Michael McNabb's Invisible Cities, made at CCRMA, Stanford, and first conceived in 1985 for dance theatre after Italo Calvino: six pieces for computer, synthesizer, piano (Artis Wodehouse) and soprano saxophone (McNabb).

Keith Jarrett's European quartet with Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen, live at the Village Vanguard, New York, May 1979: six Jarrett compositions on 2CD, produced by Manfred Eicher.

ECM debut of Israeli soprano saxophonist Yuval Cohen with Tom Oren (piano), Alon Near (double bass) and Alon Benjamini (drums), eight Cohen originals. Recorded September 2023 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2818, 2025.

Second duo album by Trygve Seim (soprano and tenor saxophones) and Frode Haltli (accordion): originals, improvisations, Ukrainian and North Indian songs, a Stravinsky coda. Recorded June 2023 at the Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 2813, 2024.