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Carl Ludwig Hübsch (voice, tuba) and Ignaz Schick (sampler, turntables) between abstracted song, sound poetry, noise improvisation and radio play, from sessions in Cologne and at Morphine Raum in Berlin.

Luigi Nono's Risonanze erranti, the 1986 song cycle for Massimo Cacciari on texts by Melville and Bachmann, for mezzo, flute, tuba, percussion and live electronics: Ensemble Prometeo and the SWR Experimentalstudio. SACD.

Live recording from Donaueschingen, 17 October 1992: Michael Riessler's project on Abélard and Héloise, with Valentin Clastrier, Michel Godard, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Rabih Abou-Khalil and others, recorded by Südwestfunk.

Four works by Juan Carlos Paz (1950-64), Dédalus, Invención, Núcleos and Concreción, played by Ensemble Aventure with pianist Akiko Okabe, conducted by Alexander Ott; Invención and Concreción are first recordings.

Edition Musikfabrik vol. 7: David Lang's Are You Experienced?, Philippe Boesmans' Sextuor à clavier, Richard Barrett's interference and Luca Francesconi's Unexpected End of Formula, recorded live in Cologne 2003-2008 by Ensemble Musikfabrik.

Edition Musikfabrik vol. 3: Martin Smolka's Rush (Hour in Celestial Streets), Mauricio Kagel's Orchestrion-Straat and Louis Andriessen's Racconto dall'Inferno with Cristina Zavalloni, conducted by Peter Rundel and Reinbert de Leeuw.

Three works from Klaus Ospald's Leopardi cycle: Così, dell'uomo ignara ..., Sovente in queste rive ... and Sopra un basso rilievo antico sepolcrale ..., with Collegium Novum Zürich, the WDR Sinfonieorchester and WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Schlagquartett Köln and Hans Nickel.

Trombonist and tubist Mike Svoboda plays Scelsi's Mantram, Cage's Solo for Sliding Trombone in a version for eight trombones, Stockhausen's Signale zur Invasion and Nono's Post-prae-ludium per Donau with Holger Stenschke on live electronics.

Three cycles by György Kurtág: Hölderlin-Gesänge op. 35a and ...pas à pas – nulle part... op. 36 sung by baritone Kurt Widmer, and Signs, Games and Messages for strings, with the Orlando Trio and Mircea Ardeleanu. Recorded 2002 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.

Different Rivers is Trygve Seim's 2000 ECM debut as a leader, for a thirteen-piece, mostly wind ensemble with Arve Henriksen, Sidsel Endresen and others, recorded at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, between December 1998 and December 1999.

Edward Vesala's 1987 ECM album with his eleven-piece Sound and Fury, co-arranged by Iro Haarla (piano, harp), with Raoul Björkenheim (guitar) and Taito Vainio (accordion). Recorded June 1986 at Finnvox Studios, Helsinki.

Michael Mantler reworks his own compositions (1975-2010) into five suites for a chamber orchestra conducted by Christoph Cech, with Mantler (trumpet), Bjarne Roupé (guitar) and David Helbock (piano) as soloists. Recorded September 2019 at Porgy & Bess, Vienna.

Song cycle in ten parts by Michael Mantler (trumpet, music and French texts), sung by Himiko Paganotti with the Max Brand Ensemble conducted by Christoph Cech. Recorded April 2016 at Porgy & Bess, Vienna, with additional recording at La Buissonne. ECM 2537, 2017.

Michael Mantler's 2013 reworking of his 1968 Jazz Composer's Orchestra music, played live at Porgy & Bess, Vienna, by the Nouvelle Cuisine Big Band under Christoph Cech, with radio.string.quartet.vienna, guitarist Bjarne Roupé and Mantler on trumpet.

Gianluigi Trovesi (piccolo and alto clarinet, alto saxophone) with Marco Remondini, Stefano Bertoli and the Filarmonica Mousiké conducted by Savino Acquaviva, in a suite on Italian opera from Monteverdi to Puccini. Recorded September 2006, Teatro Serassi, Villa d'Almè (Bergamo).

Nine-part suite by John Surman (soprano and baritone saxophones, bass clarinet) with Jack DeJohnette (drums, piano) and the ten-piece London Brass, a BBC Radio 3 commission. Recorded live in June 2001 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. ECM 1802, 2003.

Second album by Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra, arranged by Carla Bley, with a twelve-piece band including Don Cherry, Dewey Redman and Paul Motian: resistance songs from Spain, Portugal, Chile and El Salvador, recorded November 1982 in Ludwigsburg.