Violin
All records with violin · Solo violin only
Phantasy of Spring - Feldman / Zimmermann / Schönberg / Xenakis
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.
Dario Castello, Giovanni Battista Fontana: Sonate concertate in stil moderno
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.
Reinventions
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.
Dust of Time - Music for the film by Theo Angelopoulos
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.
Notturno
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.
Euridice
Chamber music by Alfred Zimmerlin: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 (Aria Quartett, Carmina Quartett) and Euridice singt for soprano, oboe, cello, piano and tape (Æquatuor); recorded in Zürich in August 2006 and Aarau in October 2007.
Strata
Erkki-Sven Tüür's Symphony No. 6 'Strata' (2007) and Noēsis, concerto for clarinet, violin and orchestra (2005), with Jörg and Carolin Widmann, the Nordic Symphony Orchestra and Anu Tali; recorded at the Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn, in 2007 and 2009.
Farewell - Joseph Haydn / Isang Yun
Haydn's Symphonies No. 39 and No. 45 'Farewell' with Isang Yun's Chamber Symphony I (1987), played by the Münchener Kammerorchester under Alexander Liebreich; recorded in May 2007 at the Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich-Sendling.
Gustav Mahler / Dmitri Shostakovich
Kremerata Baltica directed by Gidon Kremer play Mahler's Adagio from Symphony No. 10 (strings version, Riga, October 2001) and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 with Yulia Korpacheva and Fyodor Kuznetsov (live, Musikverein Vienna, November 2004).
Night Sessions
The Dowland Project (John Potter, Stephen Stubbs, John Surman, Barry Guy, Maya Homburger, Miloš Valent) improvise on medieval poems and early music fragments. Recorded September 2001 and January 2006 at Propstei St. Gerold.
Towards Silence
Swiss violinist Paul Giger (violin, violino d'amore) and harpsichordist Marie-Louise Dähler alternate Bach's Sonata BWV 1018 and the Goldberg Aria with their own pieces and improvisations. Recorded October 2006 at Propstei St. Gerold.
Bagatellen und Serenaden
Valentin Silvestrov plays his piano Bagatellen; Alexei Lubimov, the Münchener Kammerorchester and Christoph Poppen play his works for strings and for strings and piano. Recorded February 2006 at the Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich.
Helena Tulve, Arianna Savall, Emmanuelle Ophèle-Gaubert, Mihkel Peäske, NYYD Ensemble, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Silesian String Quartet, Olari Elts
LijnenFirst ECM album of the Estonian composer Helena Tulve: six chamber works (1997-2004) played by the NYYD Ensemble under Olari Elts, Arianna Savall, the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet and the Silesian String Quartet, recorded in Tallinn between 1997 and 2006.
Violinkonzert "Hommage à Louis Soutter"
Heinz Holliger's Violin Concerto "Hommage à Louis Soutter", played by Thomas Zehetmair with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg under the composer, preceded by Ysaÿe's Sonata No. 3. Recorded September and December 2002 in St. Gerold and Freiburg.
to be sung on the water
Michelle Makarski plays three solo violin sonatas by Giuseppe Tartini and two works by Donald Crockett, one with violist Ronald Copes, recorded in March 2004 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.
Tituli / Cathedral in the Trashing Rain
Two vocal works by Stephen Hartke, Tituli (1999) and Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain (2000), sung by The Hilliard Ensemble with violinist Michelle Makarski and two percussionists, conducted by Donald Crockett, recorded in February 2003 at Mechanics Hall, Worcester.
Saariaho, Cage, Maderna
String quartets by Kaija Saariaho (Nymphéa, with live electronics), John Cage and Bruno Maderna played by the Cikada String Quartet, recorded in August 2001 at Sofienberg Church, Oslo, and released by ECM New Series in 2005.
Looking on Darkness
Debut solo album by Norwegian accordionist Frode Haltli: Nordic works by Sørensen, Lindborg, Ratkje (with the Vertavo String Quartet), Lindberg and Schaathun, recorded in August 2001 at Sofienberg Kirke, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Robert Schumann
Schumann's String Quartets No. 1 in A minor and No. 3 in A major, Op. 41, played by the Zehetmair Quartett (Thomas Zehetmair, Matthias Metzger, Ruth Killius, Françoise Groben), recorded at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich, in July and August 2001.
Odradek
Premiere recordings of three works by Israeli composer Gideon Lewensohn: the Piano Quintet and Odradek Quartet played by the Auryn Quartett and Alexander Lonquich (Zürich, February 2001), and the Postlude for piano, also heard played by Ora Rotem Nelken (Jerusalem, 1997).