Voice
Un petit rien / Das Gelb und das Grün / Omnia tempus habent / Metamorphose
Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Un petit rien, Das Gelb und das Grün, the serial cantata Omnia tempus habent and the film music Metamorphose, with soprano Angelika Luz and the Collegium Novum Zürich under Peter Hirsch.
Ein Landarzt / Das Ende einer Welt
Hans Werner Henze's radio operas Ein Landarzt (after Kafka) and Das Ende einer Welt (libretto by Hildesheimer), revised versions, premiered live in the Cologne Philharmonie on 27 September 1996 with the WDR Sinfonieorchester under Markus Stenz.
Pollicino
First recording of Hans Werner Henze's children's opera Pollicino, after Collodi, Grimm and Perrault, sung in German by young soloists with a choir and orchestra of Berlin music school students under Jobst Liebrecht. Echo Klassik 2004.
Toucher
Seven percussion works by Vinko Globokar, including Toucher for a speaking percussionist, ?Corporel for body percussion and Ombre with tape and rhythm machine, played by Matthias Kaul, a coproduction with Deutschlandfunk.
Bread and Roses
Christian Wolff's For 1, 2 or 3 People, Exercise 27, Bread and Roses and Edges, played by violinist Malcolm Goldstein and percussionist Matthias Kaul (also voice and hurdy-gurdy), recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk in 1999 and 2002.
Seven Gates of Jerusalem
First recording of the original version of Penderecki's Symphony No. 7 Seven Gates of Jerusalem, live at the Vienna Musikverein on 16 November 1999 with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir under Kazimierz Kord.
The Last Paradise / Winter / Pipa Concerto / Horizon
Four orchestral works by Chinese composer Xiaogang Ye, including the Pipa Concerto and Symphony No. 2 Horizon, played by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken under Yi Zhang and Günther Herbig with Wei Lu, Wu Man, Yanyan Wang and Song-Hu Liu.
Wachsfigurenkabinett
First recording of Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Wachsfigurenkabinett, five little operas of 1929-30, with Claudia Barainsky, Michelle Breedt, Tom Harper, Michael Kraus and members of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Roger Epple, recorded 1999.
The Wayward
Harry Partch's The Wayward (Barstow, San Francisco, The Letter, U.S. Highball), hobo texts set for voices and Partch's own instruments, played by Newband under Dean Drummond, recorded in New York in December 1999.
Drei sinfonische Etüden / Quattro Poemi / Nachtstücke und Arien / La selva incantata
Hans Werner Henze's Drei sinfonische Etüden, Quattro Poemi, Nachtstücke und Arien (Ingeborg Bachmann) and La selva incantata, played by the NDR Sinfonieorchester under Peter Ruzicka with Michaela Kaune, recorded 1999.
Magnificat / Sphragis / Nachklänge / Hypostasis / Zeichen am Weg
Choral works by Heinrich Poos: Magnificat, Sphragis, Nachklänge after Eichendorff, Hypostasis vel Somnium Jacob and Zeichen am Weg, sung by Schola Cantorum Gedanensis and the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart.
Polifonica - Monodia - Ritmica / Canti per 13 / Canciones a Guiomar / Hay Que Caminar Soñando
Four works by Luigi Nono from 1951 to 1989: Polifonica-Monodia-Ritmica, Canti per 13, Canciones a Guiomar and his last work, "Hay que caminar" soñando for two violins, with Ensemble UnitedBerlin, United Voices and Angelika Luz under Peter Hirsch.
Six Chansons / Fünfstimmige Madrigale / Five Songs on old Texts / Kanons a cappella
A cappella choral works by Paul Hindemith: Six Chansons after Rilke (1939), the Zwölf Madrigale on Weinheber texts (1958), Five Songs on Old Texts (1937) and nine canons, sung by the Rundfunkchor Berlin under Stefan Parkman, recorded 1996.
Music for Orchestra / Music for Six Voices / Music for 12 Cellos / Music for Five Stringed Instruments
Four works by Jay Schwartz for string orchestra, six voices, twelve cellos and string quintet, recorded live 2005-2008 by the hr-Sinfonieorchester under Diego Masson, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, SWR Stuttgart cellists under Erik Nielsen and the Kairos Quartett.
Singbarer Rest / Die Blinden
Walter Zimmermann's Singbarer Rest (1993) for nine high female voices and sampler, on Edmond Jabès, and Die Blinden (1984), static drama after Maeterlinck, with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and Junges Philharmonisches Orchester Stuttgart under Manfred Schreier.
Voices and instruments
Feldman works for voices and instruments from 1949 to 1971, three of them first recordings, including Journey to the End of Night, The O’Hara Songs and Four Instruments, played by The Barton Workshop.
Me du Ça / Narcissus & Echo / Messenger / Calling Sirens / Your Smartest Choice
Portrait CD of the Chinese composer Huihui Cheng: five works from 2016-2019 for voices, prepared piano, piano trio with dancer and ensembles with electronics, performed by Youmi Kim, Claudia Chan, Ensemble uBu, ensemble mosaik and Ensemble Experimental.
Lines and Spaces
Portrait CD of the British composer Naomi Pinnock: String Quartet No. 2, Words, Lines and Spaces and Music for Europe (2010-2016), played by Quatuor Bozzini, Omar Ebrahim with the London Sinfonietta under Beat Furrer, Richard Uttley and Ensemble Adapter.
Ins Offene
Portrait CD of Lula Romero: three works for instruments or voices and live electronics (2013-2017), performed by Zafraan Ensemble, Vertixe Sonora and the singers Aki Hashimoto, Silke Evers and Noa Frenkel, with Deutschlandfunk and the SWR Experimentalstudio.
Verbinden und Abwenden
Portrait CD of Zeynep Gedizlioğlu: five works from 2013-2018 for piano duo and string quartet, ensemble, voices and orchestra, played by Quatuor Diotima, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and the hr-Sinfonieorchester, recorded 2017-2018.