Voice
Song of Songs
One-page string quartets and settings of phrases from the Song of Songs by Boris Yoffe, played by the Rosamunde Quartett with the four singers of The Hilliard Ensemble, recorded in November 2009 at Propstei St. Gerold.
Witold Lutosławski / Béla Bartók: Musique funèbre
Lutosławski's Musique funèbre and Bartók's Divertimento, Romanian Folk Dances and seven choruses, played by the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester under Dennis Russell Davies with the Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, recorded at the Liederhalle, Stuttgart, in 2004 and 2010.
A Worcester Ladymass
Trio Mediaeval (Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum) sing a reconstructed 13th-century Marian Mass from the Worcester Fragments, with a Credo and Benedicamus Domino by Gavin Bryars, recorded in February 2010 at Propstei St. Gerold.
Tief in der Nacht - Alban Berg / Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Juliane Banse (soprano) and Aleksandar Madžar (piano) in Alban Berg's early songs and Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Lamento after Andreas Gryphius. Recorded March 2009 at the Historischer Reitstadel, Neumarkt.
Manto and Madrigals
Duo recital by Thomas Zehetmair (violin) and Ruth Killius (viola) with works by Scelsi, Holliger, Bartók, Skalkottas, Maxwell Davies, Martinů, Rainer Killius and Nied. Recorded May 2009 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.
Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae
Peter-Anthony Togni's concerto for bass clarinet and choir on the Lamentations of Jeremiah, with Jeff Reilly (bass clarinet), soprano Rebecca Whelan and the Elmer Iseler Singers under Lydia Adams. Recorded October 2008 in Halifax.
Officium Novum
Third album by Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones) and The Hilliard Ensemble, centred on Armenian sacred music arranged by Komitas, with chant, Pérotin and Pärt. Recorded at Propstei St. Gerold in summer 2009.
Secret History - Josquin / Victoria
John Potter (tenor) and Anna Maria Friman (soprano) with vihuelas and viola da gamba perform Victoria's Missa Surge propera and motets by Josquin in versions modelled on Renaissance lute arrangements. Recorded at Propstei St. Gerold, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Being Dufay
Tenor John Potter sings fragments of songs and sacred works by Guillaume Dufay inside seven electronic pieces by Ambrose Field. Voice recorded in 2007 at Bishopthorpe, North Yorkshire; mixed in 2008 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher.
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.
Heinz Holliger, Clara Schumann, Christoph Richter, Dénes Várjon, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
Heinz Holliger / Clara Schumann: RomancendresClara Schumann's Drei Romanzen Op. 22 and Heinz Holliger's Romancendres, played by Christoph Richter (cello) and Dénes Várjon (piano) in Lugano in 2008, with Holliger's Gesänge der Frühe for choir, orchestra and tape, recorded in Sindelfingen in 2007 under the composer.
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.
Alfred Schnittke: Symphony No. 9 / Alexander Raskatov: Nunc dimittis
World premiere recording of Alfred Schnittke's Symphony No. 9, reconstructed by Alexander Raskatov, with Raskatov's Nunc dimittis; Dresdner Philharmonie, Elena Vassilieva, the Hilliard Ensemble, Dennis Russell Davies, recorded January 2008 in Dresden.
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.
Folk Songs
Trio Mediaeval (Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum) sing traditional Norwegian ballads, hymns and lullabies, with Birger Mistereggen on percussion and jew's harp. Recorded at Propstei St. Gerold in 2007.
Alexander Knaifel, Ivan Monighetti, Tatiana Melentieva, Piotr Migunov, State Hermitage Orchestra, Lege Artis Choir
BlazhenstvaTwo works by Alexander Knaifel: Lamento for solo cello (1967, rev. 1987) and Blazhenstva (The Beatitudes, 1996) for soloists, orchestra and choir, with Ivan Monighetti, the State Hermitage Orchestra and the Lege Artis Choir, recorded in St. Petersburg in March 2006.
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.
Musical Banquet
Soprano Monika Mauch and lutenist Nigel North in 24 songs and lute solos from Robert Dowland's 1610 anthology A Musicall Banquet, with music by John Dowland, Caccini, Guédron and others. Recorded May 2005 at Propstei St. Gerold.
Thomas Tallis / Christopher Tye / John Sheppard - Audivi vocem
The Hilliard Ensemble sing sacred polyphony by Thomas Tallis, Christopher Tye and John Sheppard, built around movements of Tye's Missa sine nomine. Recorded March 2005 at Propstei St. Gerold, produced by Manfred Eicher.