★Wergo

Hans Werner Henze's orchestral works and concertos on four CDs, played by the NDR Sinfonieorchester under Peter Ruzicka, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Oliver Knussen with Anssi Karttunen, and Daniele Roccato with the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese;…

Amen Feizabadi's chamber opera Deep Siesta, on a libretto by Dilek Mayatürk about two artificial beings, with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and Zafraan Ensemble conducted by Yalda Zamani, plus AI voices and electronics. A Deutschlandfunk Kultur coprod…

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.

The ten symphonies of Hans Werner Henze (1947-2000), including the choral Ninth after Anna Seghers, played by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Rundfunkchor Berlin under Marek Janowski, recorded 2008-2014; first box of Wergo's Henze centenary…

Five works by Matthias Krüger (born 1987), from the organ piece conTemp[s]lations to rosebud for dancer, motion sensors and live electronics made at IRCAM, played by Tobias Hagedorn, Claudia Chan, Xavier Larsson Paez and others, with dancer Victor Vi…

Portrait CD of Eloain Lovis Hübner: crunch modes 1.0 and 3.0, [untitled] and Trauma und Zwischenraum 1-3, played by Schallfeld Ensemble, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna, AuditivVokal Dresden, airborne extended, the Arditti Quartet and Lange//Berweck//Lorenz.

Aribert Reimann's first opera Ein Traumspiel after Strindberg, live at Theater Hof on 17 March 2018 (Franziska Rabl, Hofer Symphoniker, Walter E. Gugerbauer), with the Rilke melodrama Denn Bleiben ist nirgends (Martin Engler, DSO Berlin, Manuel Nawri…

In Complete Works for Multiple Piano, Morton Feldman’s quietly radical writing for three or more hands is heard as a three‑hour continuum of hushed, hovering sonorities, where time dilates and the piano becomes a shared, breathing instrument.

Portrait album of Misha Cvijović: nine works from full orchestra to minimoog and tape, played by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Enno Poppe, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Sebastian Berweck and the Trio Splitsignals Berlin.

Portrait CD of Yongbom Lee: five works for ensembles, sampler and electronics, played by Ensemble Modern, IEMA Ensemble and ensemble recherche, Broken Frames Syndicate and the cellist Kyubin Hwang, recorded in Frankfurt (2023) and Cologne (2024).

Kirill Zvegintsov plays Heinz Holliger's Albumblätter (first complete recording) and Lifelines, Jürg Wyttenbach's Drei Klavierstücke and Beethoven's Sonata op. 109 with movements elaborated from Beethoven's sketches by Wyttenbach.

Portrait CD of Turgut Erçetin: five works including the cycle Das Phonem zwischen zwei Wörtern for Baroque ensemble and orchestra, played by Ensemble Musikfabrik, the ELISION Ensemble and the SWR Symphonieorchester under Brad Lubman.

New music for cello from the Asiago plateau and its Cimbrian community, by De Marzi, Gárdonyi, Sollima, Schmitt, Dreyer, Ali-Zadeh and Silvestrov, played by Julius and Hyun-Jung Berger with guests; mostly first recordings.

Enno Poppe's Körper (2021) for big-band ensemble, played by Ensemble Modern under the composer, and Gold for mixed choir a cappella on texts by Arno Holz, sung by the SWR Vokalensemble under Marcus Creed.

Portrait CD of Benjamin Scheuer: Impulsive Lieder, Sprachmaschine, Vier Attrappen, Regal and Lachtherapie, performed by Andreas Fischer and ensemble, Vanessa Porter, Schola Heidelberg under Walter Nußbaum, ensemble risonanze erranti and Nikolai Rosen…

Maciej Śledziecki and Marion Wörle show just how exciting the world of the pipe organ is today as the ensemble gamut inc. The retro-futuristic duo uses self-programmed software to dock onto the MIDI consoles of church organs, control their stops in a…

Portrait CD of the Iranian composer Elnaz Seyedi: five works for duo, trio and ensemble, played by the Zöllner-Roche Duo, Alice Belugou and David Eggert, Trio Aventure, Ensemble Musikfabrik and the Kommas Ensemble, plus two online videos.

John Cage's importance for a comprehensive aesthetic reorientation of New Music after the Second World War can hardly be overestimated. His self-discovery and compositional articulation took place particularly in the field of piano music: in the art-…

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.

Portrait CD of the Uruguayan-born composer Vladimir Guicheff Bogacz: four works for trio and ensemble, played by Ensemble Musikfabrik, Trio Catch, Ensemble Aventure under Nicholas Reed and Kollektiv3:6Koeln. Mostly first recordings.

Four works by Swiss composer Stefan Keller, Schaukel, Breathe, Stück für Klavier and hybrid gaits (2017), played by Ensemble Ascolta conducted by Yalda Zamani, with the composer on live electronics. Mostly SWR productions, 2023.

Portrait CD of Jonah Haven: six chamber and ensemble works, played by Wolftone, Ensemble Proton Bern under Gregor Mayrhofer, ensemble recherche, Trio Catch and Duo XAMP.

Portrait CD of Marko Nikodijević: three orchestral works, Absolutio, Abgesang with soprano Anna Sohn and da ispravitsja with organist Jakub Sawicki, played by the hr-Sinfonieorchester and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Jonathan Stockhamm…

Percussion works by Péter Eötvös, Vinko Globokar, Sara Glojnarić, Dai Fujikura, Ursula Mamlok, Toshio Hosokawa and Uroš Rojko, played by Leonie Klein solo and with Isao Nakamura as ISANIE Percussion Duo. Co-production with SWR2, mostly first recordin…

First recordings of Enno Poppe's Fleisch for tenor saxophone, electric guitar, keyboard and drumset, played by Ensemble Nikel, and Prozession for large ensemble (2015-2020), played by Ensemble Musikfabrik conducted by the composer.

2025 stock When Pablo Casals rediscovered the cello suites of Bach at the beginning of the 20th century and firmly established them in the concert and record repertoire, the novel thing about it was that he played them "senza basso", i.e. without pia…

First recordings of eight chamber and ensemble works (1992-2016) by Argentine composer Mariano Etkin, including Flores blancas and the Estudios para lágrimas, played by Ensemble Aventure, recorded in Cologne in 2019 and 2020. Co-production with Deuts…

Portrait CD of Genoël von Lilienstern: Voz Comercial, Couture, Big Picture and Top, with Johanna Vargas, Soetkin Elbers, Ensemble Garage, the SWR Symphonieorchester under Ilan Volkov and Ensemble Interface.

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.

For decades, Ludger Brümmer has represented a unique, courageous, and often instantly recognisable voice in electronic, algorithmic, and computer music. He develops structures that lead to aesthetic experiences normally found, if at all, only in the …

Portrait CD of Sergej Maingardt: Rush for orchestra, ensemble and electronics, Flower's silence in empty guns for piano, electronics and Wii sensors, and Declare Independence, with the Bundesjugendorchester under Lothar Zagrosek, Paulo Álvares and En…

Eight electronic works by Ludger Brümmer on two CDs, made with granular synthesis and the physical-modelling software GENESIS and produced for up to 42 channels; a ZKM Karlsruhe production in Edition ZKM, 2022.

“It was only with Partch that a music began to take shape that could do equal justice to the physical desire for rhythmic pulse and a curiosity for new, unheard sounds; a music that enthralls us despite, or rather, precisely because of its unfamiliar…

Yiran Zhao makes use not only of musical elements but also of objects, bodies, movements and light-sources as compositional material. Many of her pieces inhabit the various boundary states between instrumental music, performance, sound-installation, …

Works for and with cello by Wolfgang Rihm, 1969 to 1993, including Grat for solo cello and first recordings of duomonolog and Streichtrio op. 9, played by Friedrich Gauwerky with Alexandra Greffin-Klein, Axel Porath and Florian Uhlig, recorded in Col…

*2024 stock* Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918–1970) was one of the most distinctive composers in the musical avant-garde after the Second World War. While Karlheinz Stockhausen served as a kind of ‘generator’ in Cologne during the 1950s and 60s, inventin…

Portrait CD of Matthias Krüger: le vide à perdre, Wie ein Stück Fett (Redux) and Bellygoat Boom (substrate), played by Ensemble Ascolta under Nicholas Kok, Ensemble BRuCH and the WDR Sinfonieorchester under Elena Schwarz.

First recordings of Enno Poppe's Feld, the jointly composed Tonband by Poppe and Wolfgang Heiniger, and Heiniger's Neumond, played by Yarn/Wire (Ian Antonio, Russell Greenberg, Laura Barger, Ning Yu) with Sam Torres on live electronics.

Portrait CD of Mark Barden: seven works from solo piano and duos to amplified nonet and orchestra, played by Helen Bledsoe, Séverine Ballon, ensemble mosaik under Enno Poppe and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Peter Rundel.

First recording of Philippe Manoury's Lab.Oratorium (2019) for actors, soprano, mezzo-soprano, choirs, live electronics and orchestra, on the deaths of refugees in the Mediterranean, with the Gürzenich Orchestra conducted by François-Xavier Roth, dir…