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CD and DVD portrait of the Stuttgart-born composer Steffen Krebber, twelve works from 2008-2015 including the Konfusionen series, played by Ensemble Garage, Sonar Quartett, Ensemble Praesenz, LUX:NM and soloists.

Edition Musikfabrik: Caspar Johannes Walter's Metrische Dissonanzen (2009) for percussion and large ensemble with Dirk Rothbrust, and Isabel Mundry's five-part cycle Schwankende Zeit (2006-09) after Louis Couperin, played by Ensemble Musikfabrik unde…

Seven chamber works (1984-2013) by Graciela Paraskevaídis (1940-2017), the Argentine composer who worked in Uruguay, four in first recordings, played by Ensemble Aventure. Coproduced with Deutschlandradio.

Trio Accanto (Marcus Weiss, saxophones; Nicolas Hodges, piano; Christian Dierstein, percussion) plays first recordings of works by Andreas Dohmen, Hans Thomalla, Walter Zimmermann, Wolfgang Rihm and Aldo Clementi. A WDR production.

Eight works for cello and piano by South African composer Michael Blake (1951), from Song Without Words (1972) to the Sonata (Hours with the Masters) of 2016, in first recordings by Friedrich Gauwerky and Daan Vandewalle. Coproduced with Deutschlandr…

Portrait of the Swedish composer Lisa Streich with five works from 2012-2017, from Pietà for motorised cello and ensemble to Stabat for four choirs, with the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, hand werk, ensemble recherche and two choirs.

Choral works by Heinz Holliger: Shir Shavur on David Rokeah, Psalm, hölle himmel and Rosa Loui on Kurt Marti, and Utopie Chorklang; SWR Vokalensemble under Marcus Creed and Holliger, recorded 2006-2015, mostly first recordings.

Five works (2013-2015) by Sarah Nemtsov for amplified instruments, effect pedals, loop station, kaoss pad and Electribe SX, played by Ensemble Adapter, Sonar Quartett, members of ensemble mosaik and the composer. First recordings, coproduced with Deu…

Helmut Lachenmann's Got Lost for high soprano and piano (2007/08), Streichtrio (1965) and Serynade for piano (1997/98), performed by soprano Yuko Kakuta, pianist Yukiko Sugawara and trio recherche. A Südwestrundfunk production.

Edition Musikfabrik: Vassos Nicolaou's Farbenmaschinen, Johannes Schöllhorn's Pièces croisées, Gérard Grisey's Partiels and Dieter Mack's Kammermusik V, recorded live at the WDR in Cologne by Ensemble Musikfabrik under Emilio Pomàrico, Peter Rundel a…

*2022 stock* The origins and technical content of Strahlen (‘Rays’), a work left incomplete at the time of Stockhausen’s death, are complicated. It’s best to watch the documentary about the work before hearing it through, so that your mind’s eye is t…

Chaya Czernowin's HIDDEN for string quartet and electronics (JACK Quartet, IRCAM) and Adiantum Capillus-Veneris for voice and breath (Inbal Hever), first recordings made in Cologne on 11-13 April 2016 at Deutschlandfunk's Forum neuer Musik.

Organist Dominik Susteck plays John Cage's Organ²/ASLSP and Toshio Hosokawa's Cloudscape and Sen IV, with three of his own improvisations using mobile MIDI instruments by Gerhard Kern, at Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne. Deutschlandfunk, 2015.

Sabine Liebner plays Mauricio Kagel's Metapiece (Mimetics) of 1961 interleaved with his Cuatro piezas para piano, An Tasten and MM 51, then Metapiece solo. Recorded in 2017 at the Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, with first recordings.

Trio Omphalos (Stefan Hülsermann, clarinet; Olaf Pyras, percussion; Ji-Youn Song, piano) plays its own arrangements of John Cage's Chess Pieces and Four Dances and of thirteen of Tom Johnson's Rational Melodies, plus Johnson's Counting Duets No. II.

Wilhelm Killmayer's songs for tenor and piano on poems by Eichendorff, Hölderlin and Trakl, sung by Markus Schäfer with Siegfried Mauser. Co-production with BR Klassik, recorded in Munich in 2016, released in 2017.

Three works by Hans Zender: Dialog mit Haydn (Kretzschmar, Wiget, Bundesjugendorchester, Zender), Issei no kyō (Claron McFadden, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Johannes Kalitzke) and Nanzen no kyō with the WDR Rundfunkchor. MDR/WDR productions, 2017.

Edition Musikfabrik: Georg Friedrich Haas's "Ich suchte, aber ich fand ihn nicht." and ... wie stille brannte das Licht (with Sarah Wegener), Evan Johnson's Die Bewegung der Augen and Jani Christou's Anaparastasis III, recorded live in Cologne 2009-2…

Brice Pauset's complete cycle of 24 canons for piano (1989-2010) and Perspectivæ Sintagma I for piano and live electronics (1997), first recordings by Nicolas Hodges with IRCAM electronics. Produced by WDR Köln in 2016.

Paul Hindemith's works with saxophone, including the Trio op. 47 and the Konzertstück, plus pieces arranged by Christoph Enzel, played by the clair-obscur saxophone quartet with Barbara Buntrock, Robert Kolinsky and Florian von Radowitz. Recorded in …

Helmut Zapf's four string quartets (1984-2013), including Verschwommene Ränder after Hendrik Jackson, played by the Sonar Quartett in first recordings. Co-production with Deutschlandradio, released by Wergo in 2017.

Four string works by Wolfgang Rihm: the quartets of 1966 and 1968, Geste zu Vedova (2015) and Epilog for string quintet (2012/13). Minguet Quartett with cellist Jens Peter Maintz, recorded in Cologne in 2015/16, co-produced with Deutschlandradio.

Arnold Schoenberg's Serenade op. 24 for seven instruments and low male voice, conducted by Pierre Boulez with bass Louis-Jacques Rondeleux, recorded in Paris in 1961 and reissued in Wergo's studio reihe series.

First portrait CD of the Serbian composer Milica Djordjević, seven works from 2008-2015 played by the Arditti Quartet, Teodoro Anzellotti, Ensemble Musikfabrik under Johannes Schöllhorn and soloists, recorded at Deutschlandfunk Cologne in 2016.

Six duos (2000-2016) by Tokyo-born composer Keiko Harada for pairs such as trombone and accordion or flute and koto, with Stefan Hussong, Carin Levine, Naoko Kikuchi, Yumiko Meguri, Jürgen Ruck and Mike Svoboda. First recordings, co-produced with Rad…

Seven works (1994-2016) by the Bucharest-born composer Tom Sora, in first recordings by Sarah Maria Sun, TrioCoriolis, the Steuber-Öllinger guitar duo, Andreas Skouras, Thomas Hastreiter and Sora himself. Co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2017…

Juliane Banse sings Reimann's Drei Gedichte der Sappho, Henze's Nachtstücke und Arien (Bachmann) and Rihm's Aria/Ariadne (Nietzsche) with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern under Christoph Poppen. SR/SWR production, 2017.

Six works (2008-2015) by Shanghai-born composer Ying Wang for solo instruments, ensemble and electronics, with Nikola Lutz, Teodoro Anzellotti, Nina Janßen-Deinzer, Isao Nakamura, Ensemble Phoenix Basel and MAM. Deutschlandfunk Forum neue Musik 2015 …

Trio Accanto (Marcus Weiss, Nicolas Hodges, Christian Dierstein) plays four works written for them in 2014-15 by Georges Aperghis, Rolf Riehm, Johannes Schöllhorn and Stefan Prins. First recordings, SWR productions.

Dieter Schnebel's MOVIMENTO for musicians in motion (2015), performed by the AG Neue Musik of the Leininger-Gymnasium Grünstadt under Silke Egeler-Wittmann (SWR, 2016), with Gesums - Geknarrt from Schulmusik recorded in 1985 under Manfred Peters.

Six electroacoustic works by Wilfried Jentzsch and Hiromi Ishii with links to China, Indonesia and Japan, projected in a 47-speaker Klangdom with Zirkonium and recorded with dummy head technology. Released 2017.

Rolf Riehm's violin concerto Shifting (Guy Braunstein, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Dennis Russell Davies) and Archipel Remix for orchestra and electronics (Peter Rundel), WDR productions issued as first recordings in 2016.

Hans Zender's four Canciones on St John of the Cross (2008-14), with Angelika Luz, Ernst Kovacic, Klangforum Wien, the Bavarian Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Vokalensemble and SWR Sinfonieorchester; four conductors.

Edition Musikfabrik: Brian Ferneyhough's Finis Terrae (with EXAUDI), Klaus Lang's The Ocean of Yes and No, Carola Bauckholt's Schlammflocke and Jorge E. López's Gonzales the Earth Eater, first recordings by Ensemble Musikfabrik under four conductors.

Walter Zimmermann's piano works of 2001-2006, including the 38-minute Voces abandonadas after Antonio Porchia's aphorisms, played by Nicolas Hodges. A production of Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, released by Wergo in 2016.

Pēteris Vasks's Flute Concerto (2007/08, rev. 2011) with soloist Dita Krenberga and his Third Symphony (2004/05), played by the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra under Atvars Lakstīgala. Recorded in Liepāja in February and May 2016.

Thierry Pécou's orchestral works Orquoy, Changó for three flutes and orchestra, and Marcha de la Humanidad, first recordings by the Orchestre National de France under Jonathan Stockhammer, Paris, November 2013.

Violeta Dinescu's works for flute (1983-2015), the cycles Aus dem Tagebuch and Blicke with chamber pieces for flute and horn quartet, piano, harp and violin; Carin Levine with the Dauprat-Hornquartett, Stephan Rahn and others.

Five orchestral works by Chaya Czernowin (2010-13), including The Crescendo Trilogy, with the BR Symphony Orchestra, Berner Symphonieorchester, SWR Sinfonieorchester, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and others, recorded live 2011-2013.

Six works (2005-2012) by Anthony Cheung in first recordings: Talea Ensemble under James Baker, Cheung on piano, and Dystemporal live by the Ensemble Intercontemporain under Susanna Mälkki (Paris, October 2012). Wergo, 2016.