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Four orchestral works by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, including the first version of the Sinfonie in einem Satz and Giostra Genovese in first recordings. WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Peter Hirsch, recorded at the Kölner Philharmonie in 2013 and 2015.

Mauricio Kagel's organ works, from Improvisation ajoutée (1962) to Rrrrrrr... (1980/81), plus Dominik Susteck's own K-A-G-E-L improvisations. Recorded by Susteck at the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, 7-9 April 2014, for Deutschlandfunk.

Five works by Balz Trümpy (2005-2013), including Oracula Sibyllae for soprano, baritone, flute and percussion on Sibylline oracles and Virgil, played by the El Cimarrón Ensemble; all first recordings.

Pēteris Vasks's String Quartets No. 4 (1999), No. 1 (1977/97) and No. 3 (1995), played by the Spīķeru String Quartet; recorded at the GORS concert hall, Rēzekne, in 2014.

Morton Feldman's 1976 trilogy Orchestra, Elemental Procedures (soprano, choir, orchestra; Beckett text) and Routine Investigations, with Claudia Barainsky, WDR Rundfunkchor and WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln under Peter Rundel; recorded 2010 and 2013.

Aribert Reimann's Spiralat halom (2002), the Celan cycle Eingedunkelt in its first recording for countertenor (Tim Severloh), and the orchestral Neun Stücke (1993); NDR Sinfonieorchester under Christoph Eschenbach.

Martin Smolka's choral works Poema de balcones (Lorca), Walden, the Distiller of Celestial Dews (Thoreau, with percussion) and Słone i smutne (Różewicz), sung by the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart under Marcus Creed.

Edition Musikfabrik: Francesco Filidei's Finito ogni gesto, Michael Beil's Black Jack and Mauricio Kagel's unfinished Heine cycle In der Matratzengruft with tenor Markus Brutscher, all first recordings by Ensemble Musikfabrik under Marcus Creed, Otto…

Hans Werner Henze's cantata Being Beauteous (Rimbaud) with Anna Prohaska, and Kammermusik 1958 (Hölderlin) with Peter Gijsbertsen and Jürgen Ruck, first recording of the string orchestra version; NDR Sinfonieorchester, Peter Ruzicka, Hamburg 2013 and…

Five works by Dimitri Terzakis (1988-2009): Legetos, the Sappho-Zyklus, À une Madone, Visionen and Sonate infernale, with Brigitte Fassbaender, Tatjana Masurenko, the Thomanerchor Leipzig, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester and others.

'The literal meaning of “amphibian” is “double life” and applies to animals living part of their lives in water and part of their lives on land. In the program note to his electroacoustic classic Music for the Double Life of Amphibians, Morton Subotn…

Edition Musikfabrik: Jonathan Harvey's Sringāra Chaconne, Enno Poppe's Scherben, Kaija Saariaho's cello concerto Notes on Light (with Dirk Wietheger) and Emmanuel Nunes' Chessed I, recorded live 2005-2010 by Ensemble Musikfabrik with four conductors.

Seven electroacoustic works by Georg Katzer (1976-2010), from Bevor Ariadne kommt and Preußisch Blau to Mein 1989 and Steinelied 2, released with the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, for his 80th birthday.

Piano music by Henry Cowell and John Cage (1912-1948), including The Banshee, Aeolian Harp, The Perilous Night and Dream, played by Sabine Liebner; recorded at Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, December 2014.

Six works by John Cage for solo percussion, among them Variations I, Child of Tree, Inlets and 27'10.554", performed by Matthias Kaul on some ninety instruments and objects; recorded at Deutschlandfunk, Cologne, April 2014.

Four works by Juan Carlos Paz (1950-64), Dédalus, Invención, Núcleos and Concreción, played by Ensemble Aventure with pianist Akiko Okabe, conducted by Alexander Ott; Invención and Concreción are first recordings.

Three works from Klaus Ospald's Leopardi cycle: Così, dell'uomo ignara ..., Sovente in queste rive ... and Sopra un basso rilievo antico sepolcrale ..., with Collegium Novum Zürich, the WDR Sinfonieorchester and WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Schlagquartett …

György Kurtág's complete works for piano duet and two pianos from Játékok (Games) volumes I, III, IV and VIII, plus the 1956 Suite and transcriptions from Machaut to Bach, played by the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo, co-produced with Bayerischer Rundfun…

Pēteris Vasks's Sala (2006), Musica appassionata for strings (2002) and Credo (2009), played by the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra under Atvars Lakstīgala; recorded at the Liepāja Latvian Society House in 2014.

*2022 stock* Morton Subotnick achieved fame in the field of electronic music with Silver Apples of the Moon and The Wild Bull, his best-known tape works of the late 1960s. Since then, he has been active combining electronics with other media, notably…

Six works by Jörg-Peter Mittmann (1997-2009) built on Bach, Monteverdi, Beethoven and Mahler, played by Ensemble Horizonte with Katrin Bähre, Nicole Pieper and Mareike Neumann. A coproduction with Deutschlandradio.

John Cage's Two3 (1991), one of his late Number Pieces for shō and five water-filled conch shells, performed by Wu Wei (sheng, conch shells) and Stefan Hussong (accordion, conch shells) over two CDs.

Giacinto Scelsi's Suite n. 9 "Ttai" (1953) and Suite n. 10 "Ka" (1954) for piano, played by Sabine Liebner, recorded in 2014 at the Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal in Cologne.

The five organ works of Gerhard Stäbler (1983-2009), among them HEISS!, TAP for pedals alone and the fantasy ABER …, played by Dominik Susteck at the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, in January 2014.

Chamber music by Charlotte Seither (1994-2011), the piano trios Champlève and Equal Ways of Difference with duo and solo works, played by the elole piano trio (Uta-Maria Lempert, Matthias Lorenz, Stefan Eder).

Hans Werner Henze's Symphony No. 2 (1949) and Sinfonia N. 10 (1997-2000), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Marek Janowski, recorded in 2012 and 2013, completing their Henze symphony cycle.

Mark Andre's orchestral triptych …auf… (2005-07), the third part with live electronics, played by the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg under Sylvain Cambreling with the Experimentalstudio des SWR.

Early works by Valentin Silvestrov (1965-1977): Spectrums, Symphony No. 2, Cantata, Meditation and Farewell, O World...!, conducted by Igor Blazhkov in concert and studio recordings from Leningrad and Kiev, 1965-1991.

Chamber music by Detlev Müller-Siemens (2002-2009): String Trio, distant traces, ...called dusk and the piano quartet lost traces, two of them in memory of György Ligeti, played by the Mondrian Ensemble Basel; a co-production with Radio SRF 2 Kultur.

Four works by Rolf Riehm (2007-2011): Lenz in Moskau with Ensemble ascolta, Im Nachtigallental for cello (Erik Borgir), Ton für Ton for contrabass clarinet (Theo Nabicht) and Au bord d'une source with Jeremias Schwarzer and the hr-Sinfonieorchester u…

Debussy's En blanc et noir, Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Monologe and Stravinsky's four-hand version of Le Sacre du printemps, played by the klavierduo huber|thomet (Susanne Huber, André Thomet).

John Cage's Number Pieces One7 and Four6 (both 1990) in their first recordings for piano, by Sabine Liebner, who plays all four layers of Four6 by overdubbing. Recorded 2012 and 2013, coproduced with Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Three works by Keiko Harada: F-fragments for accordion and piano (2012), Book I for accordion solo (2010) and seven pieces from Nach Bach for piano (2004), played by Stefan Hussong and Yumiko Meguri.

Three works for organ by Adriana Hölszky: ... und ich sah wie ein gläsernes Meer, mit Feuer gemischt ... (1996/97), Efeu und Lichtfeld with violin (2008) and ... und wieder Dunkel I with percussion (1985/90), played by Dominik Susteck, Akiko Ahrendt …

Toshio Hosokawa's Landscape V, Landscape II and Fragmente II for string quartet with shō, harp and recorder, and the solos Elegy, Threnody and Small Chant, played by the Arditti Quartet with Mayumi Miyata, Naoko Yoshino and Tosiya Suzuki.

Homage to Stefano Scodanibbio by Sebastian Gramss and ten other double bassists, among them Barry Guy, Joëlle Léandre, Barre Phillips and Mark Dresser, recorded separately in 2014, plus a 2008 live duo of Scodanibbio and Gramss.

David Brynjar Franzson's three-part the Negotiation of Context (2009-2011) for pianos, pump organ and modified bass drums, played by Yarn/Wire (Laura Barger, Ning Yu, Ian Antonio, Russell Greenberg), recorded at EMPAC in Troy, NY, in January 2013; wi…

Four works by Franz Martin Olbrisch: Grain (2005) and craquelé (2010) for orchestra, played by the hr-Sinfonieorchester under Sian Edwards and Roland Kluttig, plus two pieces with live electronics. Productions of Hessischer Rundfunk.

Twenty-nine love songs commissioned by ensemble recherche for its 25th anniversary in 2010, by Abrahamsen, Czernowin, Haas, Huber, Poppe, Widmann, Zender and others, plus Sciarrino's Mozart arrangement. A WDR production.

With the legendary “Studio Reihe Neuer Musik” series, Wergo created a trademark of advanced contemporary music in the Sixties of the past century already. On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the label now releases these highlights of 20th-centur…