★Wergo

First CD recording of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Tierkreis in the version for organ, played by Dominik Susteck on the Willy Peter organ of St. Peter, Cologne, with four of his own improvisations.

Complete songs and early chamber music by Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1939-1950), with soprano Anna Prohaska, pianist Cordelia Höfer, violinists Alessandro Cappone and Rachel Schmidt and the Trio Berlin, recorded 2009-2010 in Berlin.

*2022 stock* This amazing double CD Box presents excerpts from previously unpublished concert and performance recordings of important artists who appeared during the lifespan of Het Apollohuis - between 1980 and 1997, artists presented a panoply of e…

Edition Musikfabrik vol. 7: David Lang's Are You Experienced?, Philippe Boesmans' Sextuor à clavier, Richard Barrett's interference and Luca Francesconi's Unexpected End of Formula, recorded live in Cologne 2003-2008 by Ensemble Musikfabrik.

Edition Musikfabrik vol. 6: Ian Willcock's Grave, Mark Andre's ni and Kaija Saariaho's violin concerto Graal théâtre (chamber version), played live in Cologne in 2004-2007 by Ensemble Musikfabrik with Hannah Weirich, conducted by James Wood, Rupert H…

Edition Musikfabrik vol. 5: Baltakas's (co)ro(na), Saunders's cinnabar with Juditha Haeberlin and Marco Blaauw, Lindberg's Joy and Xenakis's Thalleïn, recorded live by Ensemble Musikfabrik in Cologne, 2004-2006.

Three discs, three distinct worlds - each one a landmark. Vol. 5 of Earle Brown's Contemporary Sound Series may be the most dramatically varied installment in the entire programme, arcing from the handmade electronic circuitry of four American maveri…

Few figures of the American avant-garde wore as many hats as Earle Brown. Composer, graphic notation pioneer, member of the New York School alongside John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff - but also, and crucially, a record producer whose ea…

"Wergo's reissues of the legendary Earle Brown Contemporary Sound Series have been a big hit with fans of contemporary music around the world. Each set is a treasure-trove of works by a wide range of composers, performed by some of the finest musicia…

Live recording of Aribert Reimann's opera Melusine after Yvan Goll, libretto by Claus H. Henneberg, with Marlene Mild in the title role and the Nürnberger Philharmoniker under Peter Hirsch, Staatstheater Nürnberg, 12 May 2007.

Edition Musikfabrik vol. 4: works for soloist and ensemble by Michael Jarrell, Stefano Gervasoni, Joël-François Durand and Brian Ferneyhough, with Hae-Sun Kang, Michael Tiepold, Helen Bledsoe and Omar Ebrahim; conductors Masson, Siebens, Wood.

Portrait CD of Achim Bornhöft: six works from 1999-2010 for computer, string quartet, flute and clarinet, percussion quartet, quintet and four electric guitars with live electronics, played by Helios Streichquartett, Ensemble Phorminx, Freiburger Sch…

2025 stock Enormous technical requirements make John Cage's "Etudes Boreales" a highly virtuosic work, which requires an extreme sensitivity of feeling for the coordination of fingers, instrument, and intellect. On this CD it is presented in versions…

Edition Musikfabrik vol. 3: Martin Smolka's Rush (Hour in Celestial Streets), Mauricio Kagel's Orchestrion-Straat and Louis Andriessen's Racconto dall'Inferno with Cristina Zavalloni, conducted by Peter Rundel and Reinbert de Leeuw.

Edition Musikfabrik vol. 2: Rebecca Saunders's a visible trace, Mauro Lanza's Vesperbild, Nicolaus A. Huber's Music on Canvas and Bernd Alois Zimmermann's film music Metamorphose, played by Ensemble Musikfabrik under Rundel, Siebens and Masson.

Chamber and solo pieces by Hans Werner Henze dedicated to friends and colleagues, most in first recordings, performed by ensemble recherche, a coproduction with Westdeutscher Rundfunk.

2025 stock  The significance of the seven pieces brought together here is that they both generate a striking panorama of the intelligence of the material presented, over a period of four years, from 1939 to 1943, by the composer whom the critic Fred …

Portrait CD of Hannes Seidl: five works for trombone quartet, mixed ensemble with tape, contrabass clarinet with environmental sound, piano with tape and cello with mixing desk, played by Composers Slide Quartet, ensemble Intégrales, Theo Nabicht, Se…

Hans Werner Henze's Sinfonia N. 9 for chorus and orchestra, text by Hans-Ulrich Treichel after Anna Seghers's The Seventh Cross, with Rundfunkchor Berlin and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Marek Janowski, recorded November 2008.

Four works by Japanese composer Makiko Nishikaze, three solos and a duo built on sound, resonance and silence, played by the ensemble L'Art pour L'Art after many years of collaboration. Released 2009.

Five works by Gerhard Stäbler for percussion, soprano and percussion quartet, conception for any number of players, and percussion with tape, performed by Schlagquartett Köln with soprano Annette Robbert.

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 Kai…

Four concertante works by Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1931-1955), including the Concerto funebre, with Benjamin Schmid, Elisabeth Kufferath, Yorck Kronenberg, Florian Uhlig and the SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern under Paul Goodwin, recorded 2004-200…

Six works by Klaus Hinrich Stahmer for East Asian and Western instruments (sheng, guzheng, koto, shakuhachi, kayagum, changgu, accordion, flutes, cello), with Wu Wei, Xu Fengxia, Makiko Goto, Stefan Hussong and others; recorded 2000-2007.

3-CD Set.  Recorded between 1960 and 1973, the original eighteen LPs that comprise Earle Brown's legendary Contemporary Sound Series have been highly sought after in the secondary market since 1978 when they were discontinued. These rare and historic…

Three works by Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks, Musica adventus and Viatore for string orchestra and the Concerto for cor anglais, played by Sinfonietta Rīga with Normunds Šnē as conductor and soloist, recorded in Riga in June 2007.

Piano works by Tobias Picker, mostly first recordings, played by Ursula Oppens, with the composer at the second piano in Keys to the City; recorded September/October 2007 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.

Five chamber works by Rebecca Saunders, four in first recordings, including blaauw for double-bell trumpet, vermilion and Stirrings Still, played by soloists of Ensemble Musikfabrik in coproduction with DeutschlandRadio.

*2024 stock* Live recording of the piano recital for the eightieth birthday of composer Hans Otte that Philipp Vandré and Elmar Schrammel presented at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. A selection of John Cage's "Sonatas and Interludes" for…

*2022 stock* Performed by Julia Breuer (flutes), Matthias Engler (vibraphone, marimba, glockenspiel, tubular bells), Elmar Schrammel (piano, celesta). Recorded 2007. One of Feldman's classic long-term late works, written in 1984. Wergo is proud to pr…

Rodion Shchedrin plays his Piano Sonata op. 25, Notebook for the Youth op. 59 and Piano Pieces op. 20, Melodiya recordings made at night in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, issued by Wergo in 2007.

Five works (1996-2004) by Sebastian Claren, with Teodoro Anzellotti and trio recherche, ensemble mosaik under Enno Poppe, pianist Ernst Surberg and the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR under Matthias Hermann.

Alexander Goehr's piano cycle Symmetry Disorders Reach op. 73 (2002), after W. H. Auden, played by his former pupil Huw Watkins, recorded on 20-21 December 2005 at the Jerusalem Music Centre.

Rodion Shchedrin plays his Polyphonic Notebook op. 50 and the 24 Preludes and Fugues op. 29 and op. 45, Melodiya recordings made in Moscow in 1966, 1971 and 1973, issued on two CDs by Wergo in 2007.

Works for cello by John Cage from 1953 to 1978, including Solo for Cello, 59 1/2 Seconds for a String Player, Atlas Eclipticalis for two cellos, Variations I and Etudes Boréales, played by Friedrich Gauwerky, coproduced with Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Portrait CD of Ulrich Stranz: six works from 1971-2001 for chamber ensemble, strings, piano and orchestra, winds and solo piano, with Tzimon Barto, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under Christoph Eschenbach, Münchener Kammerorchester, Banda Classica and Li…

*2022 stock* Giacinto Scelsi wrote the twenty Canti del Capricorno between 1962 and 1972 for and with the Japanese singer Michiko Hirayama, who inspired them and who for decades remained their unique performer. The cycle is for solo voice, with instr…

Live recording of Dieter Schnebel's Orchestra, symphonic music for mobile musicians, at his 70th birthday concert on 14 March 2000 at the Universität der Künste Berlin, played by students and teachers under three central conductors.

Hans Werner Henze's two Orpheus works: Orpheus behind the Wire for a cappella choir on Edward Bond, and the first recording of Aristaeus for speaker and orchestra, recorded live in Berlin on 1 February 2004 with Rundfunkchor Berlin and Rundfunk-Sinfo…

Poems by South African poet Sandile Dikeni, recited from memory in Johannesburg in 2005, alternating with Klaus Hinrich Stahmer's works for flutes, piano, percussion, African drums and two pianos, recorded in Würzburg and Münster in 2004-2005.