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Spring in the wetlands of Lake Constance, the Vorarlberg Rhine Delta and the Bodanrück: birds, frogs and toads recorded by Walter Tilgner between 1984 and 2003, assembled as a "Wetland Wildlife Chorus".

*2025 stock**Bilingual Edition English and German* In the films of this DVD, Peider A Defilla provides an insight into the oeuvre of Iannis Xenakis. The films show musica-viva performances of the works ’Syrmos’, ’Synaphai’, ’Theraps’, and ’Nekula’, and the respective BR-alpha broadcasts on these compositions. In an exclusive interview, the composer Iannis Xenakis is asked about his compositional oeuvre. In addition, the data section of the DVD contains further information on Iannis Xenakis, the …

First recordings of Wolfgang Rihm's Sphäre um Sphäre for ensemble and Frage for female voice and ensemble, played by ensemble recherche, which premiered both, with Salome Kammer and conductor Lucas Vis. A coproduction with WDR.

Six works by Tobias PM Schneid for seven instruments, solo clarinet and piano with ensemble, played by Ensemble Musikfabrik under Peter Rundel with Carl Rosman (clarinet) and Ulrich Löffler (piano).

Hans Werner Henze's radio operas Ein Landarzt (after Kafka) and Das Ende einer Welt (libretto by Hildesheimer), revised versions, premiered live in the Cologne Philharmonie on 27 September 1996 with the WDR Sinfonieorchester under Markus Stenz.

Five orchestral works by Herbert Willi, including the trumpet concerto Eirene and the concerto for flute and oboe ... geraume Zeit ..., with Reinhold Friedrich, Wolfgang Schulz, Hansjörg Schellenberger and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, 1999-2004.

Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Un petit rien, Das Gelb und das Grün, the serial cantata Omnia tempus habent and the film music Metamorphose, with soprano Angelika Luz and the Collegium Novum Zürich under Peter Hirsch.

Bach's three gamba sonatas BWV 1027-1029, played on cello and accordion, alternating with Adriana Hölszky's Wolke und Mond, Miserere and Nouns to Nouns II, by Julius Berger and Stefan Hussong. Recorded 2001 and 2003.

Four electroacoustic works by German composer Wilfried Jentzsch (1994-2003): Lumière cendrée, Apokalyptische Vision 2000 for choir, narrator and electronics recorded at its 2000 Dresden premiere, Kyoto Bells and Trance oder Lamento di Bali on gamelan samples.

Two-disc spatial sound composition by Sabine Schäfer and Joachim Krebs, made from microscopically processed animal voices and nature sounds: a stereo version and a four-channel DTS version, with RaumklangMilieu studies. Released 2004.

Five early works by Hans Werner Henze (1946-1951): Ballett-Variationen, Concertino, Rosa Silber, Kammerkonzert and the Boulevard Solitude interludes, played by the NDR Sinfonieorchester under Peter Ruzicka with Christopher Tainton and Matthias Perl, 2002-2003.

Seven percussion works by Vinko Globokar, including Toucher for a speaking percussionist, ?Corporel for body percussion and Ombre with tape and rhythm machine, played by Matthias Kaul, a coproduction with Deutschlandfunk.

Conlon Nancarrow's Studies for Player Piano in transcriptions for piano four hands, the Three Canons for Ursula, Tango?, Blues, Sonatina and other pieces, played by the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo (Helena Bugallo and Amy Williams).

Four orchestral works by Chinese composer Xiaogang Ye, including the Pipa Concerto and Symphony No. 2 Horizon, played by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken under Yi Zhang and Günther Herbig with Wei Lu, Wu Man, Yanyan Wang and Song-Hu Liu.

First recording of Hans Werner Henze's children's opera Pollicino, after Collodi, Grimm and Perrault, sung in German by young soloists with a choir and orchestra of Berlin music school students under Jobst Liebrecht. Echo Klassik 2004.

Winter visitors and migrant birds at Lake Constance (Untersee, Gnadensee and the Rhine Delta of Vorarlberg), recorded by Walter Tilgner between 1987 and 2003 and assembled into one winter soundscape.

Five piano sonatas by George Antheil from 1923 to 1950, three in first recordings (the Third, Fifth and Woman Sonata), played by Guy Livingston on a Fazioli piano, recorded in Paris in July 2003.

Christian Wolff's For 1, 2 or 3 People, Exercise 27, Bread and Roses and Edges, played by violinist Malcolm Goldstein and percussionist Matthias Kaul (also voice and hurdy-gurdy), recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk in 1999 and 2002.

Three orchestral works by Hans Werner Henze from 1950 to 2001, Scorribanda sinfonica, Antifone and Piano Concerto No. 1, played by the NDR Sinfonieorchester under Peter Ruzicka with pianist Christopher Tainton, recorded in Hamburg.

Music of the Hamar of southern Ethiopia, recorded between 1970 and 1976 by the ethnologist Ivo Strecker: musical bow, flute, lyre, dance and war songs, speech and ritual, with a 94-page book.

CD with 20-page booklet. Recorded March 2001, Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt. "Time and again I find myself having to pare away any musical gestures in a work in order to uncover the true idea in a piece." Alvin Lucier said this about his own practice of stripping composition back to its acoustic logic - removing the performer's ego, the expressive gesture, the narrative arc, until only the phenomenon remains. What is left, in each of the five works gathered here, is resonance: sympathetic vibra…

Carimbó dance music from Pará, Brazil, by Verequete (Augusto Gomes Rodrigues) and Grupo Uirapuru, recorded live in the studio in Belém on 29 and 30 January 2000.

Harry Partch's The Wayward (Barstow, San Francisco, The Letter, U.S. Highball), hobo texts set for voices and Partch's own instruments, played by Newband under Dean Drummond, recorded in New York in December 1999.

Piano works by Wilhelm Killmayer written 1975-1999: An John Field (five nocturnes), Vier neue Klavierstücke and Klavieralbum mit Sphinxen, played by his former pupil Siegfried Mauser.

Four orchestral works of the 1950s by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, with the live world premiere of the Märchensuite and the first recording of Alagoana, played by cellist Lucas Fels and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Peter Hirsch, January 2001.

Tunisian singer and oud player Lotfi Bouchnak in concert in Berlin on 18 April 1998, with classical Arabic songs and a few popular titles.

Alexander Raskatov's Commentary on a Vision for solo percussion and orchestra and Xenia for chamber orchestra (both 1991), with Mark Pekarski and the Symphony Orchestra "S. Rachmaninov" Moscow under Valentin Ponkin, recorded in Moscow in December 2000.

First recording of Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Wachsfigurenkabinett, five little operas of 1929-30, with Claudia Barainsky, Michelle Breedt, Tom Harper, Michael Kraus and members of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Roger Epple, recorded 1999.

Three ensemble works of the 1990s by Detlev Müller-Siemens, Phoenix I-III, Light blue, almost white and Cuts for alto saxophone and ensemble, played by Ensemble Phoenix Basel under Jürg Henneberger with Marcus Weiss, recorded in Basel in 1999.

*2022 stock* George Brecht, Alison Knowles, Philip Corner. "Fluxus! The New York-born artists whose radio plays are collected on this CD, Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, and George Brecht, have appeared together in performances, and they are also connected by their relationship to John Cage's aesthetic, by work with chance operations, and by Zen. Explaining Fluxus is like wanting to hold a river in your hand." Includes the pieces "Satie's Rose Cross as a Revelation" by Philip Corner, "Bean Sequen…

Collected here are three radioplays from three Fluxus affiliates, Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, and George Brecht. Each piece is built from a simple element and features a text recited by the author and sometimes others. Corner's piece is an homage to Erik Satie, built from a sparce two chord piano figure and a recitation that teeters along the stereo field. Knowles' piece, which she delivers along with Brecht, Hanna Higgins, and Jessica Higgins, is built from a long list of bean names on top o…

Hans Werner Henze's Drei sinfonische Etüden, Quattro Poemi, Nachtstücke und Arien (Ingeborg Bachmann) and La selva incantata, played by the NDR Sinfonieorchester under Peter Ruzicka with Michaela Kaune, recorded 1999.

Works for wind ensemble and concert band by Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch, Hans Gál and Ernst Krenek, three of them written in 1926 for Donaueschingen, played by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Roger Epple.

Skylark, nightingale, thrush nightingale, song thrush, blackbird and golden oriole, recorded by Walter Tilgner between 1984 and 1999 in Austria and Germany with Neumann dummy-head microphones.

Tài tử music from southern Vietnam played by Vũy Chỗ, Ba Tu, Phạm Văn Môn and Đoạn Văn Dũng on zithers, lutes, guitar, flute and violin, recorded on 26 May 1999 at Sender Freies Berlin.

First recording of the original version of Penderecki's Symphony No. 7 Seven Gates of Jerusalem, live at the Vienna Musikverein on 16 November 1999 with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir under Kazimierz Kord.

Hindemith's works for piano four hands and two pianos, including his four-hand Mathis der Maler symphony, Rag Time (wohltemperiert), the Walzer op. 6 and the sonatas of 1938 and 1942, played by Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacher.

2025 stock  The acoustic publication of this "Diary" by and with John Cage represents an impressive document, spoken by an extraordinary voice, produced by one of the great artists of the 20th century. The new design of the 8-CD set includes a 64-page booklet in a presentation box (digi-box, carton). The booklet contains several photographs taken in John Cage's loft and during the recording in 1991. “I began the Diary optimistically in 1965 to celebrate the work of R. Buckminster Fuller, his con…

"What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one and the same thing" (Steve Reich, 1968). Minimal music, which numbers Steve Reich among its founders and as one of its most significant representatives, existed for hardly more than ten years. The Ensemble Avantgarde presents a wonderful survey of Reich's minimal music-compositions. The conceptional concentration in the musical work on the structurally simple means of its creation is seen especially in Reich's "…

Choral works by Heinrich Poos: Magnificat, Sphragis, Nachklänge after Eichendorff, Hypostasis vel Somnium Jacob and Zeichen am Weg, sung by Schola Cantorum Gedanensis and the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart.