★Wergo

*2024 stock* Produced in 1974 by Joachim-Ernst Berendt, Hesse Between Music sets readings from Hermann Hesse against the music of Peter Michael Hamel and his group Between. The texts come from Siddhartha, the Steppenwolf materials, The Glass Bead Game, Peter Camenzind and other writings, and are read by the actor Gert Westphal. It is a synthesis of spirituality and art, of sitar and church organ, of meditative sounds and jazz rhythms, of silence and passion, from the moment when German musicians…

Hindemith's Three Pieces for cello and piano, Op. 8 (1917), and the Cello Sonata, Op. 11 No. 3 (1919-21), played by Julius Berger and Siegfried Mauser. Volume I of their Hindemith cello and piano series.

Portrait of Detlev Müller-Siemens: Variations on a Schubert Ländler (Ensemble 13), Under Neonlight I (John Carewe) and the Piano Concerto with Volker Banfield and the SWF orchestra under Kazimierz Kord.

Peter Pannke's piece for four tamburas in unusual tunings, played in a circle by Mechthild Kampik, Tina Rusvay, Werner Durand and Pannke. Recorded at Radio Bremen in 1982, in two parts.

Five computer music works by Chris Chafe, David Jaffe and William Schottstaedt, made at CCRMA, Stanford, between 1982 and 1986 with the Samson Box digital synthesizer; produced by David Jaffe.

1988 release. Ade, "a piece about farewell" for seven actors, singers and dancers, is a work of musical theatre by Harald Weiss, here heard without the stage. Weiss brings together elements of classical music, folk, rock and minimal music in the style that runs through all his work and escapes any classification. The ten scenes (Heimkehr, Tagtraum im Verborgenen, Elegie, Springtanz, Hymne, Tanz der Kobolde, Arie, Die Rufe der Demaskierten, Lamento, Abgesang) move between solo and choral voices, …

2025 stock. Five graphic scores realised at the organ by Zsigmond Szathmáry, the Hungarian organist and composer, as improvisations: music that exists first as drawing and only becomes sound when a performer decides how to read it. The programme brings together Roman Haubenstock-Ramati's 'Ohne Titel', John Cage's Music for Carillon No. 5, Shin-ichi Matsushita's Konzentration, Michael Vetter's Der Kreis and Szathmáry's own Omaggio a György Ligeti, so that the organ moves from clusters and long he…

Michael Obst's quadraphonic electronic trilogy Crystal World (1983-86) with its Intermède, made in Cologne, at EMS Stockholm and at IRCAM; produced by Obst in the audiorent studio, Recklinghausen.

Nightingale song recorded by Walter Tilgner on the nights of 14, 21 and 29 May 1983 along the Reichenaudamm at Lake Constance: nightingales at night and at dawn with the waking chorus of other birds.

2025 stock  In 1985 György Ligeti created six piano studies. The exceptionally new of these studies is the possibility of having one player generate the vision of several different simultaneous tempo layers. The extremely high level of difficulty of these studies demands the pianist's utmost virtuosity. With Volker Banfield, Ligeti found the right pianist for his studies. The fourth study, 'Fanfares', is dedicated to Banfield. Olivier Messiaen's 'Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus', too, makes hug…

2025 stock "Musica Ricercata" of 1951-53 is a collection of 11 piano pieces which even with their traditional character went beyond what was considered appropriate for performance in Hungary in the early 1950s. The tenth piece, e.g., was considered too "decadent" because of the abundance of minor seconds. The short "Capriccios" and "Invention", written in 1947-48, reveal convincingly the emergence of Ligeti's musical identity. "Monument · Selbstportrait · Bewegung" (three pieces for two pianos) …

Original copy, the title of Scelsi's song cycle possibly refers to the fact that the sign of the Capricorn corresponds with an area of the Earth stretching from India to South America and includes, most significantly, the Amazon. The Amazon, as Scelsi noted, is a place where a pre-historic human culture survives. Scelsi's Songs (19) of the Capricorn, reduce the concept of "song" to poetically loaded vocal utterances imaginatively recalling the conditions of music and language in humankind's dist…

Hochschul-Percussion Trossingen under Hermann Gschwendtner play percussion works by Regner, Brouwer, Henze (Five Scenes from the Snow Country, marimba), Heider and Hiller. Recorded 1981 and 1984.

The four seasons in a mixed beech wood and the red deer rut in a mountain forest, recorded digitally by Walter Tilgner, mostly with a Neumann binaural dummy head, and assembled without further sound processing.

Charles Ives's shorter piano pieces, from Study No. 20 to the Three Quarter-tone Pieces for Two Pianos, played by Herbert Henck with Deborah Richards. Recorded July 1984 at the Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich.

The three ground-breaking avant-garde sonatas composed between 1946 and 1957 performed by Herbert Henck and released on Wergo in 1985 as a double LP-set.

Three superb composition spanning from 1967 to 1976, respectively for clarinet and orchestra, 12 voices and 4 percussionists, grand orchestra, featuring Michael Ranta and Sigfried Fink among the performers, released on Wergo in 1985.

Two pieces for orchestra and one for oboe, viola and harp composed between 1979 and 1983 by German avant-garde composer released on Wergo in 1984.

Rare mid-1980's re-issue of the amazing 5LP box set on Wergo with a selection of the composer's many masterpieces spanning from 1953 to 1972, including electronic music and compositions for organ, string quartet, various ensembles, choir and orchestra. Absoutely essential. With booklet.

Two chamber works composed in the late 1970's by Geman-born British composer released on Wergo UK in 1983.

Superb double-album on Wergo with classical shakuhachi masterworks beautifully played by the acclaimed performer.

First album with the full cicle of songs by the outstanding and influential Italian composer sung by their dedicatee, privately recorded in 1969 (featuring Alvin Curran) and 1981 and released by Wergo in 1987.

The superb 1976 "tape montage for two loudspeaker groups" plus another 1976 piece for 3 cellos and a 1980 composition for flute, alto and harpsichord, released on Wergo in 1982. With insert.

1979 recording of Ligeti's only opera composed in 1977, released on Wergo in 1980 and never re-issued either on vinyl or CD. With insert.

1979 recording of Ligeti's only opera composed in 1977, released on Wergo in 1980 and never re-issued either on vinyl or CD. With insert.

Recordings from '76/77. "Songs..." is a suite of solo voice pieces, showcasing her various extended techniques. Some excellent experimental vocals, some a bit too whimsical perhaps. "Tablet" is a 23 minute ensemble work for 4 female voices, piano & soprano recorder. Only one copy available.

Sole edition of the contemporary classical monodrama for actress and percussion composed in 1974 and released by Wergo in 1979.ontemporary classical monodrama for an actress and percussion.

Three 1979 compositions respectively for string quartet, chorus and cello solo, released on Wergo in 1979.

Late 1970's re-issue on Wergo's "Große Interpreten neuer Musik" series of the 1969 album of masterful interpretations by the German virtuoso of landmark avant-garde compositions for cello solo or cello and orchestra spanning from 1914 to 1966.

A 2LP "Introduction to New Music with Selected Sound Examples" with analysis of and excerpts from works by Varèse, Schönberg, Webern, Stockhausen, Schaeffer, Nono, etc., released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 1970's.

Two superb experimental pieces, 1971's Atemzüge for multiple voice and tape and 1969's Choralvorspiele for organ, instruments and tape, released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in 1976. With insert.

Two superb experimental pieces, 1971's Atemzüge for multiple voice and tape and 1969's Choralvorspiele for organ, instruments and tape, released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in 1976. Cream-titnted sleeve, no insert.

Three rich orchestral (one with magnetic tape and one plus chorus) compositions from the 1960's released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 70's. With insert.

Three indispensable pieces for voice(s) and tape composed in the 1960's and released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 70's. With insert.

First recordings of three indispensable pieces composed in the 1960's respectively for soprano and tenore solo and orchestra, magnetic tape and orchestra, magnetic tape, released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 70's. With insert.

Two avant-garde/dodecaphonic compositions from the 1960's respectively for tenor, choir, 11 instrumentalists and organ and for two pianos and orchestra, released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 1970's. With insert.

Five of the Polish composer's extraordinary and intense compositions from the late 1950's and early 60's, conducted by Andrzej Markowski and released on Wergo's great Studio Reihe Neuer Musik avat-garde music series in the mid-1970's. With insert.

Four important works for solo instruments (flute, voice, trombone) and for female voice, harp and 2 percussionists, spanning from 1958 to 1966, performed by Cathy Berberian and Vinko Globokar a.o., released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 70's. With insert.

Very beautiful electronic pieces from the late 1950's by the founder of the WDR electronic music studio and mentor to Karlheinz Stockhausen, released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the 70's. Essential early electronic music. With insert.

3LP set with book-like sleeve released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental music series in the mid 1970's with 1971 recordings of several compositions spanning from 1924 to 1957 plus Eisler talking about Hölderlin in 1961.