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Oltracuidansa
Stefano Scodanibbio's Oltracuidansa for contrabass and 8-channel tape (stereo version), built from almost six hours of contrabass sounds made with 26 methods of sound production, with the tape created at CCMIX in Paris.
Les Grandes Répétitions
DVD of two filmed portraits made by Luc Ferrari and Gérard Patris for French TV in the 1960s: Stockhausen rehearsing Momente, and Hommage à Edgard Varèse, released here for the first time with English subtitles.
Faint Traces
Six chamber works by Frank Denyer from 1973-2001, including Out of the Shattered Shadows 1 and 2, Faint Traces, Music for Two Performers, Play and Passages, in composer-supervised performances by The Barton Workshop.
The Rose & Punchbowl
Book of photographs by Jan Jedlička, taken at a Halloween party for hospital staff in a London pub that gave the series its name. 52 pages, stitch-bound, published by Andreas Züst, Zurich, 1999.
Le Cuoche
Book of 39 video stills from Jan Jedlička's 1999 film Le Cuoche, a 36-minute portrait of the women who run the Ristorante Macchiascandona near Grosseto, Maremma. 80 pages, published by Andreas Züst, Zurich, 1999.
Volume 1: Chansons Pour Le Corps
First volume of Mode's Luc Ferrari series: Chansons pour le corps, built on interviews with women recorded in the Jardin du Luxembourg, and the symphonic tale Et si tout entière maintenant for actress, tapes and orchestra.
Musica Da Camera: Ensemble Dissonanzen
Chamber music by Hans Werner Henze, weighted toward pieces drawn from his theatre works, played by the Naples-based Ensemble Dissonanzen: Ein kleines Potpourri from Boulevard Solitude, Toccata Mistica, Drei Tentos and Neue Volkslieder und Hirtengesän…
Silenced Voices
Four recent works by Frank Denyer for very quiet voices and rarely combined instruments, including muted strings, flute, clarinet and percussion, played by The Barton Workshop under Denyer and James Fulkerson.
The Marvelous Aphorisms of Gavin Bryars: The Eearly Years
Early works by Gavin Bryars from 1969-71: first recordings of Pre-Mediaeval Metrics and Made in Hong Kong, plus 1, 2, 1-2-3-4 and The Squirrel and The Ricketty Racketty Bridge, played by Ulrich Kreiger, Seth Josel and others.
Anecdotes
Yves Daoust's 1991 disc of works built on fragments of the classical repertoire: pieces for piano, flute and accordion with tape on the theme of the performer's solitude, a baroque suite for a harpsichordist-actress, and the Bourges-winning Quatuor.
Thinking of …
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.
Seidener Faden - Silken Thread
Six chamber works by Younghi Pagh-Paan, including BIDAN-SIL (Silken Thread) and two TA-RYONG pieces, in first recordings by the E-MEX Ensemble conducted by Christoph Maria Wagner. Co-production with Deutschlandradio, 2020.
Erinnerungsspuren
Alberto Posadas's six-part piano cycle Erinnerungsspuren (2014-2018), echoes of Couperin, Debussy, Schumann, Scelsi, Stockhausen and B. A. Zimmermann, in first recordings by pianist Florian Hoelscher.
Alter Ego
Debut album of Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, five acousmatic works from 1997 to 2004 made between Montréal, Birmingham and Huddersfield, from a remix built around rapper Dice B to a Baudelaire piece on three Montréal church bells. DVD-Audio.
Songs and Poems
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.
The Philosophy of Composition
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…
Unanswered Love
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.
Voces Abandonadas
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.
Midstream
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…
Sommersneige
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.