Meditative
Viatore
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.
Eirene / Räume / ... geraume Zeit ... / Begegnung / Rondino
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.
Magnificat / Sphragis / Nachklänge / Hypostasis / Zeichen am Weg
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.
Composing By Numbers: The Graphic Scores 1950-67
Thirteen of Morton Feldman's graphic scores, 1950-67, played by the Barton Workshop and soloists including Frank Denyer and Taco Kooistra, with first recordings of several ensemble works. Volume 9 of Mode's Feldman Edition.
Triadic Memories
Marilyn Nonken plays Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories, a single-movement solo piano work of almost 90 minutes, recorded in 2003 and available on two CDs and on DVD-Audio.
String quartet N°2
Morton Feldman's String Quartet No. 2, a continuous work of more than six hours, played by the Flux Quartet, in a deluxe DVD-audio edition with liner notes by Christian Wolff and Flux founder Tom Chiu.
Voices and instruments
Feldman works for voices and instruments from 1949 to 1971, three of them first recordings, including Journey to the End of Night, The O’Hara Songs and Four Instruments, played by The Barton Workshop.
Indeterminate music
Feldman's indeterminate works: the complete Projections and Durations series on one disc, the first recording of Two Pieces for Six Instruments, and The Straits of Magellan, played by pianist Philipp Vandré and the Turfan Ensemble.
Impulsion
The tape works of Québec composer Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, made between 1970 and 1981 at the GRM in Paris, in Bourges and at Simon Fraser University, from the vocal vertigo of Arksalalartôq to the eighteen-minute Constellation I.
Sieben Worte / In Croce
Sofia Gubaidulina's Sieben Worte (1982) for cello, accordion and strings and In croce for cello and accordion, played by Julius Berger and Stefan Hussong with the Kammerorchester Diagonal under Florian Rosensteiner.
Missa Moguntina
Volker David Kirchner's Missa Moguntina for soloists, choir and orchestra, recorded at its premiere in Mainz Cathedral on 21 November 1993 with the Mainz Cathedral choirs and orchestra under Mathias Breitschaft.
Cantabile per Archi / Botschaft / Musica Dolorosa / Symphonie "Stimmen"
String orchestra works by Pēteris Vasks: Cantabile per archi, Vēstījums (Message), Musica dolorosa and the symphony Balsis (Voices), with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and the Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, recorded in Riga in May 1992.
Steve Gorn - Bansuri
Hindustani bansuri music by Steve Gorn, with Samir Chatterjee (tabla) and Annalisa Adami (tanpura), in memory of his teacher Gour Goswami. Recorded on 24 March 1996 at Sender Freies Berlin.
Sheik Chinna Moulana - Nadhaswaram
The nadhaswaram master Sheik Chinna Moulana with S. Kasim and S. Babu (nadhaswaram) and S. Subramanian (thavil), in four Carnatic pieces including a long alap in raga Subha Pantuvarali.
Overtones in Old European Cathedrals Thoronet
Michael Vetter's improvised overtone songs with tambura, Gesänge der Nacht I and II, recorded on 12 and 13 September 1987 in the Cistercian abbey of Le Thoronet.
Zen
Michael Vetter's solo koto improvisations, recorded live without edits at Tonstudio van Geest, Heidelberg/Sandhausen, on 24 March 1985.
Silence Is the Only Music
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.
Visions
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.
The Piano Works 2 - Sonatas And Interludes For Prepared Piano
John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano played by Philipp Vandré, the first recording on a Steinway “O”-type baby grand, the piano Cage composed on, with corrections to discrepancies in the printed score.
Complete string quartets, volume 2
Two string quartets by John Cage played by the Arditti Quartet: String Quartet in Four Parts (1949-50), in a new recording, and Four (1989), a first recording written for the ensemble. Composer-supervised sessions.