*2024 stock* bastille musique presents its twenty-fifth release »Saunders, Boucourechliev, Clarke, Riehm: Archipels« featuring world premiere recordings by Nicolas Hodges (piano). The album combines new works for piano by Rebecca Saunders, James Clarke and Rolf Riehm with three different interpretations of André Boucourechliev’s open form composition Archipel 5d from 1970. In addition to the recordings produced by the SWR, it also contains a 48-page bilingual booklet (EN, DE) with articles by Nicolas Hodges, Carl Rosman and an interview with the pianist, music sheets of all works and the autograph of Boucourechliev’s, as well as pictures of the composers and a concertina-fold photo insert documenting recording sessions in the studio.