Composition / Acoustic

A beautifully recorded and produced cycle of pieces that combine complexity and precision with rich and unfamiliar timbres. The ensemble pieces amplify and enrich a core piano with various combinations of harmonium, double bass, violin, percussion, Hungarian zither, citara bassa, bowed cymbals, alto clarinet, melodica, sampler and field recordings, all sparsely but powerfully deployed. This is a deep and powerful music with both crystalline clarity and cinematic low frequency power. And no fat o…

Since the late 1970s Biota has ploughed its own furrow, producing a body of work that resembles nothing anyone else has done or is yet doing. Their compositions evolve in long, constantly shifting timbral blocks filled with fragments and echoes of quasi-familiar musical languages and sounds – or none - and use instrumental resources that span half a millennium and two thirds of the planet to create unique combinations of timbral colour in constant motion; this is a music in which everything is i…

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.

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.

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.

Hungarian guitarist Zsófia Boros plays solo classical guitar and ronroco in pieces by Mathias Duplessy and the Argentinians Joaquín Alem, Quique Sinesi, Alberto Ginastera and Carlos Moscardini. Recorded March-April 2022 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano.

Songs and the Arpeggione Sonata by Franz Schubert, with three Nocturnes by Friedrich Burgmüller, played by cellist Anja Lechner and guitarist Pablo Márquez; recorded November 2016 in the Spiegelsaal, Residenz Eichstätt, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Lute songs old and new: John Potter and Anna Maria Friman (voices) with lutenists Ariel Abramovich and Jacob Heringman sing new songs by John Paul Jones, Tony Banks and Sting beside Campion, Warlock, Moeran and Picforth. Recorded November 2014, Rainbow Studio, Oslo.

Soprano Monika Mauch and lutenist Nigel North in 24 songs and lute solos from Robert Dowland's 1610 anthology A Musicall Banquet, with music by John Dowland, Caccini, Guédron and others. Recorded May 2005 at Propstei St. Gerold.