Oracula Sibyllae
Five works by Balz Trümpy (2005-2013), including Oracula Sibyllae for soprano, baritone, flute and percussion on Sibylline oracles and Virgil, played by the El Cimarrón Ensemble; all first recordings.
Being Beauteous / Kammermusik 1958
Hans Werner Henze's cantata Being Beauteous (Rimbaud) with Anna Prohaska, and Kammermusik 1958 (Hölderlin) with Peter Gijsbertsen and Jürgen Ruck, first recording of the string orchestra version; NDR Sinfonieorchester, Peter Ruzicka, Hamburg 2013 and…
Visionen
Five works by Dimitri Terzakis (1988-2009): Legetos, the Sappho-Zyklus, À une Madone, Visionen and Sonate infernale, with Brigitte Fassbaender, Tatjana Masurenko, the Thomanerchor Leipzig, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester and others.
Streichquartette 1, 3 & 4
Pēteris Vasks's String Quartets No. 4 (1999), No. 1 (1977/97) and No. 3 (1995), played by the Spīķeru String Quartet; recorded at the GORS concert hall, Rēzekne, in 2014.
Dédalus / Invención / Núcleos / Concreción
Four works by Juan Carlos Paz (1950-64), Dédalus, Invención, Núcleos and Concreción, played by Ensemble Aventure with pianist Akiko Okabe, conducted by Alexander Ott; Invención and Concreción are first recordings.
Diary; Tagebuch
Violeta Dinescu's works for flute (1983-2015), the cycles Aus dem Tagebuch and Blicke with chamber pieces for flute and horn quartet, piano, harp and violin; Carin Levine with the Dauprat-Hornquartett, Stephan Rahn and others.
Equal Ways of Difference
Chamber music by Charlotte Seither (1994-2011), the piano trios Champlève and Equal Ways of Difference with duo and solo works, played by the elole piano trio (Uta-Maria Lempert, Matthias Lorenz, Stefan Eder).
TRACES
Chamber music by Detlev Müller-Siemens (2002-2009): String Trio, distant traces, ...called dusk and the piano quartet lost traces, two of them in memory of György Ligeti, played by the Mondrian Ensemble Basel; a co-production with Radio SRF 2 Kultur.
Schattenspiele
Edition Musikfabrik vol. 4: works for soloist and ensemble by Michael Jarrell, Stefano Gervasoni, Joël-François Durand and Brian Ferneyhough, with Hae-Sun Kang, Michael Tiepold, Helen Bledsoe and Omar Ebrahim; conductors Masson, Siebens, Wood.
Monolithen
Debussy's En blanc et noir, Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Monologe and Stravinsky's four-hand version of Le Sacre du printemps, played by the klavierduo huber|thomet (Susanne Huber, André Thomet).
Wolke und Mond
Bach's three gamba sonatas BWV 1027-1029, played on cello and accordion, alternating with Adriana Hölszky's Wolke und Mond, Miserere and Nouns to Nouns II, by Julius Berger and Stefan Hussong. Recorded 2001 and 2003.
Kontrapunkte
Six works by Jörg-Peter Mittmann (1997-2009) built on Bach, Monteverdi, Beethoven and Mahler, played by Ensemble Horizonte with Katrin Bähre, Nicole Pieper and Mareike Neumann. A coproduction with Deutschlandradio.
Liebeslieder
Twenty-nine love songs commissioned by ensemble recherche for its 25th anniversary in 2010, by Abrahamsen, Czernowin, Haas, Huber, Poppe, Widmann, Zender and others, plus Sciarrino's Mozart arrangement. A WDR production.
Angels
Ten works for trumpet by Liza Lim, Rebecca Saunders, Georg Friedrich Haas, Carl Ruggles, Agata Zubel, Martin Smolka and others, mostly first recordings, played by Marco Blaauw on trumpet, double-bell trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn, with brass ensembl…
Serenade op. 24
Arnold Schoenberg's Serenade op. 24 for seven instruments and low male voice, conducted by Pierre Boulez with bass Louis-Jacques Rondeleux, recorded in Paris in 1961 and reissued in Wergo's studio reihe series.
Játékok - Games
György Kurtág's complete works for piano duet and two pianos from Játékok (Games) volumes I, III, IV and VIII, plus the 1956 Suite and transcriptions from Machaut to Bach, played by the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo, co-produced with Bayerischer Rundfun…
In Croce
Four works by Sofia Gubaidulina for double bass: Sonata and Pantomime with piano, In Croce with bayan and the Preludes for solo bass, played by Daniele Roccato with Fabrizio Ottaviucci (piano) and Massimiliano Pitocco (bayan).
11. Streichquartett / Interscriptum / Grave
Wolfgang Rihm's 11th String Quartet (1998/2010), Interscriptum for string quartet and piano and Grave in memoriam Thomas Kakuska, played by the Minguet Quartett with pianist Markus Bellheim, a co-production with Deutschlandradio.
Kammermusik
Six chamber works (2005-2008) by Benjamin Schweitzer, including Abgesang from the chamber opera Dafne and Anfänge/Netze after Calvino, played by the Dresden ensemble courage under Titus Engel, recorded in Berlin in December 2011.
Initiale
Complete songs and early chamber music by Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1939-1950), with soprano Anna Prohaska, pianist Cordelia Höfer, violinists Alessandro Cappone and Rachel Schmidt and the Trio Berlin, recorded 2009-2010 in Berlin.