Invisible Cities
Michael McNabb's Invisible Cities, made at CCRMA, Stanford, and first conceived in 1985 for dance theatre after Italo Calvino: six pieces for computer, synthesizer, piano (Artis Wodehouse) and soprano saxophone (McNabb).
Crystal World
Michael Obst's quadraphonic electronic trilogy Crystal World (1983-86) with its Intermède, made in Cologne, at EMS Stockholm and at IRCAM; produced by Obst in the audiorent studio, Recklinghausen.
Metal Drops
Three electronic works by Michael Obst, Inside (Infinite Chambers), Metal Drop Music and Ye-Na-Je, realised in 1983 at the Studio for Electronic Music of the Cologne Musikhochschule and, for Ye-Na-Je, with IPEM Ghent.
Terrains Vagues
Portrait of Portuguese composer Luís Antunes Pena: works for double bass and drummers, organ, cello, thirty cymbals and electronics (2000-2012), with Edicson Ruiz, Drumming Grupo de Percussão, Dominik Susteck and Francesco Dillon. Released 2013.
Walking, North, North
Four works by Japanese composer Makiko Nishikaze, three solos and a duo built on sound, resonance and silence, played by the ensemble L'Art pour L'Art after many years of collaboration. Released 2009.
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…
Pianopera I & II
2004 release **
"Another joint production by Edition Wandelweiser and Radio Bremen testifies to the originality of the Japanese composer Makiko Nishikaze. Her idiosyncratic diptych pianopera l & II (2002), with its unpredictably alternating sound str…
20 Jahre Inventionen V - live electronic
The live electronics that Nono worked with for the first time in the early 1980?s at the Freiburg Experimental Studio also serves the musical displacement: the music moves away from clear spatial and timbral assignations. Due to electronic processing…
The Complete Sequenzas, Alternate Sequenzas
The first complete recording of Luciano Berio's Sequenzas for solo instruments, with the alternate versions and nine further solo works, on four CDs with verses by Edoardo Sanguineti and a 104-page book.
Works 1939 - 2000
Overview of Lou Harrison's work from 1939 to 2000, with first recordings including the original septet version of Marriage at the Eiffel Tower, Mass to St. Anthony, Easter Cantata, arias from Young Caesar and Music for Remy.
Einfalt. stille.
Austrian composer in a work for flute, viola, percussion, and voice aboout the inner state and flow we perceive when listening and concentrating on a piece of music.
Sei-jaku für Streichquartett
Documentation '20 Years Inventionen', CD III. The string quartet 'sei-jaku' by German composer Klaus Lang, documented on this CD, was performed on 6/30/2002 in the Großer Sendesaal of the SFB Berlin by the Arditti String Quartet during the festival I…
Trauermusiken
Two compositions by the young Austrian composer/organist Klaus Lang who currently lives in Berlin/Germany. Der Wind und das Meer for viola (Barbara Konrad, viola) The Sea of Despair for String Quartet (Amras Streichquartett)
Freeman Etudes, Books One and Two
John Cage's Freeman Etudes, Books 1 and 2 (the first sixteen etudes for solo violin), played by Irvine Arditti at blistering speed under the composer's supervision.
The Piano Works 7 - Chess Serenade
First recording of John Cage's Chess Pieces (1944), rediscovered in a painting and transcribed by Margaret Leng Tan, with her recording of Sonatas and Interludes and the first recording of Vittorio Rieti's Chess Serenade.
Sonatas and Interludes
This landmark recording of John Cage’s prepared piano works performed by Mario Bertoncini was recorded back in December 1991. The sonatas are divided into four groups, each divided by the less overtly structured, rhapsodic interlude pieces. Bertoncin…
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.
Freeman Etudes, Books Three And Four
First recording of the second half of John Cage's Freeman Etudes for violin, Books Three and Four, played by Irvine Arditti, the second release in his traversal of Cage's complete violin works for Mode. Released 1989.
Atlas Eclipticalis With Winter Music
Two live 1983 performances of John Cage conducting Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music at Seattle's Cornish Institute, first issued on LP in 1986, with a bonus disc of the 86-part Atlas Eclipticalis and Winter Music for 20 pianos.