EARsalon
Works by Henning Christiansen for recorder, tenor flute, piano, tuba and bassoon, played by Michala Petri, Christoffer Møller and Jakob Munk at Klanghallen 44MØEN in 2023. Edition of 100 numbered CDs.
Martine Joste, Piano Solo
The complete works for ordinary piano by microtonal pioneer Ivan Wyschnegradsky, mostly unpublished, from the late Étude sur le carré magique sonore back to preludes written in Petrograd in 1916. Played by Martine Joste, who knew him well.
Occam Ocean 1-4
The first four volumes of Éliane Radigue's Occam Ocean on five CDs: solos, chamber pieces and orchestra, all shaped through oral transmission around images of water. Bundle of four Shiiin releases.
Occam Ocean Vol. 2
Second instalment of Éliane Radigue's Occam Ocean, a long suite for the 30-piece ONCEIM orchestra conducted by Frédéric Blondy: accordion, guitars, clarinets, saxophones, strings and brass merged into one slowly breathing tone.
Occam Ocean Vol. 1
First instalment of Éliane Radigue's Occam Ocean on two CDs: five solo, duo and trio pieces for harp, viola, birbyné and bass clarinet with Rhodri Davies, Julia Eckhardt and Carol Robinson. With a 40-page booklet.
Rosebud
Five works by Matthias Krüger (born 1987), from the organ piece conTemp[s]lations to rosebud for dancer, motion sensors and live electronics made at IRCAM, played by Tobias Hagedorn, Claudia Chan, Xavier Larsson Paez and others, with dancer Victor Virnot.
Asiago
New music for cello from the Asiago plateau and its Cimbrian community, by De Marzi, Gárdonyi, Sollima, Schmitt, Dreyer, Ali-Zadeh and Silvestrov, played by Julius and Hyun-Jung Berger with guests; mostly first recordings.
Lifelines
Kirill Zvegintsov plays Heinz Holliger's Albumblätter (first complete recording) and Lifelines, Jürg Wyttenbach's Drei Klavierstücke and Beethoven's Sonata op. 109 with movements elaborated from Beethoven's sketches by Wyttenbach.
Hybrid Gaits
Four works by Swiss composer Stefan Keller, Schaukel, Breathe, Stück für Klavier and hybrid gaits (2017), played by Ensemble Ascolta conducted by Yalda Zamani, with the composer on live electronics. Mostly SWR productions, 2023.
Körper
Enno Poppe's Körper (2021) for big-band ensemble, played by Ensemble Modern under the composer, and Gold for mixed choir a cappella on texts by Arno Holz, sung by the SWR Vokalensemble under Marcus Creed.
Flores Blancas
First recordings of eight chamber and ensemble works (1992-2016) by Argentine composer Mariano Etkin, including Flores blancas and the Estudios para lágrimas, played by Ensemble Aventure, recorded in Cologne in 2019 and 2020. Co-production with Deutschlandradio.
Chattering Birds
Percussion works by Péter Eötvös, Vinko Globokar, Sara Glojnarić, Dai Fujikura, Ursula Mamlok, Toshio Hosokawa and Uroš Rojko, played by Leonie Klein solo and with Isao Nakamura as ISANIE Percussion Duo. Co-production with SWR2, mostly first recordings.
Grat - Edge
Works for and with cello by Wolfgang Rihm, 1969 to 1993, including Grat for solo cello and first recordings of duomonolog and Streichtrio op. 9, played by Friedrich Gauwerky with Alexandra Greffin-Klein, Axel Porath and Florian Uhlig, recorded in Cologne in 2021.
Prozession
First recordings of Enno Poppe's Fleisch for tenor saxophone, electric guitar, keyboard and drumset, played by Ensemble Nikel, and Prozession for large ensemble (2015-2020), played by Ensemble Musikfabrik conducted by the composer.
SAX - Contemporary Concertos for Saxophone
Four contemporary saxophone concertos by Péter Eötvös, Georg Friedrich Haas, Vykintas Baltakas and Johannes Maria Staud, all premiered by soloist Marcus Weiss, with the WDR Sinfonieorchester, Teodoro Anzellotti and Windkraft Tirol. A WDR production.
Ein Traumspiel / Denn Bleiben ist nirgends
Aribert Reimann's first opera Ein Traumspiel after Strindberg, live at Theater Hof on 17 March 2018 (Franziska Rabl, Hofer Symphoniker, Walter E. Gugerbauer), with the Rilke melodrama Denn Bleiben ist nirgends (Martin Engler, DSO Berlin, Manuel Nawri).
Hans Werner Henze Edition: Orchestra
Hans Werner Henze's orchestral works and concertos on four CDs, played by the NDR Sinfonieorchester under Peter Ruzicka, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Oliver Knussen with Anssi Karttunen, and Daniele Roccato with the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese; volume 2 of Wergo's Henze Edition.
Hans Werner Henze Edition: Sinfonia
The ten symphonies of Hans Werner Henze (1947-2000), including the choral Ninth after Anna Seghers, played by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Rundfunkchor Berlin under Marek Janowski, recorded 2008-2014; first box of Wergo's Henze centenary Edition.
Deep Siesta
Amen Feizabadi's chamber opera Deep Siesta, on a libretto by Dilek Mayatürk about two artificial beings, with Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and Zafraan Ensemble conducted by Yalda Zamani, plus AI voices and electronics. A Deutschlandfunk Kultur coproduction.
Crunch
Portrait CD of Eloain Lovis Hübner: crunch modes 1.0 and 3.0, [untitled] and Trauma und Zwischenraum 1-3, played by Schallfeld Ensemble, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna, AuditivVokal Dresden, airborne extended, the Arditti Quartet and Lange//Berweck//Lorenz.