Composition / Contemporary

Sabine Liebner plays Mauricio Kagel's Metapiece (Mimetics) of 1961 interleaved with his Cuatro piezas para piano, An Tasten and MM 51, then Metapiece solo. Recorded in 2017 at the Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, with first recordings.

Seven chamber works (1984-2013) by Graciela Paraskevaídis (1940-2017), the Argentine composer who worked in Uruguay, four in first recordings, played by Ensemble Aventure. Coproduced with Deutschlandradio.

Eight works for cello and piano by South African composer Michael Blake (1951), from Song Without Words (1972) to the Sonata (Hours with the Masters) of 2016, in first recordings by Friedrich Gauwerky and Daan Vandewalle. Coproduced with Deutschlandradio.

Juliane Banse sings Reimann's Drei Gedichte der Sappho, Henze's Nachtstücke und Arien (Bachmann) and Rihm's Aria/Ariadne (Nietzsche) with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern under Christoph Poppen. SR/SWR production, 2017.

Trio Accanto (Marcus Weiss, Nicolas Hodges, Christian Dierstein) plays four works written for them in 2014-15 by Georges Aperghis, Rolf Riehm, Johannes Schöllhorn and Stefan Prins. First recordings, SWR productions.

Rolf Riehm's violin concerto Shifting (Guy Braunstein, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Dennis Russell Davies) and Archipel Remix for orchestra and electronics (Peter Rundel), WDR productions issued as first recordings in 2016.

Walter Zimmermann's piano works of 2001-2006, including the 38-minute Voces abandonadas after Antonio Porchia's aphorisms, played by Nicolas Hodges. A production of Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, released by Wergo in 2016.

Chaya Czernowin's HIDDEN for string quartet and electronics (JACK Quartet, IRCAM) and Adiantum Capillus-Veneris for voice and breath (Inbal Hever), first recordings made in Cologne on 11-13 April 2016 at Deutschlandfunk's Forum neuer Musik.

Six duos (2000-2016) by Tokyo-born composer Keiko Harada for pairs such as trombone and accordion or flute and koto, with Stefan Hussong, Carin Levine, Naoko Kikuchi, Yumiko Meguri, Jürgen Ruck and Mike Svoboda. First recordings, co-produced with Radio Bremen.

Paul Hindemith's works with saxophone, including the Trio op. 47 and the Konzertstück, plus pieces arranged by Christoph Enzel, played by the clair-obscur saxophone quartet with Barbara Buntrock, Robert Kolinsky and Florian von Radowitz. Recorded in Berlin in 2016.

Dieter Schnebel's MOVIMENTO for musicians in motion (2015), performed by the AG Neue Musik of the Leininger-Gymnasium Grünstadt under Silke Egeler-Wittmann (SWR, 2016), with Gesums - Geknarrt from Schulmusik recorded in 1985 under Manfred Peters.

Wilhelm Killmayer's songs for tenor and piano on poems by Eichendorff, Hölderlin and Trakl, sung by Markus Schäfer with Siegfried Mauser. Co-production with BR Klassik, recorded in Munich in 2016, released in 2017.

Seven works (1994-2016) by the Bucharest-born composer Tom Sora, in first recordings by Sarah Maria Sun, TrioCoriolis, the Steuber-Öllinger guitar duo, Andreas Skouras, Thomas Hastreiter and Sora himself. Co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2017.

Pēteris Vasks's Flute Concerto (2007/08, rev. 2011) with soloist Dita Krenberga and his Third Symphony (2004/05), played by the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra under Atvars Lakstīgala. Recorded in Liepāja in February and May 2016.

Helmut Zapf's four string quartets (1984-2013), including Verschwommene Ränder after Hendrik Jackson, played by the Sonar Quartett in first recordings. Co-production with Deutschlandradio, released by Wergo in 2017.

Six works (2008-2015) by Shanghai-born composer Ying Wang for solo instruments, ensemble and electronics, with Nikola Lutz, Teodoro Anzellotti, Nina Janßen-Deinzer, Isao Nakamura, Ensemble Phoenix Basel and MAM. Deutschlandfunk Forum neue Musik 2015 production.

Four string works by Wolfgang Rihm: the quartets of 1966 and 1968, Geste zu Vedova (2015) and Epilog for string quintet (2012/13). Minguet Quartett with cellist Jens Peter Maintz, recorded in Cologne in 2015/16, co-produced with Deutschlandradio.

Mauricio Kagel's organ works, from Improvisation ajoutée (1962) to Rrrrrrr... (1980/81), plus Dominik Susteck's own K-A-G-E-L improvisations. Recorded by Susteck at the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, 7-9 April 2014, for Deutschlandfunk.

Six works (2005-2012) by Anthony Cheung in first recordings: Talea Ensemble under James Baker, Cheung on piano, and Dystemporal live by the Ensemble Intercontemporain under Susanna Mälkki (Paris, October 2012). Wergo, 2016.

Stockhausen's complete Klavierstücke I-XI (1952-61) played by Sabine Liebner, with Klavierstück XI in two versions. Two CDs, a co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk, released by Wergo in 2018.

Four orchestral works by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, including the first version of the Sinfonie in einem Satz and Giostra Genovese in first recordings. WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Peter Hirsch, recorded at the Kölner Philharmonie in 2013 and 2015.

Three works by Hans Zender: Dialog mit Haydn (Kretzschmar, Wiget, Bundesjugendorchester, Zender), Issei no kyō (Claron McFadden, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Johannes Kalitzke) and Nanzen no kyō with the WDR Rundfunkchor. MDR/WDR productions, 2017.

Aribert Reimann's Spiralat halom (2002), the Celan cycle Eingedunkelt in its first recording for countertenor (Tim Severloh), and the orchestral Neun Stücke (1993); NDR Sinfonieorchester under Christoph Eschenbach.

Hans Zender's four Canciones on St John of the Cross (2008-14), with Angelika Luz, Ernst Kovacic, Klangforum Wien, the Bavarian Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Vokalensemble and SWR Sinfonieorchester; four conductors.

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.

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 2015.

Choral works by Heinz Holliger: Shir Shavur on David Rokeah, Psalm, hölle himmel and Rosa Loui on Kurt Marti, and Utopie Chorklang; SWR Vokalensemble under Marcus Creed and Holliger, recorded 2006-2015, mostly first recordings.

Martin Smolka's choral works Poema de balcones (Lorca), Walden, the Distiller of Celestial Dews (Thoreau, with percussion) and Słone i smutne (Różewicz), sung by the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart under Marcus Creed.

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.

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.

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.

Piano music by Henry Cowell and John Cage (1912-1948), including The Banshee, Aeolian Harp, The Perilous Night and Dream, played by Sabine Liebner; recorded at Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, December 2014.

Morton Feldman's 1976 trilogy Orchestra, Elemental Procedures (soprano, choir, orchestra; Beckett text) and Routine Investigations, with Claudia Barainsky, WDR Rundfunkchor and WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln under Peter Rundel; recorded 2010 and 2013.

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.

Pēteris Vasks's Sala (2006), Musica appassionata for strings (2002) and Credo (2009), played by the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra under Atvars Lakstīgala; recorded at the Liepāja Latvian Society House in 2014.

Mark Andre's orchestral triptych …auf… (2005-07), the third part with live electronics, played by the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg under Sylvain Cambreling with the Experimentalstudio des SWR.

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).

Six works by John Cage for solo percussion, among them Variations I, Child of Tree, Inlets and 27'10.554", performed by Matthias Kaul on some ninety instruments and objects; recorded at Deutschlandfunk, Cologne, April 2014.

Five orchestral works by Chaya Czernowin (2010-13), including The Crescendo Trilogy, with the BR Symphony Orchestra, Berner Symphonieorchester, SWR Sinfonieorchester, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and others, recorded live 2011-2013.

Thierry Pécou's orchestral works Orquoy, Changó for three flutes and orchestra, and Marcha de la Humanidad, first recordings by the Orchestre National de France under Jonathan Stockhammer, Paris, November 2013.