Lab.Oratorium
First recording of Philippe Manoury's Lab.Oratorium (2019) for actors, soprano, mezzo-soprano, choirs, live electronics and orchestra, on the deaths of refugees in the Mediterranean, with the Gürzenich Orchestra conducted by François-Xavier Roth, dir…
Rundfunk
First recording of Enno Poppe's Rundfunk for nine synthesizers (2015-2018), played by Ensemble Mosaik with audio software by Wolfgang Heiniger, recorded in 2019 at the Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin. Co-production with Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Leonardo-Zyklus
Andreas H. H. Suberg's Leonardo-Zyklus, ten music scenarios after Leonardo da Vinci's prophecies, for countertenor (Daniel Gloger), trumpet and alphorn (Paul Hübner), percussion (Olaf Tzschoppe) and electronics (Suberg). Recorded September 2017.
Hij
Mark Andre's hij 1 for orchestra (WDR Sinfonieorchester, Mariano Chiacchiarini, 2015) and hij 2 for 24 voices and live electronics (SWR Vokalensemble, Marcus Creed, SWR Experimentalstudio, live 2013). First recordings.
Big Data
Decoder Ensemble plays first recordings of works on remix, sampling and copy-paste by Brigitta Muntendorf, Ole Hübner, Stefan Prins, Matthias Kranebitter and Leopold Hurt, most commissioned for its 2017 Big Data Weekend. Coproduced with Deutschlandfu…
Die schrecklich-gewaltigen Kinder / O Daddy
Rolf Riehm's Die schrecklich-gewaltigen Kinder (Piia Komsi, Ensemble Modern, Hermann Bäumer, Frankfurt 2003) and O Daddy for orchestra and recorded sounds (SWF-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden, Kazimierz Kord, Donaueschingen 1984), both live premiere re…
Amplified Imagination
Five works (2013-2015) by Sarah Nemtsov for amplified instruments, effect pedals, loop station, kaoss pad and Electribe SX, played by Ensemble Adapter, Sonar Quartett, members of ensemble mosaik and the composer. First recordings, coproduced with Deu…
Canons
Brice Pauset's complete cycle of 24 canons for piano (1989-2010) and Perspectivæ Sintagma I for piano and live electronics (1997), first recordings by Nicolas Hodges with IRCAM electronics. Produced by WDR Köln in 2016.
Funambules
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.
Shifting / Archipel Remix
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.
Hidden
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.
Dystemporal
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.
Les Paysages Fleurissants
Seven electroacoustic works by Georg Katzer (1976-2010), from Bevor Ariadne kommt and Preußisch Blau to Mein 1989 and Steinelied 2, released with the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, for his 80th birthday.
…Auf…
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.
Unerwartet
Edition Musikfabrik vol. 7: David Lang's Are You Experienced?, Philippe Boesmans' Sextuor à clavier, Richard Barrett's interference and Luca Francesconi's Unexpected End of Formula, recorded live in Cologne 2003-2008 by Ensemble Musikfabrik.
Sichtbare Spuren
Edition Musikfabrik vol. 2: Rebecca Saunders's a visible trace, Mauro Lanza's Vesperbild, Nicolaus A. Huber's Music on Canvas and Bernd Alois Zimmermann's film music Metamorphose, played by Ensemble Musikfabrik under Rundel, Siebens and Masson.
Craquelé
Four works by Franz Martin Olbrisch: Grain (2005) and craquelé (2010) for orchestra, played by the hr-Sinfonieorchester under Sian Edwards and Roland Kluttig, plus two pieces with live electronics. Productions of Hessischer Rundfunk.
Aus dem Leopardi-Zyklus
Three works from Klaus Ospald's Leopardi cycle: Così, dell'uomo ignara ..., Sovente in queste rive ... and Sopra un basso rilievo antico sepolcrale ..., with Collegium Novum Zürich, the WDR Sinfonieorchester and WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Schlagquartett …
Da Lontano
Trombonist and tubist Mike Svoboda plays Scelsi's Mantram, Cage's Solo for Sliding Trombone in a version for eight trombones, Stockhausen's Signale zur Invasion and Nono's Post-prae-ludium per Donau with Holger Stenschke on live electronics.