Composition / Solo Instrument

Roger Reynolds's complete works for cello, on 2CD and composer supervised, with many first recordings, played by Alexis Descharmes with Ensemble Court-circuit, violin, electronics and piano, and readings by the composer.

Four-CD survey of American piano music from 1911 to 1991: 62 works by 48 composers, from Ives and Antheil to Zappa, including seven first recordings, played by Yvar Mikhashoff.

Margaret Leng Tan's follow-up to The Art of the Toy Piano: Cage's Suite for Toy Piano and Dream, a George Crumb song and other pieces, played on six toy pianos plus toy instruments, grand piano, music boxes and percussion.

Complete piano works by Roger Reynolds on two CDs, from Epigram and Evolution (1960) to The Angel of Death (1998-2001), played by Yuji Takahashi, Eric Huebner and Marilyn Nonken, with new recordings and remastered analog reissues.

Pianist Heather O'Donnell places short works by Charles Ives, including the first recording of London Bridge Is Fallen Down!, alongside first-recorded piano responses by Zimmermann, Finnissy, Tenney, Corbett and Schneller.

First recordings of four Piano Sonatas by Chris Newman (Nos. 1, 4, 6 and 10, composed 1982-2004), played by Michael Finnissy, a collaborator of the composer for over twenty-five years, in composer-supervised recordings.

All of John Cage's short works for prepared piano on two CDs, everything except Sonatas and Interludes, played by Philipp Vandré.

Two CDs of virtuoso piano fantasies and transcriptions on operas by Puccini, Bellini, Verdi, Debussy, Berg, Bussotti and Volans, played by their arranger Yvar Mikhashoff.

Marilyn Nonken plays Morton Feldman's Triadic Memories, a single-movement solo piano work of almost 90 minutes, recorded in 2003 and available on two CDs and on DVD-Audio.

Giacinto Scelsi's music for high winds, solo and duo pieces for clarinet, flute, piccolo and oboe written between 1953 and 1970, played by Carol Robinson, Clara Novakova and Cathy Milliken. Volume 3 of Mode's Scelsi Edition.

Cellist Michael Bach plays J.S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 3 on the curved bow, with two works by Dieter Schnebel, Mit Diesen Händen with mezzo-soprano Mechthild Seitz and Fünf Inventionen, first in the Art of the Curved Bow series.

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.

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.

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.

Debut recital by Argentinean pianist Haydée Schvartz with piano works by Pärt, Berio, Scelsi, Kagel, Cage, Gandini and Valverde, including first recordings of Berio's Brin and Leaf and Cage's Perpetual Tango.

Margaret Leng Tan's second recording, on piano: Cage's Primitive and In the Name of the Holocaust (first recordings), Hovhaness, Crumb, Satoh's Cosmic Womb for two pianos with digital delay, and Ge Gan-ru's Gu Yue. Released in 1988.

Why is there a harmonium (reed organ) at Ftarri? It all goes back to the Ftarri Festival held in Tokyo in November 2019. A quartet made up of Klaus Lang (harmonium), Johnny Chang (violin), Samuel Dunscombe (bass clarinet) and Michiko Ogawa (clarinet)…

Claude Debussy's two books of Preludes played by Argentine pianist Haydée Schvartz, on 2CD with bonus tracks including a song with baritone Bryan Church. Awarded the 2021 Premio Gardel for Best Classical Album.

Fritz Hauser scrapes a single small gong for almost an hour, from the edge of silence to a dense, shifting cloud of overtones. Solo version of Schraffur, recorded in Piedmont in 2011 and mixed by Hauser himself.

John Tilbury plays sonatas 1 to 12 of Dave Smith's First Piano Concert (1985-86), short pieces each based on a different genre, recorded in London in April 1988.

Volume 5 of Togni's complete piano music: his earliest works of 1935-38, including Pezzo per pianoforte Op. 4, Fugato e allegro Op. 7 and Fantasia Op. 8, plus cadenzas for Mozart's K. 491 and K. 503, played by Aldo Orvieto, recorded in Venice in Janu…

Togni's works for flute and piccolo, 1953-1982, including the Sonata Op. 35, Five Pieces, Three Duets and Fantasia concertante, with Roberto Fabbriciani, Dorothy Dorow, Vincenzo Saldarelli, Massimiliano Damerini and I Cameristi Lombardi, recorded 198…

Volume 4 of Togni's complete piano music, works of 1940-44: Suite Op. 14a, Serenatas Nos. 2, 4 and 5, Quattro Pezzi Op. 22 and Valzer (ad usum Lyae), played by Aldo Orvieto, recorded in Venice and Sacile in 2016-2017.

Volume 3 of Togni's complete piano music: Serenatas Nos. 3, 6 and 7, Sonatina Op. 26, Omaggio a Bach for two pianos, a four-hand Berg transcription and Tre fantasie scherzose, played by Aldo Orvieto with Fausto Bongelli, recorded 2014-2015.

Volume 2 of Togni's complete piano music: Capriccios Nos. 4-6, Sei Preludi Op. 21, the Bach transcriptions of the Prima Partita Corale Op. 29 and Serenata No. 1 Op. 10, played by Aldo Orvieto, recorded in Venice in March 2013.

Late piano works by Frederic Rzewski: Ruins and Wake Up from Dreams (2014), War Songs (2008), Winter Nights (2015) and Saints and Sinners (2016), in first recordings by Bobby Mitchell, made in Brussels in February 2022.

Frederic Rzewski's Fantasia (1989-99), Second Hand, or Alone at Last (2005) for left hand and De Profundis (1992) for speaking pianist on Oscar Wilde's text, played by Robert Satterlee, recorded at Pomona College in May 2007.

John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (1946-48), the complete cycle of sixteen sonatas and four interludes, played by Boris Berman, recorded in Newmarket, Canada, in July 1998.

The surviving solo piano music of Nikolay Roslavets, 1914 to 1923, Sonatas Nos. 1, 2 and 5, études, preludes, poems and first recordings of several pieces, played by Olga Andryushchenko, recorded in Moscow in 2016.

Frank Reinecke, solo double bass, plays Mark Andre's iv 18 (recorded 2023), Nikolaus Brass's Flucht (2012) and Stockhausen's In Freundschaft (live, 2020), recorded in Munich for the musica viva series of Bavarian Radio.

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 Col…

First volume of Mode's Scelsi Edition and of the traversal of his piano works: Giacinto Scelsi's Sonatas No. 2 and No. 4 and the nine-movement suite Ttai, played by Louise Bessette.

Alberto Posadas's six-part piano cycle Erinnerungsspuren (2014-2018), echoes of Couperin, Debussy, Schumann, Scelsi, Stockhausen and B. A. Zimmermann, in first recordings by pianist Florian Hoelscher.

Percussionist Leonie Klein's debut: solo works by Stockhausen (Zyklus), Xenakis (Psappha), Lachenmann (Intérieur I), Nicolaus A. Huber (Póthos), Peter Eötvös (Thunder) and Johannes Julius Fischer (Gathering, first recording). Recorded May 2018 with S…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.