The Ensemble Recherche\'s Homage to Henze

These recordings of Hans Werner Henze\'s works collect a mixed bouquet of occasional pieces, dedicated to close friends and colleagues. 

Visible Traces

On this CD within the edition musikFabrik, visible things have left audible traces in a number of ways.

Arnulf Herrmann

Ensemble Modern draws the imaginative prowess and poetic richness in Arnulf Herrmann's ensemble pieces on this Super Audio CD.

Isang Yun and the cosmic stream

The accordionist Stefan Hussong, the Minguet Quartett and the cellist Julius Berger present chamber music works by Isang Yun. 

Speech Songs

The first CD of WERGO\'s new "edition musikFabrik" presents "Speech Songs": Voices try out their instrumental possibilities, and instruments savor their vocal potential.

The pianist\'s political position

Kai Schumacher interpretes Frederic Rzewski\'s variations on Sergio Ortega\'s Chilean protest song: "The People United Will Never Be Defeated". 

Martin Schüttler

On Schüttler\'s portrait CD "Furs & Remainders" interpreters like musikFabrik and James Wood, Daniel Gloger and Suono Mobile can be heard.

Highlights from Earle Brown\'s famous "Contemporary Sound Series"

The second set of three CDs contains works by Luigi Nono, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, David Bedford, Richard Orton, Morton Feldman and Earle Brown.

Karlheinz Stockhausen - ensemble recherche

Four works from the 1950s each exemplify a phase in Stockhausen\'s early development and at the same time a series of essential cornerstones of the avant-garde. 

Hannes Seidl

Hannes Seidl’s “Music for Above the Mantelpiece” is firmly rooted in the “mundane” here and now, a living, reality-based form of art.

Hans Werner Henze\'s Ninth Symphony

Choral symphony on Anna Segher\'s novel "The Seventh Cross" with the Rundfunkchor Berlin and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under the direction of Marek Janowski - a forceful monument to the victims of the Second World War. 

Earle Brown\'s Famous "Contemporary Sound Series" Digitized on WERGO

The extraordinary world of contemporary and avant-garde music that Earle Brown published on 18 LPs in the 1960s and 1970s is going to be digitized and newly presented on WERGO. The series started with the first set of three CDs in July 2009.