Coronation

The music on this CD with the ensemble musikFabrik produces blossoms like crowns: Xenakis, Saunders, Lindberg, Baltakas.

Saed Haddad

Haddad's music is a balance of physical and metaphysical traits: beauty, energy, virtuosity, the intellectual and the transcendental.

Aribert Reimann: Melusine

The mermaid Melusine is perhaps the most poetic of Aribert Reimann's female figures within his operas. Marlene Mild sings the title role in this premiere recording. 

The Sealed Angel

Rodion Shchedrin's Russian Liturgy "The Sealed Angel" is a work of inner contemplation of timeless relevance, which will deeply move every listener.

Earle Brown's Contemporary Sound Series

One disc of this set of three CDs is dedicated to the great vocal artist Cathy Berberian. The other two focus on Mayuzumi's "Nirvana Symphony" and on new piano music. 

Shadow Games

The compositions of this CD within the edition musikFabrik make remarkable use of light and shadow effects.

Peteris Vasks's "Seasons"

Premiere of the complete piano cycle “The Seasons” played together with “Music for a Summer Evening” by the extraordinary Latvian pianist, Vestard Shimkus.

Achim Bornhöft

The composer Bornhöft names his pieces "Concent", "Sepia", "Aceton", "Naturell" or "Infrarot" - a philosophy of his life.

Cage for Violoncello and Piano

Friedrich Gauwerky and Mark Knoop demonstrate the creativity of the unpredictable in "Etudes Boreales", four "Harmonies" and the time-length piece 10'40.3''.

From Heaven to Hell

The ensemble musikFabrik under the direction of Peter Rundel and Reinbert de Leeuw (and assisted by soprano Cristina Zavalloni) plays works by Smolka, Kagel and Andriessen.

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.