Info text: Asking about God and death Jan Brachmann on the Requiem verses by Wolfgang Rihm The parable is all our talk about God, death and music. Our language transfers something from the world of the known and visible into a world of the unknown and invisible. For the legitimacy of these transfers - metaphors - there is [...]

Program: Homage to Horațiu Rădulescu (1942–2008) Complete Works for Piano SACD 1 total playing time: 63:39 Kalotrope of the Eternal [01] Omaggio a Domenico Scarlatti Op. 2 (1967) 06:42 Sixth Piano Sonata“return to the source of light” Op. 110 (2007) 25:34 [02] I. Use your own light. Allegro 19:48 [03] II. Calotrope of the Eternal. Cantabile 05:46 Piano Sonata “settle your dust, this is the […]

Info text: FLUTE NEWS Flute duos in the 20th century Paul Hindemith, a formative innovator between the world wars, left behind important repertoire pieces for the flute, including the Canonical Sonatina for two flutes from 1924, whose dense and bitter counterpoint is characteristic of his early creative period, comparable to the pantomime of his opera Cardillac, in which two solo flutes accompany a murder scene. The dedicatee of the Canonical Sonatina is the Danish […]

Info text: CLEMENS VON REUSNER · ELECTROACOUSTIC WORKS Clemens von Reusner creates acousmatic worlds in which natural and synthetic objects exist side by side and with one another, in sound shapes and movements. He works with sounds that he dissects, puts together, places in spaces from which they escape or in which they grow, and allows the ear to see. The […]

Info text: DOMENICO SCARLATTI AND THE MODERN PERIOD OF THE HARBORIO Domenico Scarlatti can certainly be viewed as a unique case in music history in one respect: the division of his entire oeuvre into a first period of vocal compositions, operas and oratorios (all written in Italy) and a second period of works for harpsichord, composed from around 1738, the year [...]

Info text: THREADS AND HANGING GARDENS As is well known, both “Hedera helix” and “Campsis tagliabuana”, “Hydrangea petiolaris” and “Euonymus fortunei” belong to the genus of climbing and climbing plants. Plants that do not form any supporting structures and that - this is what connects them to each other - can grow along a wide variety of axes, twisting and pulling threads. […]

Info text: STRUCTURES MADE OF LIGHT AND SPRUCE When I tackle certain topics such as the construction of a string instrument or the noise in front of a subway stop, my goal is to reinforce the poetry that is inhibited in these actions and in these places. To my ears, every sound that occurs in our everyday reality has a potential musicality, and […]

Info text: THE HORIZON OF POSSIBILITY CLOUDS 2 Peter Ruzicka composed CLOUDS on behalf of the Hessischer Rundfunk for the Rheingau Festival 2012. After the premiere, he revised the score and created an expanded version as CLOUDS 2. With the newly composed second movement, the string quartet, which, compared to the orchestra, adds a second level to the sound architecture of the work, a […]

Program: CD 1 total playing time: 56:39 Niklas Seidl (*1983) [01] knolle “Like in old times: Here you can still pay in DM!” (2009) 09:37 Work commissioned by Deutschlandfunk World Premiere: April 10, 2010 · Deutschlandfunk Chamber Music Hall Forum of New Music “Amsterdam – Berlin – Warsaw: Young Positions” Yuri Khvostov, oboe Marion Klotz, English horn Till Künkler, trombone Jenny Chai, [… ]

Info text: ANDREAS PFLÜGER – WORKS FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO Five pieces for two violins and piano (2012 / 2013) The work, a composition commission from the “musica viva Basel” concert series, was premiered in 2013 on the occasion of a portrait concert at which only chamber music works by Andreas Pflueger were performed . There are five short sentences: In all of them, small sound and / [...]

Info text: MUSIC FOR OBOE This CD looks back on more than 25 years. In 1985/86 I composed my first oboe solo piece, Monade. (This work is not represented on this CD.) This began a friendship with the Australian oboist Peter Veale that continues to this day. In 1987 we began to systematically investigate the playing technique of the oboe. We literally wanted everything […]

Info text: MORITZ EGGERT: MUZAK - NUMBER NINE VII: MASSE Muzak "Muzak" is a phonetically modified version of the English word "music" and since the 1970s has generally referred to the "background music" commonly used in elevators, department stores, hotels and some work environments ', often referred to as 'department store music' or 'elevator music'. (Source: Wikipedia) For me as a composer it was always a strange […]