Info text: Music must be noble “Music must be noble” – Toshio Hosokawa once chose this statement in a personal conversation in order to differentiate himself from the aesthetics of other composers. This sentence seems to me to be an apt description of Hosokawa's music, as it draws its own noblesse from a very noble source: 'Gagaku', the music of the Japanese […]

Info text: Liberation utopia and promise of salvation In Klaus Huber's extensive work there are several nodes in which a longer creative phase comes to an end and a new one is announced. They are each marked by a large, vocal-instrumental work. Such landmarks were the Augustine oratorio Soliloquia in the early 1960s and the stage work Schwarzerde in 2001. And right in between, around 1980, […]

Info text: Diabelli Variations Franz Hummel – Ludwig van Beethoven The art of variation has always been considered the highest in music history. And it is widely known and accepted that Beethoven's genius was never surpassed by anyone else. But how is it that his most interesting, greatest and most profound piano work is a harmless waltz by Anton Diabelli […]

Info text: Composer in Dialogue Olga Neuwirth & ICI Ensemble Under the title 'Composer in Dialogue', the ICI Ensemble invites contemporary composers every two years to develop forms of composition and improvisation together with them in a kind of 'work in progress' to then perform the resulting pieces. The composer Olga Neuwirth was invited for this concert recording. […]

Info text: Works for Piano - Works for Flute and Piano Musical poetry is of course also conceivable without a text set to music: when the musical metric defies conventions, when the timbre and the structural meaning of a sound coincide, when the artist is concerned with condensed, pictorial formulations wrestles. Jonathan Harvey's short piano piece Verse is such a lyrical […]

Info text: Two incredibly intense works on the Good Friday event: Liszt wished for the renewal of Catholic church music, which was not least inspired by the Protestant legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach. However, Franz Liszt places Bach's legacy in a musical landscape that touches the boundaries of tonality. Although the music emphasizes its folk character, […]

Info text: JOMO Mary Oliver, violin & viola Johanna Varner, cello Johanna Varner, cellist, scholarship holder from the city of Munich and initiator of numerous concert series in Munich and Mary Oliver from USA, member of the ICP Orkest, Dr. Phil. of music theory and soloist on the viola and violin, founded the duo JOMO in 2008. The two experimental and non-conformist musicians […]

Info text: Fleeting waltzes as 'permanent music' "Unfortunately not from me," Johannes Brahms once wrote under the opening bars of the waltz On the Beautiful Blue Danube, and there are numerous testimonies of Brahms' admiration of the waltz king Johann Strauss and their mutual appreciation. The waltz was not only a distinctive idiom of the Habsburg imperial capital Vienna in the 19th century, but [...]

Info text: After the arrest of Jesus of Nazareth in the Garden of Gethsemane, the guards of the Sanhedrin search for Lazarus. He flees to his house, where he lives with his sisters Marta and Maria, and finally finds refuge in his own crypt. There he relives his death in a dream and meets the four [...]

Info text: After the arrest of Jesus of Nazareth in the Garden of Gethsemane, the guards of the Sanhedrin search for Lazarus. He flees to his house, where he lives with his sisters Marta and Maria, and finally finds refuge in his own crypt. There he relives his death in a dream and meets the four [...]

Info text: CONGRATULATIONS, ELLIOTT CARTER! Elliott Carter celebrates his 11th birthday on December 2008, 100. And to this day he tirelessly writes new and outstanding music full of ingenious invention, vitality and sophistication. The present recordings of recent and recent works - three of them as world premiere recordings - are witnesses to our great admiration, our eternal gratitude and [...]

Info text: NEOCLASSICAL MODERN AND EXPRESSIVE CLASSICITY Works by Otto Siegl, Rebecca Clarke, Paul Hindemith, Günter Raphael, Witold Lutoslawski, Darius Milhaud and Siegmund Schul The name OTTO SIEGL (1896–1978) is only marginally familiar today to passionate rarity hunters. The native of Graz wrote in 1946 that he played “a lot of chamber music, like most conductors and composers, mainly viola. […] In the […]