Info text: FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY Music by Werner Heider When Werner Heider was asked in 2006, on the occasion of the premiere of his orchestral work Architecture at the Munich musica viva, which metaphysical or symbolic ideas were hidden behind the formal floor plan, he amazed his counterpart with a very clear one Answer: »My piece is simply a composition of musical architecture. There should […]

Info text: ERNST HELMUTH FLAMMER – ORCHESTRA WORKS VOL. 2 The shape of time, thinking about time as a phenomenological category, i.e. the content that is articulated through the shape of time in music, has always been important to me as a composer. Time thinking is to be understood both structurally and in categories of history and the present, [...]

Program: Dániel Péter Biró (*1969) Mishpatim (Laws) Six-Part Composition Cycle (2003–2016) SACD 1 total playing time: 67:00 [01] Mishpatim (Laws) Part I: Lo Tisa (Do Not Accept) 14 :19 for speaking percussionist, voices and ensemble (2003, rev. 2015 / 2016) [02] Mishpatim (Laws) Part II: VeShesh Shanim (Six Years) 17:08 for voices, speaking percussionist and ensemble (2005–2006, rev . 2015 / 2016) [03] Mishpatim (Laws) Part III: […]

Program: SACD 1 total playing time: 68:51 Ivan Fedele (*1953) Air on Air for amplified basset horn and orchestra (2018) 17:28 [01] I Floating on air… 04:04 [02] II Squalls on the water surface… 02:01 [03] III Calm… 02:25 [04] IV In the eye of the storm… 02:15 [05] V The pounding sound of the storm… 02:50 [06] VI Crumbled air… 03:51 World premiere · Live recording Commissioned by SWR […]

Info text: THE MUSIC OF JORGE E. LÓPEZ Jorge E. López has often stated that his composing is, on the one hand, rooted in the music of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and, on the other hand, influenced by ideas of surrealism. Of course, this anchoring does not mean a stylistic reference. It concerns more the ethos and methodology of […]

Info text: CONTINUUM AND IMPACT About composing by Nikolaus Brass Two compositions are available in this edition, two from different times, thirteen years apart. As unimportant as this distance seems, it raises the pressing question of an inner continuum in Nikolaus Brass's work. Since around 2000, his composing has consolidated what one […]

Info text: THE BEAST OF MANY COLORS New music for classical guitar There are many composers whose monographic CDs have been published. In most cases they have already died or they have to be incredibly famous before they receive this honor. I am neither dead nor particularly well-known, and yet I am very fortunate to […]

Info text: CHRISTIAN OFENBAUER · TWO FRANKFURTER PRELUDES Christian Ofenbauer's Frankfurter Préludes (1997 / 1998) are evidence of a stylistic transition. From a distance of two decades, today's ears are amazed at how consistently and strongly they explain this transition to their musical theme, reflect on the change, work through it - even more so than the audience at the premiere [...]

Info text: AGOSTINO DI SCIPIO WORKS FOR STRINGS AND LIVE ELECTRONICS The six works on this CD are a selection from Agostino Di Scipio's music for strings and live electronics. Their textural sound material comes from a carefully crafted encounter (or collision?) of different technologies - from the mechanics of traditional violin making to real-time computer processing or analog devices of different […]

Info text: ENSEMBLE BOOK I A cycle with poems by Erika Burkart for baritone and instruments (1990) 1. SONATA I (instrumental) About the poem: Eight lines What changed me the most? Again and again the love that has elevated and humbled me and left snow with a trail God knows where. (From the volume “Minute of Silence”) 2. WHAT SHOULD I […]

Info text: Bach today Baroque classics in a groovy jazz guise "Bach today" includes a colorful, varied and multifaceted program. The well-known flute works by JS Bach and his son CP E. Bach are the basis for this CD. The delicate, groovy accompaniment of the highly virtuoso baroque pieces by the accomplished drummer, enriched with skillful improvisations, allows the “baroque classics” to be presented in a completely […]

Info text: PHILIPPE MANOURY · LE TEMPS, MODE D'EMPLOI Le temps, mode d'emploi is a large musical fresco about different methods of shaping time. Contemplative or active time, delayed or real time, continuous or discontinuous, uniform or pulsating, suspended, resumed, circling, inflected... physical or musical time, but also psychological time. She is not only […]