Info text: PRECISE, COMPLEX AND VOLATIL – IN VARIOUS COMBINATIONS Just a few years ago, the three works documented here would hardly ever have been performed by a university ensemble, even though the youngest of them is already twenty years old. There are at least two reasons for this: Contemporary music has not been a natural part of the university repertoire for very long. […]

Info text: WOLFGANG JACOBI – A MODERN CLASSIC »Jacobi is neither a prolific nor a fast writer. In each of his works you can notice the care of the design process, the precise sense of responsibility towards every note and pause, the self-critical shyness [...] of too much and too little," said the musicologist Erich Valentin in 1958 about Wolfgang Jacobi's work. And […]

Info text: STEFAN SCHULZKI · CHAMBER MUSIC At the beginning of my work on the piano concerto, I was looking for clusters of tones that usually combined the material of several major chords. The association of mirror-smooth mountain lakes suggested to me a slow movement, the irritation of which should serve to build up a certain tension despite the contemplation. The following, fast section is also characterized by major keys and dissonances. […]

Info text: 25 YEARS OF COLLEGIUM NOVUM ZURICH The Collegium Novum Zurich was founded in 1993. In a gradual process, the ensemble was formed around a core of a few musicians. The CNZ was soon able to establish itself with its own concert series, received support from the city of Zurich and also gained international recognition. His artistic profile […]

Info text: WORKS FOR CLARINET AND ACCORDION Uroš Rojko · Luka Juhart · Iris ter Schiphorst Uroš Rojko VOX (2001) VOX for clarinet and accordion “seeks” contact with the most intimate interior of human beings. The utmost reduction of the material, to the origin alone, to the fundamental tone and its spectrum, is the necessary prerequisite for the awakening of the […]

Info text: There have been diverse cultural relationships between Turkey and the Ottoman Empire and Europe for centuries, not least in the area of ​​music. Claudio Monteverdi probably got to know Ottoman music during his Mantuan employer's campaign in Hungary. In the 18th century, Janissary instruments and alla turca music became fashionable throughout Europe, and operas with oriental […]

Program: Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300–1377) Lais, Ballads, Virelais, Rondeau Adapted for violin and double bass in Pythagorean 3-limit Just Intonation [01] Lai No. 1 – Loyauté, que point ne delay 01:24 [02] Ballad No. 8 – De desconfort 03:46 [03] Ballad No. 6 – Doulz amis 01:28 [04] Ballad No. 24 – Tres douce dame 02:15 [05] Virelai No. 26 / 29 – Mors sui, se […]

Program: SACD 1 total playing time: 73:22 Emmanuel Nunes (1941–2012) Un calendrier révolu for 14 instruments (1968 / 1969) 51:23 [01] Game I 20:16 [02] Game II 31:07 World premiere · Live recording Remix Ensemble Casa da Música Emilio Pomàrico, conductor Eivind Buene (*1973) Lessons in Darkness for ensemble (2017) 21:57 [03] First Lesson 05:22 [04] Second Lesson 06:49 [05] Third Lesson 09:46 World premiere · Live recording Commissioned by SWR and The […]

Program: CD 1 total playing time: 78:49 [01] Nri/ mimicri for Ondes Martenot, Percussion Quartet and Tape (2015 / 2016) 30:36 Commissioned by the Percussion Art Ensemble Bern Caroline Ehret, Ondes Martenot Percussion Art Ensemble Bern ( Daniel Scheidegger, Ferdinand Heiniger, Oliver Schär, Simon Forster) Tape “Nach der Natur” by Charles Uzor (St. Gallen, 2015) [02] spleen/mimicri for Piano and Tape (2014 / 2015) 13:09 […]

Info text: ABOUT BREAKING UP THE GARDEN Songs by Jürg Wyttenbach, Katrin Frauchiger, Katharina Weber, Hanns Eisler and Alban Berg "There's not much to analyze!" Jürg Wyttenbach remarks mischievously. We are sitting in a Bernese café, with photocopies of the “Liedle” spread out in front of us, as the composer simply and lovingly calls his 8 Duettini and Three Short Prayers. They are 2014 […]

Info text: Grosskopf's handling of musical time for Pleiades - Seven similar pieces for piano and orchestra Volker Straebel: »As a constellation, the Pleiades are removed from time, just like Grosskopf's works, but as time-art, music is obliged to deny it seem. There are no analogies to the Greek mythology of […]

Program: Pieces about Death for Cello and Piano (1993) 11:57 [01] Thanatos 05:32 [02] Mneme 06:25 [03] Trees and Stones Fourth Etude for Piano (2009) 07:59 [04] Winternachtmusik – Melencolia 1514 (Music of a Winter Night – Melencolia 1514) for Violoncello (2003) 06:00 [05] Meteor Second Etude for Piano (2004) 06:12 Miniatures (Miniatures) for Violoncello (2017) 05:39 [06] Vocals (Chant) 01:11 [07] Strange visions 00:50 [08] Response – Call 01:01 [09] Haiku 00:40 […]