Info text: As every year, NEOS presents the live recordings of the most important premieres at the Donaueschinger Music Days from last year - but this time with an additional special feature: the jazz session is now also included! Mark Andre, Arnulf Herrmann, Klaus Huber, Helmut Oehring, Enno Poppe, François Sarhan, James Sauners, Hans Thomalla, Hans Zender are the names […]

Info text: As every year, NEOS presents the live recordings of the most important premieres at the Donaueschinger Music Days from last year - but this time with an additional special feature: the jazz session is now also included! Mark Andre, Arnulf Herrmann, Klaus Huber, Helmut Oehring, Enno Poppe, François Sarhan, James Sauners, Hans Thomalla, Hans Zender are the names […]

Info text: As every year, NEOS presents the live recordings of the most important premieres at the Donaueschinger Music Days from last year - but this time with an additional special feature: the jazz session is now also included! Mark Andre, Arnulf Herrmann, Klaus Huber, Helmut Oehring, Enno Poppe, François Sarhan, James Sauners, Hans Thomalla, Hans Zender are the names […]

Info text: ROBIN HOFFMANN LOCKEN for Birkhahn-Septett (2006) Who is actually luring whom here? Is it the hunter luring the black grouse in front of the gun? Or has the Weidmann, when he brings the bird out from behind the bush with his whistle, just followed the great call of nature? – At their sound, all the arts of self-proclaimed rat catchers fade away. So […]

Info text: RICHARD WAGNER ON BEETHOVEN'S "HEROIC SYMPHONY" This highly significant tone poem - the master's third symphony, and the work with which he first set out in his own unique direction - is in many respects not as easy to understand as its name suggests precisely because the title “heroic symphony” involuntarily leads one to […]

Program: [01] 20:00 Seven (1988) for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola and cello Quartets I–VIII (1976) for 24 instruments [02] 09:38 Quartet I [03] 11:45 Quartet II [04] 02:14 Quartet III [05] 04:17 Quartet IV [06] 01:48 Quartet V [07] 00:48 Quartet VI [08] 05:26 Quartet VII [09] 04:04 Quartet VIII Total time 60:48 Orchestra Jakobsplatz Munich Daniel Grossmann, conductor

Program: Mauricio Kagel (*1931) [01] 27:39 Divertimento? (2005/2006) Farce for Ensemble Schönberg Ensemble Amsterdam Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor Alberto Posadas (*1967) [02] 22:27 Anamorfosis (2006) for large ensemble Schönberg Ensemble Amsterdam Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor overall 50:06 Press reviews: 11 -12/2008 On my first listening to this disc—with the somewhat undescriptive title “Donaueschinger Musiktage 2006, Vol. 4”—these two works seemed odd discmates indeed. […]

Info text: Martin Smolka (*1959) 43:43 Semplice (2006) for old and new instruments in six movements [01] 09:55 I. [02] 06:55 II. [03] 08:20 III. [04] 05:50 IV. [05] 09:33 V. [06] 03:10 VI. ensemble recherche Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Lucas Vis, conductor Wolfgang Mitterer (*1958) 22:39 internally detached (2006) for baroque orchestra, ensemble and electronics [07] 01:11 empty and plaintive [08] 03:05 fast […]

Program: Georg Friedrich Haas (*1953) [01] 40:13 Hyperion (2006) for light and orchestra SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg Rupert Huber, direction rosalie, light installation Jörg Widmann (*1973) [02] 13:40 Second Labyrinth (2006) for orchestra groups SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg Hans Zender, direction overall 53:53 Press reviews: 03/2008 December 11.12.2007, XNUMX Light Game Music Interpretation: Sound quality: Repertoire value: Booklet: The Donaueschinger Musiktage is one of the few [… ]

Info text: It is rare to find composers who can use sounds to tell of absolute emptiness and who, conversely, manage to give an inkling of the fullness of higher-level entities in places of virtual silence. Nikolaus Brass, born in Lindau on Lake Constance in 1949, is such an artist - a quiet, thoughtful and, in the deep sense of the word, friendly man. […]