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: GUAI AI GELIDI MOSTRI – WOE TO THE ICE COLD MONSTERS »I felt and feel that I had to make unforeseen and unforeseeable music for Carnevali. Personally, I'm interested [...] not only in the gray, not only in the fractures that have been created, but in the BEAUTIFUL NEW THAT EXPLODES - TRAGIC - EVEN VIOLENT - BUT STRIVING FOR THE MOST GENTLE [...]

Info text: THE PIANO WORK OF WOLFGANG RIHM My first contact with Wolfgang Rihm's piano music came relatively late. About eight years ago I heard the piano piece 5 “Tombeau” in a concert. I was spontaneously carried away by the dark power of this music. Like an outcry, a dark rebellion, with three exclamation marks after it... The strong architectural [...]

Info text: ROBERT HP PLATZ: PIANO PIECES Robert HP Platz pursues a stringent artistic concept. All pieces written since 1989 fit into an 'integral' body of work in which each building block is independent and can be performed separately, but is designed with a view to its integration into an overarching 'form-polyphonic' fabric. Also place' piano music […]

Info text: COMPLEXITY - UNPLAYABILITY - FAITHFULNESS IANNIS XENAKIS' COMPOSITIONS FOR SOLO PIANO AND SOLO CEMBALO REALIZED ON THE COMPUTER In Iannis The structures of his essentially emotional pieces should be understood as ciphers of human existence. For the interpreters of his music this means trying to interpret the 'notes' in such a way [...]

Program: [01] 10:20 Tilbury I (1969) Keyboard Miscellany (1988–) [02] 00:39 2. [03] 04:19 3. [04] 00:35 4. [05] 03:13 5 . [06] 01:27 Earle Brown [07] 01:06 To Howard Skempton on his 50th birthday [08] 00:56 6. [09] 00:17 7. [10] 00:35 8. [11] 00 :47 11. [12] 10:06 Variations on Morton Feldman's Piano Piece 1952 [13] 03:00 13. [14] 00:28 10. [15] 00:09 9. [16] 02:30 12. [ 17] 03:37 Tilbury II (1969) [18] 05:57 A Piano […]

Info text: Volume 17 of the MUSICA VIVA series, which NEOS developed in exclusive collaboration with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra: Four heavyweight works by the Italian composer eccentric from La Spezia, which have not yet been represented in the catalog in sufficient quality. Scelsi – he died on August 9, 1988 in Rome – can still be celebrated as a discovery: In […]

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

Info text: The turn of the year 1929/1930 marked a break in Stefan Wolpe's life: after long years and many attempts to find his place in the avant-garde cultural life of the Weimar Republic, around this time he finally turned to work as a political composer and became intensively involved in the field of workers' music and agitprop. Without his, at the […]

Info text: CARNIVAL OF THE INSECTS Dan Dediu plays piano music by Dan Dediu Dan Dediu was born in 1967 in Braila/Romania, in a city about which there is nothing to report. At the age of thirteen he came to the Romanian capital, to the Bucharest Music High School. It's winter and the heating has broken down again - the years of shortages have already begun. […]

Info text: Tschappina Variations – Concerto for Ensemble and Violin One quickly notices the great linguistic nature of Klaus Ospald's music; His instrumental music also gives the listener the impression that something that is clearly comprehensible in language is being communicated to him. In addition to the unmistakable rhythm design, which knows many states between the poles of almost rigidity and driven rush and the progressions [...]

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. […]