Info text: Elliott Sharp: Spring & Neap – RE:ITERATIONS Spring & Neap In 1996 I went on tour with Orchestra Carbon to Japan; A highlight was the Music Merge Festival in Tokyo. A colorful selection of wonderful musicians from the international scene met there for three days at the Shinjuku Pit Inn: Michiyo Yagi, Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Jim O'Rourke, […]

Info text: Elliott Sharp: Orchestra Carbon – Rheo~Umbra “Schattenflut”: this is how I would translate the unconventional title of this piece that I composed for Orchestra Carbon in 1997 - and this is also how I would describe the musical movements that occur in it. Rheo~Umbra has seven parts; In them, through-composed passages, algorithmically controlled ensemble playing and solo improvisations overlap. Regarding the algorithmic […]

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. […]

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 [… ]

Program: Ole-Henrik Moe (*1966) [01] 13:43 Lenger (2006) for string quartet and solo violin Arditti Quartet Ole-Henrik Moe, violin Saed Haddad (*1972) 17:26 Joie voilée (2005/2006) for string quartet [02] 00:10 Prologue 00:10 [03] 01:00 1. On Purity [04] 02:06 2. On Happiness [05] 01:54 3. On Warmth [06] 01:12 4. On Moderateness [07] 00:51 5. On Serenity [08] 01:49 6. On Collectiveness [09] 00:59 7. On Togetherness [10] 01:46 8. On the […]

Info text: Illuviation is an attempt to start and think ahead exactly where it becomes “dangerous” for many makers and listeners of jazz to exceed a certain tolerance limit. Illuviation is also an attempt to let initially seemingly incompatible styles and sound worlds collide, but not to mercilessly blur them, as with cross-overs, or to let one “world” replace the other […]

Info text: Elliott Sharp: Orchestra Carbon – Larynx Larynx is an analogy; the orchestra as a throat. A reversal of the fact that the throat can also be an orchestra: as in the throat songs of the Inuit in the Canadian Arctic, in the Khöömej songs of Mongolia, or even in the distantly related oral cavity technique of the Jew's harp, which is called [ …]