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Clouds and Sky
Four works by Johannes Schöllhorn: the concert piece clouds and sky for piano and orchestra with the WDR orchestra, rota for contrabass clarinet and string quartet, red and blue for percussion sextet, and a self-same song for solo contrabass clarinet.
The Works for Organ
First complete recording of John Cage's works for organ, played by Gary Verkade on the organ of Gammelstad Church, Sweden: Some of 'The Harmony of Maine', Souvenir, ASLSP and Organ2/ASLSP, with 4'33'' on the DVD only.
En Regardent Passer le Temps
* 2021 Stock. Edition of 300 * Based in Nice, Carpe Diem was a French '70s progressive outfit that also incorporated influences from jazz and classical music into its songwriting. Here's a fine vinyl-reissue of the band's debut-LP, originally dating back to 1976. The success of this album brought the group dates with other major French bands like Magma and Ange.
Zwei Gefühle and Solo Works
Helmut Lachenmann performs with and supervises Ensemble Signal in Zwei Gefühle, Musik mit Leonardo for speaker and ensemble, and plays three of his own piano works, recorded after a four-concert tour of the programme.
The Works for Percussion 2
John Cage's early percussion chamber works from 1935-1942, including the three Constructions, Trio, Quartet and Living Room Music, played by Third Coast Percussion, with the first movement of Living Room Music recorded in the Ford House.
Save Percussion Theatre
DVD of French-school percussion theatre by Aperghis, Kagel, Globokar, Alvarez and Drouet, performed by Aiyun Huang and colleagues and directed by Hans Fjellestad and Anton Cabaleiro, the first commercial video release of these works.
Songbirdsongs
First CD recording of Songbirdsongs by John Luther Adams, a cycle for piccolos, ocarinas, flutes and percussion based on real bird songs, with Callithumpian Consort, plus Strange Birds Passing.
The Number Pieces 6
Three of John Cage's late number pieces, Five, Seven and Thirteen, recorded in 1993-94 by Essential Music of New York and released for the first time. Thirteen, Cage's final completed work, is heard in only its second recording.
In the Shadows of No Towers (Art Spiegelman)
Multimedia adaptation of Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers by guitarist Marco Cappelli, narrated by John Turturro in English and Enzo Salomone in Italian, with music by Sintax Error and video art by Anne Rothschild.
Sanctuary
Roger Reynolds's Sanctuary for spatially distributed percussion ensemble and live electronics, presented in three versions on a double DVD: a studio performance, a live performance at the National Gallery of Art and excerpts from the Salk Institute.
The Works for Percussion I
The complete Imaginary Landscapes 1-5 and Credo in US by John Cage, with radios, phonograph records and percussion, played by Percussion Group Cincinnati in the first volume of the Mode Cage percussion works.
The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Margaret Leng Tan's follow-up to The Art of the Toy Piano: Cage's Suite for Toy Piano and Dream, a George Crumb song and other pieces, played on six toy pianos plus toy instruments, grand piano, music boxes and percussion.
Njinga: The Queen King – The Return of a Warrior
DVD of Njinga: The Queen King, a play with music and pageantry written and directed by Ione with music and sound by Pauline Oliveros, based on the 1993 BAM Next Wave Festival performances, with 5.1 surround mix and a documentary.
Maim (Water)
Chaya Czernowin's Maim (Water), a 50-minute orchestral triptych with five soloists (tubax, oboe and musette, piano and harpsichord, guitars, viola) and live electronics, played by the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under Johannes Kalitzke.
Works With Piano - Eonta
Second volume of Iannis Xenakis's works for piano with instruments, played by Aki Takahashi with Rohan de Saram, the JACK Quartet and the Callithumpian Consort, including a new recording of Eonta for piano, trumpets and trombones.
The Minimalists
Six minimalist works by Reich, Riley, Andriessen, Gann, Adams and David Lang played by Orkest de Volharding under Jussi Jaatinen, including first recordings of City Life for wind orchestra and Kyle Gann's Sunken City.
Epigram And Evolution: Complete Piano Works
Complete piano works by Roger Reynolds on two CDs, from Epigram and Evolution (1960) to The Angel of Death (1998-2001), played by Yuji Takahashi, Eric Huebner and Marilyn Nonken, with new recordings and remastered analog reissues.
Responses To Ives
Pianist Heather O'Donnell places short works by Charles Ives, including the first recording of London Bridge Is Fallen Down!, alongside first-recorded piano responses by Zimmermann, Finnissy, Tenney, Corbett and Schneller.
Complete String Quartets
Xenakis Edition volume 10 and the first complete recording of Iannis Xenakis's string quartets, played by the JACK Quartet: Tetras, Tetora, ST/4-1,080262 and Ergma, the last quartet, released on CD and surround-sound DVD.
33-127 for Electric Guitar and CD
First recording of Peter Ablinger's 33-127 (2002) for electric guitar and CD, played by Seth Josel: 95 pieces in which a descending scale meets recorded street noise, in just under an hour.