CD1. 41:37
WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI (1913–1994)
1-2. String Quartet
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI (1933–2020)
3. Quartetto per archi
TOSHIRO MAYUZUMI (1929–1997)
4. Prelude for String Quartet
LaSalle Quartet:
Walter Levin violin 1
Henry Meyer violin 2
Peter Kamnitzer viola
Jack Kirstein cello
CD2. 49:02
MAURICIO KAGEL (1931–2008)
1-3. Phantasie für Orgel mit Obbligati
JUAN ALLENDE-BLIN (*1928)
4. Sonorités 8:22
GYÖRGY LIGETI (1923–2006)
5-6. Volumina
7. Etüde Nr. 1 (»Harmonies«)
Gerd Zacher organ
CD3. 38:27
DAVID BEDFORD (1937–2011)
1-2. 2 Poems for Chorus on Words by Kenneth Patchen
GYÖRGY LIGETI (1923–2006)
3. Lux aeterna
for 16-voice a cappella mixed chorus
ARNE MELLNÄS (1933–2002)
4. Succsim
for a cappella mixed chorus
MAREK KOPELENT (1932–2023)
5-7. Matka
Fresco for mixed chorus and solo flute
Gerhard Otto solo flute
Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks
Helmut Franz conductor
CD4. 49:23
VINKO GLOBOKAR (*1934)
1-5. Discours II
for 5 trombones
LUCIANO BERIO (1925–2003)
6. Sequenza V
for trombone solo
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN (1928–2007)
7-8. Solo für Melodie-Instrument mit Rückkopplung
CARLOS ROQUÉ ALSINA (*1941)
9-11. Consecuenza op. 17
for trombone solo
Vinko Globokar trombone
CD5. 41:54
MAURICIO KAGEL (1931–2008)
1-6. Match für 3 Spieler
Christoph Caskel percussion
Siegfried Palm, Klaus Storck cellos
7-13. Musik für Renaissance-Instrumente
Collegium Instrumentale
Mauricio Kagel direction
Collegium Instrumentale:
Sebastian Kelber soprano crumbhorn, recorders • Gerhard Braun alto crumbhorn, recorders • René Clemencic tenor crumbhorn, recorders • Michael Vetter bass crumbhorn, recorders • Helmut Hucke soprano bombard • Alfred Sous alto bombard • Heinrich Göldner tenor bombard, tenor curtal • Werner Mauruschat bass bombard, bass curtal • Edward H. Tarr cornett, clarino trumpet • Helmut Schmitt alto Renaissance trombone • Wilhelm Wendtlandt tenor Renaissance trombone • Kurt Federowitz bass Renaissance trombone • Annemarie Bohne positive organ, regal • Christoph Caskel, Siegfried Rockstroh percussion (dulcimer, triangle, small cymbals, hand bells, jingle cluster, strip & hoop, tambourine, hand drum, drum, timpani) • Karlheinz Böttner alto lute • Wilhelm Bruck theorbo • Eduard Rab treble viola da braccio • Spiros Rantos alto viola da braccio • Heiner Spicker treble viola da gamba • Hubert Koller alto viola da gamba • Gerald Sonneck tenor/bass viola da gamba • Hein-Georg Thor contrabass viola da gamba
CD6 48:22
IMPROVISATIONEN
1-5 »... e poi?«
6. Quasiraga
7. Light Music
Gruppe Nuova Consonanza:
Mario Bertocini percussion • Walter Branchi double bass
Franco Evangelisti piano • John Heinemann cello/trombone
Egisto Macchi percussion • Ennio Morricone trumpet
8. Ancora un trio
Walter Branchi double bass
John Heinemann trombone
Ennio Morricone trumpet
9. Credo
Walter Branchi double bass
Franco Evangelisti piano
Egisto Macchi percussion
CD7. 46:46
BERND ALOIS ZIMMERMANN (1918–1970)
1-5. Présence
White ballet in 5 scenes for violin, cello and piano
Saschko Gawriloff violin • Siegfried Palm cello
Aloys Kontarsky piano
6-1.3 Intercomunicazione
for cello and piano
Siegfried Palm cello • Aloys Kontarsky piano
CD8. 63:12
JOHN CAGE (1912–1992)
1. Atlas Eclipticalis & Winter Music
electronically amplified after Cartridge Music
(all simultaneously)
Atlas Eclipticalis:
Donald Blakesley tuba • Kees Blokker trombone
Ruud van den Brink percussion • Maurice Dentan violin
Horst Hornung cello • Geert van Keulen clarinet
Michael Kopfermann cello • Jan Labordus timpani
Kurt Meyerhans viola • Nico Scholtens saxophone
Iman Soeteman horn • Joep Terwey bassoon
Paul Verhey flute • Gerard van der Vlist trumpet
Han de Vries oboe • Frank Wolff cello
Winter Music:
Lissa Bauer, Chaia Gerstein, Heinz-Klaus Metzger,
Gertrud Meyer-Denkmann, Mario Venzago pianos
Cartridge Music:
Fred van der Kooy assistant to the conductor
Ensemble Musica Negativa
Rainer Riehn
DIETER SCHNEBEL (1930–2018)
2-5. Glossolalie
Definition of music for speakers and instrumentalists (Version 1961)
Werner Bärtschi instrumentalist 2
Thomas Gross instrumentalist 4
Michael Mendl recitation 3
(Rainer Riehn recitation 4)
Doris Sandrock recitation 1
Sava Savoff instrumentalist 1
(Dieter Schnebel recitation 4)
Hartmut Schumann instrumentalist 3
Dieter Strobel recitation 2
Ensemble Musica Negativa
Rainer Riehn
CD9. 57:22
MAURICIO KAGEL (1931–2008)
1-6. Hallelujah
for 16 solo voices a cappella
DIETER SCHNEBEL (1930–2018)
7-9. für stimmen (... missa est)
Schola Cantorum Stuttgart:
Ingrid Ade, Hanna Aurbacher, Richard Anlauf, Gisela Evers,
Manfred Gerbert, Ursula Häffner, Wolfgang Isenhardt,
Elisabeth Künstler, Ewald Liska, Wolfgang Löhnert (für stimmen),
August Messthaler, Brigitte Messthaler, Barbara Hiller,
Theophil Maier, Hildegard Schnabel, Ulrich Schaible, Karl Stanzl,
Irmgard Thanner (für stimmen)
Clytus Gottwald direction
CD10. 57:50
GOTTFRIED MICHAEL KOENIG (1926–2021)
1-6. Terminus II
7. Funktion Grün
ZOLTÁN PONGRÁCZ (1912–2007)
8. Phonothese
RAINER RIEHN (1941–2015)
9-13. Chants de Maldoror
(Rev. version 1968/69)
Realization by the composers
CD11. 37:26
MAURICIO KAGEL (1931–2008)
1-2 Der Schall
for 5 players (with 54 instruments)
Kölner Ensemble für Neue Musik
Plucked instruments, percussion & wind instruments:
Karlheinz Böttner, Wilhelm Bruck, Christoph Caskel,
Vinko Globokar, Edward H. Tarr
CD12. 41:37
GYÖRGY LIGETI (1923–2006)
1-5. String Quartet No. 2
EARLE BROWN (1926–2002)
6-7. String Quartet
WOLF ROSENBERG (1915–1996)
8-9. String Quartet No. 3
LaSalle Quartet:
Walter Levin violin 1
Henry Meyer violin 2
Peter Kamnitzer viola
Jack Kirstein cello
CD13. 48:19
LUC FERRARI (1929–2005)
1. Presque rien No 1
Daybreak on the beach
Luc Ferrari realization & sound direction
2-8. Société II
Et si le piano était un corps de femme
And if the piano were a female body
for piano, 3 percussions and 16 instruments
Gérard Frémy piano
Jean-Pierre Drouet, Sylvio Gualdo, Gaston Sylvestre percussion
Ensemble Instrumental de Musique Contemporaine de Paris
Konstantin Simonovitch direction
CD14. 46:09
LUKAS FOSS (1922–2009)
1-6. Paradigm (“for my friends”)
Jan Williams percussion & conductor
Stephen Bell electric guitar
Charles Haupt violin • Jerry Kirkbride clarinet
Marijke Verberne cello
George Ritscher tape recorder & electronics
Lukas Foss musical supervision
LEJAREN HILLER (1924–1994)
7-9. Algorithms I, Version I
10-12. Algorithms I, Version IV
Petr Kotik flute • Jerry Kirkbride clarinet
Darlene Reynard bassoon • Frank Collura trumpet
Marco Falcão harp • Ed Burnham percussion
Charles Haupt violin • Marijke Verberne cello
James Kurzdorfer double bass • George Ritscher tape recorder
Lejaren Hiller conductor
ELLIOTT SCHWARTZ (1936–2016)
13. Signals
James Fulkerson trombone
Nicholas Molfese double bass
Elliott Schwartz musical supervision
CD15 42:50
ROLAND KAYN (1933–2011)
1-2. Cybernetics III
Roland Kayn, Marino Zuccheri magnetic tape realization
LUIGI NONO (1924–1990)
3-8. Contrappunto dialettico alla mente
Liliana Poli soprano
Cadigia Bove, Marisa Mazzoni,
Elena Vicini, Umberto Troni voices
Coro da Camera della RAI
Nino Antonellini direction
CD16. 62:29
FRANCO EVANGELISTI (1926–1980)
1-7. Die Schachtel
Mimic-scene action (from an idea by Franco Nonnis)
for 5–7 mime artists, projector, voice, small orchestra and tape recorder
Voice (anonymous)
Solistenensemble des Orchesters der Münchener Kammeroper
Eberhard Schoener conductor
HEINZ HOLLIGER (*1939)
8-16. Der magische Tänzer
Attempt at an escape for 2 persons and 2 marionettes
for 2 singers, 2 dancers, 2 actors, mixed choir, orchestra and tape
Text: Nelly Sachs
Dorothy Dorow soprano (Mitbewohnerin)
Eva Gilhofer alto (Marina)
Philip Langridge tenor (Der magische Tänzer)
Hans Riediker bass (David)
Soloists of the Schola Cantorum, Stuttgart
Chor des Basler Theaters
Basler Sinfonie-Orchester
Instrumental soloists:
Roland Cavin piccolo • Anton Stingl guitar
Siegfried Schmid cimbalom
Ursula Holliger, Cathérine Eisenhoffer harps
Jürg Wyttenbach, Janka Wyttenbach harpsichord, celesta, piano
Markus Ernst, Jean-Claude Forestier, Charles Pfyffer percussion
Hans Zender conductor
CD 17. 42:20
CORNELIUS CARDEW (1936–1981)
1-2 The Great Learning
Scratch Orchestra
Cornelius Cardew conductor
CD18. 36:26
ROMAN HAUBENSTOCK-RAMATI (1919–1994)
1-3. Symphonie “K”
ORF-Symphonieorchester Wien
Milan Horvat conductor
VINKO GLOBOKAR (*1934)
4-7. Étude pour Folklora II
Climats 1–6
Simfonični Orkester RTV Ljubljana
Vinko Globokar conductor
CD19. 37:11
HEINZ HOLLIGER (*1939)
1-11 Siebengesang
for oboe, orchestra, voices and loudspeaker
Heinz Holliger oboe
Schola Cantorum Stuttgart
Clytus Gottwald chorus master
Basler Sinfonie-Orchester
Francis Travis conductor
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN (1928–2007)
12-15. Spiral
for a soloist with short-wave receiver
Heinz Holliger oboe
Karlheinz Stockhausen sound direction
CD20. 44:34
SYLVANO BUSSOTTI (1931–2021)
1-5 Cinque frammenti all’Italia
Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks
Soloists (Nos. 1, 3 & 5):
Dorothea Förster-Dürlich soprano
Irmgard Jacobeit soprano
Dieter Lorenz tenor
Günter Genersch tenor
Hartwig Stuckmann baritone
Wilhelm Zimmer bass
Günther Hertel piano (No. 2)
Erich Wauschkuhn chimes (No. 2)
Helmut Franz conductor
NICOLAUS A. HUBER (*1939)
6-8. Versuch über Sprache
for 16 solo voices, Hammond organ, double bass and
2 obligatory loudspeaker channels
Texts: J. W. von Goethe, Karl Marx, Friedrich Hölderlin,
Alkaios (Sappho?)
Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks
Gerhard Gregor Hammond organ
Georg Nothdorf double bass
Max Lindner percussion
Helmut Franz conductor
CD21 45:11
LEO KÜPPER (*1935)
1. L’enclume des forces
Text: Antonin Artaud
Jean-Claude Frison recitation
Leo Küpper automatic programming & performing
Exequiel Virasoro dynamic faders
2. Électro-poème
12 voices of girls and boys logatomes
3-7. Automatismes sonores
2-channels simultaneous information
Leo Küpper automatic programming & performing
Exequiel Virasoro dynamic faders
Studio de Recherches et de Structurations Électroniques Auditives, Bruxelles