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This CD of works by the Hungarian composer Gy?rgy Ligeti represents an extremely interesting combination of several of his serene works for harpsichord, organ, and wind quintet with two electronic...

The fact that Geno?l von Lilienstern's childhood falls in the 1980s is proven by his portrait album in many ways: On the one hand, it is synthesizers such as the Yamaha DX7 that shape the aesthetics...

Chinese Australian composer Liza Lim was inspired by the lyric poetry of the Sufi poet Hafiz for her work Tongue of the Invisible. Lim explains, "the way in which he mixes and shifts levels of...

Mahler / International Mahler Orchestra / Gamzou Mahler: Symphony No 10 CD1. I. Adagio 2. II. Scherzo. Schnelle Viertel 3. III. Purgatorio 4. IV. Wild. Der Teutel Tanzt Es Mit Mir 5. V. Finale

The music of Sergej Maingardt is at the pulse of time. He draws inspiration from socio-political topics and the effects of the digitized and globalized world on our perception and thought processes...

Philippe Manoury is one of the most prominent compositional voices in France today, and this WERGO recording of his "Lab. Oratorium" presents one of Manoury's most significant works. Not only is the...

J?rg-Peter Mittmann's compositions approach music in the broader context of history and philosophy. This program performed by Ensemble Horizonte features pieces that are inspired by some of the...

Music is the air I breathe and the planet I inhabit. The only way I can pay my debt to music is by bringing it to others, with all my love. (Cathy Berberian) Cathy Berberian was born in the United...

Sprechges?nge - "Speech Songs" run throughout the program of the first CD in the new "edition MusikFabrik" on WERGO: Voices try out their instrumental possibilities, and instruments savor their vocal...

Our focus with the CD "Coronation" is not on blue blood or kingly power. In processes that are positively vegetal, the music on this CD sends up it's shoots and produces blossoms like crowns. "(co)ro...

St. Augustine advised his coevals to seek the truth in the "inner man." Such inwardness seems far removed from the reality of life in the twenty-first century. Perhaps that is why a tendency to focus...

Black is the color of the bile said to induce a state of gloom. In the form of "melancholia," it has become an allegory of the artistic imagination. The hour of melancholy strikes at night, when the...