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Launched in 2007, NEOS is a German label with a focus on compositions from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, many of which are world premiere recordings. In order to achieve a high level of artistic and editorial quality, great value is placed on selecting the performers and collaborating exclusively with renowned ensembles and cultural institutions. NEOS (Greek for "new") is the responsibility of Wulf Weinmann, who was previously the owner and label manager of col legno. Varied in his interests, Weinmann is constantly seeking out discoveries in the wilds of New Music. He considers himself particularly fortunate to have arranged future collaborations with long-standing partners such as the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (IMD), the Donaueschingen festival of the SWR, musica viva (Bayerischer Rundfunk), and the Salzburg Festival. As a confessed lover of the arts Weinmann places great importance on the technical quality of the recordings and their visual presentation. All of the productions are released in attractive digipacks with extensive textual information. Many releases are Stereo/5.1 multichannel hybrid CD/Super Audio CD formats that can be played on any CD player.

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PLUS!	Works for Clarinet Duo and Accordion	CD	NEOS	NEOS 22003CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 The title PLUS! stands for something that is of central importance in the repertoire of Das Klarinettenduo, Beate Zelinsky with David Smeyers: the interaction with other soloists or ensemble formations. The combination with the accordion (Krisztián Palágyi) is particularly attractive; it can merge with the sound of the clarinets to a perfect unity, but it can also emerge clearly perceptible from this composite sound. This prompted Nikolaus Brass to write a work for the three musicians: Songs and Melodies. It is here, as well as the compositions of Jukka Tiensuu, Younghi Pagh-Paan, and Georg Katzer, juxtaposed with music by Johann Sebastian Bach. Two-Part Inventions have been placed between the contemporary works -- in the versions of Max Reger/Karl Straube and Helmut Lachenmann, who each added a third voice. Another level for the idea of PLUS! in this extraordinary program.

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UZOR, CHARLES	Mothertongue	2CD	NEOS	NEOS 12108-09CD
$28.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 The work of the composer Charles Uzor (1961) reflects his African origins -- and with it the story of his emigration to Switzerland as a seven-year-old. This also and especially applies to the new double album entitled Mothertongue. Mothertongue is a five-part cycle for mezzo-soprano, tape and ensemble. Uzor is looking for the sounds of his own mother tongue, Igbo, which he lost as an adolescent. The overall program of the two CDs is a journey through Uzor's musical and spiritual cosmos. The works, created between 1989 and 2020, deal with the uprising on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the fairy tale of the Princess of Samarkand, the negative theodicy of the Italian philosopher Sergio Quinzio, and the brutal murder of George Floyd* by the police in Minneapolis in 2020. Charles Uzor's topics are socially relevant. In this sense, this is a particularly haunting portrait of the Swiss-Nigerian composer.

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KATZER, GEORG	Late Works	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12004CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 Georg Katzer, one of the greats among the composers of the former GDR, died in 2019. This CD documents his late work: chamber and orchestral music, created from 2016, interpreted by the musicians for whom it was written. These include three cello pieces "postscriptum to B." that refer to Beethoven (Jörg Ulrich Krah, cello and Bernhard Parz, piano), a song cycle for the Elisabeth Trio, a percussion quartet (Bremer Schlagzeugensemble) and the ensemble work "La scuola dell'ascolto 5", whose interpreters quickly renamed themselves georg katzer ensemble Berlin after the world premiere. A special highlight is the world premiere recording of the orchestral work "dicorso" with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB) under Vladimir Jurowski. The conductor, who has been closely associated with Georg Katzer for a long time, also contributed a greeting to the CD, in which he noted: "What amazed me above all about his music -- this was not the typical music of an 83-year-old! In spirit, he remained a young man."

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BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN	Goldberg-Variationen	CD	NEOS	NEOS 32101CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 The question of tempi and, above all, the tempo relations in the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach has puzzled generations of musicians. Here is an idiosyncratic and surprising interpretation, because it impressively does justice to the additional notes in the Bach autograph: In his recording, harpsichordist Albert-Jan Roelofs creates a multi-layered, captivating tempo concept that ensures an extraordinary listening experience of the Goldberg Variations. "It becomes clear," says Roelofs, "that a uniform pulse is recognizable in the various variations and time signatures, which is based on the quarter-note of the Aria and can thus be regarded as the starting point for the choice of tempo. The present recording draws precisely on this idea." Albert-Jan Roelofs studied harpsichord and organ in Amsterdam and Maastricht, among others with Gustav Leonhardt, Piet Kee, and Ton Koopman. His musicological knowledge has made him a proven specialist in keyboard music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Various CD recordings are considered exemplary, including J. S. Bach's The Art of Fugue (2006). Albert-Jan Roelofs is, next to an intensive international concert schedule, a regular guest at early music festivals in Europe, Azerbaijan, Australia, China, Brazil, New Zealand, and the USA.

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HEFTI, DAVID PHILIP	Light and Shade	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12101CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 Three powerfully suggestive and image-rich titles come together in the program of this CD: An durchsichtigen Fäden, Concubia nocte, and Danse interstellaire. These works circle in the field of tensions between existential fatigue and existential courage, between light and shade, between grief and comfort. As such they are prime examples of the spirited experimentation and powerful expression of the composer David Philip Hefti (1975), who spans the full spectra between sound and noise, sensation and stillness, tension and release, with compositional virtuosity. The core of all three works is for string quartet. The Amaryllis Quartet* is complemented by the warm mezzo-soprano by Maria Riccarda Wesseling in the piece An durchsichtigen Fäden and by Bernhard Röthlisberger and his basset clarinet in Danse interstellaire.

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QUELL, MICHAEL	Chamber Music Vol. 3	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12103CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 Scientific thinking is part of Michael Quell's essence. When he talks about theoretical physics, it becomes clear that he really wants to get to the bottom of things. But he is a musician, and in the end his engagement with string theory or with dark energy is an artistic one through and through. The highly complex structure of his music discharges, in a way, into sensual sound. String I for oboe solo was recorded by Benjamin Fischer, who also premiered in 2013. The chamber music works are interpreted by the Munich ensemble der/gelbe/klang, which is presenting a brilliant debut album with this recording.

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KAWAKAMI, NORIKO	Zwischen Immer und Nie	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12020CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 Japanese composer Noriko Kawakami left her homeland over 30 years ago. However, her contact to Japan has remained close, and the spiritual bond with her cultural roots has increased even further due to the spatial distance. More recently, Kawakami has also incorporated traditional Japanese instruments; in "Im Traum, der das Chaos webt" (In the dream that chaos weaves) she searched for possibilities of merging koto and accordion. All six pieces on this CD were inspired by existential phenomena and literary sources -- they also and especially reflect the tracing of hidden mental processes as an essential drive for Kawakami. Noriko Kawakami (*1955) studied composition in Tokyo, Freiburg, and Essen. After a two-year stay in Paris, she now lives as a freelance composer in Cologne. Her works have been performed at numerous festivals and concert series around the world. As a guest lecturer, she was invited to the Akiyoshidai International Contemporary Music Seminar and Festival in Japan among others.

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HEUSINGER, DETLEF	Lulu's Dream	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12107CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 Three works by Detlef Heusinger come together in this CD, with the electric guitar playing a central role in each. Heusinger had learned classical guitar before he changed to electric guitar at age 14. But his, his duties as composer, conductor and later leader of the SWR Experimentalstudio would leave little room for playing the electric guitar. With the guitar concerto 2nd Anniversary of Zabriskie Point, however, Heusinger returned to his old love of the instrument. Admittedly, he came back to it with a totally changed perspective: he put the electric guitar in the historical context of electronic music and thus, in a manner of speaking, re-invented it as an instrument. As a solo instrument, the electric guitar conjures a modern version of the timeless Lulu; in the solo concerto it functions in what would seem to be a long-outdated genre; in chamber music it serves as a mediator for the whole history of electronic music from the theremin to today.

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EGGERT, MORITZ	Die Tiefe des Raumes. Ein Fussballoratorium	2CD	NEOS	NEOS 12009-10CD
$28.00 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 Moritz Eggert's football oratorio Die Tiefe des Raumes was originally part of the cultural program for the 2006 World Cup. Now over 100 young musicians and singers have brought the work back on stage at the Philharminie in Munich under the direction of the composer. The live recording of this concert appears here as a double-CD. In a good 90 minutes -- two halves plus preliminary report and injury time -- Die Tiefe des Raumes deals with football, fans, and officials. "Of course, a topic like football is a great opportunity for a composer to reach an audience that you would not otherwise have for new music," said Moritz Eggert. The performance documented here was initiated by the Music Academy of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. Not only the choir and orchestra consist of current and former scholarship recipients, the soloists and the participating lecturers are also mostly alumni of the foundation.

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FRANCK, CESAR	Pieces Pour Harmonium	CD	NEOS	NEOS 32001CD
$15.50 PREORDER RELEASE DATE: 7/29/2022 As early as 1858-66, César Franck had composed first an Offertoire and 5 Pièces for harmonium, then 44 further Petits pièces for organ or harmonium. More than two decades followed, before Franck, in the last two years of his life, began a project for harmonium that remained unfinished only because of his death: a cycle of harmonium pieces comprising 12 suites of seven pieces on all 12 pitches. The posthumous publication of the unfinished cycle of 59 pieces, to be performed on either organ or harmonium, is entitled L'Organiste, Pièces pour Orgue-Harmonium par César Franck. Doris Bertschinger on accordion. "In my interpretation, it is important for me to respect and point out the common features and similarities of the harmonium and accordion but also the differences between the two instruments. Already whilst studying for my degree, I was inspired by the Pièces pour harmonium, as Franck himself called them, and their interpretation on the accordion. With this recording, I would like to make César Franck's work as well as the classical accordion and its possibilities known to a wide audience." --Doris Bertschinger

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VA	Donaueschinger Musiktage 2019	CD/SACD	NEOS	NEOS 12013CD
$15.50 LOW STOCK LEVEL The Donaueschinger Musiktage have been regularly documented by NEOS for many years. The 2019 edition begins with Mark Andre's sensitively heard sound spaces in "rwḥ 1 for ensemble and electronics". The Ensemble intercontemporain is represented with Johannes Boris Borowski's "Allein". A notable event at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2019 was Eva Reiter's "Wächter" for double bass flutes and tube orchestra, played by the SWR Symphonieorchester without any classical musical instruments. From the full-length cycle "Poética del espacio" by Alberto Posadas, the final part Ojo del diablo made it into the selection, interpreted in an outstanding way by the Klangforum Wien.

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REIS, JAIME	Solo and Chamber Works	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12022CD
$15.50 IN STOCK With "Sangue Inverso - Inverso Sangue", the Portuguese composer Jaime Reis has created his own little cosmos: two times seven movements that can be performed separately, one after the other or at the same time. Despite very different tempos, moments of synchronization and coordination arise. The main idea behind this structure is the relationship between the individual and the collective, more precisely: the role of the individual regardless of his integration into the collective. The Ensemble Fractales presents nine different variations of the Sangue cycle -- both as individually as well as simultaneously played movements. Jaime Reis has dealt intensively with scientific topics. This is how the piano work "Lysozyme Synthesis" (Ana Telles, piano) became inspired by the process of protein synthesis, "Fluxus, Vortex - Schubkraft" (here in the acoustic version with the Aleph Gitarrenquartett) from the physical phenomenon of fluid mechanics.

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PAGH-PAAN, YOUNGHI	Chamber Works	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12026CD
$15.50 IN STOCK When the composer Younghi Pagh-Paan came to Germany in the mid-1970s, she was at first deeply insecure about the gaping contradictions between Western culture and her Korean homeland. She drew a special creative force from it -- influences from both worlds are combined in her music to this day. The works that the Ensemble KNM Berlin and the soprano Angela Postweiler recorded here were created between 1977 and 2020 and thus offer a comprehensive view of Pagh-Paan's work. Among them, the three first recordings deserve special attention: ma-am (Mein Herz) for female solo and Mein Herz I for soprano and viola, as well as the string quartet Horizont auf hoher See. The production was created as part of the award of the Berlin Art Prize 2020 by the Akademie der Künste Berlin. Younghi Pagh-Paan was born in 1945 in Cheongju, in what is now South Korea. She came to Germany on a DAAD scholarship in 1974 to continue her studies with Klaus Huber at the Freiburg University of Music. With her orchestral piece Sori she attracted wide public attention at the Donaueschingen Festival 1980. After visiting professorships at the music universities in Graz and Karlsruhe, she was appointed professor of composition at the Bremen University of the Arts in 1994 -- the first woman in Germany. She received numerous international prices and resides und in Bremen and Panicale (Italy).

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VA	Remixed: Brahms - Wagner - Debussy	CD	NEOS	NEOS 22002CD
$15.50 IN STOCK Debussy's "Trois Nocturnes", Wagner's "Tristan Prelude" and Brahms' "Piano Quintet", remixed and in a new guise. This is the metamorphosis of three instrumental masterpieces for the 176 keys of two concert grand pianos; a transformed aural perspective, which brings out compositional structures all the more clearly. In two-piano versions, these pieces are effectively reworked. With Brahms' "Sonata Op. 34b", this was undertaken in 1864 by the composer himself, adapting a string quintet he then withdrew, reinventing it as a piano quintet a year later. With Wagner and Debussy, it was Max Reger and Maurice Ravel who took on the task, surely in part as a mark of their esteem for these works and their authors. Cleverly devised programs are the trademark which distinguishes Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacher as one of the most internationally renowned piano duos. No other duo runs the gamut from Bach to music of the present day with such aplomb. Their profound and intimate ensemble playing manifests two musical kindred spirits, unleashing a broad spectrum of expressive potential which perfects the art of piano four hands.

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HAAS, GEORG FRIEDRICH	Ein Schattenspiel String Quartets No. 4 & No. 7	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12006CD
$15.50 NOT IN STOCK Georg Friedrich Haas is regarded as today's foremost proponent of microtonal composition. But it is precisely these three works -- Ein Schattenspiel, the String Quartets Nos. 4 and 7 -- that show that Haas is actually less immersed in his musical material. Instead, he concentrates on the communicative aspects of music and composition, so as to greatly unsettle and even shock the listener's perception. Of course, microtonality and composition that makes use of the overtone series and overtone chords presents a challenge to the listener accustomed to a more conventional, traditional harmony. But Haas's composition focusses more on the physical experience of this kind of music. It would not be completely inaccurate to speak of a musical aesthetic that seeks to bombard the senses into submission, where the pulsing beats inherent in the overtones and microtonality amalgamate to a roar and thunder roll of noise. The connection between the three works on this CD is the use of live electronics. It creates something like an "acoustic shadow", in which the music is played again with a time delay -- accelerated slightly in Ein Schattenspiel and thus a quarter tone higher than the original that was just heard. Together with the SWR Experimentalstudio, Sophie-Mayuko Vetter (piano), and the Arditti Quartet pre-sent exemplary world premiere recordings.

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LINDBERG, MAGNUS	Complete Works for Accordeon	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12027CD
$15.50 IN STOCK With the complete recording of the accordion works by Magnus Lindberg, Janne Valkeajoki presents an extraordinary debut album. The young Finnish accordionist has won several international competitions and has made guest appearances at numerous festivals. On this CD, solo and chamber music works can be found; while "Jeux d'anches" (for accordion solo) and the duo "Metal Work" for accordion and percussion are original works, Valkeajoki made versions of "Dos Coyotes" (with cello) and the piano work "Jubilees" especially for his instrument. He worked closely with Lindberg, who emphasizes that the accordion versions are not just arrangements, but stand-alone works. Magnus Lindberg has a special relationship with the accordion: as a child he took his first musical steps with it. Today he is one of the most played composers internationally.

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GEISSE, GUNNAR	Triptych	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12017CD
$15.50 IN STOCK Why should one still compose a piano concerto in 2020? Hasn't this leading genre of absolute music exhausted itself for decades? Gunnar Geisse's Piano Concerto, which is premiered on the present CD, definitely adds a new facet to the genre, not certain whether it continues or breaks the genre. Although the piano can be heard as a solo instrument, accompanied by a variety of orchestral instruments, only one instrument was actually played on this recording, which in turn is not a piano but an electric guitar. Geisse developed the "laptop guitar", an extension of his main instrument (the electric guitar) to include the computer, which enables him to continue playing analogue on a digital level. He uses the software-supported real-time conversion of audio to MIDI data to control virtual instruments and samplers. Geisse titled this album Triptych. The last "panel" in this triptych, rhythm changes, follows the two movements of the piano concerto. The work does not focus on a soloist-orchestral arrangement but on the laptop guitar itself. Instead of an imaginary orchestra, Geisse uses a series of sampled materials. Allusions to romanticism are replaced by insights into Charlie Parker's "Anthropology".

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HEFTI, DAVID PHILIP	Die Schneekonigin	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12028CD
$15.50 IN STOCK David Philip Hefti composed his second music theater work based on motives by Hans Christian Andersen: The Snow Queen. The plot centers upon the children Gerda and Kay, whose friendship is put to a severe test when Kay falls under the spell of the Snow Queen. Hefti's high-contrast music creates sometimes shimmering cold, sometimes cozy warmth; the icy Snow Queen -- outstandingly cast with Mojca Erdmann -- sounds "clear and transparent like frozen crystals" (Neue Zürcher Zeitung). The musical story for soprano, two speakers (Delia Mayer and Max Simonischek) and orchestra is aimed equally at children, young people and adults. The recording of the world premiere with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under the direction of the composer is released on this CD. The 80-page booklet contains the German libretto as well as the English and French translations.

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FLAMMER, ERNST HELMUTH	Der Turmbau zu Babel	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12015CD
$15.50 IN STOCK Ernst Helmuth Flammer's oratorio "Der Turmbau zu Babel" (The Tower of Babel) was commissioned for the 25th anniversary of the "Hanover New Music Days" in 1983. The world premiere took place under the direction of Klaus Bernbacher with excellent interpreters such as Catherine Gayer (soprano), Günter Binge (baritone), Theophil Maier (speaker), the Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in the broadcasting hall of the NDR Hanover on January 29, 1983. Ernst Helmuth Flammer: "The oratorio is dedicated to all those who were forced to give up their lives in the struggle for freedom, justice and a dignified coexistence; all undaunted who accepted great personal sacrifices in following an unswerving moral path." "Der Turmbau zu Babel" is dedicated to Klaus Bernbacher. For three orchestral groups, three choirs, two solo voices (soprano and baritone), speaker, quadrophonic playback and live electronics, on texts by Friedrich Schiller, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Kurt Tucholsky.

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FRANKLIN, JIM	Songs from the Lake	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12029CD
$15.50 IN STOCK The way Jim Franklin combines the traditional Japanese bamboo flute shakuhachi with modern live electronics is unique. In addition to the latest studio technology, synthesizers and various instruments are used, such as the theremin -- one of the oldest electronic instruments of all. The works themselves are semi-composed, structured improvisations: a pre-composed form in which the "signposts" and turning points are clearly defined, but the exact "route" through the piece is created anew with each performance. Despite all the complexity, Franklin recorded them alone, mostly in continuous takes. Songs from the Lake is, as the title suggests, inspired by water. Franklin is fascinated by images in nature where the overall form is more or less static, but the details are constantly changing. The Buddhist view of water as an image of the spirit is also important to him. Jim Franklin first studied composition and musicology in Australia, Germany and Holland. In 1986 he discovered the shakuhachi and learned the instrument from Dr. Riley Lee, Furuya Teruo, and Yokoyama Katsuya. In 1996 he received the title of Shihan (Master) from Yokoyama-sensei. From 2006 to 2009 he was founding chairman of the European Shakuhachi Society. In 2018 he was a main organizer of the World Shakuhachi Festival in London.

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BOULEZ, PIERRE	Anthemes 1 & 2	CD/SACD	NEOS	NEOS 12104CD
$15.50 IN STOCK The program on this CD focuses on two essential aspects of Pierre Boulez's oeuvre: his love of theater and his consistent search for ways of spatializing sounds through electronics. In "Dialogue de l'ombre double" from 1985 it is still a pre-produced tape -- recorded by the interpreter himself -- which, together with the live sounds, symbolizes the clarinetist's "double shadow". In "Anthèmes 2", written around ten years later, the acoustic labyrinth in which the soloist finds herself is generated entirely by means of live electronics. The basic idea for this was already laid out in "Anthèmes 1" for solo violin, created in 1991 as a mandatory work for the Yehudi Menuhin competition. Pierre Boulez has worked with the SWR Experimental Studio since it was founded in the early 1970s. In this recording the instrumental parts were excellently cast with Carolin and Jörg Widmann.

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OFENBAUER, CHRISTIAN	Zerstorung des Zimmers/der Zeit	2CD	NEOS	NEOS 12018-19CD
$28.50 IN STOCK Christian Ofenbauer's composition Zerstörung des Zimmers/der Zeit (Destruction of the Room/of Time) was created in 1999 as a sound installation for the Schauspielhaus Graz (6 scores: string quartet, zither, contra guitar, 2 violins, piano and amplifier system). The string quartet and especially the piano part have found their way into the concert hall. Taking up essential elements of his own compositions and placing them in a new context is one of the peculiarities of the Austrian composer. This is how the concert version for string quartet and piano was finally created in 2000, in which the original idea of the sound installation was taken up in a completely new way: the string quartet and piano form two temporal levels, metrically independent of each other, but together they are set to a duration of exactly 48 minutes. Both versions of composition Zerstörung des Zimmers/der Zeit, the piano quintet and the piano version from the installation, now appear in direct juxtaposition on this double-CD, recorded ingeniously by Quatuor Diotima and Johannes Marian.

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FRESCOBALDI/NIKOLAUS BRASS/JOHANN JAKOB FROBERGER/DOMENICO ZIPOLI, GIROLAMO	Figuren der Sehnsucht - Works for Meantone Tempered Accordion	CD	NEOS	NEOS 22001CD
$15.50 IN STOCK Hans Maier builds bridges from the 17th century to the present. He plays music by Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Jakob Froberger, and Domenico Zipoli on the accordion, a still young instrument; he uses a historical tuning system, the meantone tuning. This not only lets the music of the early Baroque shine in its own colors: the composer Nikolaus Brass was also inspired by the juxtaposition of perfectly pure and very tense harmonies. He dealt extensively with the meantone tempered accordion and has written several works for the instrument played by Hans Maier. Two of them -- "Harmonies" and "Figuren der Sehnsucht" -- are part of the program of this CD, which shows Hans Maier as a stylistically versatile and adaptable interpreter. All compositions by: Girolamo Frescobaldi, Nikolaus Brass, Johann Jakob Froberger, and Domenico Zipoli.

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VON REUSNER, CLEMENS	Ideale Landschaft - electroacoustic works	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12023CD
$15.50 IN STOCK Clemens von Reusner finds the sound material for his electroacoustic works in unusual places. For "rückbau" (2011) he uses recordings of the demolition of a sugar factory. In "de monstris epistola" (2012) he refers to a work by the poet Jean Paul and uses sounds that were recorded at the places of Jean Paul's early childhood and youth in Upper Franconia. And "draught" (1999), 30 years after the Berlin Wall opened, is based on a variety of over- and underwater sounds on both sides of the Elbe. The origin of a sound, both physically and geographically, plays a central role for Clemens von Reusner when he dissects it electronically, as it were, and then creates "soundscapes" from the result.

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HINDEMITH, PAUL	"1922" Suite for Piano - Three Piano Sonatas	CD	NEOS	NEOS 12021CD
$15.50 IN STOCK In a powerful surge in creativity, Paul Hindemith wrote three piano sonatas in succession in 1936 -- the year that was to end with a complete ban on performance by the Nazi regime. The premieres of the sonatas were canceled, but Hindemith nevertheless wrote music history with them. The sonatas differ as far as possible in terms of complexity and technical challenges, so the extremely demanding first is followed by a short, light-footed second one. Overall, they paint a differentiated picture of the composer, which Andreas Skouras ingeniously completes by starting with the "Suite for Piano from 1922". The Greek-German pianist and harpsichordist Andreas Skouras, born in 1972 in Thessaloniki (Greece), studied piano with Prof. Franz Massinger and harpsichord with Prof. Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Prof. Ketil Haugsand at the University of Music and Theater in Munich. He was u. a. awarded the City of Munich Music Scholarship and the Bavarian Art Award.

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