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The theremin is the only instrument that can produce sounds without being touched. The hands of the performer dance in the air. Invented in the 1920s, the theremin did not really achieve a breakthrough in...

Format: CD

Release Date: August 14, 2006

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Igor Strawinsky writes in his memoirs about the composition of "Petruschka": "While I was writing this music I clearly imagined a suddenly liberated puppet which brings the orchestra to the brink of despair with its...

Format: CD

Release Date: September 01, 1993

$35.99

Karl Amadeus Hartmann's opera, based upon Grimmelshausen's picaresque novel of the thirty years' war, has not been seen on stage or heard in concert in the UK. Yet it's one of the most important German...

Format: CD

Release Date: April 01, 1995

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New York City native Tobias Picker was described by the "Wall Street Journal" as "our finest composer for the lyric stage" and by BBC Music Magazine as "displaying a distinctively soulful style that is one...

Format: CD

Release Date: June 02, 2008

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The CD presents partly unpublished choral works of Paul Hindemith who wrote in 1952: "It is not going too far to say that the art of a cappella ensemble singing and the music written for...

Format: CD

Release Date: August 01, 1998

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Hindemith's "Ludus tonalis" which is presented on this CD was composed in the American exile. It is not only the composer's last work for piano solo, but also one of the most important works of...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 01, 1994

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The concertos of Karl Amadeus Hartmann exhibit a rich spectrum of formal and expressive possibilities, not only richly varied in relation to each other, but also a welcome addition to his more unified group of...

Format: CD

Release Date: April 01, 2009

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The "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte" is Arnold Schoenberg's "in tyrannos". Lord Byron's disparaging poem on the despot deprived of his power on which the work is based goes beyond the bounds of the concrete motivation...

Format: CD

Release Date: September 01, 1993

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For Wilhelm Killmayer 70th birthday WERGO presents a selection of piano works of the composer on CD. Stylistically typical works of the 90s as the Etudes collections and the "round songs and morning songs" is...

Format: CD

Release Date: August 01, 1997

$35.99

The "H�lderlin -Lieder" (H�lderlin songs) of Wilhelm Killmayer, now released by WERGO, provide a portrait of the later H�lderlin, the portrait of a person living in solitude and isolation. The poet H�lderlin lived the last...

Format: CD

Release Date: March 01, 1995

$26.99

On the occasion of the composer's 75th birthday on 16 December 2007, WERGO continues publishing CDs within the Edition Rodion Shchedrin with a world premiere recording. The Russian choral opera "Boyarina Morozova" describes the schism...

Format: CD

Release Date: December 01, 2007

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This CD is the first to be devoted exclusively to the organ music of the Latvian composer, Peteris Vasks. With the exception of the "Te Deum" (recorded in St. Gertrude in Riga), all of the...

Format: CD

Release Date: September 01, 2008

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The symphony has been declared dead countless times over the past century. Nevertheless, Hans Werner Henze sought all his life to come to terms with symphonic form. On the occasion of his Symphony No. 8,...

Format: CD

Release Date: September 01, 2008

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The musicians of the Ensemble Phorminx present central stations in Helmut Lachenmann’s oeuvre: from "Pression" for solo cello of 1969 or the clarinet piece "Dal niente", "Toccatina" for violin, or "temA" for flute, voice and...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 01, 2008

$17.99

The composer Friedrich K. Wanek, in his capacity as an editor for contemporary music, led what he called an "orderly double life". In the job which he earned his living from he was responsible for...

Format: CD

Release Date: June 01, 1992