The work of Bernhard Lang is difficult to fit into any one musical category. His oeuvre references a wide variety of musical styles and genres. The three works on this release showcase an enormous amount of virtuosity. This makes for a highly concentrated and intimate experience for both the performers and their audiences.

Osmo Tapio R�ih�l�: Zensolence - Various / Zensolence embodies the auditory canvas of Osmo Tapio R�ih�l�, a synaesthetic composer who transforms the visual into the musical. For R�ih�l�, art forms transcend their mediums and speak a universal language through diverse expressions. His experience of colours, shapes and textures in music is reflected in this eclectic album, where the traditional meets the innovative. R�ih�l� draws inspiration from the abstract and translates it into a musical lexicon that is as diverse as it is distinctive. From chamber music with modern instrumentation to pieces that combine vocal narrative with electronic sounds, this album is a testament to artistic freedom and a refusal to be limited.

LIGHT & DARKNESS: WORKS FOR SAXOPHONE

RAFAL ZAPALA: FUTILITY

Arditti Quartet & Alberto Rosado - Jos� Manuel L�pez L�pez: Infinita Domenica - For Jos� Manuel L�pez L�pez it is essential to approach the works on this album with an open mind and to explore other forms of instrumental expressivity and sonic emotionality. He draws significant conclusions from these seemingly fragile figures, gestures and minimal elements, which evolve and multiply to achieve a great expressive and formal perspective. All this affirms a hallmark that reveals a great continuity and coherence among the works included on this album.

The album is inspired by the poetry of William Butler Yeats, in particular his work Sailing to Byzantium. The main composition, which features five recorder sizes from tenor to garklein, explores themes of time and transcendence, depicting a journey to an imaginary Byzantium where the poet is transformed into a golden bird. The four movements correspond to stanzas in Yeats' poem, with recurring elements such as a lyrical refrain and a gyre reflecting the poet's themes. The trajectory of the piece rises, mirroring the poetic theme, and integrates both old and new forms, incorporating extended techniques and exploring microtones. The �tudes de concert, written separately but complementary, serve as a sonic precursor to the Byzantium piece, showcasing conventional and extended recorder techniques within various musical forms. The two electronic pieces act as interludes between the main works, offering a diverse musical experience that blends ancient traditions with modern sensibilities. Created in collaboration with experimental musician Scott Taylor, the album reflects a fusion of musical styles and approaches.

Distant Fragments Camilo Mendez / With "Distant Fragments", Camilo Mendez presents an album of solos and duos that showcase his most intimate and reflective works, creating a rich sound tapestry. While Mechanical Resonance I: Iridescent Resonance explores cloud luminescence through prepared violin and viola, Five Fragments deals with the themes of variation and polyphony. Cancion de la Distancia, on the other hand, reflects the fleeting nature of memory and time, inspired by Arturo's poetry. Recorded by Roberto Alonso, Linus Fung, William Lane, Angus Lee and Charles Ng, this album offers a subtle and complex musical contemplation. KAIROS

FELIPE LARA: PORTALS

AGE VEEROOS: OUTLINES OF THE NIGHT / VARIOUS

JOSE LUIS HURTADO: STAR TRAIL

Miguel Angel Crozzoli: Sounding Numbers / Miguel Angel Crozzoli's Sounding Numbers explores the intersection of climate data and music. Miguel Angel Crozzoli's Sounding Numbers explores the intersection of climate data and music. This album features two compelling works: I Am the Forest and I Am the Ocean, both born from transforming scientific data on deforestation and ocean contamination into sound. Through innovative sonification techniques and a blend of electronic and acoustic instrumentation, Crozzoli creates immersive soundscapes that resonate emotionally and inspire action against climate change. Let the hauntingly beautiful compositions draw you into a narrative that speaks to our environmental crisis with poetic depth and hopeful darkness.

GEBHARD ULLMANN: IMPROMPTUS UND INTERATIONEN

Gabriel Iranyi: String Quartets Extended / This album presents Iranyi's innovative works, composed between 2012 and 2022, showcasing his meticulous skilfulness and impressive soundscape. This album presents the innovative works of Gabriel Iranyi composed between 2012 and 2022. It includes two string quartets and their unique extensions with human voice and the Chinese mouth organ sheng. Iranyi's compositions explore profound musical spaces and subjective experiences. The album features the intense String Quartet No. 4, the intricate String Quartet No. 5, the emotive Four Love Poems by Paul Celan for soprano and quartet, and the captivating quintet for sheng and string quartet Three Soundscapes, blending Eastern and Western musical traditions. Each piece showcases Iranyi's meticulous skilfulness and his impressive soundscape.

ANDREW MCINTOSH: FIXATIONS

LUIS TABUENCA: NATURSTUDIUM III

Nimikry: Bird Of Paradise - Nimikry, a duo consisting of Alessandro Baticci (flute) and Rafal Zalech (viola), combines acoustic instruments with modern live electronics. - Nimikry, a duo consisting of Alessandro Baticci (flute) and Rafal Zalech (viola), combines acoustic instruments with modern live electronics. Their work explores the symbiosis between traditional music and digital technology, transforming conventional instruments into "smart" ones. Using their custom-built system, DigitAize, they create immersive performances where sound and physical movement merge seamlessly. Filled with spontaneity and dynamic rhythms, their pieces evoke an uncanny yet captivating atmosphere, drawing from genres such as EDM, noise and classical music. Through this co-evolution of performer and technology, Nimikry redefines musical expression, blurring the boundaries between human and machine.

BERNHARD LANG: HERMETIKA IX

MADLI MARJE GILDEMANN: DREAM SEQUENCE OF AN

Wolfgang Kogert - Friedrich Cerha: Complete Works For Organ - Appearing in Cerha's jubilee year, this album pays tribute to an extraordinary late oeuvre by an extraordinary composer. / One of the central figures of European modernism, Friedrich Cerha is known for his monumental Spiegel cycle and his distinctive contribution to postwar music. This album presents his complete works for organ, composed between 2011 and 2020, marking a surprising late turn toward the instrument. Recorded by Wolfgang Kogert in close collaboration with the composer, these pieces reveal Cerha's characteristic clarity, concision, and expressive precision. Appearing in Cerha's jubilee year, this album pays tribute to an extraordinary late oeuvre by an extraordinary composer.

ACROSS ... IN GRIEF AND DETAIL

SOUNDED VOICE, VOICED SOUND

Clemens Hund-g�schel - Charlotte Seither: Lauschgut. Works For (Inside) Piano (1989-2022) / "In art, you can have a look at the world as the world wouldn't see itself. I find that incredibly exciting," says Charlotte Seither, presenting ten outstanding works for piano written between 1989 and 2022 - over a period of 33 years. All of these works on make use of playing techniques in which the grand piano is not structurally altered. The sounds are therefore only created in the act of playing and make the individual work a risky event. Some pieces were created in closer succession to each other, because one work already carried the idea for the next. Between others it took time to develop. Masterfully recorded by Clemens Hund-G�schel, Seither's piano works are presented together on one album for the first time.

ARASH YAZDANI: PROPAGATION / VARIOUS

Femenine stages Eastman's shaping and building of the black queer masculine form - caught not necessarily between two poles of gender, but with his work constantly driving his own self-making. He was an inventor and sculptor, reminiscent of Jean Tinguely and Harry Bertoia. Clanging, noisy, joyful, and playful in turn, the sound sculpture emerges from these primary elements, moulding and pressing, jiggering and jolleying, through a linear flow of sound and insistent chordal punctuations. The continuous hum of the prime motive as a bed of sound against the softness of the texture and the fierceness of the accented major triads takes flight into a dreamscape, making possible new ways of listening, knowing, and being. (Ellie M. Hisama & Isaac Jean-Fran�ois)

Sara Glojnaric - Pure Bliss - When Sara Glojnaric combines instruments played live with electronic or taped elements, numerous references to pop or the best of Western art music shimmer through again and again. Her music is about sound idioms and always also about socio-political conditions and realities of life, both in society in general as well as within the practice of contemporary music. The release of this album is part of the Erste Bank Kompositionspreis, which Sara Glojnaric was awarded in 2022. On this album, she presents works by a wide range of ensembles, including Klangforum Wien, conducted by Tim Anderson, the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, conducted by Marin Alsop, and ensemble mosaik, conducted by Magnus Loddgard