Brand: Wergo

Media Type: CD

Brand: Wergo

Publishing Year: 2026

Product number: WER 64482

Short Description: The title ‘Vida’ of Misha Cvijović's portrait album combines meanings from different languages – life, sight, healing and myth. The composer's music is equally multi-layered, resulting from her exploration of varying sonic and artistic perspectives. Booklet author Carl Rosman explains: ‘A keen awareness of stage and physicality is constantly present, in works whose language is typically gestural, eclectic, and direct – although not without irony and polyvalence.’ The album has three focal points: it begins with early compositions such as ‘Lica Persefone’, ‘Tikkun Olam’ and ‘Cirque du Soleil’. As part of a young generation of composers from the former Yugoslavia who are significantly shaping the local contemporary music scene, Cvijović also uses the ⅞-time rhythm of the Balkan region in the latter work, among others. She transfers this into a kaleidoscopic sound world in which the trumpet (Marco Blaauw) stands out with short acrobatic solos. The CD also includes works such as ‘Penumbra’, ‘Carbon’ and ‘Emotional Logic – Anger’, which depart from the classical mainstream and take greater risks in improvisation and form, for example by expanding the ensemble with the timbres of accordion, baritone saxophone and electric guitar in ‘Penumbra’. With ‘Iktsuarpok’ and ‘Incandescent’, the focus finally shifts to electronic and electroacoustic sound. Five of these works were recorded especially for the CD in collaboration with the Ensemble Musikfabrik and Deutschlandfunk Kultur. The Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Enno Poppe can also be heard, as well as Sebastian Berweck on the Minimoog and the Trio Splitsignals Berlin. A release of Contemporary Music Edition Coproduction Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Rundfunk Orchester and Chöre gGmbH and Deutscher Musikrat gGmbH (1–2), Coproduction Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Ensemble Musikfabrik and Deutscher Musikrat gGmbH (3–7), Production Misha Cvijovi´c (8), Production Trio Splitsignals Berlin (9)

Media Type: CD

Brand: Wergo

Publishing Year: 2026

Product number: WER 64492

Short Description: It crunches, rustles, whispers, rattles, bubbles – extended playing techniques, preparations and various everyday materials produce a seemingly endless variety of sounds in Eloain Lovis Hübner's compositions. Hübner does not understand sound as fixed material, but rather as a state or “as a living relationship between bodies – instrumental, vocal or electronic,” as booklet author Sophie Emilie Beha describes it. “The music is constantly in motion, attracting, repelling, tilting, shimmering, breaking apart and reassembling itself. It creates spaces in which listening itself becomes a physical experience: focused, fragile and yet full of energy.” Two series of works are at the heart of the CD. “crunch modes 1.0” (Schallfeld Ensemble) and “crunch modes 3.0” (Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble) initially reveal what is typical of Hübner's composing – they zoom between micro- and macrocosm and move between structure and loss of control, accumulation and decay, and radicalism and delicacy. “Trauma und Zwischenraum” [Trauma and Interstice] was composed under the influence of the coronavirus pandemic and features three very different instrumentations: in the first part of the work, the ensemble airborne extended plays the recorder, flute, prepared harp and harpsichord. In the second part, the musicians of the Arditti Quartet swap their bows for whisks, corks or toothbrushes, creating acoustic metaphors. In the third part, interpreted by the Lange//Berweck//Lorenz Trio, hybrid sound bodies such as accordion plus effects unit or Korg MS 20 Mini with electric guitar are used. In “[untitled]”, the only vocal work on the CD, AuditivVokal Dresden deals with nonsense speech, noise imitation and film language, referring to the legendary airport scene from the film “Casablanca”. A release of Contemporary Music Edition Production by Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (Radio Österreich 1) (1), Production Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble (2), Coproduction Deutschlandfunk and Deutscher Musikrat gGmbH (3–6)

Media Type: 2 CDs

Brand: Wergo

Publishing Year: 1991

Product number: WER 62042

Short Description: The music for “The English Cat” was composed between 1978 and 1982. The opera was first performed in a production by the composer in May 1983 at the Schwetzingen Music festival and since them there have been productions in many places, including Paris, New York, Bologna, Hannover, Frankfurt, Edinburgh, Santa Fe, Lucerne, and Montepulciano. The libretto consists of a freely adapted version of a short story (in letter form) by Honoré de Balzac, the original title of which is “peines de coeur d’une chatte anglaise”. The verse libretto was written by the English dramatist Edward Bond.

Media Type: 5 CDs

Brand: Wergo

Publishing Year: 1999

Product number: WER 69072

Short Description: “It is a dazzling experience to listen to this whole body of work – an experience not unlike the one many of us had some thirty years ago when we heard the first recordings of the complete works of Webern,” writes composer James Tenney in his 1988 introduction to Conlon Nancarrow’s “Studies for Player Piano”. All five volumes of Nancarrow's prize-winning recordings, with their impossible sounding and acrobatic complexities, in one CD package: 5 CDs with 140-page booklet in slipcase with the new WERGO design and more unpublished photographs. “The ‘Studies for Player Piano’ by the American Conlon Nancarrow (born in 1912) show in a playful and virtuoso manner that the use of a mechanical piano need not lead to the automation of the music nor to a flow production by the composer. The CD-set is part of the first complete record documentation of the highly original life-work of a great entertaining musical outsider of our century, a gentle loner.” (The jury of the German Record Critics’ Award on the occasion of awarding the CD-set “Conlon Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano” the International Record Award, Frankfurt 1991)

Media Type: 5 CDs

Brand: Wergo

Product number: WER 69632

Media Type: 9 CDs

Brand: Wergo

Product number: WER 69652