Drawing close to the point of complete fusion into a 'single musical instrument': Uro Rojko's chamber music portrays very special conflicting relationships. Newly remastered.

While hardly any book about music history mentions Soler more extensively than in a footnote, particularly Spanish musicians love his sonatas, which are often performed additionally to the big works,... more

Five works by Lee and Eagle explore reveals connections between the sound worlds of the chamber and electro acoustic music of our time and the intimate approach to listening as was the musical... more

"Tierkreis" [Zodiac] is one of the most beautiful and accessible compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen, which he issued in several different arrangements, allowing each interpreter to create his or... more

In 1990 John Cage met sho player Mayumi Miyata, who requested he write a piece for the ancient Japanese mouth organ. Cage was deeply impressed by the sound of this instrument and in 1991 he wrote... more

When the Korean composer Isang Yun died in Berlin in 1995 at the age of 78, there still was a touch of the exotic in his oeuvre which was characterized by the cultural fusion between Asia and Europe.... more

Erik Satie, the French musical poet and inventor of "furniture music," provoked fierce criticism from his contemporaries, but also inspired Mike Svoboda to this special homage. Close to the pulse of... more

On the occasion of Sofia Gubaidulina's 75th birthday on 24 October 2006, WERGO publishes a CD with chamber music where - besides Julius Berger and Stefan Hussong, two well-known interpreters of new... more

"Music," says Toshio Hosokawa, "is the place where notes and silence meet." This identifies his aesthetic concept as a genuinely Japanese one. It is found both in Japanese landscape painting and in... more