Despite the complexities within the compositions, and also the rigorous demands they make on performers, the impact of Xenakis’s music on the listener is always direct.
The music is still alive with “the whole agony of my youth and the Resistance”, but there is an increasing richness of expression, a spirit of exuberance and exhilaration, a new romanticism, what seems to be a celebration of the sheer joy of music by a composer at the height of his powers and in full command of his medium, his destiny.
This production received the quarterly German Record Critics' Award.

Cello – Valentin Erben
Composed By – Alfred Schnittke, Wolfgang Rihm
Ensemble – Alban Berg Quartett
Viola – Thomas Kakuska
Violin [1st Violin] – Günter Pichler
Violin [2nd Violin] – Gerhard Schulz

Total Time: 50'54"
Recorded at: Messe Rheinlandsaal, Köln 28th May/2nd June 1997 (1); Kölner Philharmonie 8th/9th June 2004 (2).
℗ 2006 Budapest Music Center Records

Composed By – Tristan Murail
Conductor – Pierre-André Valade
Edited By – Pierre-André Valade, Sébastien Naves, Tristan Murail
Electric Guitar – Seth Josel (tracks: 2), Wiek Hijmans (tracks: 2)
Interviewee – Pierre-André Valade
Interviewer – Pierre Michel
Liner Notes [For Sillages] – Tristan Murail
Liner Notes [Interview Translation English] – Charles Johnston
Liner Notes [Translation For Sillages English] – Charles Johnston
Mastered By – Sébastien Naves
Orchestra – BBC Symphony Orchestra (tracks: 1), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic (tracks: 2, 3)
Photography By – Dolorès Marat
Recorded By – Netherlands Radio (tracks: 2, 3), Simon Hancock (tracks: 1)
- Le Partage des eaux (1995-1996) pour grand orchestre
- Contes cruels (2007) pour deux guitares électriques et orchestre
- Siliages (1985) pour grand orchestre
First recordings
Publishers: Editions H. Lemoine
Recordings: 5/12/2002, Maida Vale Studio 1, BBC, London (1);
15-19/06/2010, Muziekcentrum van de Omroep, Hilversum (2, 3)

Les Consolations is a premiere recording, played in concert quite regularly. Includes booklet with text by Helmut Lachenmann.

Olivier Messiaen composed his eight-movement Quartet for the End of Time in 1940 while imprisoned in Germany. He drew his inspiration from the Apocalypse written by Saint John the Evangelist, one of the few works he was allowed to keep in the camp. Het Collectif explores this work, never forgetting that it was at the heart of this harsh winter of war, in a context of misfortune, confinement and deprivation, that Messiaen had an angel speak, promising paradise and the end of time... Stalag VIIIa, composed by Tristan Murail, whose title refers to Olivier Messiaen's place of detention in Görlitz in 1940, completes this programme.

Composed By – Karlheinz Stockhausen
Electronics [Electronic Part] – Gottfried Michael Koenig, Karlheinz Stockhausen
Percussion – Christoph Caskel
Piano, Percussion – David Tudor
Composed By – Karlheinz Stockhausen
Electronics [Electronic Part] – Gottfried Michael Koenig, Karlheinz Stockhausen
Percussion – Christoph Caskel
Piano, Percussion – David TudorComposed 1959/60
Aufnahme (Recorded): 1960 Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Köln (Cologne)
First performed in this version on June 11th 1960, at the 34th Word Music Festival of the IGNM in Cologne.
This is the "concert version" of "Kontakte", meant for public performance; another version for electronic sounds was meant for radio broadcast by the composer.
Booklet in German, French & English.

Chicago based pianist Mabel Kwan (Ensemble Dal Niente) releases the premiere recording of Georg Friedrich Haas' Trois Hommages, a beguiling work for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart and played by one performer. Dedicated to Steve Reich, Gyorgy Ligeti, and Josef Matthias Hauer, Haas' expansive work deconstructs stylistic elements of prominent modern compositional aesthetics as well as the central association the piano has with equal temperament and its impact on music history.