Ensemble für Neue Musik

Johannes Schöllhorn (*1962) tinto (2024)

Martin Smolka (*1959) Hudba hudbička (Music sweet music, 1988)

Roderick de Man (*1941) Le clavecin illuminé

György Ligeti (1923–2006) Hamburg Concerto for Horn and Chamber Orchestra (2004)

Sarah Kuppinger soprano
Solange Komenda recorder
Daria Vorontsova harpsichord
Jingxuan Yang horn

Ensemble for New Music of the Karlsruhe University of Music
Conductor Prof. Manuel Nawri

Johannes Schöllhorn (*1962) tinto (2024)
Some wind passages are reminiscent of a solemn chorale, others sound almost a little jazzy with syncopated rhythms shifted against each other. 

Martin Smolka (*1959) Hudba hudbička (Music sweet music, 1988)
A five-year-old boy pushes a small merry-go-round. His teacher is sitting on it. She is young and golden-haired. The boy slips and stumbles, but the merry-go-round keeps on turning with a squeak. The boy calls out loudly: "Slyšíš? Hudba hudbička!" "Do you hear that? Music, sweet little music!"
This sweet little music has an unusual cast: It includes a soprano, a recorder and a saxophone, among others. 

Roderick de Man (*1941) Le clavecin illuminé 
The solo harpsichord is illuminated in a variety of ways: Some phrases lead into an impulse from a percussion instrument; there are small dialogues between harpsichord and harp, the winds are used with great variety and the range of string colours is just as wide, from long legato notes to repetitions and pizzicato.

György Ligeti (1923-2006) Hamburg Concerto for Horn and Chamber Orchestra (2004)
"In this piece I experimented with non-harmonic, very unusual sound spectra. In the small orchestra there are 4 natural horns, each of which can produce overtones 2 to 16. I can provide some horns or each horn with different fundamental tones. I can compose new sound spectra from the overtones of these fundamental tones. These harmonies sound oblique in relation to the harmonic spectra; they are harmonies that have not been used before. I have devised oblique consonant harmonies, as well as dissonant ones with complex beats. The degree of blending of the horn tones is particularly high, and the two clarinettists play basset horns to saturate the sound; the sound mixture sounds soft, even the spectra with the strange beats." György Ligeti