CDs | Ensemble Musikfabrik

Ian Wilson: Lost Voices

Redakteur 1 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:01:05 +0000

Lost voices for voice, cello, three violas and two percussionists
Adamovic 1 – The fish-eyed man
Interview 2 – Muscles rigid as a rock
Interview 6 – I noticed my hand was being weird
Interview 8 – It’s the phones

Dirk Rothbrust, percussion
Yukari Yagi, percussion
Axel Porath, viola
Hannah Weirich, viola
Justyna Sliwa, viola
Dirk Wietheger, cello

Lotte Betts-Dean, mezzo-soprano
Ian Wilson, conductor and composer

Texts: four poems by Draginja Adamović (Serbia, 1925-2000)
and transcriptions of excerpts from a number of interviews undertaken by Nora Fischer and Ian Wilson

Recorded live at Ensemble Musikfabrik Studio, 16th December 2024
Produced by Ian Wilson und David Stalling
Mastered by David Stalling bei Stille & Klang, Co. Westmeath, Irland
Noise reduction by Lazar Arsović

Created with funds from the Arts Council of Ireland

Misha Cvijović: Vida

Redakteur 1 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:27:24 +0000

Lica Persefone / The Faces of Persephone. Two scenes for orchestra
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Enno Poppe, conductor

Tikkun Olam for string quartet
Cirque du Soleil for trumpet, bass clarinet, marimba, vibraphone, and double bass
Penumbra for saxophone, percussion, electric guitar, piano, accordion, and double bass
Carbon for baritone saxophone, trombone, piano, and cello
Emotional Logic – Anger for flute, bass clarinet, trumpet, percussion, piano, violin, and violoncello
Ensemble Musikfabrik
Gregor A. Mayrhofer, conductor

Iktsuarpok for Minimoog Solo and Tape
Minimoog Quartet/ Sebastian Berweck

Incandescent for trumpet, analog synthesizers, and electronics
Trio Splitsignals Berlin

New release from WERGO
Edition Zeitgenössische Musik des Deutschen Musikrats

Turgut Erçetin: in-between

Mareike — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:57:03 +0000

Thousand Dead Bodies Under My Bed, All Cloaked with the Breath of the Living for three simultaneous chamber ensembles
Das Phonem zwischen zwei Wörtern (a) Duo for cornet and trombone
Das Phonem zwischen zwei Wörtern (b) for simultaneous baroque ensemble and large orchestra
Das Phonem zwischen zwei Wörtern (c) for oboe/English horn, clarinet, bassoon and piano
Resonances (b) for solo clarinet and string trio

Ensemble Musikfabrik / Conductor: Aaron Cassidy
ELISION Ensemble / SWR Symphonieorchester / Conductor: Brad Lubman

Michael Hersch: Medea

Mareike — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:39:22 +0000

I 9’16
II 14’20
III 11’09
IV 12’43

Sarah Maria Sun, soprano
Schola Heidelberg
Ensemble Musikfabrik
Bas Wiegers, conductor

Commissioned by Ensemble Musikfabrik and Kunststiftung NRW
A Westdeutsche Rundfunk Cologne Production, 2023
Recorded on 3 June 2023 at Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal,
Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne, Germany

Executive producer: Patrick Hahn
Recording producer: Leonard Loock
Recording engineer: Jens Digel
Recording assistant & editing: Harald Oberhäuser
Mastering: Dirk Franken

Photos: Janet Sinica
Cover design: Tim Holt
Drawing p. 4: Kevin Tuttle, Medea, 2023, graphite on paper
P. 7: Michael Hersch, sketch from MEDEA manuscript, 2022
Design & layout: Marc Wolf, marcjwolf.com

Special thanks to Yelena Baraz and Jhumpa Lahiri for permission to include
an excerpt from their forthcoming translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Licensed by WDR mediagroup GmbH

Nina Šenk: November Night

Mareike — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:00:52 +0000

Stump the Guesser 19’31
November Night 16’30
T.E.R.R.A. II 13’38
Baca II 09’19

Ensemble Musikfabrik
Ensemble InterContemporain
Ensemble Modern
Klangforum Wien
Elena Schwarz
David Niemann
Vimbayi Kaziboni

Recording year: 2024
Release date: 07.11.2025

Elnaz Seyedi: a sun of one’s own

Mareike — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:25:05 +0000

1. nach neuen meeren / 8’23”
2. sense of a possibility / 17’04”
3. absolute snow / 16’47”
4. fragments inside / 14’47”
5. a sun of one’s own / 12’18”

+ videos (online):
a very close look from far away / 13’05”
ps – nach spuren / 49’46”

Heather Roche, clarinet
Eva Zöllner, accordion
Alice Belugou, harp
David Eggert, violoncello
Trio Aventure
Ensemble Musikfabrik
Gregor A. Mayrhofer, conductor
Kommas Ensemble
Lautaro Mura Fuentealba, conductor
Tobias Klich, guitar
Séverine Ballon, violoncello
Chen Chengwen, video feed
Miako Klein, Paetzold flute
Sarah Saviet, violin
Rie Watanabe, objects
Joachim Heintz, sound direction

A publication of the Edition Zeitgenössische Musik
All texts © Deutscher Musikrat
Co-productions of Deutschlandfunk and Deutscher Musikrat gGmbH (1–5)
© + p 2024 WERGO, a division of SCHOTT MUSIC & MEDIA GmbH, M

Age Veeroos: Outlines of the Night

Mareike — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 12:56:58 +0000

1. Keha (2023) for bass clarinet / 13’44”
2. Outlines of the Night (2023) for ensemble / 09’41”
3. Schattenseele (2019) for violin and electronics 06’52”
4. Ich sehe Federn wachsen im Sand der Wüsten … (2021/2022) for ensemble / 07’14”
5. Fantasia “A Threadbare Chant” (2022) for bass flute and synthesizer / 13’39”
6. Vaatenurk (2022) for ensemble / 10’25”
7. Ma olen suur kuu su silmapiiril (2020) for percussion solo / 09’29”

Maria Jönsson, Michele Marelli, Talvi Hunt, There Are No More Four Seasons, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble U:, Clement Power, Arash Yazdani

Recording Date:
various, 2020-2024
Recording Venue:
various
Release:
July 2024

Simone Santi Gubini: The Black Exposition

Redakteur 1 — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:15:51 +0000

Schmelzpunkt (2013)
for flute, bass clarinet & two pianos for one player

Ensemble Musikfabrik
(Susanne Peters, flute · Carl Rosman, bass clarinet · Benjamin Kobler, piano)

Klangrelief III (2023)
unison duo for amplified double bass clarinet, amplified baritone saxophone and foot pedal

Carl Rosman, double bass clarinet
Patrick Stadler, baritone saxophone
Simone Santi Gubini, foot pedal

Die schwarze Ausstellung (2018)
for amplified orchestra with nine instruments and foot pedal

Ensemble Musikfabrik
(Carl Rosman, bass clarinet · Joshua Hyde, baritone saxophone
James Aylward, bassoon · Rostislav Kozhevnikov & Hannah Weirich, violin
Dirk Wietheger & Adya Khanna-Fontenla, violoncello · Florentin Ginot, doublebass
Dirk Rothbrust, percussion · Gregor A. Mayrhofer, conducter)

Vladimir Guicheff Bogacz: Viscera

Redakteur 1 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 10:15:44 +0000

1 Vos, seguime (2018) 20:03
for double trio

Ensemble Musikfabrik: Peter Veale, oboe · Melvyn Poore, tuba · Dirk Rothbrust, percussion · Benjamin Kobler, piano ·
Hannah Weirich, violine · Dirk Wietheger, violoncello

2-4 igualito, igualito, igualito (2018) 11:06
Tre pezzi sullo stesso ritmo
for trio

2 I
3 II
4 III

Trio Catch: Boglárka Pecze, clarinet · Eva Boesch, violoncello · Sun-Young Nam, piano

ELIS HALLIK: Born in Waves

Redakteur 1 — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 07:41:34 +0000

Some Paths Will Always Lead Through the Shadows (2021) 08:27
for flute/bass flute, bass clarinet, piano, two violins, viola and cello
Concerto for two violins and string orchestra (“Stoicheia”) (2015) 10:10
To Become a Tree (2016) 09:36
for flute/bass flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, prepared piano, violin and cello
Doch manchmal erhellt sich die Seele, wenn sie frohe Menschen denkt, dunkelgoldene Frühlingstage (2019) 09:50
for soprano, flute/bass flute and live electronics
Born in Waves (2021) 08:11
for bass clarinet, trumpet, tuba, piano, percussion, violin, viola and cello
Touching the First Sounds (2019) 08:59
for alto saxophone solo, flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, viola and cello
Impacts (2014) 04:08
for cello and double bass
Like a Swan (2022) 10:39
for flute/bass flute, bass clarinet, piano, violin, viola and cello
Above (2022) 07:51
for two or more instruments