This 4 SACD boxed set features the highlights from the very successful Donaueschinger Musiktage 2010.

Three famous string quartets performed contemporary works by Adámek, Cassidy, Dillon, Ferneyhough, Posasa and many others.

Also included are world premieres of orchestral works by Globokar, Haas and Stroppa.

Contents:
SACD 1 [total time 59:14]
James Dillon
- String Quartet No.6
World Premiere · Simultaneous Performing · Work commissioned by SWR

[01] Arditti Quartet:
Irvine Arditti, violin · Ashot Sarkissjan, violin · Ralf Ehlers, viola · Lucas Fels, violoncello

[02] Quatuor Diotima:
Naaman Sluchin, violin · Yun-Peng Zhao, violin · Franck Chevalier, viola · Pierre Morlet, violoncello

[03] JACK Quartet:
Christopher Otto, violin · Ari Streisfeld, violin · John Pickford Richards, viola · Kevin McFarland, violoncello

Philippe Manoury
[04] Stringendo First String Quartet
World Premiere · Work commissioned by SWR
Arditti Quartet:
Irvine Arditti, violin · Ashot Sarkissjan, violin · Ralf Ehlers, viola · Lucas Fels, violoncello

SACD 2 [total time 67:06]
Brian Ferneyhough
[01] String Quartet No.6
World Premiere · Work commissioned by SWR and BBC
Arditti Quartet:
Irvine Arditti, violin · Ashot Sarkissjan, violin · Ralf Ehlers, viola · Lucas Fels, violoncello

Ondřej Adámek
[02] Lo que no’ contamo’ String Quartet No.2
World Premiere · Work commissioned by SWR
Quatuor Diotima:
Naaman Sluchin, violin · Yun-Peng Zhao, violin · Franck Chevalier, viola · Pierre Morlet, violoncello

Alberto Posadas
[03] Del reflejo de la sombra
for bass clarinet and string quartet
World Premiere · Work commissioned by SWR
Quatuor Diotima:
Naaman Sluchin, violin · Yun-Peng Zhao, violin · Franck Chevalier, viola · Pierre Morlet, violoncello
Alain Billard, bass clarinet (guest)

Aaron Cassidy
[04] Second String Quartet
World Premiere · Work commissioned by SWR
JACK Quartet:
Christopher Otto, violin · Ari Streisfeld, violin · John Pickford Richards, viola · Kevin McFarland, violoncello

SACD 3 [total time 66:37]
Marco Stroppa
- Let me sing into your ear
for amplified basset horn and chamber orchestra
World Premiere · Work commissioned by SWR
[01] A 1. Sdoppiato, con pudicizia (dédoublé, avec pudeur)
[02] A 2. Marmoreo (de marbre)
[03] A 3. Pulviscolante (comme des grains de poussière)
[04] B 1. Danzante (dansant)
[05] B 2. Irredento (irrédent)
[06] B 3. Rintanato (terré)
Michele Marelli, basset horn
Radio Kamer Filharmonie, Hilversum / Peter Eötvös

Vinko Globokar
- Radiographie d’un roman
for mixed chorus (with seven soloists), accordion solo, percussion solo, 30 instrumentalists and live electronics
World Premiere · Work commissioned by SWR
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Luka Juhart, accordion · Jean-Pierre Drouet, percussion · David Moss, voice
EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart
Aleksandra Lustig, soprano · Maria van Eldik, mezzo-soprano · Ute Wille, alto · Hubert Mayer, tenor · Mikhail Shashkov, baritone · Mikhail Nikiforov, bass
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg / Rupert Huber

SACD 4 [total time 62:17]
Simon Steen-Andersen
[01] Double up for sampler and small orchestra
World Premiere · Work commissioned by SWR
Radio Kamer Filharmonie, Hilversum / Peter Eötvös, conductor

Ivan Wyschnegradsky
[02] Arc-en-ciel Op.37
for six grand pianos in 12-tone tuning
German Premiere

[03] Arc-en-ciel II (Excerpt from Les Arcs-en-ciel, Op.52a)
for six grand pianos in 12-tone tuning (1972, unfinished)
World Premiere
Pianos: Pi-hsien Chen, Christoph Grund, Florian Hoelscher, Akiko Okabe, Sven Thomas Kiebler, Julia Vogelsänger
Sylvain Cambreling, conductor

Georg Friedrich Haas
- limited approximations
Concerto for six pianos in 12-tone tuning and orchestra
World Premiere · Work commissioned by SWR
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[06]
Pianos: Pi-hsien Chen, Christoph Grund, Florian Hoelscher, Akiko Okabe, Sven Thomas Kiebler, Julia Vogelsänger
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg / Sylvain Cambreling