In this 4 SACD set, Neos music presents the first Salzburg Biennale, the new contemporary music festival which took place over four weekends in March 2009.

The festival brought about many musical encounters and the collection includes works by Cage, Furrer, Hosokawa, Huber, Kurtág, Ligeti, Reich, Sotelo, Ustvolskaya and Yeznikian.

Contents:
SACD 1 [70:55]
Beat Furrer
[01] Spur for piano and string quartet
Hsin-Huei Huang, piano · Stadler Quartett

Mauricio Sotelo
[02] Audéeis for voice and string quartet
Arcángel, flamenco voice · Stadler Quartett

Beat Furrer
[03] Xenos for ensemble
Ensemble Contrechamps / Beat Furrer

György Kurtág
…quasi una fantasia… Op.27/1 for piano and instrument groups
[04] Introduzione: Largo  
[05] Presto minaccioso e lamentoso: molto agitato  
[06] Recitativo: Grave, disperato  
[07] Aria – Adagio molto: Lontano, calmo, appena sentito  
Nicolas Hodges, piano
Ensemble Contrechamps / Beat Furrer

György Kurtág
[08] What is the Word Op.30b for alto, voices and ensemble
Piroska Molnár, alto · Vokalensemble Zürich
Ensemble Contrechamps / Beat Furrer

SACD 2 [76:35]
Steve Reich
Different Trains for string quartet and pre-recorded tape
[01] I.  America – Before the War  
[02] II. Europe – During the War  
[03] III. After the War  
Stadler Quartett

György Ligeti
Drei Stücke für zwei Klaviere
[04] I. Monument  
[05] II. Selbstportrait mit Reich und Riley (und Chopin ist auch dabei)  
[06] III. Bewegung  
Miki Skuta, piano · Nora Skuta, piano

György Ligeti
[07] Continuum for harpsichord
Florian Birsak, harpsichord

Steve Reich
Sextet for percussion and keyboards
[08] Part I    
[09] Part II   
[10] Part III  
[11] Part IV   
[12] Part V    
OENM: Oesterreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik


SACD 3 [68:08]
Toshio Hosokawa
[01] Landscape V for shô and string quartet
Mayumi Miyata, shô
Quatuor Diotima

John Cage
[02] TWO3 for shô and conches
Mayumi Miyata, shô
Arabella Hirner, conches

Galina Ustvolskaya
Composition No.2 “dies irae”, for eight double basses, wooden block and piano
[03] I           
[04] II          
[05] III         
[06] IV         
[07] V          
[08] VI         
[09] VII        
[10] VIII       
[11] IX         
[12] X           
Noriko Shiozaki, piano
Mozarteumorchester Salzburg / Johannes Kalitzke

Toshio Hosokawa
Cloud and Light for shô and orchestra
[13] 1. Wolken schweben im Himmel     
[14] 2. Vorgefühl des Schattens     
[15] 3. Wolken und Licht     
[16] 4. Dunkle Wolken und kleiner Sturm     
[17] 5. Vorgefühl des Lichts     
[18] 6. Welle und Licht     
[19] 7. Verklärung     
[20] 8. Coda     
Mayumi Miyata, shô
Mozarteumorchester Salzburg / Johannes Kalitzke


SACD 4 [60:31]
Klaus Huber
Kammerkonzert “Intarsi”. In memoriam Witold Lutosławski, for piano and 17 instrumentalists
[01] I. Intarsi  
[02] II. Pianto – Specchio di Memorie  
[03] Piccola cadenza contrapuntistica (wie ein Hauch)  
[04] Seconda cadenza contrapuntistica  
[05] III. Unità! (rondissimo)  
[06] IV. Giardino Arabo (epilogo)  
Nicolas Hodges, piano
OENM: Oesterreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik / Arturo Tamayo

Franck Christoph Yeznikian
[07] Harnischstriemen (Faltenachsen), for cimbalom and ensemble
Luigi Gaggero, cimbalom
OENM: Oesterreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik / Arturo Tamayo

Klaus Huber
Tempora Concerto for violin and small orchestra
[08] I. Genesis  
[09] II. De Natura  
[10] III. Quod libet – Quod tacet – Quod nescitur 
Frank Stadler, violin
Mozarteumorchester Salzburg / Arturo Tamayo