Herbert Henck: piano

Meredith Monk: vocal, piano, synthesizer, Wayne Hankin: vocal, keyboards, hurdy gurdy, Naaz Hosseini: vocal, violin, Nurit Tilles: piano, vocal, keyboards, Robert Een, Ching Gonzales, Andrea Goodman, Nicky Paraiso, Johanna Arnold, John Eppler: vocal, Edmund Niemann: piano

András Schiff, piano
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Meredith Monk - voice
Theo Bleckmann - voice
Allison Easter - voice
Katie Geissinger - voice
Ching Gonzalez - voice
Allison Sniffin - voice, piano, synthesizer, viola, violin
John Hollenbeck - voice, percussion, melodica, piano
Bohdan Hilash - clarinets

RIAS Kammerchor & Münchener Kammerorchester
directed by Alexander Liebreich

Tigran Mansurian has created a Requiem dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide that occurred in Turkey from 1915 to 1917. Co-commissioned by the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the RIAS Choir Berlin, Mansurian’s Requiem reconciles the sound and sensibility of his country’s traditions with those of Western practices, the combination of ancient Armenian religious and secular music with the Latin Requiem text “giving rise to something unexpected,” the composer says. This is profoundly moving contemporary composition, illuminated by the “glow of Armenian modality,” as Paul Griffiths puts it in his booklet essay. The work is a milestone for Mansurian, widely acknowledged as Armenia’s greatest composer. The Los Angeles Times has described his music as that “in which deep cultural pain is quieted through an eerily calm, heart-wrenching beauty.”

Danish String Quartet - Frederik Øklund: violin; Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen: violin; Asbjørn Nørgaard: viola; Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin: violoncello

Johann Sebastian Bach: Fugue in c-sharp minor
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet no.14
Béla Bartók: String Quartet No.1

Momo Kodama: piano
Mito Chamber Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa, conductor

T.Hosokawa: Lotus under the moonlight
W.A.Mozart: Concerto. No 23 in A Major