Ensemble Recherche
The Ensemble Recherche is a chamber ensemble largely devoted to the performance and advocacy of contemporary music. The group consists of nine members who are based in Freiburg, Germany, where they present a regular slate of concerts each season. The players also make occasional radio broadcasts and appearances on film. In addition, they are very active in music education, teaching at the International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt and offering instruction at the Ensemble Akademie Freiburg. Individual members also serve on the faculties of several major music schools in Europe. While the Ensemble Recherche is known for performing contemporary music, it offers much else in its repertory: music from the late 19th century; Impressionist music, notably works by Debussy; serial compositions, including music of the Second Vienna School; and a range of works from later avant-garde movements, including the Darmstadt School and French spectralism. Thus its repertory encompasses music by Alban Berg, Luigi Dallapiccola, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Brian Ferneyhough, and others. Yet, despite the seemingly hardcore progressive tendencies, the Ensemble Recherche also performs music written prior to 1700. The ensemble has recorded more than 50 CDs of quite varied offerings for such labels as Stradivarius, Winter & Winter, Kairos, Hat Hut Records, Sony/BMG, Accord, and Montaigne.
The Ensemble Recherche was formed in 1985, and while it can perform as a chamber ensemble, it describes its members as soloists and they certainly function that way. Indeed, the group typically performs small chamber works, such as duets, trios, and quartets and its size can contract to showcase the individual virtuosity of the players. The group will usually feature combinations involving piano, violin, viola, cello, clarinet, flute, oboe, percussion, and other instruments, as well as vocal soloists.
Since its inception, the Ensemble Recherche has premiered about 500 works by composers such as Wolfgang Rihm, Hèctor Parra, Brice Pauset, and Gérard Pesson. With the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, it helped establish and annually participate in educational and performance activities at the aforementioned Ensemble Akademie Freiburg, a yearly forum attended by musicians and composers.
Several of Ensemble Recherche's recordings have been major events in contemporary music, like the 1995 Montaigne CD of Luigi Nono's Guai ai gelidi mostri and Omaggio a György Kurtág. Later recordings are hardly less notable, as evidenced by the 2009 Winter & Winter CD Schnee, a work-in-progress by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen.
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Beat Furrer: Aria
Petra Hoffmann, Lucas Fels, Ensemble Recherche
Classical - Released by KAIROS on Jan. 1, 2002
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Henze: Hommages
Chamber Music - Released by Wergo on Mar. 1, 2010
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Donaueschinger Musiktage 2006, Vol. 3
Ensemble Recherche, Wolfgang Mitterer, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Experimental Studio of Heinrich Strobel Stiftung, Freiburg, Lucas Vis
Classical - Released by NEOS Music on Jan. 1, 2007
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Wolfgang Rihm: Musik für drei Streicher (trio recherche)
Ensemble Recherche, Melise Mellinger, Barbara Maurer, Lucas Fels
Classical - Released by KAIROS on Jan. 1, 1999
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Mark Andre: Chamber Works
Trio Accanto, Ensemble Recherche, Experimentalstudio für akustische Kunst e.V.
Classical - Released by KAIROS on Jul. 1, 2008
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Christian Mason: Zwischen den Sternen
Classical - Released by Winter and Winter on Oct. 23, 2020
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Milano Musica Festival Live, Vol. 4
Lorenzo Da Ponte, Hiromi Kikuchi, Petra Hoffmann, Ensemble Recherche
Classical - Released by Stradivarius on Jun. 7, 2011
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Elena Mendoza: Works for Ensemble
Classical - Released by KAIROS on Jun. 1, 2008
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Zimmermann: Schatten der Ideen
Chamber Music - Released by Mode Records on Jan. 1, 2002
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Emilio Pomàrico "Trios"
Classical - Released by Edition zeitklang on Jul. 1, 2014
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Salvatore Sciarrino: Sui poemi Concentrici
Classical - Released by KAIROS on Jul. 1, 2009
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Hèctor Parra: Chamber Works
Classical - Released by KAIROS on Jan. 1, 2008
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Wolfgang Rihm: Trios 1969-1994
Ensemble Recherche, Yukiko Sugawara, Teodoro Anzellotti, Ralf Santo
Classical - Released by KAIROS on Jan. 1, 2000
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Mathias Spahlinger: Works for Ensemble
Ensemble Modern, Hans Zender, Ensemble Recherche, Arditti String Quartet
Classical - Released by KAIROS on Jan. 1, 2007
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Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Présence / Intercommunicazione
Chamber Music - Released by wergo on Apr. 1, 1997
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Billone: Me .A .An & Iti Ke Mi
Ensemble Recherche, Barbara Maurer, Peter Hirsch
Classical - Released by Stradivarius on Aug. 25, 2005
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Kontra-Punkte+Refrain+Zeitmasse+Schlagtrio
Classical - Released by wergo on Jul. 2, 2010
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