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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Schnee
Chamber Music - Lançado por Winter & Winter em 17/07/2009
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Feldman: Routine Investigations, The Viola in My Life, For Franck O'Hara, I Met Heine on the Rue Fürstenberg
Classical - Lançado por naïve classique em 01/01/1994
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Mes béatitudes
Classical - Lançado por AEON em 16/12/2005
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Salvatore Sciarrino: Infinito Nero
Sonia Turchetta, Carlo Sini, Ensemble Recherche
Classical - Lançado por Kairós em 01/01/1999
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Morton Feldman: Something Wild - Music for Film
Classical - Lançado por Kairós em 01/06/2001
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Márton Illés: Watercolors and Psychograms
Classical - Lançado por Kairós em 21/02/2022
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Hugues Dufourt: L'Afrique d'après Tiepolo - L'Asie d'après Tiepolo
Classical - Lançado por Kairós em 01/06/2010
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IN NOMINE: The Witten In Nomine Broken Consort Book
Classical - Lançado por Kairós em 01/01/2004
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Laboratorio de tizas
Chamber Music - Lançado por Verso em 26/02/2013
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Isabel Mundry: Traces des Moments
Ensemble Recherche, Teodoro Anzellotti
Classical - Lançado por Kairós em 01/01/2007
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Mason: Zwischen Den Sternen
Classical - Lançado por Winter & Winter em 23/10/2020
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Widmann, Smolka, Czernowin, Andre, Zender & Riehm: Liebeslieder
Chamber Music - Lançado por wergo em 02/05/2014
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Salvatore Sciarrino: Chamber Music
Ensemble Recherche, Kwamé Ryan
Classical - Lançado por Kairós em 01/04/1998
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Berg, Eisler, Hauer, Schoenberg, Schrecker, Weill: Lichtspielmusik
Ensemble Recherche, Lothar Zagrosek
Classical - Lançado por naïve classique em 24/03/2014
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Wolpe in Jerusalem
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Ensemble Recherche, Johannes Kalitzke, Werner Herbers
Chamber Music - Lançado por Mode Records em 01/01/2006
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Ferneyough: Funérailles
Arditti String Quartet, Christian Dierstein, Irvine Arditti, Ensemble Recherche, Lucas Vis
Classical - Lançado por Stradivarius em 11/06/2006
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Gabriel Erkoreka: Kaiolan
Ensemble Recherche, Martin Fahlenbock, Christian Dierstein
Classical - Lançado por Verso em 03/07/2015
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Ferneyhough: Chamber Music
Classical - Lançado por Stradivarius em 14/06/2005
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Wolfgang Rihm: Sphäre um Sphäre / Frage
Ensemble Recherche, Salome Kammer, Lucas Vis
Classical - Lançado por wergo em 01/01/2006
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Paredes: Señales
Irvine Arditti, Alberto Rosado, Ensemble Recherche, Adrián Sandi, Ensemble Signal, Brad Lubman
Chamber Music - Lançado por Mode Records em 03/06/2016
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Wolfgang Rihm: Image-Echo / Bilder-Echo
Chamber Music - Lançado por wergo em 06/05/2022
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