Ensemble Modern
Type
Group
Location
🇩🇪 Germany
Formed
1980
Members
Catherine Milliken, Christiane Albert, Christopher Brandt, Corin Long, Daryl Smith, Detlef Tewes, Dietmar Wiesner, Eva Böcker, Freya Ritts-Kirby, Hermann Kretzschmar, Hilary Sturt, Jagdish Mistry, Johannes Rupe, Josef Juhasz, Jürgen Ruck, Manon Morris, Mats Bergström, Megumi Kasakawa, Michael M. Kasper, Pascal Pons, Rainer Müller-van Recum, Rainer Römer, Ralf Ehlers, Roland Diry, Rumi Ogawa-Helferich, Sava Stoianov, Simon Breyer, Susan Knight, Thomas Fichter, Tom Dunn, Ueli Wiget, Uwe Dierksen, Valentin Garvie, William Forman, Wim Vos, Wolfgang Bender, Wolfgang Stryi
Albums42
- With These HandsJan Bang & Ensemble Modern2026
- PrimerHainbach & Ensemble Modern2025
- AION For Large Ensemble, Artificial Intelligence and ElectronicsEnsemble Modern, Experimentalstudio des SWR & Peter Tilling2024
- 2022
- PassionPascal Dusapin; Ensemble Modern, Franck Ollu, Keren Motseri, Georg Nigl, Vocalconsort Berlin2020
- Semantical InvestigationsClemens Gadenstätter; Ensemble Nikel, L'Instant Donné, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, Krassimir Sterev, Ernst Kovacic, Yaron Deutsch, Sian Edwards, Etienne Siebens2019
- Mahagonny. Ein Songspiel / Chansons des Quais / Kleine DreigroschenmusikKurt Weill; Ensemble Modern, HK Gruber, Ute Gfrerer, Winnie Böwe, amarcord2019
- Die Schrecklich-Gewaltigen Kinder / O DaddyRolf Riehm; Piia Komsi, Ensemble Modern, Hermann Bäumer, SWF-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden, Kazimierz Kord2018
- Lieder von einer Insel / Orpheus Behind the Wire / Fünf MadrigäleHans Werner Henze; Ensemble Modern, SWR Vokalensemble, Marcus Creed2017
- Bartók / Eötvös / LigetiBéla Bartók, Péter Eötvös, György Ligeti; Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Péter Eötvös2012
- VigiliaWolfgang Rihm; ChorWerk Ruhr, Ensemble Modern & Rupert Huber2010
- WEISSE RADIERUNG / 'Mit etwas Extremismus' und einer Muskel-Coda / Air mit 'Sphinxes' / dasselbe ist nicht dasselbeNicolaus A. Huber; Ensemble Modern, Jukka‐Pekka Saraste, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Peter Rundel, Rainer Römer2010
- PiùEnsemble Modern, Johannes Schwarz2009
- utp_Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto with Ensemble Modern20085.00 ★
- Furioso / Gegen unendlich / Fugitive beauté / Apo doMathias Spahlinger; Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche & Arditti String Quartet2007
- Concertini / KontrakadenzHelmut Lachenmann; Ensemble Modern2006
- Complete Choral WorksGyörgy Kurtág; SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Ensemble Modern, Marcus Creed2006
- Theseus Games / Earth DancesBirtwistle; Ensemble Modern, Brabbins, Valade, Ensemble Modern Orchestra, Boulez2004
- PalimpsestsGeorge Benjamin; Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Modern Orchestra2004
- City Life / New York Counterpoint / Eight Lines / Violin PhaseSteve Reich; Ensemble Modern2003
- Schwankungen am RandHelmut Lachenmann; Péter Eötvös, Ensemble Modern2002
- EislermaterialHeiner Goebbels; Ensemble Modern, Josef Bierbichler2002
- Jagden und FormenWolfgang Rihm; Ensemble Modern, Dominique My20024.00 ★
- Eötvös: zeroPoints / Beethoven: Symphony no. 5Eötvös, Beethoven; Göteborgs Symfoniker, Ensemble Modern, Péter Eötvös2001
- Traffic ContinuesFred Frith & Ensemble Modern2000
- Die DreigroschenoperKurt Weill; Ensemble Modern, HK Gruber1999
- Music for 18 MusiciansSteve Reich; Ensemble Modern19993.00 ★
- Shaker Loops / Phrygian Gates / Chamber SymphonyJohn Adams; Ensemble Modern1997
- Antiphonen / Omnia tempus habent / PrésenceBernd Alois Zimmermann; Tabea Zimmermann, Ensemble Modern, Hans Zender1996
- Schubert’s Winterreise: A Composed InterpretationHans Zender; Hans Peter Blochwitz, Ensemble Modern1995
- The Chamber Concertos / Kammermusiken 1-7Paul Hindemith; Ensemble Modern, Markus Stenz1995
- Cello Concerto / Piano Concerto / Chamber ConcertoGyörgy Ligeti; Ensemble Modern1994
- 16 DancesJohn Cage; Ensemble Modern, Ingo Metzmacher1994
- String Quartet / Double Concerto / Self-Referential Songs and Realistic VirelaisBenedict Mason; Arditti String Quartet, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern1994
- A Portrait of Charles IvesCharles Ives; Ensemble Modern, Ingo Metzmacher1993
- ExoticaKagel; Ensemble Modern, Mauricio Kagel1993
- Pierrot Lunaire / Kammersymphonie, op. 9Arnold Schoenberg; Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Ensemble Modern, Péter Eötvös1993
- StudiesConlon Nancarrow - Ensemble Modern, Ingo Metzmacher1993
- For Samuel BeckettMorton Feldman; Ensemble Modern, Arturo Tamayo1992
- VariétéMauricio Kagel; Ensemble Modern, Mauricio Kagel1992
- Berlin im LichtKurt Weill; Ensemble Modern, HK Gruber1990
- ЛюлкаEnsemble Modern, Sava Stoianov
Live Albums3
- Palimpsests / A Mind of Winter / At First Light / Canon & FugueGeorge Benjamin; Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Modern Orchestra, Anna Prohaska, Sir George Benjamin2024
- Ensemble Modern Plays Frank Zappa: Greggery Peccary & Other PersuasionsFrank Zappa; Ensemble Modern, Jonathan Stockhammer2003
- RequiemHenze; Ueli Wiget, Håkan Hardenberger, Ensemble Modern, Ingo Metzmacher1994
Compilations1
- Songs / Orchestral Sets / From the Steeples and MountainsCharles Ives; Marni Nixon, John McCabe, Ensemble Modern, Ingo Metzmacher2008
Bootlegs3
- 2009-09-16: Sacrum Profanum Festival, Laznia Nowa Theatre, Cracow, PolandGeorge Benjamin; Ensemble Modern & Franck Ollu
- 2009-09-17: Sacrum Profanum Festival, Laznia Nowa Theatre, Cracow, PolandMark‐Anthony Turnage; Ensemble Modern, Stefan Asbury