Contemporary Music

The 40-year-old Christian Mason recently won the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition 2025, with a prize money of a 100,000 dollars. He received the award for his installation piece Invisible Threads, which hasn’t been recorded yet. To give you an impression of his work, we play you three pieces of his oeuvre, among which The Years of Light, that features no less than twelve mouth organs playing a very special part.

Playlist

1. 1. Christian Mason – Isolarion: Rituals of Resonance
      Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Gergely Madaras
   2. Christian Mason – The Years of Light
      Anna Clare Hauf, mezzo-soprano
      Marisol Montalvo, soprano
      Klangforum Wien conducted by Clark Rundell
   3. Christian Mason – Sardinian Songbook
      Ligeti Quartet