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BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (with works by Eotvos & Kurtag) Kim Kashkashian (viola) Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Peter Eotvos [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/Aug/2008 ] Typically impassioned, committed performances distinguish Kim Kashkashian's New Series recording of music for viola by three great Hungarian composers. Kashkashian's intense focus, superb craftsmanship and explosive virtuosity are brought to bear on... |
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BERIO
Voci / Naturale (with Traditional - Sicilian Folksongs) Kim Kashkashian : viola, Radio Symphonieorchester Wien [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Mar/2002 ] Superb performances by Kim Kashkashian distinguish this exceptional recording |
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FALLA / GRANADOS / GUASTAVINO / GINASTERA
Asturiana: Songs from Spain and Argentina Kim Kashkashian (viola) Robert Levin (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 6/Dec/2007 ] This highly attractive CD combines folk-influenced pieces by composers from Spain & Argentina by the long-established duo of Kashkashian & Levin, whose last ECM disc won the Edison Award in 1999. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Sonaten fur Viola und Klavier Kim Kashkashian (viola) Robert Levin (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] Kim Kashkashian and Robert Levin, musical allies for twenty years, focus their shared knowledge and skills in imaginative and moving performances of these "late works" by Johannes Brahms |
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KURTAG / SCHUMANN
Hommage a R.Sch (Chamber Works) Kim Kashkashian (viola) Robert Levin (piano) Eduard Brunner (clarinet) [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/Aug/2008 ] Recorded August 1992, May & September 1994 |
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DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Sonata / Paul Chihara - Redwood / Linda Bouchard - Pourtinade Kim Kashkashian, viola, Robert Levin, piano, Robyn Schulkowsky, percussion) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] Recorded June & October 1990. Linda Bouchard's compositional jigsaw 'Pourtinade', Paul Chihara's 'Redwood', clearly-etched as the Japanese wood prints that inspired it, and Dimitri Shostakovich's spectre-haunted Opus 147 are three vastly different... |
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KIM KASHKASHIAN
Hayren Kim Kashkashian : viola / Robyn Schulkowsky : percussion / Tigran Mansurian : piano, voice [ ECM Records / CD - released 5/Oct/2003 ] Kim Kashkashian brings Armenia's leading contemporary composer to ECM New Series in a programme that also explores the roots of Armenian music. Compositions by Tigran Mansurian for viola and percussion, played by Kashkashian and Robyn Schulkowsky,... |
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GIYA KANCHELI
Morning Prayers / Abii ne viderem / Evening Prayers Kim Kashkashian (viola) / The Hilliard Ensemble / Vasiko Tevdorashvili [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2001 ] ."Top-flight performances... Excellent recording quality too." Gramophone |
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OLIVERO / MANSURIAN / KOMITAS / STEINBERG
Neharot - Works for Viola and Ensembles Kim Kashkashian (viola) / Tigran Mansurian (piano) / Munich Chamber Orchestra / Alexander Liebreich (conductor) [ ECM Records / CD - released 28/Sep/2009 ] |
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Kit Downes
Dream Life Of Debris [ ECM / CD - released 25/Oct/2019 ] Dreamlife of Debris carries forward the story begun on Kit Downes's Obsidian, extending and developing its processes and core ideas. But where Obsidian was (almost exclusively) a solo church organ album, part of Kit's plan for Dreamlife was to put... |
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Kit Downes
Dream Life Of Debris [ ECM / LP - released 25/Oct/2019 ] Dreamlife of Debris carries forward the story begun on Kit Downes's Obsidian, extending and developing its processes and core ideas. But where Obsidian was (almost exclusively) a solo church organ album, part of Kit's plan for Dreamlife was to put... |
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Kit Downes
Obsidian [ ECM / CD - released 19/Jan/2018 ] Kit Downes's previous ECM appearance was as pianist on the debut recording of Time Is A Blind Guide in 2015 and he's critically-regarded as one of the UK's outstanding young jazz talents. This recording however has little to do with "jazz", although... |
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Kit Downes, Peter Eldh, James Maddren
Vermillion [ ECM Records / CD - released 11/Feb/2022 ] Kit Downes joins forces with long-time collaborators Petter Eldh on bass and James Maddren on drums for a carefully assorted piano trio programme that treads gentle lyricism and bold creative outbursts in equal measures. Downes, whose prior ECM... |
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Kit Downes, Peter Eldh, James Maddren
Vermillion (LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 11/Feb/2022 ] Kit Downes joins forces with long-time collaborators Petter Eldh on bass and James Maddren on drums for a carefully assorted piano trio programme that treads gentle lyricism and bold creative outbursts in equal measures. Downes, whose prior ECM... |
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Konitz / Mehldau / Haden / Motian
Live at Birdland [ ECM / CD - released 23/May/2011 ] |
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VICTOR KISSINE
Between Two Waves Gidon Kremer (violin) Daniil Grishin (viola) GiedrÄ— DirvanauskaitÄ— (violoncello) [ Ecm New Series / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] "The imagery and ambience is that of honest creativity by a mind and an ear keenly tuned to the moods of his subject, and as such this is a release which can haunt and inspire." Dominy Clements, Music Web International |
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Kristjan Randalu, Ben Monder, Markku Ounaskari
Absence [ ECM / CD - released 6/Apr/0018 ] Estonian pianist Kristjan Randalu makes his ECM debut with a striking album of his own rigorous-yet-lyrical music, sensitively played by a trio formed especially for this recording, with US guitarist Ben Monder and Finnish drummer Markku Ounaskari.... |
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VALENTIN SILVESTROV
Silvestrov: Maidan Kyiv Chamber Choir, Mykola Hobdych [ ECM New Series / CD - released 30/Sep/2022 ] With Maidan, Valentin Silvestrov continues his longstanding association with ECM and this time presents a programme of choir music that is as timely as it is dear to the Ukrainian composer's heart. Like the albums Sacred Songs and Sacred Works,... |
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Art Lande / Jan Garbarek
Red Lanta [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The album title is anagram of Art Lande, the idiosyncratic US pianist making his ECM debut in a set of his own tunes, very ably partnered by Jan Garbarek on a recording described by Down Beat as "one of the finest albums ECM has yet released…It is... |
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Larry Grenadier
The Gleaners [ ECM / LP - released 15/Feb/2019 ] Over the decades, ECM has released a line of inventive albums showcasing solo double bass by such virtuosos of the instrument as Dave Holland, Barre Phillips and Miroslav Vitous. Now the label presents The Gleaners, the first album of solo bass by... |