Dino Saluzzi, Jacob Young, José Saluzzi
El Viejo Caminante [ ECM / CD - due 11/Jul/2025 ] Two guitars gently envelop the uniquely evocative bandoneon of Dino Saluzzi on El Viejo Caminante, ('The Old Wanderer'). Here, the Argentinean father and son team of Dino and José María Saluzzi are joined by Norway's Jacob Young, in an album of... |
Fred Hersch Trio The Surrounding Green
The Surrounding Green [ ECM / CD - due 27/Jun/2025 ] Fred Hersch's work is marked by its inwardness, the allusiveness, the restraint. But beneath such apparent discretion bursts a raw sensuality-the flesh of the music, its pulse. - Francis Marmande, Le Monde Masterful trio interplay reliant on... |
Fred Hersch Trio The Surrounding Green
The Surrounding Green (LP) [ ECM / LP - due 27/Jun/2025 ] Fred Hersch's work is marked by its inwardness, the allusiveness, the restraint. But beneath such apparent discretion bursts a raw sensuality-the flesh of the music, its pulse. - Francis Marmande, Le Monde Masterful trio interplay reliant on... |
Signum Quartett A dark flaring (String Quartets from South Africa)
A dark flaring (String Quartets from South Africa) [ ECM New Series / CD - due 27/Jun/2025 ] A Dark Flaring marks the Signum Quartett's impressive return to ECM's New Series after debuting for the label with striking performances on Erkki-Sven Tüür's acclaimed chamber music recording Lost Prayers (2020). Here, the quartet has put together a... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Volume 6: Sonatas Nos 22-26 (Incl Appassionata) Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM / CD - released 26/May/2008 ] "Three of these middle-period works are short, but what riches they deliver, and all abundantly and robustly realised by Schiff." BBC Music Five Stars |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas Volume 4: Sonatas opp. 26, 27 and 28 (Incls 'Moonlight') Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "So, for those collecting Schiff's cycle, or for those wanting just these four sonatas, there is no need to hesitate. This one is a winner" (Fanfare September 2007) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations Andras Schiff (pianos) [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 NZ LISTENER BEST CLASSICAL Recordings 2014 |
Andrew Cyrille Quartet
The News [ ECM / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] The new album from the quartet led by one of jazz's innovators, drummer Andrew Cyrille, carries the story forward from the 2016 release The Declaration of Musical Independence, a recording which Down Beat hailed as "an unabashed exploration into... |
BEETHOVEN
The Piano Sonatas Volume 1 (Sonatas opp. 2 and 7) Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "Early Beethoven is maybe the toughest Beethoven to pull off: His ideas aren't always as compelling as those in his later music, and he has trouble saying what he means. You'd never think so, however, from András Schiff's superb first instalment of... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas Volume 3: Two Sonatas op. 49; Two Sonatas op. 14; Sonata No. 11 B flat major op. 22 Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Dec/2006 ] International critics writing on the first two volumes of András Schiff's Beethoven cycle have praised a particularly "sharp attention to detail" (Jed Distler in Gramophone on volume II) |