Danish String Quartet
Last Leaf [ ECM New Series / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] "This recording of sublime beauty consists of old hymns, such as Now Found is the Fairest of Roses (1732), and a variety folk songs, all exquisitely set for string quartet." AudAud Best of 2017 |
Danish String Quartet
Last Leaf (LP) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 22/Sep/2017 ] They are widely recognised as the most exciting young string quartet of the present moment, bringing new insights to contemporary composition and core classical repertoire. In parallel, they have also made surprising and impressive forays into the... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / ALFRED SCHNITTKE / J. S. BACH
Beethoven/Schnittke/Bach - Prism II Danish String Quartet [ ECM / CD - released 13/Sep/2020 ] "A revelatory connected soundscape in which Beethoven's introspection feels more unsettling than usual." BBC Music Chamber Choice November 2020 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / BELA BARTOK / J. S. BACH
Beethoven/Bartok/Bach - Prism III Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] "...they're thought-provoking, and often startlingly beautiful. And anyway, perhaps one shouldn't draw too close to the music." Gramophone |
THOMAS ADES / ER NORGARD / HANS ABRAHAMSEN
Ades: Arcadiana / Norgard: Quartetto Breve / Abrahamsen: 10 Preludes The Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 15/Apr/2016 ] "The Danish are remarkable, as ever - capable of intense blend, extreme dynamic variation (in which they seem glued together), perfect intonation even on harmonics, and constant vitality and flow" Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Chamber |
Dave Holland Quartet
Conference Of The Birds [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 1/Jul/2022 ] It had been preceded by ECM duo albums with Barre Phillips and with Derek Bailey as well as the cooperative band Circle's great Paris Concert, but Conference of the Birds, recorded in 1972, was Dave Holland's first album as a full-fledged leader. An... |
Dave Holland Quartet
Conference Of The Birds (LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] It had been preceded by ECM duo albums with Barre Phillips and with Derek Bailey as well as the cooperative band Circle's great Paris Concert, but Conference of the Birds, recorded in 1972, was Dave Holland's first album as a full-fledged leader. An... |
David Darling
Cello [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The modestly titled Cello has a cover image by Jean-Luc Godard and much of the music featured here gradually made its way into the great director's films. This music paints images in the mind. Blogger Tyran Grillo wrote that "David Darling's Cello is... |
TRADITIONAL
Transeamus (English Carols and Motets) David James (countertenor), Rogers Covey-Crump, Steven Harrold (tenor), Gordon Jones (baritone) / The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] Having recorded more than twenty albums for ECM since the mid-80s, The Hilliard Ensemble caps its discography before retirement (at the end of 2014) with a final release: 'Transeamus', a collection of polyphony - in two, three and four parts - from... |
David Virelles & The Nosotros Ensemble
Gnosis (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 15/Sep/2017 ] In this vivid and exciting project, the Santiago-raised and New York-based pianist-composer David Virelles looks towards one melting pot from the vantage point of another. A far-reaching work with deep cultural roots, Gnosis speaks of... |
KEITH JARRETT
Ritual (LP) Dennis Russell Davies (piano) [ ECM / LP - released 1/Feb/1982 ] Ritual is an album of contemporary classical music written by Keith Jarrett and performed by on solo piano by Dennis Russell Davies which was recorded and released on the ECM label in 1977. |
GIYA KANCHELI
Kancheli: Themes From the Songbook Dino Saluzzi (bandoneon), Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Gidon Kremer (violin) & Jansug Kahkidze (voice/conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] A very special album for Giya Kancheli's 75th birthday. When starting out on his career as a creator of symphonic and chamber music, the Georgian composer also wrote much incidental music for the theatre and the cinema. Though still little-known in... |
Dominic Miller
Absinthe [ ECM / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] With Absinthe, his second release for ECM, guitarist Dominic Miller has created an album colored by a distinct atmosphere. "The first thing that came to me before I wrote any tunes was the title," he says. "Living in the South of France... |
Dominic Miller
Vagabond [ ECM / CD - released 21/Apr/2023 ] Dominic Miller has been called "a great, serene storyteller" by Peter Ruedi in the Swiss weekly Weltwoche, and Vagabond, the guitarist's third recording for ECM, might prove his most poetic tale to date, as he creates striking melancholy textures... |
Old and New Dreams (Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell)
Old and New Dreams (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 5/Nov/2012 ] Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell came together to celebrate the work of mentor Ornette Coleman, but the repertoire of their Old and New Dreams quartet soon blossomed into a project of much wider scope, addressing also the... |
Don Cherry / Ed Blackwell
El Corazón [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] "The trumpeter sketches a succession of melodies and moods around and over the rich textural detail and earthy solidity of Mr Blackwell's drumming," noted Robert Palmer in The New York Times. "The melodies come from Spain, Africa, Jamaica and the... |
Eberhard Weber
The Colours of Chloe [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/May/1988 ] Recorded December 1973. |
Eberhard Weber
The Following Morning [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] The interaction of Eberhard Weber's highly distinctive bass and Rainer Brüninghaus' lyrical piano is at the heart of a number of popular ECM recordings, starting with Weber's Colours of Chloë, and extending through the discographies of the Colours... |
Eberhard Weber
Once Upon A Time Live in Avignon [ ECM / CD - released 29/Nov/2021 ] Once Upon A Time Live in Avignon, recorded at Avignon's Théâtre des Halles in August 1994, presents Eberhard Weber's unique approach to the solo recital. The album sees the bassist balancing compositions from his albums Orchestra and Pendulum with a... |
Eddie Gomez / John Abercrombie / Jack DeJohnette / Lester Bowie
New Directions [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] New Directions found drummer/pianist Jack DeJohnette reflecting on the multiple routes his musical life had taken and summarizing them in a single band. "My idea was to put together a cast of unlikely characters". He'd worked with Eddie Gomez in the... |