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HENRIK ØDEGAARD
Music By Henrik Ødegaard Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] On this newest endeavour, the Vox Clamantis choir, under the direction of Jaan-Eik Tulve, turns its attention towards Norwegian composer Henrik Ødegaard with a fine-drawn programme of liturgical choral music. In a subtle sleight of hand, Ødegaard's... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms / Schumann Yuuko Shiokawa (violin), Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] After tackling the sonatas for violin and piano of Bach, Busoni and Beethoven in 2017 - a "thoughtfully determined and subtly interconnected programme" according to Strad magazine -, the duo of Yuuko Shiokawa and András Schiff returns with striking... |
MATHIAS DUPLESSY
El último aliento Zsófia Boros (classical guitar) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] The focus of Zsófia Boros's third recording for ECM's New Series is split two-ways, with one spotlight turned towards contemporary compositions from Argentina and the other on the multiple-idioms spanning music of French composer Mathias Duplessy.... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
J.S. Bach: Clavichord András Schiff (clavichord) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] "As with his previous period-instrument ventures, Schiff opens up a new world and thoroughly adjusts his temperament, his 'pianism' and his artistry to it." Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2023 |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas (with Jorg Widmann: Intermezzi for piano) András Schiff (piano) Jörg Widmann (clarinet) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] Two great artists, pianist András Schiff and composer/clarinettist Jörg Widmann, join forces for the first time on record, performing Brahms's late masterpieces, the clarinet sonatas op. 120, written in 1894. In between the sonatas Schiff plays... |
J.S. BACH / TOBIAS HUME / CARL FRIEDRICH ABEL
Bach, Abel, Hume Anja Lechner (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 18/Oct/2024 ] For her first solo-violoncello album on ECM's New Series, Anja Lechner devotes herself to a particularly unique convergence of three composers from vastly different contexts: JS Bach, Carl Friedrich Abel and Tobias Hume. In the past, her extensive... |
Chick Corea
Piano Improvisations Volume 1 (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM Luminessence / LP - released 18/Apr/2025 ] ECM's pioneering documentation of solo piano music was one of the genre-changing experiments of the early 1970s, and this beautifully recorded session, capturing Chick Corea in Oslo's Bendiksen Studio in April 1971, marked the beginning of this new... |
JOSEPH BRODSKY
Elegie an John Donne Christian Reiner [ ECM New Series / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] In the winter of 2012/13, Viennese actor and voice artist Christian Reiner attracted much acclaim for his interpretation of Friedrich Hölderlin's "Turmgedichten". "Reiner is able to coax the music out of the words", German newspaper Frankfurter... |
Danish String Quartet
Keel Road [ ECM New Series / CD - released 30/Aug/2024 ] The Danish String Quartet's new album is a "retracing of musical pathways across the North Sea, a journey through the sounds of traditional music from Northern Europe, taking us from Denmark and Norway to the Faroe Islands, and to Ireland and... |
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 / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / J. S. BACH
Beethoven/Shostakovich/Bach: Prism I Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 21/Sep/2018 ] For its third ECM release, the prize-winning Danish String Quartet inaugurates a series of five albums with the overarching title of Prism, in which the group will present one of Beethoven's late string quartets in the context of a related fugue by... |
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 |
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... |
ERKKI-SVEN TUUR
Lost Prayers Erkki Sven-Tüür [ ECM New Series / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Lost Prayers is the first of Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür's New Series recordings to be devoted entirely to his chamber music. Scaled-back instrumental forces, however, are no indicator of reduced expressive power, and the volatility of Tüür's... |
ARVO PART
Pärt: Tractus Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] Tractus emphasizes Arvo Pärt compositions that blend the timbres of string orchestra and choir. New versions predominate, with focused performances from the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Tõnu Kaljuste's... |
SNÉTBERGER / SHOSTAKOVICH / DOWLAND / BARDER
Hallgató Ferenc Snétberger and the Keller Quartett [ ECM New Series / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] On Hallgató, recorded live in the Grand Hall of Budapest's Liszt Academy, Ferenc Snétberger and the Keller Quartett, respectively Hungary's outstanding acoustic guitarist and its foremost string quartet, are heard together and separately in a moving... |
François Couturier, Dominique Pifarély
Preludes And Songs [ ECM New Series / CD - released 24/Jan/2025 ] Pianist François Couturier and violinist Dominique Pifarély, major figures in French improvisation, have played together in many projects over the last 30 years, including their duo, which made its recording debut for ECM with the remarkable Poros in... |
Gary Burton Quartet
The New Quartet (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series / LP - released 9/Aug/2024 ] Born in 1943 and raised in Indiana, Gary Burton taught himself to play the vibraphone and, at the age of 17, made his recording debut in Nashville, Tennessee, with guitarists Hank Garland and Chet Atkins. Two years later, Burton left his studies at... |
GEORGE I. GURDJIEFF
Sacred Hymns Keith Jarrett [ ECM New Series / CD - released 31/Dec/2008 ] The exact date on which George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was born into this world is unknown. This is fitting, for to one who spent his life trying to unravel it, such mundane details would have been unnecessary in the grander scheme of things. Born in... |
