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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... |
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... |
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... |
HEINER GOEBBELS
Goebbels: A House Of Call - My Imaginary Notebook Heiner Goebbels, Ensemble Modern Orchestra, Vimbayi Kaziboni [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] A House of Call is a cycle of invocations, prayers, poems and songs for large orchestra. It incorporates recordings of sounds and voices from all over the world collected by Heiner Goebbels during his travels, research, and chance encounters. The... |
Heinz Holliger, Anton Kernjak
Éventail [ ECM New Series / CD - released 22/Sep/2023 ] In his Éventail de musique française, Swiss oboist and composer Heinz Holliger traverses a broad selection of French works for oboe and piano in a multichromatic programme of early 20th century music. As Holliger states in his liner note, "the... |
HEINZ HOLLIGER
Heinz Holliger: Lunea Ivan Ludlow, Sarah Maria Sun, Christian Gerhaher, Juliane Banse / Philharmonie Zürich, Basler Madrigalisten, Heinz Holliger [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] "Gerhaher is astonishing in the virtuoso principal role...traversing the gamut of language and expression from song to speech...an excellent Basler Madrigalisten and 34-piece Philharmonia Zürich conducted live by Holliger." BBC Opera Choice July 22 |
THOMAS TALLIS / CHRISTOPHER TYE / JOHN SHEPPARD
Audivi Vocem Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 19/May/2008 ] Edtor's Choice Gramophone Magazine October 2008 -- "If only all history lessons were delivered as beautifully as this one." |
ARVO PART
Part: Lamentate The Hilliard Ensemble / Alexei Lubimov (piano) / SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrey Boreyko (conductor) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 13/Nov/2005 ] "Pärt's moving lament for the living brings from him rarely heard power" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Nov 2005 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Officium Novum Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones) / The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "Over the immanent, limpid voices Garbarek improvises equally immaculate counter-melodies. His contributions tend to be somewhat predictable, more decoration than improvisation in the fullest sense, but his tone is so pleasing...and the melodies so... |
