BARTÓK / CASKEN / BEETHOVEN
Bartók / Casken / Beethoven Thomas Zehetmair, Ruth Killius, Royal Northern Sinfonia [ ECM New Series / CD - released 17/Feb/2023 ] This powerful New Series album represents "a résumé and a departure" for Thomas Zehetmair, a summing up of his work with the Royal Northern Sinfonia. In his years as Music Director of the British chamber orchestra, Zehetmair was noted both for... |
J.S. BACH
Inventions and Sinfonias (2 and 3 Part Inventions) BWV772-801 Till Fellner (piano) [ ECM / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] For more than four years, fans have been waiting for a new Bach recording from the extraordinary Austrian pianist Till Fellner. His interpretation of the first book of the Well-tempered piano for ECM was released in 2004 to great critical acclaim.... |
Tim Berne's Snake Oil
Incidentals [ ECM / CD - released 8/Sep/2017 ] Tim Berne has been described as a saxophonist and composer of granite conviction by The New York Times. Incidentals is the fourth album from his spirited Snakeoil band and the second (following on from 2015's You've Been Watching Me) to feature the... |
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Matka Joanna [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
September Night [ ECM / CD - released 21/Jun/2024 ] Recorded at Munich's Muffathalle twenty years ago, in September 2004, this previously-unreleased concert recording of the Tomasz Stanko Quartet is a fascinating document, capturing a developmental chapter in the music between the song forms of the... |
Manu Katche
Neighbourhood [ ECM Records / CD - released 12/Sep/2005 ] Manu teams up with Jan Garbareck, Tomasz Stanko, Marcin Wasilewski & Slawomir Kurkiewicz - the fine results speak for themselves. 'Neighbourhood' = ECM at its finest. |
Tord Gustavsen Quartet
The Well [ ECM / CD - released 12/Mar/2012 ] Gently but effectively propelled by his group, Gustavsen's gospel-tinged, unhurried piano playing displays a characteristic warmth and tenderness. |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
The Ground [ ECM Records / CD - released 12/Nov/2004 ] The eagerly awaited follow-up to "Changing Places", the most successful ECM debut of the last decade! The improvising of Gustavsen's Trio is always restrained, subtle, tasteful. |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
Opening [ ECM / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] On the album Opening, Tord Gustavsen reveals a fresh angle to his particularly unique trio investigations into Scandinavian folk hymns, gospel, chorale and jazz, as he introduces a different voice on bass. With a new fellow-traveller on board and... |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
The Other Side [ ECM / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] "This is the chill-out as a state of grace, and it can go as deep as you like. Sublime," wrote the Independent on Sunday of the Gustavsen's trio's Being There, released in 2007. Over the last decade Tord has explored other ensemble forms and formats,... |
TRADITIONAL
Rimur Trio Mediaeval & Arve Henriksen (trumpet) [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] "if the idea of a semi-distant Nordic cousin to Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble's 'Officium' series appeals, this is worth procuring" (Gramophone) |
HENRY PURCELL / GUILLAUME DUFAY / JOSQUIN DESPREZ
Stravaganza Consonanti Gianluigi Trovesi (Piccolo Clarinet, Alto Clarinet, Alto Saxophone), Stefano Montanari (Concertmaster) [ ECM / CD - released 27/Feb/2023 ] In this inspired collaboration with conductor and baroque violinist Stefano Montanari, the masterful Italian reedman Gianluigi Trovesi extends the line of musical enquiry posited on his Prufumo di violetta album. Supported by a cast of players... |
Vijay Iyer / Craig Taborn
The Transitory Poems [ ECM / CD - released 22/Feb/2019 ] Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn, two of creative music's most resourceful players, learned to meld and mesh their artistic approaches inside Roscoe Mitchell's Note Factory ensemble (as documented on Mitchell's 2007 recording Far Side). Since then, Iyer... |
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey
Uneasy [ ECM / CD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Vijay Iyer presents a powerful new trio, in which he is joined by two key figures in creative music, Tyshawn Sorey and Linda May Han Oh. "We have an energy together that is very distinct. It has a different kind of propulsion, a different impulse and... |
Vijay Iyer Sextet
Far From Over (2LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Keyboardist-composer Vijay Iyer's energized sequence of ECM releases has garnered copious international praise. Yet his fifth for the label since 2014 - Far From Over, featuring his dynamically commanding sextet - finds Iyer reaching a new peak,... |
Miroslav Vitous With Michel Portal
Remembering Weather Report [ ECM Records / CD - released 27/Jul/2009 ] As the title suggests, Miroslav Vitous and his all-acoustic band (+ guest Michel Portal) pay tribute here to the formative period of that most loved of jazz-fusion collectives, Weather Report. |
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... |
Wolfgang Muthspiel
Dance Of The Elders [ ECM / CD - released 29/Sep/2023 ] Wolfgang Muthspiel and his trio with Scott Colley on bass and Brian Blade on drums reaches a new creative peak on Dance of the Elders - the group's follow-up up to the much lauded Angular Blues, which The Times called a "quietly impressive album".... |
Wolfgang Muthspiel
Dance Of The Elders (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] Wolfgang Muthspiel and his trio with Scott Colley on bass and Brian Blade on drums reaches a new creative peak on Dance of the Elders - the group's follow-up up to the much lauded Angular Blues, which The Times called a "quietly impressive album".... |
Wolfgang Muthspiel
Rising Grace [ ECM / CD - released 25/Nov/2016 ] Wolfgang Muthspiel - whom The New Yorker has called "a shining light" among today's jazz guitarists - made his ECM leader debut in 2014 with the trio disc Driftwood, featuring him alongside two longtime colleagues, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer... |