Jan Garbarek / The Hilliard Ensemble
Remember me, my dear [ ECM New Series / CD - released 18/Oct/2019 ] 25 years on from the release of Officium, the groundbreaking alliance of Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble, comes Remember me, my dear, recorded during the final tour the group made in October 2014. The program is emblematic of the range of... |
ANONYMOUS / CAMPION / BANKS / PICFORTH
Amores Pasados John Potter (voice) Anna maria Friman (voice) Ariel Abramovich (lute) Jacob Heringman (lute) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 26/Jul/2015 ] For this innovative attempt to bridge the gap between art song and pop song, John Paul Jones (of Led Zeppelin fame), Sting and Genesis-keyboardist Tony Banks were commissioned to write new lute songs. "Asking a rock music composer to set existing... |
SAMUEL BARBER / BELA BARTOK
Barber / Bartok: Piano Concertos Keith Jarrett (piano) / Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, New Japan Philharmonic, Kazuyoshi Akiyama & Dennis Russell Davies [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/Jun/2015 ] For much of the 1980s, Keith Jarrett balanced his improvisational activities with performances of classical music and contemporary composition. On this disc, with concert recordings from 1984 and 1985, he is heard playing Samuel Barber's Piano... |
Keith Jarrett
Solo Concerts Bremen / Lausanne (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series) / 3 LP - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Recorded March & July 1973 |
C.P.E. BACH
Bach, (C.P.E.): Württemberg Sonatas Keith Jarrett (piano) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] "Jarrett moves straight to the top of the list of interpreters on the instrument." Archive Issue of the Month Gramophone Sept 2023 |
Kenny Wheeler (with Keith Jarrett, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette)
Gnu High (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 28/Apr/2023 ] "Gnu High" was trumpeter/flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler's first for ECM, and Keith Jarrett's last session as a sideman: both deliver astonishing improvisations in a highly interactive quartet with Holland and DeJohnette, and Wheeler's writing is... |
MORTON FELDMAN / JOHN CAGE / ERIK SATIE
Rothko Chapel Kim Kashkashian (viola) / Houston Chamber Choir, Robert Simpson, with Sarah Rothenberg (piano) & Steven Schick (percussion) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 25/Oct/2015 ] "The Houston choir's singing is warm and percussionist Steven Schick creates a great sense of space and ritual." The Guardian |
VALENTIN SILVESTROV
Silvestrov: Maidan Kyiv Chamber Choir, Mykola Hobdych [ ECM New Series / CD - released 30/Sep/2022 ] With Maidan, Valentin Silvestrov continues his longstanding association with ECM and this time presents a programme of choir music that is as timely as it is dear to the Ukrainian composer's heart. Like the albums Sacred Songs and Sacred Works,... |
ARVO PART
Symphony No. 4 / Kanon Pokajanen Los Angeles Philharmonic / Esa-Pekka Salonen [ ECM New Series / CD - released 16/Sep/2010 ] "Arvo Part evokes symphonic serenity for the City Of Angels" (William Dart NZ Herald) |
Marilyn Crispell, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian
Amaryllis (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 23/Aug/2024 ] Return of the great American jazz trio that delivered the poll-topping "Nothing Ever Was, Anyway" in 1997. Material heard on "Amaryllis" is by turns thoughtful, touching, joyous and viscerally exciting. Some of the songs are well known - almost... |
Meredith Monk
The Recordings (13 CD Box Set) [ ECM New Series / CD Box Set - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Meredith Monk - The Recordings, a 13-CD limited box set edition compiling all Meredith Monk ECM New Series recordings to date, is issued on the occasion of the composer and singer's 80th birthday. Meredith was the first singer to have a leader-date... |
Naná Vasconcelos
Saudades (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos's Saudades album, recorded in March 1979, was the culmination of a dream for a musician who had long yearned to hear the berimbau in an orchestral context. This 'concerto' for an innovative player of a... |
Nana Vasconcelos
Saudades [ ECM Records / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos's Saudades album, recorded in March 1979, was the culmination of a dream for a musician who had long yearned to hear the berimbau in an orchestral context. This... |
Paul Bley
Open, to Love (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM Luminessence / LP - released 7/Mar/2025 ] After Chick Corea's Piano Improvisations, and Keith Jarrett's Facing You, Paul Bley's Open, To Love was the third fabulous chapter in ECM's quietly revolutionary solo piano manifesto, whose impact endures and continues to influence improvisers today.... |
GAVIN BRYARS
Bryars: The Fifth Century PRISM Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 18/Nov/2016 ] "Is this a must-have? If you have any interest in contemporary music, it's certainly worth investigating. I, for one, am going to spend more time with the music of Gavin Bryars." Green Man Review |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: The Piano Sonatas Robert Levin (fortepiano, Anton Walter, 1782) [ ECM New Series / 7 CD Box Set - released 2/Sep/2022 ] BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - INSTRUMENTAL |
Terje Rypdal
Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Initially published in November 1974. Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away is, by common consensus, one of Terje's early masterpieces. Rypdal has said that he sometimes felt conflicted in his early years, pulled in different directions by the urges to... |
Thomas Larcher
The Living Mountain [ ECM New Series / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] |
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... |
BEETHOVEN / BRUCKNER / HARTMANN / HOLLIGER
Beethoven Bruckner Hartmann Holliger Zehetmair Quartett [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 22/Aug/2014 ] The Zehetmair Quartett, one of the most exciting and accomplished string quartets of our time, plays a programme of characteristically broad reach. This double album begins with Beethoven's highly-concentrated opus 135, and concludes with Heinz... |