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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Geistervariationen Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier Books 1 & 2 Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM New Series / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Instrumental |
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... |
SCHUMANN
In concert: Robert Schumann (recorded in 1999) Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 21/Aug/2007 ] "Few pianists could have made this programme work. They may not be Schumann's finest, but they have their own glories and Schiff, recorded live in the Tonhalle, Zurich, in May 1999, treats them with affection. An absolute winner." ***** Five Stars... |
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... |
Anja Lechner & Francois Couturier
Moderato Cantabile [ ECM New Series / CD ] After a decade of shared work in the Tarkovsky Quartet and an ongoing alliance in the Pergolesi Project (with singer Maria Pia De Vito), German cellist Anja Lechner and French pianist François Couturier unveil their new duo. The players approach the... |
SCHNITTKE / SHCHEDRIN / RIHM
Elusive Affinity Anna Gourari [ ECM New Series / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] In this imaginatively shaped and sensitively played album - her third for ECM - Russian pianist Anna Gourari explores musical connections and influences extending across the arts. Three suites of contemporary music are heard here. Alfred Schnittke's... |
Anna Gourari
Various: Canto Oscuro [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] |
Anna Gourari, OSI Lugano, Markus Poschner
Hindemith / Schnittke [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Jun/2024 ] After three acclaimed solo piano programmes for the label, here Anna Gourari widens the instrumental spectrum with the Lugano-based Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana under Markus Poschner's direction in striking performances of Alfred Schnittke's... |
Annette Peacock
An Acrobat's Heart (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 8/Nov/2024 ] "Incomparable" is what the German weekly paper Die Zeit called this album on its release in the year 2000, before going on to describe the music as follows: "A high, warm voice sings fragile songs, Annette Peacock accompanies herself on the grand... |
HELENA TULVE
Arboles lloran por lluvia Ariana Savall / Charles Barbier / Taniel Kirikal / NYYD Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD ] Recorded in churches in Tallinn as well as the Estonian Concert Hall, the five compositions heard on "Arboles lloran por lluvia" (Trees cry for rain) give deeper insight into the unique sound-world of Helena Tulve, into music which is nourished by... |
TIGRAN MANSURIAN
Ars Poetica Armenian Chamber Choir / Robert Mlkeyan (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "This is open, honest fare - no games, no gimmicks, no special effects. The musical expression of a poetic image is what engages the composer. Nothing else intrudes because nothing else matters." American Record Guide |
Arvo Pärt
Tabula Rasa (Deluxe Vinyl Edition LP) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 13/Sep/2024 ] New vinyl reissue in facsimile gatefold edition, includes original liner notes by Wolfgang Sandner in enclosed booklet. In 1984, ECM brought a new sound into the musical world with the release of Arvo Pärt's Tabula rasa, the first album on the... |
ELLIOTT CARTER
What Next? / ASKO Concerto Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra / Peter Eotvos (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] "Carter has always written for instruments operatically; now he lends opera the mercurial magic of his ensemble works, one of which, the "Asko Concerto", is appended here." Paul Driver, Sunday Times |
MEREDITH MONK
Piano Songs Bruce Brubaker / Ursula Oppens [ ECM New Series / CD - released 2/May/2014 ] Celebrating Meredith Monk as composer, these Piano Songs give us a world at once playful and serious. Written or derived from work composed between 1971 and 2006, the pieces inhabit Monk's unique universe, as played by two of new music's most... |
HILDEGARD von BINGEN / ENSECU / BENJAMIN / YSAYE / J.S. BACH
L'Aurore Carolin Widmann (violin) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] German violinist Carolin Widmann's imaginative solo recital spans a thousand years of music history from Hildegard von Bingen's antiphon Spiritus sanctus vivificans vita to Three Miniatures by George Benjamin. En route, Widman's "little... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: The Violin Sonatas Carolin Widmann (violin) Denes Varjon (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] Gramophone Award Finalist 2009: Chamber - "Their imaginative, wide-ranging variations of tone colour unlock the music's romantic, atmospheric potential, and their command of genuine rubato - passionate, unimpeded forward motion followed by lingering... |
FELDMAN / SCHOENBERG / ZIMMERMANN / XENAKIS
Phantasy of Spring: Music for Violin and Piano Carolin Widmann (violin) Simon Lepper (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Oct/2009 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICK: CD OF THE YEAR 2009 - "Widmann presents the best case I've heard on disc for the communicative power of Schoenberg's sometimes dry and forbidding Phantasy... She makes light of the technical challenges of Xenakis's rebarbative... |
Paul Giger
Chartres [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Mar/1989 ] Paul Giger's first New Series release was Chartres (1989), a multi-part musical work which describes the pilgrim's path through the eponymous cathedral where the recording was made. The musical material emerges from diverse traditions, ranging from... |
