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Danish String Quartet
Last Leaf [ ECM New Series / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] "This recording of sublime beauty consists of old hymns, such as Now Found is the Fairest of Roses (1732), and a variety folk songs, all exquisitely set for string quartet." AudAud Best of 2017 |
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 |
BEETHOVEN / WEBERN / BACH
Prism V Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] The Danish String Quartet bring their highly acclaimed Prism project to its conclusion. In each volume of this series a particular Bach fugue is connected to a late Beethoven quartet which, in turn, is connected to a quartet by a later master: "A... |
SCHUMANN / RAVEL / BARTOK
De la nuit - Schumann, Ravel, Bartók Dénes Várjon (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] "This is an unremittingly bewitching programme and perfectly engineered." Recording of the Month BBC Music November 2018 |
Dowland Project & John Potter
Night Sessions [ Ecm New Series / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] This album has all the virtues and delights of the previous ones. If anything, it's more challenging and experimental. These immaculate, lithe performances, replete with passion, adventurousness, exemplary phrasing and timing and tonal beauty |
RAVEL / FRANCK / LIGETI / MESSIAEN
Ravel, Franck, Ligeti, Messiaen Duo Gazzana [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] A sense of discovery is a key theme in the third ECM recital of sisters Natascia and Raffaella Gazzana. Alongside a landscape of French music for violin and piano, drawing on a multiplicity of inspirations, the album includes a premiere recording of... |
Eleni Karaindrou
Tous des Oiseaux [ ECM New Series / CD - released 25/Jan/2019 ] The new release on ECM New Series by composer Eleni Karaindrou brings together the original music written for Wajdi Mouawad's play All Birds and the music for the film Bomb, A Love Story by Iranian actor and director Payman Maadi. |
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
Ordo Virtutum Ensemble Belcanto, Dietburg Spohr [ ECM New Series / CD - released 5/Aug/2013 ] This is the second New Series album to feature the Stuttgart-based Ensemble Belcanto |
ARVO PART
Pärt: Tractus (LP) Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor) [ ECM New Series / 2 LP - released 15/Dec/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... |
EVGUENI GALPERINE
Galperine: The Theory Of Becoming Maria Vasyukova (voice), Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet), Sebastien Hurtaud (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] The ECM New Series debut of Evgueni Galperine is one of the most strikingly original and evocative albums of the year. A composer of Russian and Ukrainian heritage, living in Paris since 1990, Galperine is working with sound, texture and dynamics in... |
FRANCOIS COUTURIER
Works Francois Couturier (piano) Anja Lechner (cello) Jean-Louis Matinier (accordian) Jean-Marc Larche (soprano saxophone) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] The unique band founded by François Couturier continues to draw inspiration from the films of Andrey Tarkovsky as its frame of reference expands. Allusions to Pergolesi, Bach and Shostakovich are to be found in the compositions here, as are... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Three Or One Fred Thomas (piano), Aisha Orazbayeva (violin), Lucy Railton (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Here is Johann Sebastian Bach in transfigured light: with organ chorale preludes, vocal cantata movements and orchestral sinfonias - 24 pieces in all - transcribed for trio and solo piano by Fred Thomas, and threaded into a compelling new sequence by... |
TCHAIKOVSKY / KISSINE
Piano Trios Gidon Kremer (violin) Giedre Dirvanauskaite (cello) Khatia Buniatishvili (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "Gidon Kremer's dazzling trio here offers two contrasting approaches to the Piano Trio, both offering unexpected pleasures." The Independent, 22nd April 2011 **** |
FRANCK / TICKMAYER / KANCHELI
Hymns and Prayers Gidon Kremer (violin) / Khatia Buniatishvili (piano) / The Kremerata Baltica [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "Hymns and Prayers combines three works from disparate eras whose moods fit together in a pleasingly astringent manner...The modern pieces are separated by César Franck's "Piano Quintet in F-minor", the lachrymose tone of which works surprisingly... |
GIYA KANCHELI
In l'istesso tempo Gidon Kremer (violin) / Oleg Maisenberg (piano) / The Kremerata Baltica. The Bridge Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 23/Apr/2005 ] Five Stars (Chamber choice of the Month) BBC Music Mag (April 2005) |
FRIEDRICH CERHA
Concerto for Cello and orchestra (with Schreker-Kammersymphonie) Heinrich Schiff (cello) / Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra / Peter EAtvAs, conductor [ ECM New Series / CD - released 31/Jan/2008 ] Cellist Heinrich Schiff delivers a transcendent performance of a cello concerto dedicated to him "in friendship" by Austria's great composer Friedrich Cerha (born 1926). Cerha's special combination of stylistic conviction and expressive diversity,... |
GYORGY KURTAG
Kurtag: Zwiegesprache Heinz Holliger (oboe/cor anglais/piano), Marie-Lise Schüpbach (cor anglais/oboe), Ernesto Molinari (bass clarinet/ contrabass clarinet), Sarah Wegener [ ECM New Series / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] explores his interpretative gifts as a performer rather than his full range as a composer, its focus on the dialogues between his own music and that of György Kurtág makes for a beautifully rounded double portrait - Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List |
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 |
