Ralph Towner
Works (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 31/Dec/2008 ] Works is a compilation album of Ralph Towner's finest from his prolific career at ECM, released in 1984 to celebrate the label's 15th anniversary. |
Ralph Towner / John Abercrombie
Five Years Later (180g LP) [ ECM Records / LP - released 22/Sep/2008 ] As part of the story of our listening series this historical title has been mastered from original analog sources and reissued in January 2014. |
Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu
Chiaroscuro [ ECM Records / CD - released 14/Dec/2009 ] American master guitarist, Ralph Towner offers continually changing landscapes for Fresu's horn to grace, in a very poetic and lyrical set whose gradations of light and shade, of sound and shadows, are beautifully recorded. |
Ralph Towner, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Slava Grigoryan
Travel Guide [ ECM / CD - released 15/Oct/2013 ] What all three guitarists share is a strong feeling for structure, a sense for lyrical improvisation and a feeling for space, harnessing instrumental technique to very graceful musical ends. |
BERIO / CARTER / EOTVOS / HOLLIGER / SCIARRINO / VAJDA
Contrechant: Music for Solo Clarinet Reto Bieri (clarinet) [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] The highly gifted Swiss clarinettist Reto Bieri makes his ECM New Series debut with 'Contrechant', a brilliant recital for solo clarinet that looks at new developmental possibilities in the 'language' of the instrument in modern music. A wonderful... |
Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer
Re: ECM [ ECM / 2 CD - released 18/Jul/2011 ] Recordings of Christian Wallumrød, Alexander Knaifel, Louis Sclavis, John Abercrombie, Arvo Pärt, Paul Giger and more - looped, sampled, remixed and reworked in evocative new treatments. |
BORIS YOFFE
Song of Songs Rosamunde Quartet / The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM / CD - released 1/Oct/2011 ] Two of ECM New Series' leading ensembles, the Rosamunde Quartet and the Hilliard Ensemble, join forces to perform music of Boris Yoffe, in a highly attractive album which is also a label debut for the composer. Yoffe's music is from his vast and... |
JOSEF HAYDN
The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross Rosamunde Quartett [ ECM Records / CD - released 3/Jun/2001 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1761-1800) - "The Rosamunde Quartet gives a historically informed account on modern instruments, which masterfully imbues each adagio movement with the sense of the text it follows." (GB 1001 Classical) |
WEBERN / SHOSTAKOVICH / BURIAN
String Quartet (1905) / String Qtet No 8 / String Quartet No. 4 Rosamunde Quartett [ ECM Records / CD - released 9/Sep/2000 ] Recorded December 1996 |
TIGRAN MANSURIAN
String Quartets 1 & 2 / Testament Rosamunde Quartett [ ECM / CD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] "The performances by the Rosamunde Quartett of all three works bespeak utter identification with the music and create a very finely tuned chiaroscuro of quiet dynamics." International Record Review |
Rosamunde Quartett / Andreas Reiner : violin / Simon Fordham : violin / Helmut Nicolai : viola / Anja Lechner : violoncello / Dino Saluzzi : bandoneon
Kultrum - Music for bandoneon and string quartet [ ECM Records / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] Recorded March 1998 |
OTHMAR SCHOECK
Notturno Rosamunde Quartett with Christian Gerhaher (baritone) [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] "Gerhaher and the Rosamunde Quartet project this remarkable work superbly. It would be good to think this might be the start of a Schoeck series from this outstanding young singer." The Guardian, 16th October 2009 **** |
Roscoe Mitchell
Bells For the South Side [ ECM / 2 CD - released 30/Jun/2017 ] Roscoe Mitchell contrasts and for the first time - combines the sounds and distinctive characters of his four trios in an exhilarating double album recorded at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Mitchell had been... |
Rosensfole
Agnes Buen Garnas / Jan Garbarek [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2001 ] Recorded Autumn 1988 |
Sam Rivers
Contrasts [ ECM / CD - released 7/Feb/2014 ] A reissue of the 1979 album by American jazz saxophonist Sam Riversreleased on the ECM label. |
Sam Rivers
Contrasts (180g LP) [ ECM / LP - released 7/Feb/2014 ] A reissue of the 1979 album by American jazz saxophonist Sam Riversreleased on the ECM label. Contrasts has been unavailable for many years and is now reissued on 180g vinyl together with its first ever release on CD. |
HELENA TULVE
Lijnen Arianna Savall (voice) Ophele-Gaubert, Peaske (flutes) / Silesian String Qt / NYYD Ensemble & Stockholm Sax [ ECM New Series / CD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] The first ECM disc from the only composition pupil to date of Erkki-Sven Tüür, gifted young Estonian Helena Tulve, whose work speaks in its own unique language through a variety of chamber music settings and with a fluid approach to form, sound and... |
Savina Yannatou / Primavera en Salonico
Songs of Thessaloniki [ ECM / CD - released 13/Mar/2015 ] Savina Yannatou's fourth ECM album is a dazzling evocation of her band's hometown, plunging deep into its rich and complex history. Once known colloquially as the Jerusalem of the Balkans, Thesssaloniki has been home to a host of cultures, religions... |
Savina Yannatou
Sumiglia [ ECM Records / CD - released 4/Jul/2005 ] Yannatou sings songs from her native country Greece, alongside tunes from Italy, The Ukraine, Sicily, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Palestine and Albania with free improvisational / modern jazz style backing. |
Seim Trygve
Different Rivers [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] A new name in ECM's pantheon of Nordic talent, Norway's Trygve Seim is an exceptional saxophonist. Influenced by flute traditions of Asia, by free music, by his association with Edward Vesala, and by contemporary composition, he has arrived at a... |