KURTAG / LIGETI
Ligeti: Music for viola Kim Kashkashian (viola) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] Grammy Winner - Best Classical Instrumental Solo |
J.S. BACH
Three Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord Kim Kashkashian (viola) / Keith Jarrett (harpsichord) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/1992 ] Great jazz pianist Keith Jarrett plays harpsichord accompaniment to ECM violist Kim Kashkashian on this recording of Bach's sonatas for viola da gamba and keyboard: a stimulating and interesting perspective on these delightful works. |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (with works by Eotvos & Kurtag) Kim Kashkashian (viola) Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Peter Eotvos [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/Aug/2008 ] Typically impassioned, committed performances distinguish Kim Kashkashian's New Series recording of music for viola by three great Hungarian composers. Kashkashian's intense focus, superb craftsmanship and explosive virtuosity are brought to bear on... |
DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Sonata / Paul Chihara - Redwood / Linda Bouchard - Pourtinade Kim Kashkashian, viola, Robert Levin, piano, Robyn Schulkowsky, percussion) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] Recorded June & October 1990. Linda Bouchard's compositional jigsaw 'Pourtinade', Paul Chihara's 'Redwood', clearly-etched as the Japanese wood prints that inspired it, and Dimitri Shostakovich's spectre-haunted Opus 147 are three vastly different... |
VICTOR KISSINE
Between Two Waves Gidon Kremer (violin) Daniil Grishin (viola) GiedrÄ— DirvanauskaitÄ— (violoncello) [ Ecm New Series / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] "The imagery and ambience is that of honest creativity by a mind and an ear keenly tuned to the moods of his subject, and as such this is a release which can haunt and inspire." Dominy Clements, Music Web International |
ERKKI-SVEN TUUR
Symphony No. 7 / Piano Concerto Laura Mikkola (piano) / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
STRAVINSKY / BACH
Stravinsky / Bach - Violin works Leonidas Kavakos, violin, Pater Nagy, piano [ ECM New Series / CD - released 25/Mar/2005 ] "Kavakos makes the music howl, shriek, weep or croon, infuses it with humour or passion, takes risks. And he is well on his way to becoming the most famous Greek in the classical world since Callas and Mitropoulos" The Independent |
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
Chamber Music Lisa Batiashvili, Adrian Brendel, Till Fellner, Amy Freston, Harrison Birtwistle [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Apr/2014 ] There are a dozen of Niedecker's poems here to which Birtwistle responds with great refinement...the three instrumentalists, quite closely recorded, are in a class any composer would die for. (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Contemporary) |
SCLAVIS / PIFARELY / COURTOIS
Asian Field Variations Louis Sclavis (clarinet), Dominique Pifarely (violin), Vincent Courtois (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] Asian Fields Variation marks the first time that clarinettist Louis Sclavis, violinist Dominique Pifarély and cellist Vincent Courtois have recorded as a trio. Sclavis summoned the project into existence, but this is a democratic group of creative... |
ARVO PART
Pärt: The Deer's Cry Mari Poll (violin), Johanna Vahermägi (viola) / Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] "this grippingly authentic and superbly sung collection may now be the finest single-disc introduction to Pärt's music" BBC Music Award Finalist 2018 Choral |
ELENI KARAINDROU
Elegy of the Uprooting Maria Farantouri (piano) Eleni Karaindrou (piano) / Camerata Orchestra / Manfred Eicher [ ECM New Series DVD / DVD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] Extraordinary concert recording of the music of Eleni Karaindrou - filmed in her hometown of Athens in 2005. |
EVGUENI GALPERINE
Galperine: Theory of Becoming (LP) Maria Vasyukova (voice), Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet), Sebastien Hurtaud (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 18/Nov/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... |
Mathias Eick
The Door [ ECM New Series / CD - released 19/May/2008 ] On his first solo album, Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick focuses on all the qualities that have made him a musician to be reckoned with in and around jazz over the last decade. |
Meredith Monk
Book Of Days [ ECM New Series / CD - released 11/Jun/1990 ] |
Meredith Monk
Dolmen Music [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jul/1988 ] |
Meredith Monk
Songs Of Ascension [ ECM New Series / CD - released 16/May/2011 ] |
J. S. BACH
Six sonatas for violin & piano Michelle Makarski (violin) Keith Jarrett (piano) [ Ecm New Series / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2013 ] "While both performers have strong musical personalities, they achieve an apt democratic balance between the violin and piano parts...Both musicians give impeccable technical performances and, while there is no shortage of recordings of these Sonatas |
Misha Alperin
Her First Dance Misha Alperin (piano), Arkady Shilkloper (french horn, flugelhorn), Anja Lechner (cello) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 19/May/2008 ] First new recording in a decade from Ukraine-born Misha Alperin, whose last two ECM discs, "Night" and "At Home" were both recorded in 1998. This newest album of solos, duos and trios picks up the productive association with German cellist Anja... |
Meredith Monk
Impermanence [ ECM New Series / CD - released 25/Feb/2008 ] |
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / TORU TAKEMITSU
Tre Voci Kim Kashkashian (viola) Sivan Magen (harp) Marina Piccinini (flute) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Feb/2015 ] "There may be no such thing as the 'perfect' disc, but if this one has flaws then I'm at a loss to point them out. Everyone should own a copy." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb Jan 2015) |