Trygve Seim / Andreas Utnem
Purcor [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Modestly subtitled "Songs for saxophone and piano", this recording quietly covers a lot of ground, with repertoire including new musical settings of parts of the Mass, folk songs, theatre music, improvisations, and a new version of Seim's... |
Trygve Seim Quartet
Helsinki Songs [ ECM / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] With its overt lyricism, strong themes and a sense of perpetual melodic invention, Norwegian saxophonist Trygve Seim's new album quickly identifies itself as a classic-in-the-making. Themes of dedication run through Seim's Helsinki Songs album, a set... |
Valentin Silvestrow : piano, Anja Lechner : violoncelle, Silke Avenhaus : piano
Silvestrow, Valentin - leggiero, pesante [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Mar/2002 ] Inspired performances, highly individual lyricism, melodic feeling |
Valery Afanassiev
Schubert: Moments Musicaux [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] Pianist Valery Afanassiev - renowned for his strikingly individual and deeply introspective interpretations of the music of Franz Schubert - has paired two often extrovert works by the composer: the set of six "Moments Musicaux" and the "Sonata D... |
Valery Afanassiev : piano
Schubert - Edition Lockenhaus,Vol. 3; Sonate B-Dur op. posth. D 960 [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] Recorded July 1985 |
Markus Stockhausen, Gary Peacock, Fabrizio Ottaviucci, Zoro Babel
Cosi Lontano...Quasi Dent (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
Various Artists
Rarum IX-XX [ ECM / 12 CD - released 19/Apr/2004 ] |
BACH / COLTRANE / GARBAREK / HAYDN / KANCHELI / KURTAG / LISLEVAND / PART / etc
Selected Signs III-VIII (Music for ECM - A Cultural Archeology) [6 CD set] Steve Reich / Rosamunde Quartet / Márta & György Kurtág / Alexei Lubimov / Kim Kashkashian / Gidon Kremer / etc [ ECM / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2013 ] "Five stars for mostly reissued music might seem generous, but the way this set has been assembled creates transporting new narratives - or meditations - from sequences that were never meant to coexist." Guardian |
Vassilis Tsabropoulos / Arild Andersen / John Marshall
Achirana [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Arild Andersen introduces a new trio with the highly gifted Greek pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos, who makes his ECM debut with 'Achirana'. They are joined by veteran British drummer John Marshall, previously a member of Eberhard Weber's 'Colours'... |
Vijay Iyer, Prashant Bhargava
Radhe Radhe - Rites of Holi by Prashant Bhargava [ ECM DVD / DVD - released 7/Nov/2014 ] Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi is a vivid multimedia collaboration by composer-pianist Vijay Iyer and filmmaker Prashant Bhargava, who were inspired by the centennial of the Stravinsky-Nijinsky Le Sacre du Printemps to explore another of rite of spring:... |
Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke [ ECM / CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his "hero, friend and teacher", trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith's Golden Quartet, but the... |
Viola
Walter Fahndrich [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Mar/1991 ] Recorded November 1989. |
ARVO PART
Part: Alina / Spiegel im Spiegel Vladimir Spivakov (violin) Sergev Bezrodny (piano) Alexander Malter (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 6/May/2001 ] I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener. - Arvo Pärt |
TRADITIONAL
Filia Sion: Vox Clamantis Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve (artistic director and conductor) [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] Estonian ensemble Vox Clamantis brings together singers and instrumentalists who share an interest in Gregorian chant as the basis of all European art music. Their interpretation of medieval music is never purely 'historical': while always remaining... |
Walter Fähndrich
Viola (LP) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
MORTON FELDMAN
Violin and Orchestra Carolin Widmann (violin) Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Emilio Pomarico [ Ecm New Series / CD - released 13/May/2013 ] Carolin Widmann's widely acclaimed ECM recordings have traversed a broad arc of music - from Schubert to Xenakis. |
WOLFERT BREDERODE
Brederode: Ruins and Remains Wolfert Brederode, Joost Lijbaart, Matangi Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Ruins and Remains, a suite for piano, string quartet and percussion, was composed by Wolfert Breferode in 2018, to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Over time, however, it has come to embody meanings broader and more personal,... |
Wolfert Brederode Quartet
Currents [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] Highly regarded Dutch keyboardist, Wolfert Brederode leads a pan-European group of similar gifted young players, who commit their improvisational energies to the lyric flow of his music. |
Wolfert Brederode Trio
Black Ice [ ECM / CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] Black Ice is a nice image for Dutch pianist Wolfert Brederode's new trio music, with its gleaming lyricism, transparency, and hint of danger, as well as sleek melodic invention both from the leader and from Icelandic bassist Gulli Gudmundsson.... |
Wolfgang Muthspiel
Where The River Goes [ ECM / CD - released 5/Oct/2018 ] Where The River Goes carries the story forward from Wolfgang Muthspiel's highly-acclaimed Rising Grace recording of 2016, reuniting the Austrian guitarist with Brad Mehldau, Ambrose Akinmusire and Larry Grenadier, heavy talents all, and bringing in... |