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) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Symphony No. 39 in G min & No. 45 in F# min Farewell (with Isang Yun-Chamber Symphony 1) Munich Chamber Orchestra / Alexander Liebreich (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] "These are lithe performances on modern instruments, but certainly "historically informed". The winds are pure but characterful and the horns rise to Haydn's challenges (which from time to time in his symphonic career could be steep indeed)."... |
GYORGY KURTAG
Kurtág: Complete Works for Ensemble and Choir Natalia Zagorinskaya (soprano), Gerrie de Vries (mezzo-soprano), Yves Saelens (ten) / Netherlands Radio Choir / Schoenberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw [ ECM New Series / 3 CD - released 1/Jul/2017 ] "Spareness, that supercharged concision, is ever the Kurtag note - and, as caught by these outstanding musicians, resonates powerfully here." Sunday Times |
ARVO PÄRT
Pärt: The Symphonies NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic, Tonu Kaljuste (Conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 11/May/2018 ] All four of Arvo Pärt's symphonies, newly recorded with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic under the direction his musical accomplice, Tõnu Kaljuste. Each of the symphonies, as the great Estonian composer has noted, is a world unto itself. Heard in... |
KONSTANTIA GOURZI
Anájikon Nils Mönkemeyer, William Youn, Minguett Quartett, Luzern Academy Orchestra [ ECM New Series / CD - released 30/Apr/2021 ] Anájikon, the second ECM album after Music for piano and string quartet (ECM New Series 2309) by Athens-born and Munich-based Konstantia Gourzi, incorporates her chamber and orchestral music of the past decade. The composer also conducts the Lucerne... |
GALINA USTVOLSKAYA
Galina Ustvolskaya Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Markus Hinterhäuser, Reto Bieri [ ECM New Series / CD - released 12/Sep/2014 ] The unique expressiveness of the work of Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) speaks to the listener with directness and nuanced layers of sound, the powerful, rhythmic stringency of the music testifying to the relentlessness of her vision. Fiercely... |
TIGRAN MANSURIAN
Quasi Parlando Patricia Kopatchinskaja - violin / Anja Lechner - violoncello / Amsterdam Sinfonietta / Candida Thompson - lead violin [ ECM New Series / CD - released 2/May/2014 ] Issued in the wake of the great Armenian composer's 75th birthday, this New Series album opens with Tigran Mansurian's fiercely-concentrated Double Concerto, composed in 1978, and proceeds to new music performed by its dedicatees: the lyrical... |