LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas: Complete Edition András Schiff (piano) [ ECM / 11 CD Box Set - released 25/Nov/2016 ] Andras Schiff: "The Beethoven sonatas can be logically divided into three distinct groups: early, middle and late. To me, playing them in chronological order is most convincing and deeply satisfying. Among the thirty-two there is not one weak link.... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas Volume 5: Sonatas opp. 31 and 53 (Incs The Tempest & Waldstein) Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM / 2 CD - released 9/Nov/2007 ] "The remarkable timbral distinctions (Schiff) obtains from his Steinway, fastidious execution of turns and other ornaments, plus painstakingly differentiated accents, articulation marks and dynamics. Sometimes his compulsive detailing casts a fresh... |
Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Frisell
Lebroba [ ECM / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Andrew Cyrille's title Lebroba is a contraction of Leland, Brooklyn and Baltimore, birthplaces of the protagonists of an album bringing together three of creative music's independent thinkers. Each of them made his first ECM appearance long ago:... |
Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Frisell
Lebroba (LP) [ ECM / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Andrew Cyrille's title Lebroba is a contraction of Leland, Brooklyn and Baltimore, birthplaces of the protagonists of an album bringing together three of creative music's independent thinkers. Each of them made his first ECM appearance long ago:... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
J.S. Bach: Clavichord András Schiff (clavichord) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] "As with his previous period-instrument ventures, Schiff opens up a new world and thoroughly adjusts his temperament, his 'pianism' and his artistry to it." Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2023 |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas (with Jorg Widmann: Intermezzi for piano) András Schiff (piano) Jörg Widmann (clarinet) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] Two great artists, pianist András Schiff and composer/clarinettist Jörg Widmann, join forces for the first time on record, performing Brahms's late masterpieces, the clarinet sonatas op. 120, written in 1894. In between the sonatas Schiff plays... |
BEETHOVEN
The Piano Sonatas Volume 7: Sonatas opp. 90, 101 & 106 Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/Nov/2008 ] The simultaneous yet separate release of the last two volumes of Schiff's complete Beethoven sonatas in autumn 2008 finally offers the opportunity to oversee the pianist's approach to this unique repertoire segment in total. Part VII, recorded once... |
Andy Sheppard
Movements in Colour [ ECM Records / CD - released 13/Jul/2009 ] "Displays both Sheppard's lyrical imagination and the melodic knack of his regular bandleader, Carla Bley...lyrical, playful and accessible."- The Guardian (4 stars). |
Andy Sheppard Quartet
Romaria [ ECM / CD - released 16/Feb/2018 ] Andy Sheppard's quartet extends the musical explorations begun on the 2015 release Surrounded By Sea, an album praised by Télérama for its "poignant serenity." In this new programme of compositions by Sheppard (plus the title track by Brazilian... |
Andy Sheppard Quartet
Romaria (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 16/Feb/2018 ] Andy Sheppard's quartet extends the musical explorations begun on the 2015 release Surrounded By Sea, an album praised by Télérama for its "poignant serenity." In this new programme of compositions by Sheppard (plus the title track by Brazilian... |
J.S. BACH / TOBIAS HUME / CARL FRIEDRICH ABEL
Bach, Abel, Hume Anja Lechner (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 18/Oct/2024 ] For her first solo-violoncello album on ECM's New Series, Anja Lechner devotes herself to a particularly unique convergence of three composers from vastly different contexts: JS Bach, Carl Friedrich Abel and Tobias Hume. In the past, her extensive... |
COUTURIER / KANCHELI / BRAHEM / DUTILLEUX / etc
Lontano Anja Lechner (cello) & François Couturier (piano) [ ECM / CD - released 16/Sep/2020 ] After their highly acclaimed 2014 debut album as a duo, Moderato cantabile, Anja Lechner and François Couturier widen the scope of music even further. The duo sings in a voice of its own, be it with original compositions, free improvisations, drawing... |
Anouar Brahem
Astrakan Cafe [ ECM Records / CD - released 18/Sep/2000 ] Tunisian oud virtuoso Anouar Brahem counts as one of ECM's most important 'discoveries' of the last decade. After his highly successful trans-cultural recording 'Thimar', he returns to a more purely Middle Eastern music on 'Astrakan Café', with the... |
Anouar Brahem
Barzakh [ ECM / CD - released 13/Jan/2018 ] Recorded in 1990, Barzakh was the ECM debut of Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem, and an album that immediately captured the attention of press and public with its gracefulness and authority. "Phenomenal…this is pure Arab music, without 'world music'... |
Anouar Brahem
Blue Maqams [ ECM / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Recorded in New York's Avatar Studios in May 2017 and produced by Manfred Eicher, Blue Maqams brings Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem together with three brilliant improvisers. For Anouar Brahem and Dave Holland the album marks a reunion: they first... |
Anouar Brahem
Khomsa [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Khomsa is an old Tunisian female name meaning "the five fingers of the hand", symbolic of good luck in the Tunisian bedouin tradition. It is also the name of the heroine in Nouri Bouzid's film Bezness - the music for which was composed by Anouar... |
Anouar Brahem
Le Pas Du Chat Noir (LP) [ ECM Records / 2 LP - released 7/Jun/2019 ] The Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem has chosen to work in a trio setting this time out, accompanied by Francois Couturier on piano and Jean-Louis Matinier on accordion. Brahem states in the liner notes that these pieces were actually composed on... |
Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland
After The Last Sky (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 28/Mar/2025 ] Eight years after Blue Maqams, Anouar Brahem returns with a poignant project, titled after a line of verse by poet Mahmoud Darwish, which asks "Where should the birds fly, after the last sky?" Graceful chamber pieces for oud, cello, piano and bass... |
Anthony de Mare (piano)
Liasons - Reimagining Sondheim [ ECM / 3 CD - released 1/Feb/2016 ] "A starry who s who of the contemporary music world... Each composer was asked to do a free treatment of a Sondheim song, and the results - on this irresistible new CD set are little short of breathtaking... the whole undertaking is a triumph" SF Chr |
Arild Andersen, Bill Frisell, John Taylor, Alphonse Mouzon
Molde Concert [ ECM / CD - released 4/Oct/1982 ] Arild Andersen assembled this distinguished line-up for a dynamic one-off concert at the 1981 Molde Jazz Festival. CD reissue adds more than 20 minutes of previously unreleased material, and the original dramaturgy of the performance has also been... |