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Meredith Monk
Dolmen Music [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jul/1988 ] |
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Meredith Monk
The Recordings (13 CD Box Set) [ ECM New Series / CD Box Set - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Meredith Monk - The Recordings, a 13-CD limited box set edition compiling all Meredith Monk ECM New Series recordings to date, is issued on the occasion of the composer and singer's 80th birthday. Meredith was the first singer to have a leader-date... |
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Meredith Monk
Songs Of Ascension [ ECM New Series / CD - released 16/May/2011 ] |
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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 |
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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... |
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Meredith Monk
Impermanence [ ECM New Series / CD - released 25/Feb/2008 ] |
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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) |
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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)."... |
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Naná Vasconcelos
Saudades (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 28/Apr/2023 ] Brazilian percussionist Naná Vasconcelos's Saudades album, recorded in March 1979, was the culmination of a dream for a musician who had long yearned to hear the berimbau in an orchestral context. This 'concerto' for an innovative player of a... |
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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 |
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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... |
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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... |
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Pat Metheny
Bright Size Life (Luminessence Series LP) [ ECM / LP - released 2/Aug/2024 ] Pat Metheny had debuted at ECM as a member of Gary Burton's band on the album Ring in 1974, but Bright Size Life, his first studio recording as a leader, was the album that decisively put him on the map as a bright new force, with something fresh to... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Paul Bley
Open, to Love (Luminessence Series) (LP) [ ECM Luminessence / LP - released 7/Mar/2025 ] After Chick Corea's Piano Improvisations, and Keith Jarrett's Facing You, Paul Bley's Open, To Love was the third fabulous chapter in ECM's quietly revolutionary solo piano manifesto, whose impact endures and continues to influence improvisers today.... |
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Paul Giger
Chartres (LP) [ Ecm New Series / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] Paul Giger's first New Series release was Chartres (1989), a multi-part musical work which describes the pilgrim's path through the eponymous cathedral where the recording was made. The musical material emerges from diverse traditions, ranging from... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: The Piano Sonatas Robert Levin (fortepiano, Anton Walter, 1782) [ ECM New Series / 7 CD Box Set - released 2/Sep/2022 ] BBC Music AWARD NOMINATION 2023 - INSTRUMENTAL |
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Rolf Lislevand (lute)
Libro Primo [ ECM New Series / CD - released 12/Sep/2025 ] On his newest recording for ECM's New Series, lute virtuoso Rolf Lislevand turns to the revolutionary Baroque literature for archlute and chitarrone, interpreting 17th century lute composers' works largely found in their first printed books - their... |
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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... |