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LUTOSLAWSKI
Musique funebre (with works by Bartok) Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Dennis Russell Davies [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "Russell Davies gives both pieces with the intensity they demand, the sound of the Stuttgart Kammerorchester warm and heard in a generously resonant acoustic." (Sunday Times) |
HEINO ELLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Eller: Lüüriline Süit / Neenia / Five Pieces for String Orchestra, etc Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tonu Kaljuste [ ECM Records / CD - released 5/Jun/2001 ] Heino Eller-the composer many call-'the father of modern Estonian music' |
BERND ALOIS ZIMMERMANN
Zimmermann: Canto di Speranza Thomas Demenga (violoncello) Thomas Zehetmair (violin) Gerd Bockmann (speaker) / WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln / Heinz Holliger [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "The 1957 'cantata' for cello and orchestra, Canto di Speranza...has the focus and economy that Zimmermann's later music sometimes lost; Thomas Demenga's performance of the solo part maintains that purity even under the greatest pressure." (BBC Music... |
Thomas Strønen, Ayumi Tanaka, Marthe Lea
Bayou [ ECM / CD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] A fresh and open music, delicate and space-conscious, is shaped as drummer Thomas Strønen and Ayumi Tanaka, previously heard in the ensemble Time Is A Blind Guide on Lucus, resurface in a new trio with clarinettist/singer/percussionist Marthe Lea.... |
Thomas Strønen / Lucus
Time Is A Blind Guide [ ECM / CD - released 19/Jan/2018 ] Norwegian drummer/composer Thomas Strønen presents a revised edition of his acoustic collective Time Is A Blind Guide, now trimmed to quintet size, and with a new pianist in Wakayama-born Ayumi Tanaka. Tanaka has spoken of seeking associative... |
Thomas Strønen
Relations (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 20/Jun/2025 ] Musical messages from Oslo, New York, Basel and Lugano - recorded between 2018 and 2022 - are juxtaposed and recombined on an absorbing recording that features Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen solo and in a series of duets . With such partners as... |
Thomas Zehetmair (baroque violin)
Sei Solo [ ECM / 2 CD - released 21/Dec/2019 ] Thomas Zehetmair, one of the great violinists of our time, re-visits the solo works of Bach, the summit of the violin repertory |
BARTÓK / CASKEN / BEETHOVEN
Bartók / Casken / Beethoven Thomas Zehetmair, Ruth Killius, Royal Northern Sinfonia [ ECM New Series / CD - released 17/Feb/2023 ] This powerful New Series album represents "a résumé and a departure" for Thomas Zehetmair, a summing up of his work with the Royal Northern Sinfonia. In his years as Music Director of the British chamber orchestra, Zehetmair was noted both for... |
KOMITAS / HAMASYAN / HENRIKSEN / AARSET / BANG
Atmosphères Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang [ ECM / 2 CD - released 26/Aug/2016 ] This far-reaching double album, recorded and mixed in three days in Lugano, introduces a new group with Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset and Jan Bang. The Norwegians had played in diverse configurations on ECM - Jan Bang on Eivind... |
Tim Berne's Snake Oil
Incidentals [ ECM / CD - released 8/Sep/2017 ] Tim Berne has been described as a saxophonist and composer of granite conviction by The New York Times. Incidentals is the fourth album from his spirited Snakeoil band and the second (following on from 2015's You've Been Watching Me) to feature the... |
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Matka Joanna [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
The Other Side (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 31/Aug/2018 ] "This is the chill-out as a state of grace, and it can go as deep as you like. Sublime," wrote the Independent on Sunday of the Gustavsen's trio's Being There, released in 2007. Over the last decade Tord has explored other ensemble forms and formats,... |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
What Was Said (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 12/Feb/2016 ] What Was Said brings new colours to Tord Gustavsen's musical palette. His new project introduces the entrancing German-Afghan vocalist Simin Tander, and builds upon the subtle understanding of his long musical association with drummer Jarle... |
Vijay Iyer Sextet
Far From Over (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Keyboardist-composer Vijay Iyer's energized sequence of ECM releases has garnered copious international praise. Yet his fifth for the label since 2014 - Far From Over, featuring his dynamically commanding sextet - finds Iyer reaching a new peak,... |
Vijay Iyer Trio
Break Stuff (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 13/Mar/2015 ] "Break Stuff" is what happens after formal elements have been addressed. Vijay Iyer calls the break "a span of time in which to act. It's the basis for breakdowns, breakbeats, and break dancing... it can be the moment when everything comes to life."... |
Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith
Defiant Life (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 21/Mar/2025 ] Anchored in the idea that, despite all obstacles, the human experience casts a net of possibilities, Defiant Life - Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith second duo recording for ECM - proves a profound meditation on the human condition and both the... |
HENRIK ØDEGAARD
Music By Henrik Ødegaard Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] On this newest endeavour, the Vox Clamantis choir, under the direction of Jaan-Eik Tulve, turns its attention towards Norwegian composer Henrik Ødegaard with a fine-drawn programme of liturgical choral music. In a subtle sleight of hand, Ødegaard's... |
ARVO PART
Pärt: And I Heard A Voice (LP) Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve (conductor) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Estonian vocal ensemble Vox Clamantis and their leader Jaan-Eik Tulve have established themselves among the leading interpreters of Arvo Pärt's music over a quarter-century of close collaboration with the composer - a relationship that builds on the... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms / Schumann Yuuko Shiokawa (violin), Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] After tackling the sonatas for violin and piano of Bach, Busoni and Beethoven in 2017 - a "thoughtfully determined and subtly interconnected programme" according to Strad magazine -, the duo of Yuuko Shiokawa and András Schiff returns with striking... |
BEETHOVEN / BRUCKNER / HARTMANN / HOLLIGER
Beethoven Bruckner Hartmann Holliger Zehetmair Quartett [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 22/Aug/2014 ] The Zehetmair Quartett, one of the most exciting and accomplished string quartets of our time, plays a programme of characteristically broad reach. This double album begins with Beethoven's highly-concentrated opus 135, and concludes with Heinz... |
