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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.... |
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... |
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 |
KAPSBERGER / FOSCARINI / GIANONCELLI / LISLEVAND / ORTIZ
Libro Primo Rolf Lislevand (lute) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 12/Sep/2025 ] "The emphasis is on intimacy and interiority, and absolutely none the worse for that: to the contrary, Lislevand on his own is a pleasure to listen to." Gramophone Award Finalist 2026 instrumental |
SAMUEL BECKETT
Beckett: Stirrings Still Trevor Baca, Jack Quartet, Paul Griffiths [ ECM New Series / CD - released 4/Sep/2026 ] Stirrings Still was Samuel Beckett's last message in prose, completed in 1987, and first published the following year. More monologue than story, it comes from a narrator on the edge between life and what lies beyond, which might be a vast wheatfield... |
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... |
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA
The Canticle Of The Sun Gidon Kremer (violin), Marta Sudraba (cello), Kremerata Baltica / Chamber Choir Kamer, Maris Sirmais [ Ecm New Series / CD - released 16/Jan/2012 ] "These are extraordinary works from an extraordinary and very compelling musical personality." (Gramophone) |
Stanley Cowell Trio
Illusion Suite (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series / LP - released 18/Sep/2026 ] On Illusion Suite, "the charms are quiet", as Down Beat put it, reviewing the album in 1974. "It creeps up on you and hits you in the ear in subtle ways. Things you hadn't noticed keep jumping out. This album most directly and accurately pictures... |
Terje Rypdal
Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Initially published in November 1974. Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away is, by common consensus, one of Terje's early masterpieces. Rypdal has said that he sometimes felt conflicted in his early years, pulled in different directions by the urges to... |
J.S. BACH / ELLIOTT CARTER
Cello Suite No. 3 / Triple Duo / Enchanted Preludes Thomas Demenga (cello) Hansheinz Schneeberger (violin) Philippe Racine (flute) Ernesto Molinari (clarinet) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/1990 ] Thomas Demenga was born in 1954, in Berne, Switzerland. Thomas Demenga studied with Walter Grimmer, Antonio Janigro, Leonard Rose and Mstislav Rostropovich, amongst others, and received his chamber music education at the Juilliard School. |
Thomas Larcher
The Living Mountain [ ECM New Series / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto / Symphony No. 1 "Spring" / Phantasy for Violin & Orchestra op. 131 Thomas Zehetmair (violin, conductor) / Orchestre de Chambre de Paris [ ECM New Series / CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] "Zehetmair is both soloist and conductor, and what's fascinating is how he tells one story with his violin - passionate and resolute - while letting the orchestra hint at darker things" The Guardian, 24th March 2016 **** |
TIGRAN MANSURIAN
Con Anima - Chamber Music by Tigran Mansurian Movses Pogossian (violin), Kim Kashkashian (viola), Boris Allakhverdyan (violin), Tatevik Mokatsian (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 6/Nov/2020 ] Conceived jointly by violinist Movses Pogossian and violist Kim Kashkashian on the occasion of Tigran Mansurian's 80th birthday, the Con anima project brings together a dedicated cast of players to perform the Armenian composer's chamber music. |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 Till Fellner (piano) / Montreal Symphony Orchestra / Kent Nagano [ ECM New Series / CD - released 25/Mar/2010 ] "This is a dream partnership with soloist and conductor working hand-in-glove...you will rarely hear playing of such an enviable, unimpeded musical grace and fluency" Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Concerto |
THOMAS LARCHER
Madhares (String Quartet No. 3) / Still for viola and chamber orchestra / Bose Zellen for piano and orchestra Till Fellner (piano) / Kim Kashkashian (viola) / Quatour Diotima / Munich Chamber Orchestra / Dennis Russel Davies [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] "He has a fabulous ear for unusual sonorities, which he fashions into surprisingly logical narratives...Böse Zellen, in particular, is a truly original work, vigorously performed and captured in flawless sound." BBC Music Magazine, September 2010 **** |
TONU KORVITS
Mirror Tõnu Kõrvits, Anja Lechner, Kadri Voorand, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra [ ECM New Series / CD - released 18/Mar/2016 ] Mirror is the first ECM New Series album from Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvitz (born 1969), who emphasizes his links to his homeland's music at several levels. The album begins with a fantasy on a song by Veljo Tormis. Like the older composer, Kõrvitz... |
Tomasz Stanko
Balladyna (LP) [ ECM Luminessence Series / LP - released 15/May/2026 ] An essential document of European jazz in the 1970s, and a recording that still sounds magnificent today, Balladyna exerted an enduring influence on successive generations of improvising musicians - in Poland and Finland above all, though it also... |
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... |
ARVO PART
Pärt: And I Heard A Voice Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - 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... |
Walter Fähndrich
Viola (LP) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
