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... |
J.S. BACH
Inventions and Sinfonias (2 and 3 Part Inventions) BWV772-801 Till Fellner (piano) [ ECM / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] For more than four years, fans have been waiting for a new Bach recording from the extraordinary Austrian pianist Till Fellner. His interpretation of the first book of the Well-tempered piano for ECM was released in 2004 to great critical acclaim.... |
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 New York Quartet
December Avenue [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Four years after the landmark album Wisława, the great Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's New York Quartet returns with another masterful recording, December Avenue. Always an insightful bandleader, Stanko here encourages spirited improvisation to... |
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Matka Joanna [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
September Night [ ECM / CD - released 21/Jun/2024 ] Recorded at Munich's Muffathalle twenty years ago, in September 2004, this previously-unreleased concert recording of the Tomasz Stanko Quartet is a fascinating document, capturing a developmental chapter in the music between the song forms of the... |
Manu Katche
Neighbourhood [ ECM Records / CD - released 12/Sep/2005 ] Manu teams up with Jan Garbareck, Tomasz Stanko, Marcin Wasilewski & Slawomir Kurkiewicz - the fine results speak for themselves. 'Neighbourhood' = ECM at its finest. |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
Being There [ ECM Records / CD - released 24/Apr/2007 ] Offering gorgeous melodies & poetic lyricism, 'Being There' is another fine recording from Tord Gustavsen, Harald Johnsen and Jarle Vespestad. This third album from the TG Trio follows on from the superb 'Changing Places' and 'The Ground'. |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
Changing Places [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/Dec/2003 ] The songs Gustavsen writes sound like standards-in-the-making - lyrical, immediately memorable songs, songs of an appealing freshness, yet sophisticated in their involvement with the melodic line. |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
The Ground [ ECM Records / CD - released 12/Nov/2004 ] The eagerly awaited follow-up to "Changing Places", the most successful ECM debut of the last decade! The improvising of Gustavsen's Trio is always restrained, subtle, tasteful. |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
Opening [ ECM / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] On the album Opening, Tord Gustavsen reveals a fresh angle to his particularly unique trio investigations into Scandinavian folk hymns, gospel, chorale and jazz, as he introduces a different voice on bass. With a new fellow-traveller on board and... |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
Seeing [ ECM / CD - released 4/Oct/2024 ] With Seeing, Tord Gustavsen begins an intricate new chapter in his series of acclaimed trio recordings, initiated in 2003 with Changing Places - an album that is today considered a classic. The new recording with its compact, concentrated song forms... |
TRADITIONAL
Rimur Trio Mediaeval & Arve Henriksen (trumpet) [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] "if the idea of a semi-distant Nordic cousin to Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble's 'Officium' series appeals, this is worth procuring" (Gramophone) |
HENRY PURCELL / GUILLAUME DUFAY / JOSQUIN DESPREZ
Stravaganza Consonanti Gianluigi Trovesi (Piccolo Clarinet, Alto Clarinet, Alto Saxophone), Stefano Montanari (Concertmaster) [ ECM / CD - released 27/Feb/2023 ] In this inspired collaboration with conductor and baroque violinist Stefano Montanari, the masterful Italian reedman Gianluigi Trovesi extends the line of musical enquiry posited on his Prufumo di violetta album. Supported by a cast of players... |
Vijay Iyer / Craig Taborn
The Transitory Poems [ ECM / CD - released 22/Feb/2019 ] Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn, two of creative music's most resourceful players, learned to meld and mesh their artistic approaches inside Roscoe Mitchell's Note Factory ensemble (as documented on Mitchell's 2007 recording Far Side). Since then, Iyer... |
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey
Compassion [ ECM / CD - released 2/Feb/2024 ] Pianist-composer Vijay Iyer follows his 2021 ECM disc Uneasy - the first to showcase his trio featuring bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Tyshawn Sorey - with Compassion, another album in league with these two gifted partners. The New York Times... |
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey
Compassion (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 2/Feb/2024 ] Pianist-composer Vijay Iyer follows his 2021 ECM disc Uneasy - the first to showcase his trio featuring bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Tyshawn Sorey - with Compassion, another album in league with these two gifted partners. The New York Times... |
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey
Uneasy [ ECM / CD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Vijay Iyer presents a powerful new trio, in which he is joined by two key figures in creative music, Tyshawn Sorey and Linda May Han Oh. "We have an energy together that is very distinct. It has a different kind of propulsion, a different impulse and... |
Vijay Iyer (piano, electronics)
Mutations [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/May/2014 ] Mutations is Vijay Iyer's first album as a leader for ECM, and a recording that will widen perceptions of the pianist-composer's work. At its centre is "Mutations I-X", a composition scored for string quartet, piano, and electronics. A major piece... |