GIDEON LEWENSOHN
Odradek Quartet / Piano Quintet / Postludes for Piano Alexander Lonquich (piano) / Auryn Quartett [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] "The music's manner is often haunting, eloquent, the dedicated performers recorded with appropriate warmth. The booklet notes by Raymond Monelle will make you think, too, acknowledging Lewensohn's elusiveness, and helping to explain the ways in which... |
STRAVINSKY / SHOSTAKOVICH / PROKOFIEV / SCRIABIN
Messe Noire Alexei Lubimov (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Jun/2005 ] "Lubimov's relaxed, transparent performance of Shostakovich's Second Sonata and tightly coiled one of Prokofiev's Seventh are both hugely impressive, as is his surprisingly emollient account of Scriabin's "Black Mass" sonata. The Guardian |
SILESTROV / PART / USTVOLSKAYA
Misterioso Alexei Lubimov (piano) / Alexander Trostiansky (violin) / Kyrill Rybakov (clarinet) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "These are all magnificent performances, as one might expect from these three musicians, who regularly perform together as a trio, and their sound is superbly and rawly caught by ECM's recording" - BBC Music Magazine |
DEBUSSY
Preludes / Trois Nocturnes / etc Alexei Lubimov (piano) [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] "Debussy's use of pianistic colour is absolutely central to this tremendous set from Alexi Lubimov. He uses the characterful sonorities of two pianos from close to Debussy's time." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013: Instrumental Finalist |
JOHN CAGE
As it is Alexei Lubimov (piano) / Natalia Pschenitschnikova (voice) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] A fresh approach to one of contemporary composition's most iconoclastic and inventive figures, issued on the occasion of John Cage's 100th birthday. Early Cage is the subject here, strikingly original songs and piano pieces from the 1930s and 1940s.... |
VALENTIN SILVESTROV
Metamusik / Postludium Alexei Lubimov (piano) / Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Dennis Russell Davies : conductor [ ECM Records / CD - released 5/Oct/2003 ] After the Grammy-nominated chamber music album "leggiero, pesante", a recording of major compositions for piano and orchestra by the man Alfred Schnittke and Arvo Pärt have both called "one of the greatest composers of our time." He is certainly one... |
C. P. E. BACH
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Tangere Alexei Lubimov (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] "Lubimov owns every exquisitely calibrated nuance" BBC Music Instrumental Choice of the Month Christmas 2017 |
Alice Zawadzki, Fred Thomas, Misha Mullov-Abbado
Za Gorami [ ECM / CD - released 20/Sep/2024 ] Vocalist and violinist Alice Zawadzki, pianist Fred Thomas (who also plays the vielle and drums here) and bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado present a rare alchemy on their trio debut, fusing folk idioms from a multitude of sources with free flowing... |
Alperin/Shilkloper
Waves Of Sorrow [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Am4
And She Answered [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Amina Alaoui
Arco Iris [ ECM / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] Following her outstanding performance in collaborative work with Jon Balke and Jon Hassell on the "Siwan" recording of 2007/8, Moroccan-born singer Amina Alaoui presents her own border-transcending project. When Alaoui sings there is "no need to... |
Anat Fort (piano) with Gary Wang (double-bass) & Roland Schneider (drums)
A Long Story [ ECM / CD - released 29/Jan/2007 ] "Anat Fort has a charming way of dispensing pastoralism and an insightful way of lining that pastoralism with depth", wrote Jim Macnie, in the Village Voice, adding that "her trio has the kind of poise that lets her move from terra firma to the... |
Anat Fort Trio
And If [ ECM / CD - released 23/Aug/2010 ] |
Anders Jormin (double-bass) with Robin Rydqvist trumpet (flugelhorn) & Krister Petersson (french horn)
Ad Lucem [ ECM / CD - released 19/Mar/2012 ] Jormin, hailed by Down Beat as "a treasure everything a bassist should be", has excelled on numerous ECM recordings with Bobo Stenson, Charles Lloyd, Don Cherry, and Tomasz Stanko. Solo pieces and compositions for brass quartet feature on"Xieyi",... |
Anders Jormin
In Winds, In Light [ ECM / CD - released 30/Aug/2004 ] Lena Willemark voice Marilyn Crispell piano Karin Nelson church organ Raymond Strid percussion Anders Jormin double-bass |
Anders Jormin
Pasado en claro [ ECM / CD - released 20/Jan/2023 ] The creative partnership of Anders Jormin and singer/violinist/violist Lena Willemark was first given exposure on ECM in 2004 with the album In Winds, In Light. In 2015 the bassist and the folk singer-violinist introduced a new project with koto... |
Anders Jormin
Xieyi [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Anders Jormin (double-bass) with Lena Willemark (voice, fiddle and viola) Karin Nakagawa (25-string koto)
Trees Of Light [ ECM / CD - released 20/Mar/2015 ] Anders Jormin's new Swedish-Japanese project returns the highly distinctive voice and fiddle of Lena Willemark to ECM (her first appearance on the label in more than a decade), and introduces koto player Karin Nakagawa. In their collaborative music... |
BARTOK
44 Duos For Two Violins Andras Keller & Janos Pilz [ ECM New Series / CD - released 18/Mar/2002 ] |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Geistervariationen Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] |