Andrew Cyrille Quartet
The Declaration of Musical Independence [ ECM / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] The great avant-jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille - whose associations have ranged from a long, vintage collaboration with Cecil Taylor to co-leading current all-star collective Trio 3 with Oliver Lake and Reggie Workman - makes his ECM leader debut with... |
Andrey Dergatchev
O.S.T. - The Return [ ECM / CD - released 29/Aug/2005 ] |
BARTOK
44 Duos for Two Violins (with music by Ligeti and Kurtag) Andras Keller, Janos Pilz (violins) [ ECM Records / CD - released 26/May/2002 ] "These performances are exemplary, hitting exactly the right tome of folk-like melancholy or exuberance (and sometimes both)." ***** Five Stars (BBC Music Magazine) June 2002 |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
J.S. Bach: Clavichord András Schiff (clavichord) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] "As with his previous period-instrument ventures, Schiff opens up a new world and thoroughly adjusts his temperament, his 'pianism' and his artistry to it." Gramophone Editor's Choice April 2023 |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / BACH / MOZART / HAYDN
Encores After Beethoven András Schiff (piano) [ ECM / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] "If you think of encores as lightweight, think again. These composers wrote many characteristic pieces that are less ambitious than full-dress sonatas but are not to be dismissed as miniatures." Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice, February 2017 |
W.A. MOZART / REGER / BUSONI
Music for Two Pianos Andras Schiff and Peter Serkin (piano) [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] ECM débuts for two of the greatest pianists of our time |
SCHUMANN
In concert: Robert Schumann (recorded in 1999) Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 21/Aug/2007 ] "Few pianists could have made this programme work. They may not be Schumann's finest, but they have their own glories and Schiff, recorded live in the Tonhalle, Zurich, in May 1999, treats them with affection. An absolute winner." ***** Five Stars... |
BEETHOVEN
The Piano Sonatas Volume 8: Sonatas opp. 109, 110 & 111 [30, 31, 32] Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/Nov/2008 ] "The quality of the playing and the recording are such that collectors of the complete edition are unlikely to be disappointed..the presentation is gorgeous, with a few nice facsimiles of Beethoven's original sketches and the usual informative and... |
JANACEK
A Recollection: Piano Music Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 3/Jun/2001 ] "(Schiff) combines extreme sophistication with a directness of utterance which is very close to the folk tradition. Schiff shows a keen understanding of the music's polyphonic aspect." (BBC Music) |
SCHUBERT
Sonatas, Impromptus & Moments Musicaux András Schiff (fortepiano) [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/May/2015 ] BBC Music Magazine Awards 2016 Finalist - Instrumental |
Andy Sheppard / Michel Benita / Seb Rochford
Trio Libero [ ECM / CD - released 12/Mar/2012 ] UK saxophonist Andy Sheppard introduces his freely lyrical new trio, who all share a sense of stylistic open-mindedness. |
J.S. BACH / TOBIAS HUME / CARL FRIEDRICH ABEL
Bach, Abel, Hume Anja Lechner (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 18/Oct/2024 ] For her first solo-violoncello album on ECM's New Series, Anja Lechner devotes herself to a particularly unique convergence of three composers from vastly different contexts: JS Bach, Carl Friedrich Abel and Tobias Hume. In the past, her extensive... |
VALENTIN SILVESTROV
Silvestrov: Hieroglyphen Der Nacht Anja Lechner (cello) [ ECM / CD - released 1/Oct/2018 ] "Listeners familiar with the benign beauty that imbues much of Silvestrov's sacred choral works will be in for quite a shock. [The Elegie is] brilliantly performed by seasoned Silvestrov cellist Anja Lechner." Gramophone |
GEORGE I. GURDJIEFF
Chants, Hymns and Dances Anja Lechner (cello) Vassilis Tsabropoulos (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/Oct/2004 ] "Chants, Hymns and Dances" features music of G.I. Gurdjieff (c. 1877-1948) in new arrangements for cello and piano by Anja Lechner and Vassilis Tsabropoulos, as well as compositions by Tsabropoulos (b. 1966) based, in part, upon Byzantine hymns. |
Anja Lechner (cello), Vassilis Tsabropoulos (piano)
Melos [ ECM / CD - released 29/Aug/2008 ] "Melos" is the sequel to Anja Lechner's and Vassilis Tsabropoulos' album Chants, Hymns and Dances, issued in autumn 2004 to much critical and public acclaim. The focus there was on traditional Greek-Byzantine hymns and on melodies by the legendary... |
Anja Lechner & Francois Couturier
Moderato Cantabile [ ECM New Series / CD ] After a decade of shared work in the Tarkovsky Quartet and an ongoing alliance in the Pergolesi Project (with singer Maria Pia De Vito), German cellist Anja Lechner and French pianist François Couturier unveil their new duo. The players approach the... |
SCHNITTKE / SHCHEDRIN / RIHM
Elusive Affinity Anna Gourari [ ECM New Series / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] In this imaginatively shaped and sensitively played album - her third for ECM - Russian pianist Anna Gourari explores musical connections and influences extending across the arts. Three suites of contemporary music are heard here. Alfred Schnittke's... |
Anna Gourari
Various: Canto Oscuro [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] |
Anna Gourari, OSI Lugano, Markus Poschner
Hindemith / Schnittke [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Jun/2024 ] After three acclaimed solo piano programmes for the label, here Anna Gourari widens the instrumental spectrum with the Lugano-based Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana under Markus Poschner's direction in striking performances of Alfred Schnittke's... |
Anouar Brahem
Le Voyage De Sahar [ ECM Records / CD - released 17/May/2006 ] Featuring persuasive, emotionally powerful new compositions by Brahem, and also incorporating new approaches to a selection of his most frequently performed works. |