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Oded Tzur
My Prophet (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 5/Jul/2024 ] On My Prophet, Oded Tzur together with his quartet of pianist Nitai Hershkovits, bassist Petros Klampanis and the new group member Cyrano Almeida on drums, continues on the idiosyncratic musical path he has carved out for himself - a flowing jazz... |
ALEXANDER KNAIFEL
Knaifel: Chapter Eight Patrick Demenga, The State Choir Latvija, Riga Cathedral Boys Choir, Youth Choir Kamēr, Andres Mustonen [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Mar/2025 ] "It is amazing with what a deep sense of beauty this composition for church, choruses and cello is imbued" said Mstislav Rostropovich on first experiencing Chapter Eight. Basing the music on the Old Testament Song of Songs, The Song of Solomon,... |
Michele Rabbia / Gianluca Petrella / Eivind Aarset
Lost River [ ECM / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] Lost River is an evocative post-ambient, richly textured sonic event, and one of the outstanding beyond-category recordings of recent ECM history. Drummer Michele Rabbia and guitarist Eivind Aarset had played many duo concerts, and Rabbia had also... |
Signum Quartett
A Dark Flaring (String Quartets from South Africa) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 27/Jun/2025 ] A Dark Flaring marks the Signum Quartett's impressive return to ECM's New Series after debuting for the label with striking performances on Erkki-Sven Tüür's acclaimed chamber music recording Lost Prayers (2020). Here, the quartet has put together a... |
Sokratis Sinopoulos / Yann Keerim
Topos [ ECM / CD - released 17/Oct/2025 ] The Greek duo of lyra player Sokratis Sinopoulos and pianist Yann Keerim's first studio statement is a deep well of inspired musical dialogues that cross the idiomatic space between European folk tradition and chamber-jazz seamlessly. Bartók's six... |
Steve Tibbetts
Close [ ECM / CD - released 24/Oct/2025 ] The striking cover image of an abandoned swing illuminated against a field of glittering stars makes a compelling visual metaphor for the music on Close. "Music is a twilight language," Steve Tibbetts confirms. "The job is to translate some shadow... |
Steve Tibbetts
Hellbound Train [ ECM / 2 CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] Hellbound Train is a double-album retrospective from Steve Tibbetts with music selected by the US guitarist from 40 years of recordings on ECM. Neatly divided into electric and acoustic chapters, the anthology juxtaposes pieces originally featured on... |
Terje Rypdal
Conspiracy (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 12/Feb/2021 ] A new ECM studio album and a programme of new music from Terje Rypdal is cause for celebration. On Conspiracy the great Norwegian guitarist seems to reconnect with the wild inspiration that fuelled such early masterpieces as Whenever I Seem To Be Far... |
Terje Rypdal
Descendre [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Among the pleasures of this group of Rypdal reissues is the presence throughout of drummer Jon Christensen. Terje and Jon, lifelong friends, played on dozens of albums and in many groups together. Christensen always alluded to the trio with Terje and... |
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... |
GIYA KANCHELI
Kancheli: Songs Of Fate Vida Mikneviciute (soprano), Magdalena Ceple (cello), Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 19/Jan/2024 ] "Gidon Kremer has perhaps never before revealed himself as intimately and as existentially focused as on this recording", observes Wolfgang Sandner in his liner note accompanying the Latvian violinist's album Songs of Fate. |
Vijay Iyer Trio
Break Stuff [ ECM / CD - 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."... |
ARVO PART
Part: Alina / Spiegel im Spiegel Vladimir Spivakov (violin) Sergev Bezrodny (piano) Alexander Malter (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 6/May/2001 ] I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener. - Arvo Pärt |
MATHIAS DUPLESSY
El último aliento Zsófia Boros (classical guitar) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] The focus of Zsófia Boros's third recording for ECM's New Series is split two-ways, with one spotlight turned towards contemporary compositions from Argentina and the other on the multiple-idioms spanning music of French composer Mathias Duplessy.... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Volume 6: Sonatas Nos 22-26 (Incl Appassionata) Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM / CD - released 26/May/2008 ] "Three of these middle-period works are short, but what riches they deliver, and all abundantly and robustly realised by Schiff." BBC Music Five Stars |
Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Frisell
Lebroba [ ECM / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Andrew Cyrille's title Lebroba is a contraction of Leland, Brooklyn and Baltimore, birthplaces of the protagonists of an album bringing together three of creative music's independent thinkers. Each of them made his first ECM appearance long ago:... |
BEETHOVEN
The Piano Sonatas Volume 1 (Sonatas opp. 2 and 7) Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "Early Beethoven is maybe the toughest Beethoven to pull off: His ideas aren't always as compelling as those in his later music, and he has trouble saying what he means. You'd never think so, however, from András Schiff's superb first instalment of... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas Volume 3: Two Sonatas op. 49; Two Sonatas op. 14; Sonata No. 11 B flat major op. 22 Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Dec/2006 ] International critics writing on the first two volumes of András Schiff's Beethoven cycle have praised a particularly "sharp attention to detail" (Jed Distler in Gramophone on volume II) |
Andy Sheppard Quartet
Romaria [ ECM / CD - released 16/Feb/2018 ] Andy Sheppard's quartet extends the musical explorations begun on the 2015 release Surrounded By Sea, an album praised by Télérama for its "poignant serenity." In this new programme of compositions by Sheppard (plus the title track by Brazilian... |
Arild Andersen Group
Affirmation [ ECM / CD - released 28/Oct/2022 ] In November 2021, bassist Arild Andersen brought his new quartet with saxophonist Marius Neset, pianist Helge Lien and drummer Håkon Mjåset Johansen to Oslo's Rainbow Studio. Norway's pandemic travel restrictions having ruled out the participation of... |
