EVAN PARKER
Memory / Vision Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble [ ECM / CD - released 1/Jan/2003 ] "The latest manifestation of UK saxophonist Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic project is the most ambitious yet, including four electronics / computer specialists in addition to the core quintet of improvisers. It's a departure for Parker - an extended... |
EVAN PARKER
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Toward the Margins Evan Parker (soprano saxophone) / Barry Guy (double-bass) / Paul Lytton (percussion, live-electronics) / Philipp Wachsmann (violin, viola, live elect) [ ECM Records / CD - released 5/Sep/2008 ] British saxophonist Evan Parker was one of the first musicians to record for ECM, appearing on the label's fifth album in 1970 as a member of the Music Improvisation Company |
EVGUENI GALPERINE
Galperine: The Theory Of Becoming Maria Vasyukova (voice), Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet), Sebastien Hurtaud (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] The ECM New Series debut of Evgueni Galperine is one of the most strikingly original and evocative albums of the year. A composer of Russian and Ukrainian heritage, living in Paris since 1990, Galperine is working with sound, texture and dynamics in... |
First House
Cantilena (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
Fly
Sky & Country [ ECM Records / CD - released 13/Jul/2009 ] 'Sky & Country' is the ECM debut of the highly regarded collective trio, Fly - Mark Turner, Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard. |
Food
Quiet Inlet [ ECM / CD - released 19/Apr/2010 ] |
Food (Iain Ballamy & Thomas Strønen)
Mercurial Balm [ ECM / CD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] |
GIACINTO SCELSI
Natura Renovatur Frances-Marie Uitti (cello) / Munchener Kammerorchester / Christoph Poppen [ ECM / CD - released 14/Oct/2007 ] Natura Renovatur (Nature Renewed), the first ECM New Series recording entirely devoted to the revelatory music of Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), is a voyage into the very heart of the composer's work. Scelsi, who spoke about a third sonic dimension,... |
FRANCOIS COUTURIER
Works Francois Couturier (piano) Anja Lechner (cello) Jean-Louis Matinier (accordian) Jean-Marc Larche (soprano saxophone) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] The unique band founded by François Couturier continues to draw inspiration from the films of Andrey Tarkovsky as its frame of reference expands. Allusions to Pergolesi, Bach and Shostakovich are to be found in the compositions here, as are... |
Frankfurt Jazz Ensemble
Atmospheric Conditions Permitting [ ECM / 2 CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] Subtitled 'radio recordings 1967-1993', Atmospheric Conditions Permitting enters the archives of Frankfurt Radio (Hessischer Rundfunk) and retrieves material from 31 sessions featuring a total of 50 musicians. The resultant double CD amounts to a... |
HONEGGER / MARTINU
Sonatinas and Duos Frank-Peter Zimmermann (violin) Heinrich Schiff (violoncello) [ ECM / CD - released 23/Nov/2006 ] "Put two such marvellous artists together and something special is likely to happen. And that’s the case here, across a repertoire that ranges from Bach to the fast-rising Matthias Pintscher. Our reviewer Guy Rickards goes so far as to suggest that... |
Fred Hersch Trio
The Surrounding Green (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 27/Jun/2025 ] Fred Hersch's work is marked by its inwardness, the allusiveness, the restraint. But beneath such apparent discretion bursts a raw sensuality-the flesh of the music, its pulse. - Francis Marmande, Le Monde Masterful trio interplay reliant on... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Three Or One Fred Thomas (piano), Aisha Orazbayeva (violin), Lucy Railton (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Here is Johann Sebastian Bach in transfigured light: with organ chorale preludes, vocal cantata movements and orchestral sinfonias - 24 pieces in all - transcribed for trio and solo piano by Fred Thomas, and threaded into a compelling new sequence by... |
Frode Haltli
Passing Images [ ECM / CD - released 29/Jan/2007 ] |
Garbarek / Vitous / Erskine
Star [ ECM / CD - released 31/Dec/2008 ] |
PURCELL / VIVALDI / KNOX / von BINGEN / de MACHAUT / etc
Saltarello Garth Knox (viola d'amore) Agnes Vesterman (violoncello) Sylvain Lemetre (percussion) [ ECM / CD - released 10/Mar/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Baroque Instrumental |
GARTH KNOX
D'Amore: Music for Viola d'amore from 1600 to the present day Garth Knox (viola d'amore) / Agnes Vesterman (violoncello) [ ECM / CD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] Recording of the Month (Gramophone Magazine) September 2008 - "Knox and cellist Agnès Vesterman seem to conjure up an entire range of instruments between the two of them (have a listen to see what I mean) and by the time they exit with a dizzying... |
Gary Burton & Chick Corea
Crystal Silence - The ECM Recordings 1972-79 [ ECM Records / 4 CD Box Set - released 12/Oct/2009 ] This 4-CD box set reprises the history-making recordings CRYSTAL SILENCE (1972), DUET (1978) and the live double album IN CONCERT, ZÜRICH, (1979). |
Gary Peacock & Marilyn Crispel
Azure [ ECM / CD - released 17/Jun/2013 ] |
Gavin Bryars
After The Requiem (LP) [ ECM / LP ] |