PURCELL / LEONARD COHEN / NICK DRAKE
If Grief Could Wait Giovanna Pessi (baroque harp) / Susanna Wallumrød (voice) / Jane Achtman (viola da gamba) / Marco Ambrosini (nyckelharpa) [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] Unique, intimate album initiated by Swiss baroque harpist Giovanna Pessi and featuring the pure, non-classical voice of Norwegian singer Susanna Wallumrød. Best known for her work in pop and indie-rock contexts (including the duo Susanna and the... |
Giovanni Guidi Trio
City Of Broken Dreams [ ECM / CD - released 18/Mar/2013 ] |
Giovanni Guidi Trio
This is the Day [ ECM / CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] The Giovanni Guidi Trio plays jazz of uncommon originality and reflective depth. On their second ECM album, Italian pianist Guidi, US bassist Morgan, and Portuguese drummer Lobo continue the work begun on the 2011 recording City of Broken Dreams,... |
Glauco Venier
Minatures - Music For Piano and Percussion [ ECM / CD - released 8/Jul/2016 ] The fifteen miniatures of this modestly-titled recording include new music by Italian pianist Glauco Venier as well as adaptations of Gurdjieff, Komitas, Dufay and more. This is Venier's first solo album for ECM, and as with his exemplary work... |
J.S. BACH
Goldberg Variations Keith Jarrett (piano) [ ECM Records / CD ] Recorded January 1989 |
Golfam Khatam, Mona Matbou Riahi
Narrante [ ECM / CD - released 10/Jun/2016 ] Narrante is the ECM debut album of Golfam Khayam and Mona Matbou Riahi, otherwise known as the Naqsh Duo. The guitarist and clarinetist, both born in Teheran, have pursued further musical adventures outside Iran while remaining fascinated and... |
Gorecki / Satie / Milhaud / Bryars
Gorecki - O Domina Nostra / Satie - Messe des Pauvres / Milhaud / Bryars [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] Recorded June 1992 |
Grazie Wirtti, Matias Arriazu
Caçador de Infância [ ECM / CD - released 23/Aug/2019 ] The duo formed by the Brazilian singer-songwriter Grazie Wirtti and the Argentinean guitarist, composer and arranger Matias Arriazu brings a contemporary vision to Brazilian and Latin American music. Together, they explore new forms, feelings and... |
The Gurdjieff Ensemble, Levon Eskenian
Komitas [ ECM / CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] The Armenian Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble was founded by Levon Eskenian to play 'ethnographically authentic' arrangements of the G.I. Gurdjieff/Thomas de Hartmann piano music. Their debut album on ECM, Music of G.I. Gurdjieff, was widely... |
GEORGES I. GURDJIEFF
Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "What appeals most to me in Levon Eskenian's instrumentation is the extremely meticulous, clear cut work approach - without unnecessary 'composing' and 'cleverness'" - Tigran Mansurian |
Hal Russell Nrg Ensemble
The Finnish/Swiss Tour (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
CHARLES IVES
Sonatas for Violin and Piano Hansheinz Schneeberger (violin) / Daniel Cholette (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] These are the definitive performances |
Jon Hassell
Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street [ ECM Records / CD - released 2/Mar/2009 ] This recording from the innovative & influential Jon Hassell is conceived as "a continuous piece, almost symphonic, with a cinematic construction" and drifting "clouds made out of many motifs". |
FRIEDRICH CERHA
Concerto for Cello and orchestra (with Schreker-Kammersymphonie) Heinrich Schiff (cello) / Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra / Peter EAtvAs, conductor [ ECM New Series / CD - released 31/Jan/2008 ] Cellist Heinrich Schiff delivers a transcendent performance of a cello concerto dedicated to him "in friendship" by Austria's great composer Friedrich Cerha (born 1926). Cerha's special combination of stylistic conviction and expressive diversity,... |
J. S. BACH / HOLLIGER
Duo / Study / Suite Catrin Demenga (violin), Thomas Demenga (cello), Heinz Holliger (oboe) [ ECM Records / CD ] Recorded September 1986 |
GYORGY KURTAG
Kurtag: Zwiegesprache Heinz Holliger (oboe/cor anglais/piano), Marie-Lise Schüpbach (cor anglais/oboe), Ernesto Molinari (bass clarinet/ contrabass clarinet), Sarah Wegener [ ECM New Series / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] explores his interpretative gifts as a performer rather than his full range as a composer, its focus on the dialogues between his own music and that of György Kurtág makes for a beautifully rounded double portrait - Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List |
J.S. BACH
Ich hatte viel Bekummernis (concertos and sinfonias for oboe) Heinz Holliger (oboe) / Erich Hobarth (violin & conductor) / Camerata Bern [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "..this is music-making which can only ravish in its undimmed personality and artistic ambition." (Gramophone Ediror's Choice Awards Issue 2011) |
ZELENKA
Trio Sonatas Heinz Holliger (oboe) Maurice Bourgue (oboe) Thomas Zehetmair (violin) Klaus Thunemann (bassoon) Klaus Stoll (double-bass) Jonathan Rubin (lute) [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Recorded June 1997, Released 1999 |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / HEINZ HOLLIGER
Aschenmusik Heinz Holliger (oboe, oboe d'amore), Anita Leuzinger (cello), Anton Kernjak (piano) [ ECM / CD - released 8/Jul/2014 ] This absorbing set embraces Holliger's Romancendres, which seeks to recapture the late Cello Romances by Schumann that his widow, Clara, and Brahms destroyed. |
ISANG YUN / ELLIOTT CARTER
Lauds and Lamentations: Music of Elliott Carter and Isang Yun Heinz Holliger (oboe) / Thomas Zehetmair (violin) / Ruth Killius (viola) / Thomas Demenga (cello) [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] The peerless artistry of Heinz Holliger - unchallenged as the world's greatest oboist - and of his immensely gifted colleagues Thomas Zehetmair, Thomas Demenga and Ruth Killius, is applied to the music of two of the greatest composers of modern... |