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Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette
Always Let Me Go [ ECM / 2 CD - released 21/Oct/2002 ] A new high-water mark in the life of the extraordinary trio of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette. Recorded on two nights in Tokyo last year, this double album is an endlessly fascinating document that takes the full measure of the... |
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J.S. BACH
Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue) Keller Quartet [ ECM Records / CD ] Recorded May 1997 |
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GYORGY LIGETI
String Quartets (with Barber - String Quartet Op 11: Adagio) Keller Quartett [ ECM New Series / CD - released 24/Jun/2013 ] "If the beauty and at times uncompromising nightmare worlds of Ligeti's string quartets are a place you have yet to discover, then the Keller Quartet will provide you with the most powerful and lasting of introductions. " (MusicWeb Oct 2013) |
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SCHNITTKE / SHOSTAKOVICH
Lento: Piano Quintet / String Quartet No. 15, op. 144 The Keller Quartett / Alexei Lubimov [ ECM Records / CD - released 26/May/2003 ] "the Kellers can stand comparison with the very finest." - Gramophone |
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GYORGY KURTAG
Musik for Streichinstrumente (music for string instruments) The Keller Quartett / Andras Keller : violin / Janos Pilz : violin / Zoltan Gal: viola / Otto Kertesz : cello / Gyorgy Kurtag : celesta / MiklA [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] The Keller Quartet, described by the Guardian as "technically masterful and musically intelligent", interpret the string music of Hungarian composer György Kurtág. |
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SCHNITTKE / BEETHOVEN / BACH / KURTAG / LIGETI / KNAIFEL
Cantante e tranquillo The Keller Quartett [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] "Highlights are the hypnotic pastoral from Schnittke's Piano Quintet with Alexei Lubimov, and a sequence of Kurtág miniatures. Good for a quiet night in." The Observer, 5th April 2015 *** |
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Kenny Wheeler
Angel Song (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 31/May/2024 ] LP from the "Luminessence" Series. "Destined to go down in history as a jazz classic" was the verdict with which The Guardian greeted this album on its release in 1997, saying, "Wheeler's compositions and four of the world's greatest improvisers... |
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Kenny Wheeler
Deer Wan [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] The notoriously self-critical trumpeter Kenny Wheeler maintained that Deer Wan (recorded 1976) was his favourite among his own albums ("I like the overall form of this one best"). A tremendous band plays Wheeler's tunes here. Kenny and Jan Garbarek... |
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Kenny Wheeler
Double, Double You [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Canadian trumpeter Kenny Wheeler was both a major jazz composer and a soloist given to free flights, thriving on the creative tension between lyricism and fiery interplay. Musicians loved the challenges implied in his writing, as is apparent in every... |
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Kenny Wheeler
Gnu High [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in June 1975, Kenny Wheeler's 'Gnu High' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
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Kenny Wheeler (with Keith Jarrett, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette)
Gnu High (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 28/Apr/2023 ] "Gnu High" was trumpeter/flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler's first for ECM, and Keith Jarrett's last session as a sideman: both deliver astonishing improvisations in a highly interactive quartet with Holland and DeJohnette, and Wheeler's writing is... |
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Kenny Wheeler
Music For Large & Small Ensembles [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] |
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JORG WIDMANN
Arche Kent Nagano / Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 5/Oct/2018 ] For the opening of Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie concert hall, the German composer Jorg Widmann was commissioned to write a new oratorio for soloists, choirs, organ and orchestra, Arche. Widmann drew inspiration from the shape of the building itself:... |
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Ketil Bjornstad (piano) with Andy Sheppard (saxophones) Anja Lechner (cello), etc
La Notte [ ECM / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] |
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Ketil Bjornstad / David Darling / Terje Rypdal / Jon Christensen
The Sea [ ECM / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] |
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Ketil Bjornstad & Terje Rypdal
Life in Leipzig [ ECM Records / CD - released 3/Aug/2009 ] Norwegians Ketil Bjørnstad and Terje Rypdal - a rare and possibly unique duo combination of electric guitar and acoustic piano - in an exciting live album recorded before an enthusiastic audience in Leipzig's Opera House. |
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LARS SAABYE CHRISTENSEN
A Suite Of Poems Ketil Bjørnstad (Piano), Anneli Drecker (Voice) [ ECM / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] Norwegian-Danish author Lars Saabye Christensen is one of Scandinavia most widely-praised and prolific contemporary writers. For many years now, in the course of his travels around the globe, he has been sending "hotel poems" to his friend Ketil... |
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Ketil Bjørnstad / Svante Henryson
Night Song [ ECM Records / CD - released 14/Mar/2011 ] Ketil Bjørnstad returns to the piano/cello duo, instrumentation which defined two of his best-loved albums, 'The River' and 'Epigraphs' |
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VALENTIN SILVESTROV
Sacred Songs Kiev Chamber Choir, Mykola Hobdych [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] "Nourishing repertoire, ravishingly sung; a balm for the heart and soul." (MusicWeb Aug 2013) |
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VALENTIN SILVESTROV
Sacred Works Kiev Chamber Choir / Mykola Hobdych [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/Dec/2009 ] "Hypnotic and startlingly different, this music has cult potential." The Observer, 22nd November 2009 |