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Konitz / Mehldau / Haden / Motian
Live at Birdland [ ECM / CD - released 23/May/2011 ] |
VICTOR KISSINE
Between Two Waves Gidon Kremer (violin) Daniil Grishin (viola) Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė (violoncello) [ Ecm New Series / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] "The imagery and ambience is that of honest creativity by a mind and an ear keenly tuned to the moods of his subject, and as such this is a release which can haunt and inspire." Dominy Clements, Music Web International |
Kristjan Randalu, Ben Monder, Markku Ounaskari
Absence [ ECM / CD - released 6/Apr/0018 ] Estonian pianist Kristjan Randalu makes his ECM debut with a striking album of his own rigorous-yet-lyrical music, sensitively played by a trio formed especially for this recording, with US guitarist Ben Monder and Finnish drummer Markku Ounaskari.... |
Larry Grenadier
The Gleaners [ ECM / LP - released 15/Feb/2019 ] Over the decades, ECM has released a line of inventive albums showcasing solo double bass by such virtuosos of the instrument as Dave Holland, Barre Phillips and Miroslav Vitous. Now the label presents The Gleaners, the first album of solo bass by... |
KURTAG
Kurtagonals Laszlo Hortobagyi (synthesizers, computers) Gyorgy Kurtag, Jr (synthesizers) Miklos Lengyelfi (bass efects)) [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Jul/2009 ] An ECM debut for György Kurtág jr, in a strikingly unusual context. The son of the great Hungarian composer is himself an influential figure in new music, particularly in the electronic and electro-acoustic domain. |
ERKKI-SVEN TUUR
Symphony No. 7 / Piano Concerto Laura Mikkola (piano) / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
Leo Smith
Divine Love [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Wadada Leo Smith's Divine Love is one of ECM's most tantalizing jewels, the result of many years ignoring the label's advances. I can only speculate this was because the immediacy of his craft might have been adversely affected by the interventions... |
STRAVINSKY / BACH
Stravinsky / Bach - Violin works Leonidas Kavakos, violin, Pater Nagy, piano [ ECM New Series / CD - released 25/Mar/2005 ] "Kavakos makes the music howl, shriek, weep or croon, infuses it with humour or passion, takes risks. And he is well on his way to becoming the most famous Greek in the classical world since Callas and Mitropoulos" The Independent |
Lester Bowie
I Only Have Eyes for You [ ECM Records / CD - released 12/Sep/2000 ] |
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
Chamber Music Lisa Batiashvili, Adrian Brendel, Till Fellner, Amy Freston, Harrison Birtwistle [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Apr/2014 ] There are a dozen of Niedecker's poems here to which Birtwistle responds with great refinement...the three instrumentalists, quite closely recorded, are in a class any composer would die for. (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Contemporary) |
HANDEL
The Eight Great Suites HWV426-433 Lisa Smirnova (piano) [ ECM / 2 CD - released 20/Jan/2012 ] "Although she engages with period practice...she's no slave to it, producing something unapologetically pianistic and sometimes anachronistic here...Handel with care? Undeniably. And with captivating flair in spades." BBC Music Magazine:... |
Louis Sclavis Atlas Trio
Sources [ ECM Records / CD - released 29/Jun/2012 ] |
SCLAVIS / PIFARELY / COURTOIS
Asian Field Variations Louis Sclavis (clarinet), Dominique Pifarely (violin), Vincent Courtois (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] Asian Fields Variation marks the first time that clarinettist Louis Sclavis, violinist Dominique Pifarély and cellist Vincent Courtois have recorded as a trio. Sclavis summoned the project into existence, but this is a democratic group of creative... |
Louis Sclavis Quartet
Characters On A Wall [ ECM / CD - released 20/Sep/2019 ] Louis Sclavis's 13th ECM recording finds the French clarinetist drawing inspiration from two sources - the street art of Ernest Pignon-Ernest, and the interpretive originality of a splendid new quartet. Pignon-Ernest's works were previously the... |
Louis Sclavis Quartet
Silk And Salt Melodies [ ECM / CD - released 22/Aug/2014 ] Leading French clarinetist-composer-improviser Louis Sclavis continues his musical adventures with Gilles Coronado and Benjamin Moussay, who contributed creatively to his Atlas Trio album Sources in 2011. The addition of Iranian classical... |
Louis Sclavis Quintet
Rouge [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Clarinettist/saxophonist Louis Sclavis's first ECM album (recorded 1991) brims over with ideas, creating something fresh at the intersection of jazz and chamber music. Compositions and arrangements on Rouge twist and turn in unexpected ways, keeping... |
Lucian Ban, Mat Maneri
Transylvanian Dance [ ECM / CD - released 30/Aug/2024 ] On their second ECM duo album Romanian pianist Lucian Ban and US violist Mat Maneri find fresh inspiration as they follow the trail of Béla Bartók, revisiting the folk music that spurred the imagination of the great Hungarian composer who, in the... |
GIYA KANCHELI
Exile Maacha Deubner (Soprano) Natalia Pschenitschnikova (Alt und Bassflate) [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2001 ] "the most important Soviet composer since Shostakovich" Time Magazine |
Maciej Obara Quartet
Unloved [ ECM / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] Maciej Obara makes a striking ECM debut with Unloved, an album whose expressive range embraces tender lyricism and impassioned, fiery, powerful playing. With the exception of the title track - written by Krzysztof Komeda (spiritus rector of modern... |
Mal Waldron Trio
Free At Last [ ECM / CD - released 15/Nov/2019 ] Revisited, with additional takes, texts and photos, here is the very first ECM session, recorded in Ludwigsburg in November 1969, featuring the great American pianist Mal Waldron, whose resume included work with Coltrane, Mingus, Dolphy and Billie... |
