TIGRAN MANSURIAN
Quasi Parlando Patricia Kopatchinskaja - violin / Anja Lechner - violoncello / Amsterdam Sinfonietta / Candida Thompson - lead violin [ ECM New Series / CD - released 2/May/2014 ] Issued in the wake of the great Armenian composer's 75th birthday, this New Series album opens with Tigran Mansurian's fiercely-concentrated Double Concerto, composed in 1978, and proceeds to new music performed by its dedicatees: the lyrical... |
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,... |
Paul Bley
Fragments [ ECM / CD - released 1/Oct/1986 ] Paul Bley Piano John Surman Soprano Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet Bill Frisell Guitar Paul Motian Drums |
Paul Bley
Play Blue [ ECM / CD - released 2/May/2014 ] A rare solo performance by one of jazz's great originals, Canadian pianist Paul Bley, recorded live at the Oslo Jazz Festival in 2008 by Jan Erik Kongshaug and Manfred Eicher. There is nothing else quite like a Paul Bley concert. As the New York... |
Paul Bley
Solo In Mondsee [ ECM / CD - released 25/Jun/2007 ] |
Paul Bley / Gary Peacock / Tony Oxley / John Surman
In The Evenings Out There [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Sep/1993 ] Recorded September 1991 |
Paul Giger, Puierre Favre, Jan Garbarek
Alpstein (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
Paul Giger
Chartres (LP) [ Ecm New Series / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] Paul Giger's first New Series release was Chartres (1989), a multi-part musical work which describes the pilgrim's path through the eponymous cathedral where the recording was made. The musical material emerges from diverse traditions, ranging from... |
Paul Giger : violin
Paul Giger - Schattenwelt [ ECM Records / CD ] Recorded May 1992 |
Paul Motian
Rarum Volume 16: Selected Recordings [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Feb/2004 ] 'Selected Recordings' features landmark recordings and old favourites - greatest hits, effectively - from this highly regarded musician. |
Paul Motian Band
Psalm [ ECM / CD - released 1/Jun/1982 ] |
Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano
I Have The Room Above Her [ ECM / CD - released 31/Jan/2005 ] "Paul Motian, Bill Frisell and Joe Lovano have celebrated solo careers, but when they unite a special magic occurs, a marvel of group empathy" - The New Yorker "I Have The Room Above Her" marks the return of Paul Motian to ECM, the label that... |
Paul Motian Trio
Lost in a Dream [ ECM / CD - released 22/Mar/2010 ] "The trio demonstrates sublime improvising musicianship and flawlessly creative listening at once."- The Guardian. |
Peter Erskine
Juni [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Recorded in 1997, Juni was the fourth and final ECM album of the Peter Erskine Trio. A piano trio led by a drummer was an unusual proposal and one that initially surprised listeners who had followed Erskine through louder adventures with Weather... |
Peter Erskine Trio
As It Was [ ECM / 4 CD Box Set - released 15/Jul/2016 ] The newest addition to ECM's popular Old and New Masters Series is a box set reprising the four albums made by Peter Erskine's American-British-Swedish trio with John Taylor and Palle Danielsson between 1992 and 1997: You Never Know, As It Is, Time... |
PETER-ANTHONY TOGNI
Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae Jeff Reilly (bass clarinet) / Elmer Iseler Singers, Lydia Adams [ ECM / CD - released 25/Mar/2010 ] "Under Jeff Reilly's virtuosic control, the bass clarinet possesses an aloof, almost mystical timbre comparable to the duduk flute used in Middle Eastern music, aptly representing the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah's lamentations in this piece by... |
ERKKI-SVEN TUUR
Flux (Symphony No.3 / Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra / Lighthouse) Radio Symphonieorchester Wien / Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) / with David Geringas (violoncello) [ ECM Records / CD ] A generation younger than Arvo Pärt and Veljo Törmis, Erkki-Sven Tüür is now one of the outstanding voices of Baltic composition. His music is realized here with great sensitivity by Dennis Russell Davies with the Vienna Radio Symphony, and David... |
Rainer Brüninghaus, Kenny Wheeler, Jon Christensen, Brynjar Hoff
Freigeweht (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 7/Feb/2025 ] Released in 1981, the debut of the legendary keyboardist from Eberhard Weber's Colours band and later the Jan Garbarek Group, Freigeweht presented Rainer Brüninghaus as a highly original and idiosyncratic sound sculptor in his own right, accompanied... |
Rainer Brüninghaus, Kenny Wheeler, Jon Christensen, Brynjar Hoff
Freigeweht [ ECM / CD - released 10/May/2011 ] Released in 1981, the debut of the legendary keyboardist from Eberhard Weber's Colours band and later the Jan Garbarek Group, Freigeweht presented Rainer Brüninghaus as a highly original and idiosyncratic sound sculptor in his own right, accompanied... |
Ralph Alessi, Jason Moran, Drew Gress, Nasheet Waits
Baida [ ECM / CD - released 9/Sep/2013 ] There are magic moments when an artist can be said to have well and truly "arrived." For Ralph Alessi, the release of Baida - his ECM debut as a bandleader - is just such a moment, despite his already extensive resume. Among those in the know, Alessi... |