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Trygve Seim / Andreas Utnem
Purcor [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Modestly subtitled "Songs for saxophone and piano", this recording quietly covers a lot of ground, with repertoire including new musical settings of parts of the Mass, folk songs, theatre music, improvisations, and a new version of Seim's... |
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Trygve Seim Quartet
Helsinki Songs [ ECM / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] With its overt lyricism, strong themes and a sense of perpetual melodic invention, Norwegian saxophonist Trygve Seim's new album quickly identifies itself as a classic-in-the-making. Themes of dedication run through Seim's Helsinki Songs album, a set... |
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Valery Afanassiev
Schubert: Moments Musicaux [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] Pianist Valery Afanassiev - renowned for his strikingly individual and deeply introspective interpretations of the music of Franz Schubert - has paired two often extrovert works by the composer: the set of six "Moments Musicaux" and the "Sonata D... |
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Markus Stockhausen, Gary Peacock, Fabrizio Ottaviucci, Zoro Babel
Cosi Lontano...Quasi Dent (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
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Various Artists
Rarum IX-XX [ ECM / 12 CD - released 19/Apr/2004 ] |
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BACH / COLTRANE / GARBAREK / HAYDN / KANCHELI / KURTAG / LISLEVAND / PART / etc
Selected Signs III-VIII (Music for ECM - A Cultural Archeology) [6 CD set] Steve Reich / Rosamunde Quartet / Márta & György Kurtág / Alexei Lubimov / Kim Kashkashian / Gidon Kremer / etc [ ECM / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2013 ] "Five stars for mostly reissued music might seem generous, but the way this set has been assembled creates transporting new narratives - or meditations - from sequences that were never meant to coexist." Guardian |
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Vassilis Tsabropoulos / Arild Andersen / John Marshall
Achirana [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Arild Andersen introduces a new trio with the highly gifted Greek pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos, who makes his ECM debut with 'Achirana'. They are joined by veteran British drummer John Marshall, previously a member of Eberhard Weber's 'Colours'... |
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Vijay Iyer / Craig Taborn
The Transitory Poems [ ECM / CD - released 22/Feb/2019 ] Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn, two of creative music's most resourceful players, learned to meld and mesh their artistic approaches inside Roscoe Mitchell's Note Factory ensemble (as documented on Mitchell's 2007 recording Far Side). Since then, Iyer... |
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Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey
Compassion (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 2/Feb/2024 ] Pianist-composer Vijay Iyer follows his 2021 ECM disc Uneasy - the first to showcase his trio featuring bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Tyshawn Sorey - with Compassion, another album in league with these two gifted partners. The New York Times... |
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Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey
Uneasy [ ECM / CD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Vijay Iyer presents a powerful new trio, in which he is joined by two key figures in creative music, Tyshawn Sorey and Linda May Han Oh. "We have an energy together that is very distinct. It has a different kind of propulsion, a different impulse and... |
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Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey
Uneasy (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Vijay Iyer presents a powerful new trio, in which he is joined by two key figures in creative music, Tyshawn Sorey and Linda May Han Oh. "We have an energy together that is very distinct. It has a different kind of propulsion, a different impulse and... |
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Vijay Iyer (piano, electronics)
Mutations [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/May/2014 ] Mutations is Vijay Iyer's first album as a leader for ECM, and a recording that will widen perceptions of the pianist-composer's work. At its centre is "Mutations I-X", a composition scored for string quartet, piano, and electronics. A major piece... |
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Vijay Iyer, Prashant Bhargava
Radhe Radhe - Rites of Holi by Prashant Bhargava [ ECM DVD / DVD - released 7/Nov/2014 ] Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi is a vivid multimedia collaboration by composer-pianist Vijay Iyer and filmmaker Prashant Bhargava, who were inspired by the centennial of the Stravinsky-Nijinsky Le Sacre du Printemps to explore another of rite of spring:... |
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Vijay Iyer Sextet
Far From Over [ ECM CD / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] Keyboardist-composer Vijay Iyer's energized sequence of ECM releases has garnered copious international praise. Yet his fifth for the label since 2014 Far From Over, featuring his dynamically commanding sextet finds Iyer reaching a new peak,... |
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Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke [ ECM / CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his "hero, friend and teacher", trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith's Golden Quartet, but the... |
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Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith
Defiant Life [ ECM / CD - released 21/Mar/2025 ] Anchored in the idea that, despite all obstacles, the human experience casts a net of possibilities, Defiant Life - Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith second duo recording for ECM - proves a profound meditation on the human condition and both the... |
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Viola
Walter Fahndrich [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Mar/1991 ] Recorded November 1989. |
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Miroslav Vitous With Michel Portal
Remembering Weather Report [ ECM Records / CD - released 27/Jul/2009 ] As the title suggests, Miroslav Vitous and his all-acoustic band (+ guest Michel Portal) pay tribute here to the formative period of that most loved of jazz-fusion collectives, Weather Report. |
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CYRILLUS KREEK
Kreek: The Suspended Harp of Babel Vox Clamantis [ ECM / CD - released 8/May/2020 ] "The singing breathes with a collective, gentle inevitability…The final impression is abiding solace for these distracted times." BBC Music Five Stars. Choral & Song Choice July 2020 |
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ARVO PART
Pärt: And I Heard A Voice Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] Estonian vocal ensemble Vox Clamantis and their leader Jaan-Eik Tulve have established themselves among the leading interpreters of Arvo Pärt's music over a quarter-century of close collaboration with the composer - a relationship that builds on the... |