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TRADITIONAL
Filia Sion: Vox Clamantis Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve (artistic director and conductor) [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] Estonian ensemble Vox Clamantis brings together singers and instrumentalists who share an interest in Gregorian chant as the basis of all European art music. Their interpretation of medieval music is never purely 'historical': while always remaining... |
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Walter Fähndrich
Viola (LP) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
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MORTON FELDMAN
Violin and Orchestra Carolin Widmann (violin) Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Emilio Pomarico [ Ecm New Series / CD - released 13/May/2013 ] Carolin Widmann's widely acclaimed ECM recordings have traversed a broad arc of music - from Schubert to Xenakis. |
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WOLFERT BREDERODE
Brederode: Ruins and Remains Wolfert Brederode, Joost Lijbaart, Matangi Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Ruins and Remains, a suite for piano, string quartet and percussion, was composed by Wolfert Breferode in 2018, to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Over time, however, it has come to embody meanings broader and more personal,... |
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Wolfert Brederode Quartet
Currents [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] Highly regarded Dutch keyboardist, Wolfert Brederode leads a pan-European group of similar gifted young players, who commit their improvisational energies to the lyric flow of his music. |
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Wolfert Brederode Trio
Black Ice [ ECM / CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] Black Ice is a nice image for Dutch pianist Wolfert Brederode's new trio music, with its gleaming lyricism, transparency, and hint of danger, as well as sleek melodic invention both from the leader and from Icelandic bassist Gulli Gudmundsson.... |
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Wolfgang Muthspiel
Dance Of The Elders [ ECM / CD - released 29/Sep/2023 ] Wolfgang Muthspiel and his trio with Scott Colley on bass and Brian Blade on drums reaches a new creative peak on Dance of the Elders - the group's follow-up up to the much lauded Angular Blues, which The Times called a "quietly impressive album".... |
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Wolfgang Muthspiel
Dance Of The Elders (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 17/Nov/2023 ] Wolfgang Muthspiel and his trio with Scott Colley on bass and Brian Blade on drums reaches a new creative peak on Dance of the Elders - the group's follow-up up to the much lauded Angular Blues, which The Times called a "quietly impressive album".... |
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Wolfgang Muthspiel
Rising Grace [ ECM / CD - released 25/Nov/2016 ] Wolfgang Muthspiel - whom The New Yorker has called "a shining light" among today's jazz guitarists - made his ECM leader debut in 2014 with the trio disc Driftwood, featuring him alongside two longtime colleagues, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer... |
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Wolfgang Muthspiel
Where The River Goes [ ECM / CD - released 5/Oct/2018 ] Where The River Goes carries the story forward from Wolfgang Muthspiel's highly-acclaimed Rising Grace recording of 2016, reuniting the Austrian guitarist with Brad Mehldau, Ambrose Akinmusire and Larry Grenadier, heavy talents all, and bringing in... |
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Wolfgang Muthspiel
Where The River Goes (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 5/Oct/2018 ] Where The River Goes carries the story forward from Wolfgang Muthspiel's highly-acclaimed Rising Grace recording of 2016, reuniting the Austrian guitarist with Brad Mehldau, Ambrose Akinmusire and Larry Grenadier, heavy talents all, and bringing in... |
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Wolfgang Muthspiel with Scott Colley, Brian Blade
Angular Blues [ ECM / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Wolfgang Muthspiel, whom The New Yorker has called "a shining light" among today's jazz guitarists, returns to the trio format with Angular Blues, the Austrian's fourth ECM album as a leader, following two acclaimed quintet releases and his trio... |
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DUTILLEUX
D'ombre et de Silence Ya-Fei Chuang (piano) Robert Levin (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "On this finely engineered ECM disc, Robert Levin's performance is all the more impressive for the unbridled energy and clarity with which it puts the music's distinctive argumentative character across." Gramophone Magazine, August 2010 |
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Yeahwon Shin (voice) with Aaron Parks (piano) & Rob Curto (accordion)
Lua Ya [ ECM / CD - released 26/Aug/2013 ] South Korean singer Yeahwon Shin's ECM debut, "Lua ya" is a gentle album of songs and lullabies, recorded in 2012 in the spacious acoustics of Mechanics Hall, near Boston. It's a very intuitive set, shaped by "improvising, listening to our childhood... |
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Yonathan Avishai Trio
Joys & Solitudes [ ECM / CD - released 25/Jan/2019 ] Israeli-French pianist Yonathan Avishai has made important contributions to the music of Avishai Cohen, as documented on Into The Silence and Cross My Palm With Silver. In parallel, over the last five years, he has been developing his own project... |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No 14 Op 135 (with Mahler-Symphony No 10: Adagio) Yulia Korpacheva (soprano) Fedor Kuznetsov (bass) / Kremerata Baltica / Gidon Kremer [ ECM / CD - released 17/Nov/2007 ] "This is an extremely dramatic and atmospheric performance of the Shostakovich 14th Symphony, the more unusual for being conducted by Gidon Kremer from the concertmaster's desk. There's no loss of scale, but certainly an intensified sense of... |
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BACH / BUSONI / BEETHOVEN
Bach Busoni Beethoven Yuuko Shiokawa (violin), Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] Yuuko Shiokawa and András Schiff are heard here in an insightful - and delightful - programme of sonatas for violin and piano which begins with Bach's Sonata No.3 in E major, ends with Beethoven's Sonata No.10 in G major, and has at its centre... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Fantasie in C major for violin and piano, D934 / Fantasie in C major, D760 'Wanderer' Yuuko Shiokawa (violin) Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] "Schiff is on superb form both as soloist and accompanist in this well-balanced programme." (Gramophone Editor's Choice December 2014) |
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Yuval Cohen Quartet
Winter Poems [ ECM / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Soprano saxophonist Yuval Cohen's debut for ECM is a thrilling offering that captures the brother of long-time ECM traveller Avishai Cohen charting innovative paths through eight originals in graceful interplay with his freshly formed quartet.... |
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Zakir Hussain
Making Music [ ECM / CD - released 31/Dec/2008 ] |