Since you are interested in Symphony No. 4 / Kanon Pokajanen, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Officium Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones) / The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/1994 ] A hauntingly beautiful combination of medieval unaccompanied choral music and jazz saxophone. |
MESSIAEN / RAVEL / FAURE
Plainte Calme Alexander Lonquich (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 12/Apr/2008 ] "It doesn't take long to become enchanted with the music-making of pianist Alexander Lonquich" (American Record guide) |
GIDEON LEWENSOHN
Odradek Quartet / Piano Quintet / Postludes for Piano Alexander Lonquich (piano) / Auryn Quartett [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] "The music's manner is often haunting, eloquent, the dedicated performers recorded with appropriate warmth. The booklet notes by Raymond Monelle will make you think, too, acknowledging Lewensohn's elusiveness, and helping to explain the ways in which... |
SILESTROV / PART / USTVOLSKAYA
Misterioso Alexei Lubimov (piano) / Alexander Trostiansky (violin) / Kyrill Rybakov (clarinet) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "These are all magnificent performances, as one might expect from these three musicians, who regularly perform together as a trio, and their sound is superbly and rawly caught by ECM's recording" - BBC Music Magazine |
SCHUMANN
In concert: Robert Schumann (recorded in 1999) Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 21/Aug/2007 ] "Few pianists could have made this programme work. They may not be Schumann's finest, but they have their own glories and Schiff, recorded live in the Tonhalle, Zurich, in May 1999, treats them with affection. An absolute winner." ***** Five Stars... |
GEORGE I. GURDJIEFF
Chants, Hymns and Dances Anja Lechner (cello) Vassilis Tsabropoulos (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/Oct/2004 ] "Chants, Hymns and Dances" features music of G.I. Gurdjieff (c. 1877-1948) in new arrangements for cello and piano by Anja Lechner and Vassilis Tsabropoulos, as well as compositions by Tsabropoulos (b. 1966) based, in part, upon Byzantine hymns. |
TIGRAN MANSURIAN
Ars Poetica Armenian Chamber Choir / Robert Mlkeyan (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "This is open, honest fare - no games, no gimmicks, no special effects. The musical expression of a poetic image is what engages the composer. Nothing else intrudes because nothing else matters." American Record Guide |
ELLIOTT CARTER
What Next? / ASKO Concerto Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra / Peter Eotvos (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] "Carter has always written for instruments operatically; now he lends opera the mercurial magic of his ensemble works, one of which, the "Asko Concerto", is appended here." Paul Driver, Sunday Times |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: The Violin Sonatas Carolin Widmann (violin) Denes Varjon (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] Gramophone Award Finalist 2009: Chamber - "Their imaginative, wide-ranging variations of tone colour unlock the music's romantic, atmospheric potential, and their command of genuine rubato - passionate, unimpeded forward motion followed by lingering... |
FELDMAN / SCHOENBERG / ZIMMERMANN / XENAKIS
Phantasy of Spring: Music for Violin and Piano Carolin Widmann (violin) Simon Lepper (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Oct/2009 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICK: CD OF THE YEAR 2009 - "Widmann presents the best case I've heard on disc for the communicative power of Schoenberg's sometimes dry and forbidding Phantasy... She makes light of the technical challenges of Xenakis's rebarbative... |
SAARIAHO / CAGE / MADERNA
In Due Tempi Cikada String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "Behind the notes the Cikadas' deeply committed playing reveals glimpses of a dramatic personality that could only be Italian in its lyrical warmth. Riveting stuff." BBC Music Magazine |
ARVO PART
Part: In Principio Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir / Tallinn Chamber Orchestra / Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Tonu Kaljuste [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "This is a superbly constructed recital of some of the most recent music of Estonian composer Arvo Part." (Five Stars AudAud.com) |
GIYA KANCHELI
In l'istesso tempo Gidon Kremer (violin) / Oleg Maisenberg (piano) / The Kremerata Baltica. The Bridge Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 23/Apr/2005 ] Five Stars (Chamber choice of the Month) BBC Music Mag (April 2005) |
FRIEDRICH CERHA
Concerto for Cello and orchestra (with Schreker-Kammersymphonie) Heinrich Schiff (cello) / Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra / Peter EAtvAs, conductor [ ECM New Series / CD - released 31/Jan/2008 ] Cellist Heinrich Schiff delivers a transcendent performance of a cello concerto dedicated to him "in friendship" by Austria's great composer Friedrich Cerha (born 1926). Cerha's special combination of stylistic conviction and expressive diversity,... |
JOHN CAGE
Cage, John - Early Piano Music Herbert Henck, piano [ ECM New Series / CD - released 27/Jun/2005 ] This is beautiful music, played with great sensitivity. |
JOHANN LUDWIG TREPULKA / NORBERT von HANNENHEIM
Piano Sonatas Herbert Henck (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 26/May/2007 ] In this new recording Herbert Henck plays music by two little known twelve-note composers, one a pupil of Josef Matthias Hauer, the other a Schoenberg pupil. The works date from the 1920s, but they sound almost diametrically opposed. |
THOMAS TALLIS / CHRISTOPHER TYE / JOHN SHEPPARD
Audivi Vocem Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 19/May/2008 ] Edtor's Choice Gramophone Magazine October 2008 -- "If only all history lessons were delivered as beautifully as this one." |
VICTORIA / PALESTRINA
In Paradisum: Music of Victoria and Palestrina The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] "In Paradisum" combines music from three sources: the Officium Defunctorum of Victoria, polyphony by Palestrina and Gregorian chant from a 17th century manuscript. Placing the work of the Spanish and Italian religious composers in a historically... |
J.S. BACH
Motetten The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 26/May/2007 ] "With just one singer assigned to each part, the Hilliard Ensemble take a minimalist approach to these extraordinary works...this disc is a natural successor to the Hilliard's previous excursions into pre-baroque music, supremely musical and... |
VLADIMIR GODAR
Mater Iva BittovAI (voice) MiloAI Valent (violin, viola) / Chamber orchestra Solamente Naturali / Bratislava conservatory choir / Marek AÂ tryncl [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/Apr/2008 ] "This is easily one of the highlights of the classical year, and I urge you to acquire this disc." (AudAud.com Five Stars) |