Ketil Bjørnstad’s passion for the English metaphysical poet John Donne (1572-1631) is a lifelong affair. His settings of Donne’s verse have led to recordings including The Shadow, Grace and the ECM album The Light. “After working with the texts of John Donne for more than twenty years, I still find ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
The Norwegian trio Jøkleba was formed in 1990, establishing itself as one of the most unpredictable groups on the Scandinavian scene. The present disc – the fifth Jøkleba album, but the first for ECM – finds old friends Jørgensen, Balke and Kleive working with pulse and colour and texture ...
Composer: Per Jørgensen, Jon Balke, Audun Kleive
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
The fourth ECM album for the Wasilewski Trio adds a special guest, the lyrical Swedish saxophonist Joakim Milder, whom the Poles came to know through performances with Tomasz Stanko’s Litania project. Amongst other affinities, the ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Having recorded more than 20 albums for ECM since the mid-’80s, The Hilliard Ensemble caps its discography before retirement with a final release: Transeamus, a collection of polyphony – in two, three and four parts – from 15th ...
Composer: William Cornysh (1502), Walter Lambe (1450-1504), John Plummer (1418-1484), Sheryngham (1500)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
Konstantia Gourzi: Music For Piano And String Quartet
Athens-born and Munich-based composer Konstantia Gourzi makes her ECM New Series label debut. “What historical voices commingle in the current idiom of a composer whose cultural roots lie in the birthplace of rhetoric, but who ...
Composer: Konstantia Gourzi (1962-)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Dances and Canons is the debut ECM recording of both composer Kate Moore and pianist Saskia Langhoorn. Moore was born in England in 1979 and lives now in the Netherlands (where she studied with Louis Andriessen).
Composer: Kate Moore (1979-)
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Playground is the spiritual successor to drummer Manu Katché’s auspicious ECM leader debut: Neighbourhood. Auspicious, because said debut practiced just the communal sort of sharing it preached. The lineup here replaces ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The unique expressiveness of the work of Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) speaks to the listener with directness and nuanced layers of sound, the powerful, rhythmic stringency of the music testifying to the relentlessness of her vision.
Composer: Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006)
Genre: Classical
For years now, Tim Garland’s playing and composition have less reflected ‘influences’ than styles he has entirely mastered - everything from Celtic music to Yellowjackets fusion, from free improvisation to classical performance, from ECM ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
In Cinema is the magnificent and eagerly-anticipated new album from Finnish band Oddarrang. With a new home at innovative UK label Edition Records, Oddarrang s third album stands as their most accomplished to date.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Mark Turner is one of the most admired saxophonists of his generation, renowned for his exploratory intellect and intimate expressivity on the full range of the tenor. This is his ECM leader debut, following albums for the label ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Stefano Bollani is an artist of ebullient virtuosity, with uncommon sensitivity and range. The Italian pianist has proved to be at home on ECM improvising solo or leading a trio, as well as engaging in duos with Enrico Rava, Chick ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Over the last ten years, Tingvall Trio has evolved into an unparalleled success story for 'Jazz made in Germany'. What was once a rough & tumble band from Hamburg, is now regarded as one of the premier German export hits in its ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Robert Schumann / Heinz Holliger: Aschenmusik
Heinz Holliger’s lifelong fascination with the music of Robert Schumann finds further expression on this newest release: on Aschenmusik, a new interpretation of the Swiss oboist-composer’s “Romancendres” is framed by Schumann’s own ...
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810–1856), Heinz Holliger (1939-)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
When the legendary artist Chick Corea recorded Piano Improvisations on the ECM label in 1971, he was the first jazz pianist of his era to release such a recording. This groundbreaking album literally opened the floodgates to a ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Inventio” takes its title from Bach’s Invention No 4, heard here - in a programme of great variety – in an arrangement by Jean-Louis Matinier and Marco Ambrosini. Bach’s Inventions originally had a didactic function, intended to ...
Composer: Jean_Louis Matinier, Marco Ambrosini, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736), Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, André Astier
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel makes his ECM leader debut with Driftwood, a trio album of subtlety and depth featuring renowned US jazz players Larry Grenadier and Brian Blade. Muthspiel – who recently made his first ECM ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Once a shining light on the New York downtown jazz scene, Peter Epstein returns with a new, exceptionally coherent quartet whose members have been performing together in different configurations for the better part of two ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Ketil Bjørnstad: Sunrise - A Cantata On Texts By Edvard Munch
Ketil Bjørnstad previously explored the life of Edvard Munch in his acclaimed 1993 novel Historien om Edvard Munch. In the same period he also collaborated with singer Kari Bremnes on the album Løsrivelse, based around Munch texts.
Composer: Ketil Bjørnstad
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
