The ensemble of Christian Wallumrød continues to evolve in its own idiosyncratic way on Outstairs. By now, Wallumrød’s compositional signature is instantly recognizable. Nobody else writes pieces like this – multi-dimensional ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ligeti: String Quartets - Barber: Adagio
An album that bridges musical worlds, with the Molto Adagio of Samuel Barber’s String Quartet No. 1 offered as tonal terra firma between György Ligeti’s restlessly shifting first and second quartets.
Composer: György Ligeti (1923–2006), Samuel Barber
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
From its inception, John Potter’s Dowland Project has drawn upon different musical traditions, including those of ‘early music’ and improvisation. The Night Sessions album emphasizes the Project’s improvisational flexibility, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
'Azure” features beautiful duets by two great improvisers whose compatibility was proven long ago. Gary Peacock and Marilyn Crispell made outstanding music together in Marilyn’s trio with the late Paul Motian, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Somewhere is a recording of 11 July 2009 from the KKL in Lucerne / Switzerland with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette. In 30th Year of its existence is well recognized that the Keith Jarrett Trio 'has set the gold ...
Composer: Keith Jarrett [Non-Classical Composer]
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Morton Feldman: Violin and Orchestra
Carolin Widmann’s widely acclaimed ECM New Series recordings have traversed a broad arc of music – from Schubert to Xenakis.
Composer: Morton Feldman (1926-1987)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Dobrinka Tabakova: String Paths
ECM New Series presents the first full album devoted to the music of Dobrinka Tabakova, a composer born in Bulgaria in 1980 but raised from a young age in London. In Tabakova’s music – richly melodic, texturally sensuous, often ...
Composer: Dobrinka Tabakova
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Transylvanian Concert” marks an ECM debut for Romanian pianist-composer Lucian Ban and a welcome return for US violist Mat Maneri, in his 9th appearance for the label. The album documents a spontaneously ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Commissioned by the Molde International Jazz Festival and recorded live at the Norwegian festival in 2010, La notte is a salute to Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, whom Ketil Bjørnstad counts amongst his formative influences.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
After two acclaimed trio albums (The End of a Summer and Imprint), pianist Julia Hülsmann proposes a different project for her third ECM release In Full View, motivated initially by a performance by Berlin-based, English ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Victor Kissine: Between Two Waves
Following on from Victor Kissine’s luminous orchestration of Schubert’s String Quartet in G Major (ECM 1883) and his own “Zerkalo” with Kremer and friends (ECM 2202), here is the first ECM album devoted entirely to the ...
Composer: Victor Kissine
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Modern Composition
Quercus’ means ‘oak’ in Latin and the roots of this particular tree dig deep into British folk music, while leaves and branches reach upward to embrace jazz-inspired lyrical improvising.
Composer: Various
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Czech singer/player/composer Iva Bittová has said: “The violin is a mirror reflecting my dreams and imagination. I believe there are fundamentals to my performance, such as the music’s vibration and resonance between ...
Composer: Iva Bittová
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
“Hagar’s Song”, the newest release from long-time ECM luminary Charles Lloyd, is an interactive duo recording with Jason Moran, the pianist who has been a key member of Lloyd’s latter-day quartet, contributing ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Like his early hero Miles Davis, Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko has a gift for shaping great bands, and this one, formed in the world’s jazz capital, overflows with promise. The bass and drums team of Thomas Morgan ...
Composer: Wislawa Symborska, Tomasz Stanko
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
“The Sirens” is acclaimed saxophonist Chris Potter’s ECM debut as a leader, an album of mood and melody inspired by The Odyssey – both its epic atmosphere and its timeless humanity.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
“Hymns/Spheres”, Keith Jarrett’s celebrated 1976 encounter with the Trinity organ of Ottobeuren’s Benedictine abbey, is at last released in 24bit Studio-Master quality as a double-album set remastered from the original analog tapes.
Composer: Keith Jarrett [Non-Classical Composer]
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
While the more traditional working band feel seems to predominate the recording, the collective members are given ample space to show off their musical synergy while never losing their keen sense of lyrical focus. ...
Composer: Christian Meyers
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
