Yuuko Shiokawa and András Schiff are heard here in an insightful 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 Busoni’s Sonata No. 2 in E minor. ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750), Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
J.S. Bach: Suiten für Violoncello
Swiss cellist Thomas Demenga returns to Bach’s suites. “To me, Bach is the greatest musical genius who has ever lived. His music is pure, sublime. It possesses something divine and each musician has a lifetime in which to discover new ways of interpreting it.” ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
J.S. Bach: Préludes & Sarabandes
Swiss cellist Thomas Demenga returns to Bach’s suites. “To me, Bach is the greatest musical genius who has ever lived. His music is pure, sublime. It possesses something divine and each musician has a lifetime in which to discover new ways of interpreting it.” ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Maderna & Berio: Now, And Then
Now, and then is a fascinating album which challenges definitions of old and new music. Bruno Maderna’s charming and evocative transcriptions and re-orchestrations of pieces by Frescobaldi, Legrenzi, Gabrieli, Viadana and Wassanaer are brought together with Luciano ...
Composer: Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690), Luciano Berio (1925–2003), Giovanni Gabrieli (1553-1612), Tommaso Lodovico da Viadana, Unico Wilhelm Graf Van Wassenaer
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Three brilliant improvisers join Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem in this album, recorded in New York in May 2017. For Brahem and Dave Holland the album marks a reunion: they first collaborated 20 years ago on the very widely-acclaimed Thimar album, a trio recording with John Surman. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre:
Released in time for the great Ukrainian composers 80th birthday on September 30, Hieroglyphen der Nacht features Valentin Silvestrovs music for solo violoncello and for two cellos. German cellist Anja Lechner has had a long association with Silvestrov, ...
Composer: Valentin Silvestrov (1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
They are widely recognised as the most exciting young string quartet of the present moment, bringing new insights to contemporary composition and core classical repertoire. In parallel, they have also made surprising and impressive forays ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Complete in itself, this solo album by Armenian pianist Lusine Grigoryan, can also be considered a companion volume to the Gurdjieff Ensemble's critically-acclaimed album of Komitas's music. ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
In Gnosis, the Santiago de Cuba-raised and New York-based pianist-composer David Virelles looks towards one melting pot from the vantage point of another. At one level an autobiographical album, a sequence of images conveyed through sound, ...
Composer: David Virelles
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
To date, Stefano Battaglia’s ECM discography has taken the listener to many different places. The Italian pianist has reinterpreted art songs of Alec Wilder on In The Morning, set a dedication to Pina Bausch amid improvised duets on Pastorale, created new ...
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
There is a distinguished tradition of albums devoted to solo bass on ECM, but Provenance is the first to showcase the electric bass guitar. Björn Meyer, born in Sweden and long based in Switzerland, has shaped a distinctive voice on his instrument within diverse contexts. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Some of Gary Peacock’s finest music has been made in piano trios. Early in his musical life, Peacock established a fresh role for the bass as an independent melodic voice, a concept carried forward in the history-making groups he’s played with – from Paul Bley’s Bill Evans’s trios to ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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, furthering an artistry that led ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Secret History: Josquin & Victoria
Tomas Luis de Victoria and Josquin Desprez were not contemporaries, they lived and worked in different countries, and perhaps shared little in terms of abstract compositional style. Yet throughout Europe, generations of musicians recognized them as kindred ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov is the rare artist who has been a trailblazer in two directions, both a champion of new music (from Cage to Silvestrov) and a dedicated interpreter of Baroque music with a passion for period instruments. In this remarkable reading of music by CPE Bach, ...
Composer: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Joseph Brodsky - Elegie an John Donne
When the Russian born poet Joseph Brodsky received the Nobel prize for literature in 1987, he was praised for his "all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity." It was "a big step for me, a small step for mankind" he jokingly ...
Genre: Spoken Word
Subgenre:
Tim Berne has been described as a saxophonist and composer of granite conviction by The New York Times. Incidentals is the fourth album from his spirited Snakeoil band and the second (following on from 2015's You ve Been Watching Me) to feature the quintet line-up in ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
Food has defined a new kind of lyrical electro-acoustic improvisation in the course of its twelve year existence. Founded as a quartet in 1998, since 2006 the group has been a core duo of UK saxophonist Iain Ballamy and Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen joined by guests for diverse projects. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Free Jazz
While walking home on 8 October 2014, I was listening to Norma Winstone’s Stories Yet To Tell on my iPod. The opening song, “Just Sometimes,” had already enchanted me with its tender traversal of the heart’s shadowed chambers. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
