Mieczysław Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies, Piano Quintet
This double album, recorded in Vienna and in Riga in June 2015, includes all four of the chamber symphonies written in the last decade of Polish-born Soviet composer Mieczysław Weinberg’s ...
Composer: Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The trio with Spanish bassist Antonio Miguel and Canadian drummer Owen Howard has been an „Invariant“ in the life of Berlin-based pianist Benedikt Jahnel. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contempoary Jazz
Guitarist John Abercrombie who has recorded as a leader for ECM since 1974 returns with a second album by his quartet featuring kindred-spirit piano foil Marc Copland, along with longtime rhythm ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contempoary Jazz
Between March 2004 and May 2006 Sir András Schiff performed the complete cycle of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas at the Tonhalle, Zürich, recorded and ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The music of Cuban-born, Brooklyn-based pianist David Virelles conjures a hallucinatory world in which ancient Afro-Cuban rhythms and ritual reverberate in the here and now. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Latin Jazz
The great British jazz singer Norma Winstone once again casts her net wide for source material for this third ECM album with Italian pianist Glauco Venier and German clarinetist and saxophonist Klaus Gesing.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
directions established on their acclaimed 2011 release “The River of Anyder” with a new selection of chants, hymns and dances, all written by Battaglia ...
Composer: Stefano Battaglia Trio
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
“Matanë Malit” (Beyond the mountain), Elina Duni’s ECM debut, is a homage to Albania. A singer looking at her roots from a present-day vantage point as a musician engaged in improvisational processes.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
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
Composer: Wolfgang Muthspiel
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The second album from the Hungarian-born Vienna-based guitarist finds her embracing a broad scope of music, broader even than on her outstanding debut En otra parte. This time the range extends from contemporary composition to jazz
Composer: Mathias Duplessy (geb. 1972), Egberto Gismonti (geb. 1947), Carlo Domeniconi (geb. 1947), Jorge Cardoso (geb. 1949), Al Di Meola (geb. 1954), Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (geb. 1947), Anibal Augusto "Garoto" Sardinha (1915-1955)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Voice from the Past - Paradigm (Remaster)
Jazz, sometimes, is like acting: a group of performers starts with a script of prewritten material, which then must be spun into a convincing world of characters. This is not to say that the music isn’t genuine. Quite the contrary: through the art
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
One is often tempted to appreciate Terje Rypdal through the lens of some icy Nordic mystique that, while certainly supported by the sleeves that adorn his music, may ultimately be a myth. Either way, there is something to be
Composer: Terje Rypdal
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Among Kenny Wheeler’s cleverly punned titles, Deer Wan takes the cake. For his second ECM album as headliner, the prodigious trumpeter/fluegelhornist serves up a set of four originals—three long and one short—sure to enliven any
Composer: Kenny Wheeler
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Arcanum - Dmitri Shostakovich, Lera Auerbach
Kim Kashkashian introduces a duo with Russian composer-pianist Lera Auerbach. Their first collaborative recording features Auerbach’s viola and piano version of Dmitri Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes op. 34, and Auerbach’s own,
Composer: Dimitri Shostakovich (1975), Lera Auerbach (1973)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
On his second leader album for ECM – following on from the prizewinning Gefion - Danish guitarist Jakob Bro continues to refine his trio project, with its emphases on melody, sound, space, layered textures and interaction. The rapport between
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
