Air - Bent Sørensen & Hans Abrahamsen
Frode Haltli, the uniquely expressive Norwegian accordionist, is heard here with chamber orchestra, with string quartet and solo, performing music by Danish composers Bent Sørensen (b. 1958) and Hans Abrahamsen (b. 1952).
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy / Robert Schumann
It was not until late in life that Robert Schumann found the path to the violin. A pianist by profession, it almost seems as if his belated interest in the violin had a lasting effect on the performance and reception of his own works for that
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The Magical Forest - Sinikka Langelands New folk music work with Trio Mediaeval and outstanding jazz musicians. It is inspiring to find traces and fragments of ideas about the world tree, axsis mundi, in Finnskogen. I have transformed
Composer: Sinikka Langeland
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Norwegian bassist Mats Eilertsen has been a strong and supportive presence on a dozen ECM sessions to date. With Rubicon he steps forward to present his own music, with an international cast.
Composer: Mats Eilertsen, Rob Waring, Eirik Hegdal, Harmen Fraanje
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The fifteen ‘miniatures’ of this modestly-titled recording include new music by Italian pianist Glauco Venier as well as adaptations of Gurdjieff, Komitas, Dufay and more. This is Venier’s first solo album for ECM, and as with his exemplary
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Bassist Miroslav Vitous returns once more to the music of the band he co-founded at the beginning of the 1970s, re-evoking and expanding upon the highly improvisational methodology of the original Weather Report.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Dominique Pifarély's quartet, with long-time musical companions Chevillon and Merville and newer associate Antonin Rayon, provides a marvelous context for the full range of the French violinist's expression.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
„Narrante“ is the highly attractive ECM debut album of two Iranian women, Golfam Khayam and Mona Matbou Riahi, otherwise known as the Naqsh Duo. The guitarist and clarinetist, both born in Teheran, have pursued further
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
In this wonderful solo album, Norwegian early music performer Rolf Lislevand turns his attention to two composers from the court of Louis XIV: Robert de VisEe (c. 1655-1732) and the Italian-born Francesco Corbetta (c. 1615-1681),
Composer: Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
There is a lot of history concentrated in Jack DeJohnettes adventurous new trio. Fifty years ago, as a guest with John Coltranes group, Jack DeJohnette played with the fathers of Ravi Coltrane and Matthew Garrison, and the program of In
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
'Andando el Tiempo' features new music of wide emotional compass by NEA Jazz Master Carla Bley, and underlines her originality and resourcefulness as a jazz composer. Saints Alive! sets up animated conversations between the
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Béla Bartók / Alfred Schnittke / Witold Lutosławski
The New York Times has praised violinist Miranda Cuckson’s “undeniable musicality,” while Gramophone has declared her “an artist to be reckoned with.” Born in Australia and educated in America, she makes her ECM
Composer: Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
The Danish String Quartet, one of the most widely-acclaimed chamber groups of the present moment, makes its ECM debut playing a program of British and Danish music: Thomas Adess Arcadiana (composed 1994), Per Norgards Quartetto Breve
Composer: Thomas Ades (1971), Per Nörgard (1932), Hans Abrahamsen (1952)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
After the quartet adventures of Currents and Post Scriptum, Wolfert Brederode returns to a piano trio setting, and Black Ice makes an apt metaphor for his new music, with its gleaming lyricism, transparency, and hint of danger.
Composer: Wollfett Brederode, Guli Gudmundsson
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Alba is the premiere recording of trumpeter Markus Stockhausen’s duo with pianist Florian Weber, a formation in existence for some six years now. Though very different in their connections to the language of jazz, both musicians
Composer: Markus Stockhausen, Florian Weber
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Black Orpheus (In Concert, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Recital Hall)
Black Orpheus features music drawn from the last solo recital of a highly individual artist, the Japanese pianist Masabumi Kikuchi (1939-2015). It represents the full flowering of Kikuchi’s late style, with an individuality which resists concise
Composer: Masabumi Kikuchi
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
After three studio albums ? 'Stoa' (2006), 'Holon' (2008) and 'Lyria' (2010) ? plus the double-CD 'Live' (2012) with his electric band RONIN, Swiss keyboardist/composer Nik Bärtsch now presents a new recording with his original group MOBILE,
Composer: Nik Bärtsch
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
„Mirror“ is the first ECM New Series album from Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvitz (born 1969), who emphasizes his links to his homeland’s music at several levels. The album begins with a fantasy on a song by Veljo Tormis.
Composer: Tõnu Kõrvitz (1969)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Founded in 1978, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris quickly established its reputation as one of Europe’s leading chamber orchestras. In 2012, Thomas Zehetmair was appointed the orchestra’s principal conductor and artistic advisor and on this
Composer: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
A cosmic rhythm with each stroke features pianist Viay Iyer and the musician he has described as his “hero, friend and teacher”, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith’s Golden Quartet,
Composer: Vijay Iyer (1971)
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
