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
Tre Voci: Takemitsu / Debussy / Gubaidulina
On this compelling first release it revolves around Debussy’s 1915 Sonata for flute, viola and harp and its influence, most directly felt in Takemitsu’s shimmering ‘And then I knew ‘twas wind’. Debussy himself had been profoundly moved by his ...
Composer: Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918), Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
After a decade of shared work in the Tarkovsky Quartet and an ongoing alliance in the Pergolesi Project (with singer Maria Pia De Vito), German cellist Anja Lechner and French pianist François Couturier unveil their new duo.
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
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
Leading French clarinetist-composer-improviser Louis Sclavis continues his musical adventures with Gilles Coronado and Benjamin Moussay, who contributed creatively to his Atlas Trio album Sources in 2011. The addition of Iranian classical ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Last Dance features more music from the highly creative session at Keith Jarrett’s home studio which brought forth the much-loved Jasmine album. In this new selection Jarrett and Charlie Haden broaden the scope of the project to include ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary 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
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
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
Following Sideways and Evening Falls, for his third ECM outing Norwegian guitarist Jacob Young is joined by the saxophonist Trygve Seim and the trio of star Polish pianist Marcin Wasilewski. Recorded in Oslo’s Rainbow Studio in ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Poulenc, Walton, Dallapiccola, Schnittke, Silvestrov
The second ECM New Series album by Italian sisters Natascia and Raffaella Gazzana draws together a fascinating programme with a strong narrative line. In this album of works by composers from France, Britain, Italy, Russia and ...
Composer: Poulenc, Walton Gagel, Dallapiccola, Schnittke, Silvestrov
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
The ECM New Series debut of Myung Whun Chung features the widely-celebrated conductor as pianist. Recorded at Venice’s Teatro La Fenice, in July 2013, the album marks the first occasion that Chung has recorded solo.
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber Music
This album of Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s chamber music and songs, mostly of recent vintage, is issued as the innovative Great British composer approaches his 80th birthday. It features an exceptional cast. Heard together and separately ...
Composer: Harrison Birtwistle
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
The ECM debut of the duo of Vera Kappeler and Peter Conradin Zumthor presents music commissioned for the Origen Cultural Festival. It is music dominated by low registers, dark hues. The Babylon referenced in the title ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Over Tones is the highly attractive ECM debut of two exceptional folk musicians from the West of Norway – Benedicte Maurseth who plays the Hardanger fiddle and sings, and vocalist Åsne Valland Nordli.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
Pavans and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland
John Dowland’s Lachrimae Pavans is considered one of the greatest works in the canon of English chamber music. Based upon his famous song “Flow My Teares”, the seven pavans – Seaven Teares, as Dowland called them – present an ...
Composer: John Dowland (1563-1626)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
