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
Tigran Mansurian: Quasi parlando
Issued in the wake of the great Armenian composer’s 75th birthday, this New Series album opens with Tigran Mansurian’s fiercely-concentrated Double Concerto, composed in 1978, and proceeds to new music performed by its ...
Composer: Tigran Mansurian (1939-)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Helena Tulve: Arboles Lloran por Lluvia
Recorded in churches in Tallinn as well as the Estonian Concert Hall, the five compositions heard on “Arboles lloran por lluvia” (Trees cry for rain) give deeper insight into the unique sound-world of Helena Tulve, into music which is ...
Composer: Helena Tulve (1972)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Mutations is Vijay Iyer’s first album as a leader for ECM, and a recording that will widen perceptions of the pianist-composer’s work. At its centre is “Mutations I-X”, a composition scored for string quartet, piano, and electronics.
Composer: Vijay Iyer (1971)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Le Vent, recorded in April 2013 at Oslo’s Rainbow Studio, is the second ECM album from the Colin Vallon Trio. Like the wind celebrated in its title track, the group has a subtle, insinuating power. Emerging from a still and silent place, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The second ECM album by the Billy Hart Quartet is a major musical statement, and one of the outstanding jazz albums of the season. The group’s reach – already broad on 2011’s widely-acclaimed All Our Reasons – is yet more expansive ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
