John Surman is an exceptionally versatile musician and his instrumental prowess has been showcased in many contexts. Yet his solo albums may be the best sources for insights into his melodic imagination.
Composer: John Surman
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
Bassist Arild Andersen shines as the principal soloist in a celebration of music from ECM with specially-commissioned new big-band arrangements of well-known pieces by Dave Holland, Chick Corea, Trygve Seim, Jan Garbarek, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Hirundo Maris is Latin for “sea swallow” and, like that bird’s nomadic flight, harpist Arianna Savall’s quintet – part early music ensemble, part folk group – drifts on musical currents between Norway and Catalonia, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Wisdom and wistfulness are intertwined in “Wisteria”, whose title track, written by Art Farmer, takes us back to the early 60s, when both Steve Kuhn and Steve Swallow sang softly of the blues in the trumpeter-flugelhornist’s band.
Composer: Steve Kuhn, Steve Swallow & Joey Baron
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
On its second ECM album, recorded in New York last year, Fly continues to overturn the conventions of the sax/bass/drums trio. Mark Turner, Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard share freedom and responsibilities ...
Composer: Mark Turner, Larry Grenadier & Jeff Ballard
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
“Within A Song” celebrates the spirit of discovery that illuminated the jazz of the 1960s, as John Abercrombie declares his musical loyalties in a quartet album that pays tribute to a range of early influences ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Witold Lutosławski / Béla Bartók: Musique funèbre
Dennis Russell Davies has had a long-running and highly productive association with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra – documented on exceptional ECM recordings of repertoire from Mozart to Kancheli ...
Composer: Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
An ECM debut from Masabumi Kikuchi and a last session from the great Paul Motian. Motian and Kikuchi were friends for many years and Paul understood the idiosyncracies and the wayward charm of the Japanese pianist’s ...
Composer: Masabumi Kikuchi, Paul Motian, Thomas Morgan
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
First ECM recording of a quartet formed in 2003. Originally billed as the Ethan Iverson-Mark Turner Quartet, it soon became the Billy Hart Quartet, and under this name has played shows to packed houses each year ...
Composer: Billy Hart
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Dario Castello, Giovanni Battista Fontana: Sonate concertate in stil moderno
John Holloway’s recordings for ECM New Series have included many exhilarating and inspired accounts of baroque small ensemble music, and cast new light on composers including Biber, Schmelzer, Veracini and Leclair.
Composer: Dario Castello
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Baroque
Many instrumental compositions in music history, even if they’re called sonata, suite, sinfonia or even fantasia, are essentially dances or else exhibit an unmistakable dancelike character. Not a few examples of so-called art music ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Romantic / Modern Composition
Carlo Gesualdo: Quinto Libro Di Madrigali
For their latest album for ECM, and over 20 years after their first recorded foray into Gesualdo with his Tenebrae Responsories, The Hilliard Ensemble turn again to the music of the Italian nobleman, this time to sing ...
Composer: Carlo Gesualdo von Venosa (1566-1613)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Choral
UK saxophonist Andy Sheppard’s second ECM album introduces his freely lyrical new trio with Michel Benita and Sebastian Rochford. All three players share a sense of stylistic open-mindedness.
Composer: Andy Sheppard
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
After compelling contributions to ECM discs by David Torn and Michael Formanek, here is Tim Berne’s first leader date for the label. “Snakeoil” introduces a fascinating ensemble, a “chamber-like group” in Berne’s words, ...
Composer: Tim Berne
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Two years after “Restored, Returned” introduced this line-up and with extensive touring behind them, on “The Well” the four musicians of the Gustavsen Quartet really blossom as a band in a programme of new tunes by Tord.
Composer: Tord Gustavsen
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Schubert: Fantasie C-Dur / Rondo h-Moll / Sonate A-Dur
Carolin Widmann, who received praise and awards both for her accounts of Schumann’s violin sonatas and for the recital disc “Phantasy of Spring” (with music of Feldman, Zimmermann, Schoenberg and Xenakis) ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797–1828):
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Precipitando - Alban Berg / Leoš Janáček / Franz Liszt
After important contributions to Heinz Holliger’s “Romancendres” and acclaimed performance, with Carolin Widmann, of Schumann’s Violin Sonatas, here is the first New Series solo recording from Hungarian pianist ...
Composer: Alban Berg, Leoš Janáèek, Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos / Piano
