Anna Gourari is a young musician steeped in the venerable Russian piano school, its technical verities and Old World glamour. She has “a very physical, even visceral quality to her music-making that conjures the sound ...
Composer: J.S. Bach, F. Busoni, P. Hindemith, S. Gubaidulina
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Avant-Garde
Franz Schubert: Moments Musicaux & Sonata, D850
Pianist Valery Afanassiev – renowned for his strikingly individual and deeply introspective interpretations of the music of Franz Schubert – has paired two often extrovert works by the composer: the set of six Moments ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1797–1828):
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
'Equilibrium“ is the ECM debut of a German/ American/ Spanish trio, which through frequent touring has grown into a remarkably tight and stylistically unique unit in recent years.
Composer: Benedikt Jahnel
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Swept Away sees the top-class quartet of pianist Eliane Elias, double bassist Marc Johnson, drummer Joey Baron and saxophonist Joe Lovano commune over music that is engaging and sensual, lyrical and swinging.
Composer: Eliane Elias
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Smooth Jazz
'Small Places' is double-bassist/composer Michael Formanek’s follow-up to The Rub and Spare Change, his widely lauded ECM debut as a leader.
Composer: Michael Formanek
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Ronin around the world: a powerful and atmospheric concert recording with music captured in Germany, Austria, Holland, England, and Japan, a double-album which transmits the live impact of Nik Bärtsch’s band ...
Composer: Nik Bärtsch
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
A fresh approach to one of contemporary composition’s most iconoclastic and inventive figures, issued on the occasion of John Cage’s 100th birthday. Early Cage is the subject here, strikingly original songs and piano pieces ...
Composer: John Cage (1912–1992), James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, E. E. Cummings
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Modern Composition
Johann Sebastian Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Clavier
As a young pianist, András Schiff earned wide esteem for his 1980s recordings of the major keyboard works of J.S. Bach; in recent years, as part of his long-term ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Kurtág / Ligeti: Music for Viola
Kim Kashkashian has long been one of the most outstanding protagonists of modern composition and this bold and subtle account of solo music by the great Hungarian composers Kurtág and Ligeti is a landmark recording.
Composer: Kurtág / Ligeti
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
It was only after Michael Jackson’s death that Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava gradually became aware that he had for many years been ignoring, in his words, “one of the great protagonists of 20th century music and dance.
Composer: Michael Jackson Clark
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
An astonishing double-album documentation of a great band at the peak of its powers, “Sleeper” features a complete and previously unreleased concert recording of Jarrett’s ‘European Quartet’, otherwise known as ‘Belonging’, ...
Composer: Keith Jarrett [Non-Classical Composer]
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Dans les arbres – the unique improvising quartet comprising three Norwegians and a Frenchman – continues to fine-tune its artistic concept, patiently traversing its luminous planes of sound with a rare sense of accord, ...
Composer: Christian Wallumrød, Xavier Charles, Ivar Grydeland, Ingar Zach
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Odyssey - In Studio & in Concert
Terje Rypdal‘s Odyssey: In Studio & In Concert is a very special release. It includes not only the complete Odyssey album (recorded 1975) in high-resolution audio (Studio Master) for the first time ...
Composer: Terje Rypdal
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Fusion
Louis Sclavis’s band of the season is the Atlas Trio, an ensemble with a global reach of reference. Chamber-improvisation, polyrhythmic grooves, minimalistic pulse patterns, enveloping ambience, rhapsodic ...
Composer: Louis Sclavis
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
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
