Bach: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis - Konzerte und Sinfonien für Oboe
A recording to delight all admirers of Bach and the baroque oboe and a wonderful account of Heinz Holliger’s interpretive genius as a player: for many, he is the world’s greatest oboist. Factor in the long-established relationship ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Niccolò Paganini: 24 Capricci per violino solo
Thomas Zehetmair’s manually overwhelming and thought-provoking ECM recording of the complete sonatas for unaccompanied violin by Eugène Ysaÿe – released in 2004 to great critical acclaim – offered ample proof that alleged ...
Composer: Nicolò Paganini (1782-1840)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5
Austrian pianist Till Fellner whose two Bach albums on ECM have won him unanimous international acclaim teams up with conductor Kent Nagano and his Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal for a sensitive and meticulous interpretation ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Johann Sebastian Bach: Six Partitas, BWV 825-830
Following last year’s completion of his highly-praised Beethoven cycle András Schiff returns to Bach with a superb interpretation of the six “Partitas”, recorded live in September 2007 at Neumarkt Reitstadl one of the best piano music ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 –1750)
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variationen
be regarded as one of the classical music events of the year. Two decades after his acclaimed account of the Variations for Decca, Schiff documents Bach’s towering masterpiece ...
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 –1750)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Piano
It was in 1993 when Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble, a vocal quartet from Britain focused on music of the Renaissance, have first recorded together. Their outstanding piece “Officium”, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Classical Crossover
Is it fair for baroque to sound so sensual? An elegiac soprano voice wafts above an instrumental piece by Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger. Flamenco rhythms underpin a passacaglia. Then suddenly we hear the typical harmonies and ornaments ...
Composer: Kapsberger, Piccinini, Narvaez, Frescobaldi
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
On “Nuove Musiche”, his highly successful ECM debut released in spring 2006, Norwegian master lutenist led his own group of international early music virtuosi. The album presented ravishing and most unorthodox accounts ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
The Bregenz/Munich concerts were Jarrett’s most brilliant live solo recordings to date; his level of inspiration is quite extraordinary, and the music covers a wider musical and emotional range than ever.”
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
One of the world’s finest vocal chamber groups, the Hilliard Ensemble has a formidable reputation in the fields of both early and new music. The programme featured here exemplifies its distinctive style and highly developed ...
Composer: Bernardo Pisano (1490–1548), Roger Marsh (1949), Jacques Arcadelt (c. 1507–1568)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Il Pergolese pays tribute to 18th century composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 – 1736), and considers his relationship to the art music and the popular music of Naples, from a highly contemporary perspective.
Composer: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Momo Kodma’s first ECM New Series album is a marvel, a mesmerizing journey from the shimmering surfaces of Miroirs, Ravel’s piano cycle of 1904-45 to Messiaen’s Fauvette des jardins (written in 1970), a late masterpiece ...
Composer: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Toru Takemitsu 1930-1996), Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Piano
There are magic moments when an artist can be said to have well and truly “arrived.” For Ralph Alessi, the release of Baida – his ECM debut as a bandleader – is just such a moment, despite his already extensive resume.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Acclaim for the first, eponymous album from saxophonist-composer Tim Berne’s acoustic quartet Snakeoil came from far and wide: All About Jazz described the music as “unpredictable and fresh,” while The Guardian called ...
Composer: Tim Berne
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
The evocative ECM debut of the outstanding Hungarian guitarist Zsófia Boros addresses a broad range of composition for her instrument, drawing on music of the Americas. “Often I think I am holding the choice of music in my own ...
Composer: Francisco Calleja (1891–1950), Vicente Amigo (*1967), Dominic Miller (*1960), Leo Brouwer (*1939), Abel Fleury (1903 –1958), Ralph Towner (*1940), Dilermando Reis (1916 –1977), Martin Reiter (*1978), Quique Sinesi (*1960), Leo Brouwer
Genre: Guitar
Subgenre: Classical Guitar
Ludwig van Beethoven: Diabelli-Variationen
Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations are considered a magnum opus of the piano repertoire, a towering contribution to the genre and an entire encyclopaedia of pianism. Following his monumental exploration of the 32 Sonatas, ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Piano
An international summit meeting, “Travel Guide” features US guitarist Ralph Towner, Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, and Kazakhstan-born and Australia-raised guitarist Slava Grigoryan. The three musicians first came together ...
Composer: Ralph Towner (*1940), Wolfgang Muthspiel
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Mainstream Jazz
John Abercrombie's revised quartet - his last album, 'Within a Song', featured Joe Lovano in the line-up - provides Marc Copland with his first appearance on ECM. Yet the renowned guitarist and pianist are old allies, with an association ...
Composer: John Abercrombie
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow revisit classic Bley compositions in an exceptional album recorded in Lugano last year by Manfred Eicher. Included here are spirited new versions of “Utviklingssang” and “Vashkar”, ...
Composer: Carla Bley
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
