STRAVINSKY / SHOSTAKOVICH / PROKOFIEV / SCRIABIN
Messe Noire Alexei Lubimov (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Jun/2005 ] "Lubimov's relaxed, transparent performance of Shostakovich's Second Sonata and tightly coiled one of Prokofiev's Seventh are both hugely impressive, as is his surprisingly emollient account of Scriabin's "Black Mass" sonata. The Guardian |
SILESTROV / PART / USTVOLSKAYA
Misterioso Alexei Lubimov (piano) / Alexander Trostiansky (violin) / Kyrill Rybakov (clarinet) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "These are all magnificent performances, as one might expect from these three musicians, who regularly perform together as a trio, and their sound is superbly and rawly caught by ECM's recording" - BBC Music Magazine |
JOHN CAGE
As it is Alexei Lubimov (piano) / Natalia Pschenitschnikova (voice) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] 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 from the 1930s and 1940s.... |
C. P. E. BACH
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Tangere Alexei Lubimov (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] "Lubimov owns every exquisitely calibrated nuance" BBC Music Instrumental Choice of the Month Christmas 2017 |
BARTOK
44 Duos For Two Violins Andras Keller & Janos Pilz [ ECM New Series / CD - released 18/Mar/2002 ] |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Geistervariationen Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] |
SCHUMANN
In concert: Robert Schumann (recorded in 1999) Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 21/Aug/2007 ] "Few pianists could have made this programme work. They may not be Schumann's finest, but they have their own glories and Schiff, recorded live in the Tonhalle, Zurich, in May 1999, treats them with affection. An absolute winner." ***** Five Stars... |
Anja Lechner & Francois Couturier
Moderato Cantabile [ ECM New Series / CD ] 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. The players approach the... |
SCHNITTKE / SHCHEDRIN / RIHM
Elusive Affinity Anna Gourari [ ECM New Series / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] In this imaginatively shaped and sensitively played album - her third for ECM - Russian pianist Anna Gourari explores musical connections and influences extending across the arts. Three suites of contemporary music are heard here. Alfred Schnittke's... |
Anna Gourari
Various: Canto Oscuro [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] |
HELENA TULVE
Arboles lloran por lluvia Ariana Savall / Charles Barbier / Taniel Kirikal / NYYD Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD ] 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 nourished by... |
TIGRAN MANSURIAN
Ars Poetica Armenian Chamber Choir / Robert Mlkeyan (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "This is open, honest fare - no games, no gimmicks, no special effects. The musical expression of a poetic image is what engages the composer. Nothing else intrudes because nothing else matters." American Record Guide |
ELLIOTT CARTER
What Next? / ASKO Concerto Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra / Peter Eotvos (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] "Carter has always written for instruments operatically; now he lends opera the mercurial magic of his ensemble works, one of which, the "Asko Concerto", is appended here." Paul Driver, Sunday Times |
MEREDITH MONK
Piano Songs Bruce Brubaker / Ursula Oppens [ ECM New Series / CD - released 2/May/2014 ] Celebrating Meredith Monk as composer, these Piano Songs give us a world at once playful and serious. Written or derived from work composed between 1971 and 2006, the pieces inhabit Monk's unique universe, as played by two of new music's most... |
HILDEGARD von BINGEN / ENSECU / BENJAMIN / YSAYE / J.S. BACH
L'Aurore Carolin Widmann (violin) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] German violinist Carolin Widmann's imaginative solo recital spans a thousand years of music history from Hildegard von Bingen's antiphon Spiritus sanctus vivificans vita to Three Miniatures by George Benjamin. En route, Widman's "little... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: The Violin Sonatas Carolin Widmann (violin) Denes Varjon (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] Gramophone Award Finalist 2009: Chamber - "Their imaginative, wide-ranging variations of tone colour unlock the music's romantic, atmospheric potential, and their command of genuine rubato - passionate, unimpeded forward motion followed by lingering... |
FELDMAN / SCHOENBERG / ZIMMERMANN / XENAKIS
Phantasy of Spring: Music for Violin and Piano Carolin Widmann (violin) Simon Lepper (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Oct/2009 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICK: CD OF THE YEAR 2009 - "Widmann presents the best case I've heard on disc for the communicative power of Schoenberg's sometimes dry and forbidding Phantasy... She makes light of the technical challenges of Xenakis's rebarbative... |
Paul Giger
Chartres [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Mar/1989 ] Paul Giger's first New Series release was Chartres (1989), a multi-part musical work which describes the pilgrim's path through the eponymous cathedral where the recording was made. The musical material emerges from diverse traditions, ranging from... |
SAARIAHO / CAGE / MADERNA
In Due Tempi Cikada String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "Behind the notes the Cikadas' deeply committed playing reveals glimpses of a dramatic personality that could only be Italian in its lyrical warmth. Riveting stuff." BBC Music Magazine |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / FELIX MENDELSSOHN / J. S. BACH
Beethoven / Mendelssohn / Bach: Prism IV Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 3/Jun/2022 ] "..the DSQ make compelling storytellers." Gramophone Award Finalist 2023 - Chamber |