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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 |
Danish String Quartet
Keel Road [ ECM New Series / CD - released 30/Aug/2024 ] The Danish String Quartet's new album is a "retracing of musical pathways across the North Sea, a journey through the sounds of traditional music from Northern Europe, taking us from Denmark and Norway to the Faroe Islands, and to Ireland and... |
Danish String Quartet
Last Leaf [ ECM New Series / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] "This recording of sublime beauty consists of old hymns, such as Now Found is the Fairest of Roses (1732), and a variety folk songs, all exquisitely set for string quartet." AudAud Best of 2017 |
Danish String Quartet
Last Leaf (LP) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 22/Sep/2017 ] They are widely recognised as the most exciting young string quartet of the present moment, bringing new insights to contemporary composition and core classical repertoire. In parallel, they have also made surprising and impressive forays into the... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / J. S. BACH
Beethoven/Shostakovich/Bach: Prism I Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 21/Sep/2018 ] For its third ECM release, the prize-winning Danish String Quartet inaugurates a series of five albums with the overarching title of Prism, in which the group will present one of Beethoven's late string quartets in the context of a related fugue by... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / BELA BARTOK / J. S. BACH
Beethoven/Bartok/Bach - Prism III Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] "...they're thought-provoking, and often startlingly beautiful. And anyway, perhaps one shouldn't draw too close to the music." Gramophone |
BEETHOVEN / WEBERN / BACH
Prism V Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] The Danish String Quartet bring their highly acclaimed Prism project to its conclusion. In each volume of this series a particular Bach fugue is connected to a late Beethoven quartet which, in turn, is connected to a quartet by a later master: "A... |
THOMAS ADES / ER NORGARD / HANS ABRAHAMSEN
Ades: Arcadiana / Norgard: Quartetto Breve / Abrahamsen: 10 Preludes The Danish String Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 15/Apr/2016 ] "The Danish are remarkable, as ever - capable of intense blend, extreme dynamic variation (in which they seem glued together), perfect intonation even on harmonics, and constant vitality and flow" Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Chamber |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Das Wohlthemperierte Klavier, Buch I Keith Jarrett [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Recorded February 1987, Oxford, New Jersey. |
SCHUMANN / REIMANN, BYRD / PIERINI, PURCELL
Im wachen Traume Delian Quartett [ ECM New Series / CD - released 21/Jun/2024 ] On their second ECM duo album Romanian pianist Lucian Ban and US violist Mat Maneri find fresh inspiration as they follow the trail of Béla Bartók, revisiting the folk music that spurred the imagination of the great Hungarian composer who, in the... |
SCHUMANN / RAVEL / BARTOK
De la nuit - Schumann, Ravel, Bartók Dénes Várjon (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] "This is an unremittingly bewitching programme and perfectly engineered." Recording of the Month BBC Music November 2018 |
Dowland Project & John Potter
Night Sessions [ Ecm New Series / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] This album has all the virtues and delights of the previous ones. If anything, it's more challenging and experimental. These immaculate, lithe performances, replete with passion, adventurousness, exemplary phrasing and timing and tonal beauty |
RAVEL / FRANCK / LIGETI / MESSIAEN
Ravel, Franck, Ligeti, Messiaen Duo Gazzana [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] A sense of discovery is a key theme in the third ECM recital of sisters Natascia and Raffaella Gazzana. Alongside a landscape of French music for violin and piano, drawing on a multiplicity of inspirations, the album includes a premiere recording of... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV / ALFRED SCHNITTKE / ARVO PART
Prokofiev, Schnittke, Pärt Duo Gazzana [ ECM New Series / CD - released 27/Mar/2026 ] „[The Gazzanas] have played together as siblings since early childhood. But that alone is not enough to explain the special intimacy of their music-making. There is more than familial rapport here; there is something enormously unvarnished in both of... |
Eleni Karaindrou
Tous des Oiseaux [ ECM New Series / CD - released 25/Jan/2019 ] The new release on ECM New Series by composer Eleni Karaindrou brings together the original music written for Wajdi Mouawad's play All Birds and the music for the film Bomb, A Love Story by Iranian actor and director Payman Maadi. |
Elina Duni, Rob Luft
Reaching For The Moon [ ECM New Series / CD - released 24/Apr/2026 ] "Few contemporary jazz-influenced singers manage to sound so intensely like themselves while drawing on such a variety of genres, languages, and cultural backstories as the Albania-born vocalist Elina Duni," The Guardian has noted, and Reaching for... |
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
Ordo Virtutum Ensemble Belcanto, Dietburg Spohr [ ECM New Series / CD - released 5/Aug/2013 ] This is the second New Series album to feature the Stuttgart-based Ensemble Belcanto |
ERKKI-SVEN TUUR
Tuur: Lost Prayers Erkki Sven-Tüür [ ECM New Series / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] "... it's in Fata Morgana and especially Lichttürme (Towers of Light) where the harmonic fields are most resonant, the piano in each case affording a rippling sustain that unites the earthly with the ethereal. " Classical-music |
ARVO PART
Pärt: Tractus Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Tõnu Kaljuste (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] Tractus emphasizes Arvo Pärt compositions that blend the timbres of string orchestra and choir. New versions predominate, with focused performances from the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Tõnu Kaljuste's... |
