KURTAG / SCHUMANN
Hommage a R.Sch (Chamber Works) Kim Kashkashian (viola) Robert Levin (piano) Eduard Brunner (clarinet) [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/Aug/2008 ] Recorded August 1992, May & September 1994 |
DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Sonata / Paul Chihara - Redwood / Linda Bouchard - Pourtinade Kim Kashkashian, viola, Robert Levin, piano, Robyn Schulkowsky, percussion) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] Recorded June & October 1990. Linda Bouchard's compositional jigsaw 'Pourtinade', Paul Chihara's 'Redwood', clearly-etched as the Japanese wood prints that inspired it, and Dimitri Shostakovich's spectre-haunted Opus 147 are three vastly different... |
KIM KASHKASHIAN
Hayren Kim Kashkashian : viola / Robyn Schulkowsky : percussion / Tigran Mansurian : piano, voice [ ECM Records / CD - released 5/Oct/2003 ] Kim Kashkashian brings Armenia's leading contemporary composer to ECM New Series in a programme that also explores the roots of Armenian music. Compositions by Tigran Mansurian for viola and percussion, played by Kashkashian and Robyn Schulkowsky,... |
GIYA KANCHELI
Morning Prayers / Abii ne viderem / Evening Prayers Kim Kashkashian (viola) / The Hilliard Ensemble / Vasiko Tevdorashvili [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2001 ] ."Top-flight performances... Excellent recording quality too." Gramophone |
OLIVERO / MANSURIAN / KOMITAS / STEINBERG
Neharot - Works for Viola and Ensembles Kim Kashkashian (viola) / Tigran Mansurian (piano) / Munich Chamber Orchestra / Alexander Liebreich (conductor) [ ECM Records / CD - released 28/Sep/2009 ] |
Kimiko Hagiwara : soprano / Dohyung Kim : baritone / Junko Kuribayashi : piano
Reber, Heinz - MA - Two Songs [ ECM Records / CD ] Recorded June 1994 |
Kit Downes
Dream Life Of Debris [ ECM / CD - released 25/Oct/2019 ] Dreamlife of Debris carries forward the story begun on Kit Downes's Obsidian, extending and developing its processes and core ideas. But where Obsidian was (almost exclusively) a solo church organ album, part of Kit's plan for Dreamlife was to put... |
Kit Downes
Dream Life Of Debris [ ECM / LP - released 25/Oct/2019 ] Dreamlife of Debris carries forward the story begun on Kit Downes's Obsidian, extending and developing its processes and core ideas. But where Obsidian was (almost exclusively) a solo church organ album, part of Kit's plan for Dreamlife was to put... |
Konitz / Mehldau / Haden / Motian
Live at Birdland [ ECM / CD - released 23/May/2011 ] |
VICTOR KISSINE
Between Two Waves Gidon Kremer (violin) Daniil Grishin (viola) GiedrÄ— DirvanauskaitÄ— (violoncello) [ Ecm New Series / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] "The imagery and ambience is that of honest creativity by a mind and an ear keenly tuned to the moods of his subject, and as such this is a release which can haunt and inspire." Dominy Clements, Music Web International |
Kristjan Randalu, Ben Monder, Markku Ounaskari
Absence [ ECM / CD - released 6/Apr/0018 ] Estonian pianist Kristjan Randalu makes his ECM debut with a striking album of his own rigorous-yet-lyrical music, sensitively played by a trio formed especially for this recording, with US guitarist Ben Monder and Finnish drummer Markku Ounaskari.... |
Art Lande / Jan Garbarek
Red Lanta [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The album title is anagram of Art Lande, the idiosyncratic US pianist making his ECM debut in a set of his own tunes, very ably partnered by Jan Garbarek on a recording described by Down Beat as "one of the finest albums ECM has yet released…It is... |
Larry Grenadier
The Gleaners [ ECM / LP - released 15/Feb/2019 ] Over the decades, ECM has released a line of inventive albums showcasing solo double bass by such virtuosos of the instrument as Dave Holland, Barre Phillips and Miroslav Vitous. Now the label presents The Gleaners, the first album of solo bass by... |
KURTAG
Kurtagonals Laszlo Hortobagyi (synthesizers, computers) Gyorgy Kurtag, Jr (synthesizers) Miklos Lengyelfi (bass efects)) [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Jul/2009 ] An ECM debut for György Kurtág jr, in a strikingly unusual context. The son of the great Hungarian composer is himself an influential figure in new music, particularly in the electronic and electro-acoustic domain. |
ERKKI-SVEN TUUR
Symphony No. 7 / Piano Concerto Laura Mikkola (piano) / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
Leo Smith
Divine Love [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Wadada Leo Smith's Divine Love is one of ECM's most tantalizing jewels, the result of many years ignoring the label's advances. I can only speculate this was because the immediacy of his craft might have been adversely affected by the interventions... |
STRAVINSKY / BACH
Stravinsky / Bach - Violin works Leonidas Kavakos, violin, Pater Nagy, piano [ ECM New Series / CD - released 25/Mar/2005 ] "Kavakos makes the music howl, shriek, weep or croon, infuses it with humour or passion, takes risks. And he is well on his way to becoming the most famous Greek in the classical world since Callas and Mitropoulos" The Independent |
Lester Bowie
The Great Pretender [ ECM Touchstones / CD ] Recorded June 1981.Flamboyant trumpeter Lester Bowie was a sonic scientist with roots in R & B, the blues and carnival music: his first ECM leader disc good-humoredly explores these elements. |
Lester Bowie
I Only Have Eyes for You [ ECM Records / CD - released 12/Sep/2000 ] |
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
Chamber Music Lisa Batiashvili, Adrian Brendel, Till Fellner, Amy Freston, Harrison Birtwistle [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Apr/2014 ] There are a dozen of Niedecker's poems here to which Birtwistle responds with great refinement...the three instrumentalists, quite closely recorded, are in a class any composer would die for. (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Contemporary) |