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JOSEF HAYDN
Symphony No. 39 in G min & No. 45 in F# min Farewell (with Isang Yun-Chamber Symphony 1) Munich Chamber Orchestra / Alexander Liebreich (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] "These are lithe performances on modern instruments, but certainly "historically informed". The winds are pure but characterful and the horns rise to Haydn's challenges (which from time to time in his symphonic career could be steep indeed)."... |
GYORGY KURTAG
Kurtág: Complete Works for Ensemble and Choir Natalia Zagorinskaya (soprano), Gerrie de Vries (mezzo-soprano), Yves Saelens (ten) / Netherlands Radio Choir / Schoenberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw [ ECM New Series / 3 CD - released 1/Jul/2017 ] "Spareness, that supercharged concision, is ever the Kurtag note - and, as caught by these outstanding musicians, resonates powerfully here." Sunday Times |
ARVO PÄRT
Pärt: The Symphonies NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic, Tonu Kaljuste (Conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 11/May/2018 ] All four of Arvo Pärt's symphonies, newly recorded with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic under the direction his musical accomplice, Tõnu Kaljuste. Each of the symphonies, as the great Estonian composer has noted, is a world unto itself. Heard in... |
KONSTANTIA GOURZI
Anájikon Nils Mönkemeyer, William Youn, Minguett Quartett, Luzern Academy Orchestra [ ECM New Series / CD - released 30/Apr/2021 ] Anájikon, the second ECM album after Music for piano and string quartet (ECM New Series 2309) by Athens-born and Munich-based Konstantia Gourzi, incorporates her chamber and orchestral music of the past decade. The composer also conducts the Lucerne... |
GALINA USTVOLSKAYA
Galina Ustvolskaya Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Markus Hinterhäuser, Reto Bieri [ ECM New Series / CD - released 12/Sep/2014 ] The unique expressiveness of the work of Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) speaks to the listener with directness and nuanced layers of sound, the powerful, rhythmic stringency of the music testifying to the relentlessness of her vision. Fiercely... |
TIGRAN MANSURIAN
Quasi Parlando Patricia Kopatchinskaja - violin / Anja Lechner - violoncello / Amsterdam Sinfonietta / Candida Thompson - lead violin [ ECM New Series / CD - released 2/May/2014 ] Issued in the wake of the great Armenian composer's 75th birthday, this New Series album opens with Tigran Mansurian's fiercely-concentrated Double Concerto, composed in 1978, and proceeds to new music performed by its dedicatees: the lyrical... |
Paul Giger
Chartres (LP) [ Ecm New Series / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] 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... |
HELENA TULVE
Lijnen Arianna Savall (voice) Ophele-Gaubert, Peaske (flutes) / Silesian String Qt / NYYD Ensemble & Stockholm Sax [ ECM New Series / CD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] The first ECM disc from the only composition pupil to date of Erkki-Sven Tüür, gifted young Estonian Helena Tulve, whose work speaks in its own unique language through a variety of chamber music settings and with a fluid approach to form, sound and... |
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA
The Canticle Of The Sun Gidon Kremer (violin), Marta Sudraba (cello), Kremerata Baltica / Chamber Choir Kamer, Maris Sirmais [ Ecm New Series / CD - released 16/Jan/2012 ] "These are extraordinary works from an extraordinary and very compelling musical personality." (Gramophone) |
STRAVINSKY
Orchestral works (Includes Apollon musagate) Stuttgarter Kammerorchester / Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) [ 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 |
J.S. BACH / ELLIOTT CARTER
Cello Suite No. 3 / Triple Duo / Enchanted Preludes Thomas Demenga (cello) Hansheinz Schneeberger (violin) Philippe Racine (flute) Ernesto Molinari (clarinet) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/1990 ] Thomas Demenga was born in 1954, in Berne, Switzerland. Thomas Demenga studied with Walter Grimmer, Antonio Janigro, Leonard Rose and Mstislav Rostropovich, amongst others, and received his chamber music education at the Juilliard School. |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Violin Concerto / Symphony No. 1 "Spring" / Phantasy for Violin & Orchestra op. 131 Thomas Zehetmair (violin, conductor) / Orchestre de Chambre de Paris [ ECM New Series / CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] "Zehetmair is both soloist and conductor, and what's fascinating is how he tells one story with his violin - passionate and resolute - while letting the orchestra hint at darker things" The Guardian, 24th March 2016 **** |
TIGRAN MANSURIAN
Con Anima - Chamber Music by Tigran Mansurian Movses Pogossian (violin), Kim Kashkashian (viola), Boris Allakhverdyan (violin), Tatevik Mokatsian (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 6/Nov/2020 ] Conceived jointly by violinist Movses Pogossian and violist Kim Kashkashian on the occasion of Tigran Mansurian's 80th birthday, the Con anima project brings together a dedicated cast of players to perform the Armenian composer's chamber music. |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 Till Fellner (piano) / Montreal Symphony Orchestra / Kent Nagano [ ECM New Series / CD - released 25/Mar/2010 ] "This is a dream partnership with soloist and conductor working hand-in-glove...you will rarely hear playing of such an enviable, unimpeded musical grace and fluency" Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Concerto |
THOMAS LARCHER
Madhares (String Quartet No. 3) / Still for viola and chamber orchestra / Bose Zellen for piano and orchestra Till Fellner (piano) / Kim Kashkashian (viola) / Quatour Diotima / Munich Chamber Orchestra / Dennis Russel Davies [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] "He has a fabulous ear for unusual sonorities, which he fashions into surprisingly logical narratives...Böse Zellen, in particular, is a truly original work, vigorously performed and captured in flawless sound." BBC Music Magazine, September 2010 **** |
TONU KORVITS
Mirror Tõnu Kõrvits, Anja Lechner, Kadri Voorand, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra [ ECM New Series / CD - released 18/Mar/2016 ] Mirror is the first ECM New Series album from Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvitz (born 1969), who emphasizes his links to his homeland's music at several levels. The album begins with a fantasy on a song by Veljo Tormis. Like the older composer, Kõrvitz... |
Valery Afanassiev
Schubert: Moments Musicaux [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] 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 Musicaux" and the "Sonata D... |
Walter Fähndrich
Viola (LP) [ ECM New Series / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
MORTON FELDMAN
Violin and Orchestra Carolin Widmann (violin) Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Emilio Pomarico [ Ecm New Series / CD - released 13/May/2013 ] Carolin Widmann's widely acclaimed ECM recordings have traversed a broad arc of music - from Schubert to Xenakis. |
WOLFERT BREDERODE
Brederode: Ruins and Remains Wolfert Brederode, Joost Lijbaart, Matangi Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Ruins and Remains, a suite for piano, string quartet and percussion, was composed by Wolfert Breferode in 2018, to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Over time, however, it has come to embody meanings broader and more personal,... |
