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Sinikka Langeland
Wolf Rune [ ECM / CD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Wolf Rune, a solo album, casts a new light on the highly personal idiom of Sinikka Langeland, kantele player and folk singer from Finnskogen, Norway's "Finnish forest". Sinikka integrates her own songs among folk hymns, shamanistic rune songs and... |
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Stefano Battaglia
Pelagos [ ECM / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Stefano Battaglia plays both piano and prepared piano (sometimes simultaneously) in a highly attractive double-album programme that includes his own compositions and spontaneous improvisations as well as two versions of the Arabic traditional song... |
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Stephan Micus
Thunder [ ECM / CD - released 20/Jan/2023 ] Stephan Micus is a unique musician and composer. He collects and studies instruments from all around the world and creates his own musical journeys with them. This is his 25th solo album for ECM and its sound is dominated by the four-metre long... |
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Stephan Micus
To The Rising Moon [ ECM / CD - released 15/Nov/2024 ] To the Rising Moon is Stephan Micus' 26th solo album for ECM. It features instruments from Colombia, India, Xinjiang (China), Bavaria, Cambodia, Egypt and Borneo, but taking centre stage is the Colombian tiple, slightly smaller than an acoustic... |
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Stephan Micus
Winter's End [ ECM / CD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] Stephan Micus is a one-man universe of sound. He collects and studies instruments from around the world and creates his own musical journeys with them. This is his 24th solo album for ECM created in his studio with many recordings and overdubs. The... |
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LUTOSLAWSKI
Musique funebre (with works by Bartok) Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Dennis Russell Davies [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "Russell Davies gives both pieces with the intensity they demand, the sound of the Stuttgart Kammerorchester warm and heard in a generously resonant acoustic." (Sunday Times) |
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John Surman / John Warren
The Brass Project [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] The original conceptual idea for the Brass Project was to set John Surman's improvising trio with bassist Chris Laurence and drummer John Marshall at the centre of a radiant brass choir of trumpets and trombones. With John Warren invited to... |
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Tallinn Chamber Orchestra / Tonu Kaljuste
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Eller, Heino-LAAriline SAit / Neenia / Five Pieces for String Orchestra, etc [ ECM Records / CD - released 5/Jun/2001 ] Heino Eller-the composer many call-'the father of modern Estonian music' |
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BERND ALOIS ZIMMERMANN
Zimmermann: Canto di Speranza Thomas Demenga (violoncello) Thomas Zehetmair (violin) Gerd Bockmann (speaker) / WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln / Heinz Holliger [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "The 1957 'cantata' for cello and orchestra, Canto di Speranza...has the focus and economy that Zimmermann's later music sometimes lost; Thomas Demenga's performance of the solo part maintains that purity even under the greatest pressure." (BBC Music... |
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Thomas Strønen, Ayumi Tanaka, Marthe Lea
Bayou [ ECM / CD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] A fresh and open music, delicate and space-conscious, is shaped as drummer Thomas Strønen and Ayumi Tanaka, previously heard in the ensemble Time Is A Blind Guide on Lucus, resurface in a new trio with clarinettist/singer/percussionist Marthe Lea.... |
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Thomas Strønen / Lucus
Time Is A Blind Guide [ ECM / CD - released 19/Jan/2018 ] Norwegian drummer/composer Thomas Strønen presents a revised edition of his acoustic collective Time Is A Blind Guide, now trimmed to quintet size, and with a new pianist in Wakayama-born Ayumi Tanaka. Tanaka has spoken of seeking associative... |
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Thomas Strønen
Relations (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 20/Jun/2025 ] Musical messages from Oslo, New York, Basel and Lugano - recorded between 2018 and 2022 - are juxtaposed and recombined on an absorbing recording that features Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen solo and in a series of duets . With such partners as... |
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Thomas Zehetmair (baroque violin)
Sei Solo [ ECM / 2 CD - released 21/Dec/2019 ] Thomas Zehetmair, one of the great violinists of our time, re-visits the solo works of Bach, the summit of the violin repertory |
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BARTÓK / CASKEN / BEETHOVEN
Bartók / Casken / Beethoven Thomas Zehetmair, Ruth Killius, Royal Northern Sinfonia [ ECM New Series / CD - released 17/Feb/2023 ] This powerful New Series album represents "a résumé and a departure" for Thomas Zehetmair, a summing up of his work with the Royal Northern Sinfonia. In his years as Music Director of the British chamber orchestra, Zehetmair was noted both for... |
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KOMITAS / HAMASYAN / HENRIKSEN / AARSET / BANG
Atmosphères Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang [ ECM / 2 CD - released 26/Aug/2016 ] This far-reaching double album, recorded and mixed in three days in Lugano, introduces a new group with Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset and Jan Bang. The Norwegians had played in diverse configurations on ECM - Jan Bang on Eivind... |
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Tim Berne's Snake Oil
Incidentals [ ECM / CD - released 8/Sep/2017 ] Tim Berne has been described as a saxophonist and composer of granite conviction by The New York Times. Incidentals is the fourth album from his spirited Snakeoil band and the second (following on from 2015's You've Been Watching Me) to feature the... |
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Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Matka Joanna [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
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Tord Gustavsen Trio
Opening (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] On the album Opening, Tord Gustavsen reveals a fresh angle to his particularly unique trio investigations into Scandinavian folk hymns, gospel, chorale and jazz, as he introduces a different voice on bass. With a new fellow-traveller on board and... |
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TRADITIONAL
Rimur Trio Mediaeval & Arve Henriksen (trumpet) [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] "if the idea of a semi-distant Nordic cousin to Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble's 'Officium' series appeals, this is worth procuring" (Gramophone) |
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HENRY PURCELL / GUILLAUME DUFAY / JOSQUIN DESPREZ
Stravaganza Consonanti Gianluigi Trovesi (Piccolo Clarinet, Alto Clarinet, Alto Saxophone), Stefano Montanari (Concertmaster) [ ECM / CD - released 27/Feb/2023 ] In this inspired collaboration with conductor and baroque violinist Stefano Montanari, the masterful Italian reedman Gianluigi Trovesi extends the line of musical enquiry posited on his Prufumo di violetta album. Supported by a cast of players... |