GIACINTO SCELSI
Natura Renovatur Frances-Marie Uitti (cello) / Munchener Kammerorchester / Christoph Poppen [ ECM / CD - released 14/Oct/2007 ] Natura Renovatur (Nature Renewed), the first ECM New Series recording entirely devoted to the revelatory music of Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), is a voyage into the very heart of the composer's work. Scelsi, who spoke about a third sonic dimension,... |
FRANCOIS COUTURIER
Works Francois Couturier (piano) Anja Lechner (cello) Jean-Louis Matinier (accordian) Jean-Marc Larche (soprano saxophone) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] The unique band founded by François Couturier continues to draw inspiration from the films of Andrey Tarkovsky as its frame of reference expands. Allusions to Pergolesi, Bach and Shostakovich are to be found in the compositions here, as are... |
Frankfurt Jazz Ensemble
Atmospheric Conditions Permitting [ ECM / 2 CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] Subtitled 'radio recordings 1967-1993', Atmospheric Conditions Permitting enters the archives of Frankfurt Radio (Hessischer Rundfunk) and retrieves material from 31 sessions featuring a total of 50 musicians. The resultant double CD amounts to a... |
HONEGGER / MARTINU
Sonatinas and Duos Frank-Peter Zimmermann (violin) Heinrich Schiff (violoncello) [ ECM / CD - released 23/Nov/2006 ] "Put two such marvellous artists together and something special is likely to happen. And that’s the case here, across a repertoire that ranges from Bach to the fast-rising Matthias Pintscher. Our reviewer Guy Rickards goes so far as to suggest that... |
Fred Hersch
Silent, Listening [ ECM / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Silent, Listening is a major addition to ECM's distinguished line of solo piano recordings, featuring one of the outstanding improvising pianists and jazz masters of our time: Fred Hersch. The album features seven original creations and a handful of... |
Fred Hersch
Silent, Listening (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Silent, Listening is a major addition to ECM's distinguished line of solo piano recordings, featuring one of the outstanding improvising pianists and jazz masters of our time: Fred Hersch. The album features seven original creations and a handful of... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Three Or One Fred Thomas (piano), Aisha Orazbayeva (violin), Lucy Railton (violoncello) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Here is Johann Sebastian Bach in transfigured light: with organ chorale preludes, vocal cantata movements and orchestral sinfonias - 24 pieces in all - transcribed for trio and solo piano by Fred Thomas, and threaded into a compelling new sequence by... |
Frode Haltli
Passing Images [ ECM / CD - released 29/Jan/2007 ] |
Garbarek / Vitous / Erskine
Star [ ECM / CD - released 31/Dec/2008 ] |
PURCELL / VIVALDI / KNOX / von BINGEN / de MACHAUT / etc
Saltarello Garth Knox (viola d'amore) Agnes Vesterman (violoncello) Sylvain Lemetre (percussion) [ ECM / CD - released 10/Mar/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Baroque Instrumental |
GARTH KNOX
D'Amore: Music for Viola d'amore from 1600 to the present day Garth Knox (viola d'amore) / Agnes Vesterman (violoncello) [ ECM / CD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] Recording of the Month (Gramophone Magazine) September 2008 - "Knox and cellist Agnès Vesterman seem to conjure up an entire range of instruments between the two of them (have a listen to see what I mean) and by the time they exit with a dizzying... |
Gary Burton & Chick Corea
Crystal Silence - The ECM Recordings 1972-79 [ ECM Records / 4 CD Box Set - released 12/Oct/2009 ] This 4-CD box set reprises the history-making recordings CRYSTAL SILENCE (1972), DUET (1978) and the live double album IN CONCERT, ZÜRICH, (1979). |
The Gary Burton Quintet
Dreams So Real [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in December 1975, Gary Burton's 'Dreams So Real' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Gary Peacock & Marilyn Crispel
Azure [ ECM / CD - released 17/Jun/2013 ] |
Gateway (John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette)
Gateway [ ECM Touchstones / CD ] The 1975 coming-together of the mighty trio of John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. Down Beat spoke of "daring and visionary spirit" in a five star review. |
Gavin Bryars
After The Requiem (LP) [ ECM / LP ] |
Gedichte / geleson von Bruno Ganz
Holerlin [ ECM Records / CD ] Recorded March 1984 |
Gianluigi Trovesi
Vaghissimo Ritratto [ ECM / CD - released 12/Mar/2007 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
All'Opera: Profumo di Violetta Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinet & saxophone) with Marco Remondini (cello) / Filarmonica Mousike / Savino Acquaviva [ ECM Records / CD - released 26/Jan/2009 ] Italy's great musical archaeologist and one of today's outstanding improvisers, Gianluigi Trovesi indulges his love for the drama and beauty of Italian opera with Trovesi all'opera - Profumo di Violetta. |
Gianluigi Trovesi / Gianni Coscia
La misteriosa musica della Regina Loana [ ECM / CD - released 21/Jun/2019 ] This hugely enjoyable and highly inventive album is dedicated to the late Umberto Eco, a lifelong friend of accordionist Gianni Coscia and an ardent champion of this particular duo. Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna, a meditation on the... |