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GYORGY KURTAG
Musik for Streichinstrumente (music for string instruments) The Keller Quartett / Andras Keller : violin / Janos Pilz : violin / Zoltan Gal: viola / Otto Kertesz : cello / Gyorgy Kurtag : celesta / MiklA [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] The Keller Quartet, described by the Guardian as "technically masterful and musically intelligent", interpret the string music of Hungarian composer György Kurtág. |
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SCHNITTKE / BEETHOVEN / BACH / KURTAG / LIGETI / KNAIFEL
Cantante e tranquillo The Keller Quartett [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] "Highlights are the hypnotic pastoral from Schnittke's Piano Quintet with Alexei Lubimov, and a sequence of Kurtág miniatures. Good for a quiet night in." The Observer, 5th April 2015 *** |
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Kenny Wheeler
Angel Song (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 31/May/2024 ] LP from the "Luminessence" Series. "Destined to go down in history as a jazz classic" was the verdict with which The Guardian greeted this album on its release in 1997, saying, "Wheeler's compositions and four of the world's greatest improvisers... |
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Kenny Wheeler
Deer Wan [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] The notoriously self-critical trumpeter Kenny Wheeler maintained that Deer Wan (recorded 1976) was his favourite among his own albums ("I like the overall form of this one best"). A tremendous band plays Wheeler's tunes here. Kenny and Jan Garbarek... |
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Kenny Wheeler
Double, Double You [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Canadian trumpeter Kenny Wheeler was both a major jazz composer and a soloist given to free flights, thriving on the creative tension between lyricism and fiery interplay. Musicians loved the challenges implied in his writing, as is apparent in every... |
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Kenny Wheeler
Gnu High [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in June 1975, Kenny Wheeler's 'Gnu High' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
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Kenny Wheeler (with Keith Jarrett, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette)
Gnu High (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 28/Apr/2023 ] "Gnu High" was trumpeter/flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler's first for ECM, and Keith Jarrett's last session as a sideman: both deliver astonishing improvisations in a highly interactive quartet with Holland and DeJohnette, and Wheeler's writing is... |
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Kenny Wheeler
Music For Large & Small Ensembles [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] |
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JORG WIDMANN
Arche Kent Nagano / Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 5/Oct/2018 ] For the opening of Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie concert hall, the German composer Jorg Widmann was commissioned to write a new oratorio for soloists, choirs, organ and orchestra, Arche. Widmann drew inspiration from the shape of the building itself:... |
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Ketil Bjornstad (piano) with Andy Sheppard (saxophones) Anja Lechner (cello), etc
La Notte [ ECM / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] |
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Ketil Bjornstad / David Darling / Terje Rypdal / Jon Christensen
The Sea [ ECM / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] |
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Ketil Bjornstad & Terje Rypdal
Life in Leipzig [ ECM Records / CD - released 3/Aug/2009 ] Norwegians Ketil Bjørnstad and Terje Rypdal - a rare and possibly unique duo combination of electric guitar and acoustic piano - in an exciting live album recorded before an enthusiastic audience in Leipzig's Opera House. |
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LARS SAABYE CHRISTENSEN
A Suite Of Poems Ketil Bjørnstad (Piano), Anneli Drecker (Voice) [ ECM / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] Norwegian-Danish author Lars Saabye Christensen is one of Scandinavia most widely-praised and prolific contemporary writers. For many years now, in the course of his travels around the globe, he has been sending "hotel poems" to his friend Ketil... |
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Ketil Bjørnstad / Svante Henryson
Night Song [ ECM Records / CD - released 14/Mar/2011 ] Ketil Bjørnstad returns to the piano/cello duo, instrumentation which defined two of his best-loved albums, 'The River' and 'Epigraphs' |
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VALENTIN SILVESTROV
Sacred Songs Kiev Chamber Choir, Mykola Hobdych [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] "Nourishing repertoire, ravishingly sung; a balm for the heart and soul." (MusicWeb Aug 2013) |
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VALENTIN SILVESTROV
Sacred Works Kiev Chamber Choir / Mykola Hobdych [ ECM Records / CD - released 10/Dec/2009 ] "Hypnotic and startlingly different, this music has cult potential." The Observer, 22nd November 2009 |
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BRITTEN / KODALY/ CARTER / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / VIEUXTEMPS
Elegies Kim Kashkashian (viola) / Robert Levin (piano) [ ECM Records / CD - released 25/Nov/2007 ] Recorded 1984 |
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PAUL HINDEMITH
Hindemith: Sonatas For Viola / Piano & Viola Alone (LP) Kim Kashkashian & Robert Levin [ ECM New Series / 3 LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
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J.S. BACH
J.S. Bach: Six Suites for Viola Solo Kim Kashkashian (viola) [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] |
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KURTAG / LIGETI
Ligeti: Music for viola Kim Kashkashian (viola) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] Grammy Winner - Best Classical Instrumental Solo |