CARLO GESUALDO
Gesualdo: Tenebrae The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Vocal ensemble performance doesn't get any more technically polished or musically affecting than this offering from the Hilliard Ensemble--an example of what happens when a group of individual singers performs as a spiritual entity. Of course, the... |
WALTER FRYE
Walter Frye The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2001 ] Recorded December 1991 |
STEPHEN HARTKE
Tituli / Cathedral in the Thrashing Rain Hilliard Ensemble, with Lynn Vartan & Javier Diaz (percussion) [ Ecm New Series / CD - released 20/Jun/2005 ] "Beautiful craftsmanship is [Hartke's] hallmark but not his limitation: the imaginative drive is fresh, partly in being so playful, though he can also be solemn." - New York Times |
Histoire du Cinema (The History of the Cinema)
Jean-Luc Godard / Soundtrack [ ECM Records / 5 CD ] Recorded 1988-1997. Box set/Complete soundtrack to 8-part video edition. |
Holland Dave
Extended Play [ ECM Records / 2 CD ] |
WOLFGANG RIHM
Et Lux Huelgas Ensemble & Minguet Quartett, Paul van Nevel [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] "Tropes waft in from across the ages: this music treads the line of tangibility, with sudden rushes of anger or fondness and the messy half-memories that come with grief...van Nevel doubles the vocal parts to create broad, generous textures that soun |
WEBERN / USTVOLSKAYA / SILVESTROV / BOULEZ
Variations Ingrid Karlen (piano) [ ECM Records / CD ] The burnished intensity of Webern's opus 27 provides the touchstone for this recital |
Iro Haarla Quintet
Vespers [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Mar/2011 ] The second album from Iro Haarla's Finnish-Norwegian quintet. |
Isabelle Faust : violin / Paul Meyer : clarinet / Petersen String Quartet
Hartmann, Karl Amadeus - Funabre [ ECM Records / CD - released 16/May/2002 ] Hartmann was one of the most important and independently-minded German composers of the 20th century. This recording embraces two of his most well-known works, which bridge the epochs of the Late Romantic and the Modern, as well as a premiere... |
ERKKI-SVEN TUUR
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra / Aditus / Exodus Isabelle Van Keulen (violin) / CBSO / Paavo Jarvi [ ECM / CD - released 1/Jan/2003 ] "The recording captures the full range of Tüür's orchestral colours, and the booklet includes an illuminating interview with the composer as well as helpful descriptive notes." David Fanning, Gramophone |
VLADIMIR GODAR
Mater Iva BittovAI (voice) MiloAI Valent (violin, viola) / Chamber orchestra Solamente Naturali / Bratislava conservatory choir / Marek AÂ tryncl [ ECM New Series / CD - released 10/Apr/2008 ] "This is easily one of the highlights of the classical year, and I urge you to acquire this disc." (AudAud.com Five Stars) |
Iva Bittova
Iva Bittova [ ECM / CD - released 18/Mar/2013 ] |
KNAIFEL
Blazhenstva Ivan Monighetti (piano, cello, conductor), Tatiana Melentieva (soprano), Piotr Migunov (bass) [ ECM New Series / CD ] |
Jack DeJohnette
Made In Chicago [ ECM / CD - released 23/Jan/2015 ] With Made In Chicago, an exhilarating live album, Jack DeJohnette celebrates a reunion with old friends. In 1962, DeJohnette, Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill were all classmates at Wilson Junior College on Chicago's Southside, pooling energies... |
Jack DeJohnette
Oneness [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] Jack DeJohnette has played with almost all the architects of modern jazz history, from the members of the AACM to Coltrane, Miles, Rollins, Ornette Coleman and Bill Evans and is, of course, currently a member of the world's most celebrated piano... |
Jack DeJohnette
Rarum Volume 12 :-Selected Recordings [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Feb/2004 ] 'Selected Recordings' features landmark recordings and old favourites - greatest hits, effectively - from this highly regarded musician. |
Jacob Young
Evening Falls [ ECM / CD - released 22/Mar/2004 ] "Evening Falls" is the international debut recording of an exceptional musician from the seemingly inexhaustible Norwegian talent pool that ECM has returned to over the decades. Jacob Young is a guitarist, bandleader, improviser and jazz composer... |
Jacob Young
Forever Young [ ECM / CD - released 5/Nov/2014 ] On his third date as a leader for ECM, Norwegian guitarist Jacob Young debuts an entirely new international quintet. His sidemen are saxophonist Trygve Seim, and pianist Marcin Wasilewski's trio featuring bassist Slamowir Kurkiewicz and drummer... |
Jacob Young
Sideways [ ECM Records / CD - released 7/Jan/2008 ] Young has developed a clear identity on three fronts: as guitarist, as writer of memorably melodic material, and as bandleader of originality - all are evident on 'Sideways'. |
Jakob Bro (guitar) with Palle Mikkelborg (trumpet, flugelhorn), Jon Christensen (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass)
Returnings [ ECM / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] "Danish guitarist Jakob Bro creates magical music, impossible to categorize", wrote Downbeat recently. On 'Returnings' the magic is intensified as Bro and musical soul-mate Thomas Morgan reconnect with two living legends of European jazz, trumpeter... |