FRIEDRICH CERHA / FRANZ SCHREKER

As Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich points out in his liner notes, Friedrich Cerha (born 1926 in Vienna) is a musician who has stood above the “sch...

ELENI KARAINDROU Tous des oiseaux

Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou’s entrancing new album draws upon music created for two special projects: Tous des oiseaux , a play by Leban...

Danish String Quartet PRISM I

For its third ECM release, the Danish String Quartet – hailed by the Washington Post as “one of the best quartets before the public today” ...

Dénes Várjon DE LA NUIT

“Negotiating dynamic shifts of emphasis,” The Independent has noted, “Dénes Várjon displays that most valuable of gifts: the ability to p...

Juliane Banse / András Schiff SONGS OF DEBUSSY AND MOZART

One of the recurrent highlights of András Schiff’s chamber music series at the Mondsee Festival over the last decade has been his duet per...

Rolf Lislevand DIMINUITO

Rolf Lislevand lutes, vihuela de mano; Linn Andrea Fuglseth voice; Anna Maria Friman voice; Giovanna Pessi tripleharp; Marco Ambrosini nycke...

Anna Gourari VISIONS FUGITIVES

Pianist Anna Gourari’s ECM debut – 2012’s Canto Oscuro , an album that channels the Baroque and its spirit reflecting darkly through the age...

András Schiff BEETHOVEN Sonatas opp. 109, 110 and 111

When I'm so deeply absorbed in a composer, as I have been with Beethoven, then I physically and mentally begin to feel like him. Beet...

Trio Mediaeval AQUILONIS

Trio Mediaeval offers a collection of music from the medieval to the modern with the group’s sixth ECM New Series release, Aquilonis , titl...

András Schiff BEETHOVEN Sonatas opp. 90, 101 and 106

Three years after the release of the first volume, András Schiff‘s highly acclaimed Beethoven cycle is now complete. In his afterword to t...

András Schiff BEETHOVEN Sonatas opp. 54, 57, 78, 79 and 81a

András Schiff’s Beethoven cycle, recorded live in chronological order at Tonhalle Zurich, continues to collect critical praise as it moves ...

András Schiff BEETHOVEN Sonatas opp. 31 and 53

When András Schiff performed the “Waldstein sonata” in New York’s Avery Fisher Hall in November 2005, Jeremy Eichler, writing in the New Y...

Carmina Quartett / Æquatuor / Aria Quartett ALFRED ZIMMERLIN Euridice

“Alfred Zimmerlin is interested in the heterogeneity of musical phenomena, in temporal layers within the present, in ‘cultural memory’. Hi...

András Schiff BEETHOVEN Sonatas opp. 26, 27 and 28

 The first three instalments of András Schiff’s Beethoven cycle in chronological order have met with great critical acclaim. “This will be ...

The Hilliard Ensemble TRANSEAMUS

Having recorded more than 20 albums for ECM since the mid-’80s, the Hilliard Ensemble caps its sublime discography before retirement with a...

András Schiff BEETHOVEN Sonatas opp. 14, 22 and 49

International critics writing on the first two volumes of András Schiff’s Beethoven cycle have praised a particularly “sharp attention to ...

András Schiff BEETHOVEN Sonatas opp. 10 and 13

International press reactions to the first volume of Schiff’s Beethoven cycle released in October 2005 were unanimous in their praise and ...

András Schiff BEETHOVEN Sonatas opp. 2 and 7

ECM now presents Schiff’s long awaited first cycle of the complete 32 sonatas. The pianist opted for live-recordings. The concert situation...

András Schiff BEETHOVEN Diabelli-Variationen

The Diabelli Variations have long been considered a magnum opus in Beethoven's piano music and a towering historical contribution to t...

Kim Kashkashian / Robert Levin / Robyn Schulkowsky DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH - PAUL CHIHARA - LINDA BOUCHARD

 Kim Kashkashian’s third disc for ECM is a curiously mixed bag. Although the liner notes give some delightful anecdotes and insider’s info...