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ECM's New Series at 40
13th Jan 2025
To mark the pioneering series's recent fortieth birthday, Ben Hogwood selects some landmarks from the catalogue - including recordings of music by Arvo Pärt, Alfred Schnittke, Steve Reich and György Kurtág.
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Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa
Gidon Kremer (violin), Tatjana Grindenko (violin), Alfred Schnitte (prepared piano), Keith Jarrett (piano), 12 cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Saulus Sondeskis, Dennis Russell Davis
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Gregorian chant-inspired contemporary choral music by Henrik Ødegaard
20th Jun 2023
The Norwegian composer talks about his new album of choral works, performed by Vox Clamantis with Jaan-Eik Tulve.
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Music By Henrik Ødegaard
Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve
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Well-tempered Bach on the clavichord from András Schiff
27th Jan 2023
An oft-neglected early keyboard instrument finally gets its moment in the sun in an intimate programme of Bach that plays to its strengths, built around the two-part and three-part inventions.
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J.S. Bach: Clavichord
András Schiff (clavichord)
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Weinberg solo violin sonatas from Gidon Kremer
18th Feb 2022
The Latvian violinist celebrates his 75th birthday with impassioned recordings of Weinberg's three sonatas for solo violin.
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Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Sonatas For Violin Solo
Gidon Kremer (violin)
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András Schiff performs piano concertos by Brahms
4th Jun 2021
The Hungarian-born pianist is joined by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a recording of Brahms's two piano concertos that strips away performance traditions to present refreshingly original accounts of both works, full of detail and character.
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Sir András Schiff on Schubert
7th May 2019
The Hungarian-born British pianist talks to Katherine about late Schubert, and ‘falling in love at first sight’ with the Brodmann fortepiano which he plays on his recent recordings of sonatas and impromptus on ECM.
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András Schiff plays late Schubert
12th Apr 2019
The Hungarian-born pianist brings introspective poetry to two late sonatas, the Four Impromptus D899 and the Drei Klavierstücke D946, recorded on his Franz Brodmann fortepiano from 1820.
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Wispelwey and Schiff re-visit Bach
17th Dec 2012
For his third recording of the Suites, the Dutch cellist tunes his instrument down by a whole tone to the pitch which was commonly used in Cöthen where Bach composed the works, whilst Schiff’s second take on The Well-Tempered Clavier is more direct and less sentimental than its predecessor.
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Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel
4th Feb 2008
In response to its frequent use in television and film, Chris ponders the Estonian composer’s 1978 composition ‘mirror/s in the mirror’ and alights upon a favourite recording.
