Cello
All records with cello · Solo cello only
Helena Tulve, Arianna Savall, Emmanuelle Ophèle-Gaubert, Mihkel Peäske, NYYD Ensemble, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Silesian String Quartet, Olari Elts
LijnenFirst ECM album of the Estonian composer Helena Tulve: six chamber works (1997-2004) played by the NYYD Ensemble under Olari Elts, Arianna Savall, the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet and the Silesian String Quartet, recorded in Tallinn between 1997 and 2006.
D'Amore
Garth Knox on viola d'amore, with cellist Agnès Vesterman, in music by Hume, Marais, Ariosti, Klaus Huber, Roland Moser, Knox himself and Celtic traditional tunes. Recorded September 2006 at Propstei St. Gerold.
Erkki-Sven Tüür, Pedro Carneiro, Leho Karin, Marrit Gerretz-Traksmann, Vox Clamantis, NYYD Ensemble, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Olari Elts
OxymoronFour works by Erkki-Sven Tüür (1990-2005): Salve Regina, the marimba concerto Ardor with Pedro Carneiro, Dedication and Oxymoron, with Vox Clamantis, NYYD Ensemble and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra under Olari Elts. Recorded in Tallinn, 2003 and 2006.
Chonguri
Encores and short pieces from Bach, Chopin, Fauré, Liszt and Webern to Tsintsadze and Demenga himself, played by cellist Thomas Demenga with Thomas Larcher (piano) and Teodoro Anzellotti (accordion). Recorded August 2004 in Sandhausen.
Gurdjieff & Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns & Dances
Anja Lechner (cello) and Vassilis Tsabropoulos (piano) play music by G.I. Gurdjieff arranged for their duo, with Tsabropoulos's own pieces after Byzantine hymns. Recorded December 2003 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Friedrich Cerha / Franz Schreker
Friedrich Cerha's Cello Concerto (1989/1996), with its dedicatee Heinrich Schiff as soloist, and Franz Schreker's Chamber Symphony (1916), played by the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra under Peter Eötvös. Recorded September 2003 in Hilversum.
there is still time
Seventeen scenes for speaking voice and cello: Paul Griffiths reads his poems drawn from Ophelia's words in Hamlet, Frances-Marie Uitti plays her own music. Recorded August 2003 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Saariaho, Cage, Maderna
String quartets by Kaija Saariaho (Nymphéa, with live electronics), John Cage and Bruno Maderna played by the Cikada String Quartet, recorded in August 2001 at Sofienberg Church, Oslo, and released by ECM New Series in 2005.
Looking on Darkness
Debut solo album by Norwegian accordionist Frode Haltli: Nordic works by Sørensen, Lindborg, Ratkje (with the Vertavo String Quartet), Lindberg and Schaathun, recorded in August 2001 at Sofienberg Kirke, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Robert Schumann
Schumann's String Quartets No. 1 in A minor and No. 3 in A major, Op. 41, played by the Zehetmair Quartett (Thomas Zehetmair, Matthias Metzger, Ruth Killius, Françoise Groben), recorded at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich, in July and August 2001.
Odradek
Premiere recordings of three works by Israeli composer Gideon Lewensohn: the Piano Quintet and Odradek Quartet played by the Auryn Quartett and Alexander Lonquich (Zürich, February 2001), and the Postlude for piano, also heard played by Ora Rotem Nelken (Jerusalem, 1997).
Eislermaterial
Heiner Goebbels's homage to Hanns Eisler, built from Eisler's songs, instrumental music and recorded voice, performed by Ensemble Modern with actor Josef Bierbichler, recorded live at the Hebbel-Theater, Berlin, in October 1998.
Anja Lechner, Silke Avenhaus, Maacha Deubner, Simon Fordham, Valentin Silvestrov, Rosamunde Quartett
leggiero, pesanteChamber music by Valentin Silvestrov (1974-2001) played by Anja Lechner, Silke Avenhaus, Maacha Deubner, Simon Fordham and the Rosamunde Quartett, with the composer at the piano; recorded January 2001 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt.
Sofia Gubaidulina, Elsbeth Moser, Boris Pergamenschikow, Münchener Kammerorchester, Christoph Poppen
Sofia GubaidulinaSofia Gubaidulina's Seven Words, Ten Preludes and De Profundis, played by Elsbeth Moser (bayan), Boris Pergamenschikow (cello) and the Münchener Kammerorchester under Christoph Poppen; recorded January 2001 in Munich.
Scardanelli
German-language audio book from Harald Bergmann's 2000 film on Hölderlin's last 36 years in Tübingen: poems read by Walter Schmidinger, testimony voiced by actors, music by Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Peter Schneider. Recorded 1997-1998.
The Seven Words
Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross in its string quartet version, played by the Rosamunde Quartett (Reiner, Fordham, Nicolai, Lechner). Recorded May 2000 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt am Main.
Alexander Knaifel, Mstislav Rostropovich, Tatiana Melentieva, Boy Choir Glinka Choral College, State Hermitage Orchestra, Arkady Shteinlukht
Amicta SoleAlexander Knaifel's Psalm 51 (50) for solo cello, played by Mstislav Rostropovich (St. Gerold, 2001), and Amicta Sole for soprano Tatiana Melentieva, Glinka Choral College boys and State Hermitage Orchestra under Arkady Shteinlukht (St. Petersburg, 2000).
Signs, Games and Messages - Friedrich Hölderlin / Samuel Beckett
Three cycles by György Kurtág: Hölderlin-Gesänge op. 35a and ...pas à pas – nulle part... op. 36 sung by baritone Kurt Widmer, and Signs, Games and Messages for strings, with the Orlando Trio and Mircea Ardeleanu. Recorded 2002 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.
Kultrum
Eight pieces by Dino Saluzzi for bandoneon and string quartet, played by Saluzzi with the Rosamunde Quartett (Andreas Reiner, Simon Fordham, Helmut Nicolai, Anja Lechner), recorded in March 1998 at Propstei St. Gerold and produced by Manfred Eicher.
J.S. Bach / B.A. Zimmermann
Thomas Demenga's fourth ECM New Series pairing of Bach and the 20th century: Bach's Cello Suite No. 2, BWV 1008, with Bernd Alois Zimmermann's solo sonatas for violin (Thomas Zehetmair), viola (Christoph Schiller) and cello, recorded in 1995 in Sandhausen.