Intimate
Serenity
Double CD by the Bobo Stenson Trio (Bobo Stenson piano, Anders Jormin double bass, Jon Christensen drums), recorded in April 1999 at HageGården Music Center, Brunskog, Sweden, and produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM, 2000.
At The Blue Note
Six-CD box with all six sets played by Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette at the Blue Note, New York, on 3, 4 and 5 June 1994. Produced by Manfred Eicher, engineered by Jan Erik Kongshaug; released by ECM in 1995.
Sun Bear Concerts
Six-CD box of five complete solo piano concerts by Keith Jarrett, recorded in Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo and Sapporo in November 1976, plus a disc of encores. Produced by Manfred Eicher; first issued on ten LPs in 1978.
Complete Works for Ensemble and Choir
György Kurtág's complete works for ensemble and for ensemble and choir, 1959-2011, performed by Asko|Schönberg and the Netherlands Radio Choir under Reinbert de Leeuw. Recorded 2013-2016 in Amsterdam and Haarlem. 3CD.
The First Quartet
Three albums by John Abercrombie's first quartet, with Richie Beirach (piano), George Mraz (double bass) and Peter Donald (drums): Arcade (1978) and Abercrombie Quartet (1979), recorded in Oslo, and M (1980), recorded in Ludwigsburg. Produced by Manfred Eicher. 3CD.
Liaisons - Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano
Pianist Anthony de Mare plays 37 solo piano pieces commissioned from 36 composers (Steve Reich, Wynton Marsalis, Frederic Rzewski, Fred Hersch and others), each reworking a Stephen Sondheim song. Recorded 2010-2014 in New York. 3CD.
Green In Blue - Early Quartets
3-CD box with Arild Andersen's first three ECM albums as leader, Clouds in My Head (1975), Shimri (1977) and Green Shading into Blue (1978), with Knut Riisnæs, Jon Balke, Juhani Aaltonen, Lars Jansson and Pål Thowsen, recorded in Oslo 1975-1978.
Rousilvo
Dine Doneff's Balkan-jazz folk opera on the abandoned village of Rousilvo (Xanthogeia) in northern Greece, mixing an ensemble, the Camea Quartet and archive voices. Recorded April 2004 at Agrotikon, Thessaloniki; neRED/1.
Prokofiev, Pärt, Schnittke
Duo Gazzana (Natascia Gazzana, violin; Raffaella Gazzana, piano) play Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 1 and Five Melodies, Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel and Schnittke's Gratulationsrondo. Recorded February 2025 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Libro primo
Rolf Lislevand on archlute and chitarrone in early 17th-century Italian solo music by Kapsberger, Foscarini and Gianoncelli, two Recercadas by Diego Ortiz and his own Passacaglia. Recorded 2022-2023 at Moosestudios, Evje, Norway.
Brahms / Schumann
Yuuko Shiokawa (violin) and András Schiff (piano) in Brahms's Violin Sonata No. 1, op. 78, and Schumann's Violin Sonata No. 2, op. 121. Recorded December 2015 (Brahms) and January 2019 (Schumann) at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano.
Bach / Abel / Hume
Anja Lechner's first solo cello album for ECM New Series: Bach's Cello Suites Nos. 1 and 2 framed by viola da gamba pieces by Tobias Hume and Carl Friedrich Abel, played with a Baroque bow. Recorded May 2023, Himmelfahrtskirche Sendling, Munich.
El último aliento
Hungarian guitarist Zsófia Boros plays solo classical guitar and ronroco in pieces by Mathias Duplessy and the Argentinians Joaquín Alem, Quique Sinesi, Alberto Ginastera and Carlos Moscardini. Recorded March-April 2022 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano.
Land der Arbeit
Christian Reiner reads poems and prose by Pier Paolo Pasolini in German translation, plus a poem by Wolf Wondratschek, who produced the album with Manfred Eicher. Recorded 2021-2022 at Garnison7 and Innenhofstudios, Vienna.
Mieczysław Weinberg, Giedrius Kuprevičius, Raminta Šerkšnytė, Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica, Vida Miknevičiūtė
Songs of FateGidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica and soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė play Weinberg, Kuprevičius, Šerkšnytė and Jančevskis in a programme on Jewish and Baltic heritage. Recorded July 2019 in Vilnius and live in July 2022 at Lockenhaus; produced by Manfred Eicher.
Im wachen Traume - Schumann/Reimann, Byrd/Pierini, Purcell
Schumann's Frauenliebe und Leben in Aribert Reimann's arrangement for soprano and string quartet, framed by Byrd and Purcell arranged by Stefano Pierini. Delian Quartett with Claudia Barainsky and Mikhail Timoshenko, recorded October 2021 at Abtei Marienmünster.
L'Aurore
Solo violin recital by Carolin Widmann: Hildegard von Bingen, Enescu's Fantaisie concertante, George Benjamin's Three Miniatures, Ysaÿe's Sonata No. 5 and Bach's Partita No. 2; recorded July 2021 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Kõrvits, Schumann, Grieg
Duo Gazzana (Natascia Gazzana, violin; Raffaella Gazzana, piano) play Schumann's Sonata No. 1, Grieg's Sonata No. 3 and the premiere recordings of Tõnu Kõrvits' Stalker Suite and notturni; recorded November 2021 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Éventail
French music for oboe and oboe d'amore by Ravel, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Milhaud, Koechlin, Jolivet, Messiaen and Casadesus, played by Heinz Holliger with pianist Anton Kernjak and harpist Alice Belugou; recorded October 2021 at Radiostudio Zürich.
Con Anima
Chamber music by Tigran Mansurian (1993-2015) for his 80th birthday, led by violist Kim Kashkashian and violinist Movses Pogossian with Varty Manouelian, Karen Ouzounian and others; recorded January-April 2019 at UCLA's Ostin Music Center, Los Angeles.