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András Schiff plays Schubert’s Four Impromptus D 899, Three Pieces D 946 and Sonatas D 958 and D 959 on a Franz Brodmann fortepiano (Vienna, c. 1820). Recorded July 2016 at the Beethoven-Haus, Bonn.

Swiss cellist Thomas Demenga’s second recording of Bach’s six cello suites BWV 1007-1012, played with gut strings and a Baroque bow. Recorded February 2014 at the Hans Huber-Saal, Basel; released 2017.

Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica, with Daniil Trifonov, Daniil Grishin and Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, in Weinberg's Violin Sonata No. 3, Trio Op. 48, Sonatina Op. 46, Concertino Op. 42 and Symphony No. 10. Recorded 2012-2013 in Neuhardenberg and Lockenhaus.

András Schiff plays Beethoven's Diabelli Variations twice: with the Sonata Op. 111 on a 1921 Bechstein (Lugano) and with the Bagatelles Op. 126 on a Brodmann fortepiano of c. 1820 (Beethoven-Haus, Bonn). Recorded July and December 2012.

Michelle Makarski (violin) and Keith Jarrett (piano) in Bach's six sonatas for violin and keyboard, BWV 1014-1019. Recorded November 2010 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.

Lisa Smirnova plays Händel's eight Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin of 1720 (HWV 426-433) on modern piano. Recorded June 2007 to February 2009 at Schloss Goldegg, Austria.

Zehetmair Quartett in string quartets by Beethoven (Op. 135), Bruckner (C minor), Holliger (No. 2), recorded Zürich 2010, and Hartmann (No. 2), recorded 2002 with cellist Françoise Groben.

András Schiff plays Bach's six keyboard Partitas, BWV 825-830, on two CDs, in his own order (5, 3, 1, 2, 4, 6). Recorded live on 21 September 2007 at the Historischer Reitstadel, Neumarkt; produced by Manfred Eicher.

Bach's complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, BWV 1001-1006, played by Gidon Kremer on two CDs. Partitas recorded September 2001 at the Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus, Lockenhaus; sonatas recorded March 2002 in Riga.

Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (24 preludes and fugues, BWV 846-869) played by Austrian pianist Till Fellner on two CDs, his ECM debut. Recorded September-October 2002 at the Jugendstiltheater, Vienna; produced by Manfred Eicher.

Elliott Carter's Oboe Quartet and solo pieces, and Isang Yun's Piri and Quartet for oboe and string trio, played by Heinz Holliger, Thomas Zehetmair, Ruth Killius and Thomas Demenga. Recorded 2001-2002 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.

Herbert Henck plays John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano and his own improvised Festeburger Fantasien (two series), recorded at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt, in August 1993 and August 2000.

András Schiff (piano) and Miklós Perényi (cello) play Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano: five sonatas, the Op. 17 sonata and three sets of variations. Recorded December 2001 and August 2002, Reitstadel, Neumarkt.

Thomas Demenga (cello) plays Bach's Cello Suites Nos. 5 and 6 between chamber works by Toshio Hosokawa and Isang Yun, with Teodoro Anzellotti, Asako Urushihara, Hansheinz Schneeberger, Thomas Larcher, Aurèle Nicolet and Heinz Holliger. Recorded 1985-2000.

Double album by Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones) and The Hilliard Ensemble: early, ancient Greek and folk vocal music with improvisation, recorded April 1998 at Propstei St. Gerold, Austria, produced by Manfred Eicher.

András Schiff and Peter Serkin, two pianos, in Mozart's Fugue K. 426 and Sonata K. 448, Reger's Beethoven Variations Op. 86 and Busoni's Fantasia contrappuntistica. Recorded November 1997 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. Two CDs.

Arvo Pärt's Kanon Pokajanen, a complete a cappella setting of the Orthodox Canon of Repentance in Church Slavonic, sung by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under Tõnu Kaljuste. Recorded June 1997, Niguliste Church, Tallinn. Two CDs.

Five-CD box for the 30th anniversary of Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus festival: Kremerata Baltica under Simon Rattle (Strauss, 2001) and Roman Kofman (Messiaen, 2008), plus Edition Lockenhaus Vols. 1/2 and 4/5, recorded at Lockenhaus 1981-86. ECM New Series 2190-94.

Keith Jarrett plays Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book I (BWV 846-869) in concert at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, New York, on 7 March 1987. Archival recording first released in 2019.

Valentin Silvestrov's song cycle Silent Songs (1974-77) and Four Songs after Osip Mandelstam, sung by baritone Sergey Yakovenko with Ilya Scheps and the composer at the piano. Recorded in Moscow in 1986, released 2004.

Live recording of András Schiff's Schumann recital at the Tonhalle Zürich on 30 May 1999: Humoreske op. 20, Noveletten op. 21, Sonata in F minor op. 14 and Nachtstück op. 23 no. 4. Produced by Manfred Eicher.

Marc Sinan's Hasretim for mixed ensemble and Anatolian field recordings: a live CD with the Dresdner Sinfoniker (Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, July 2011) and a DVD of the 2010 Hellerau premiere plus the field recordings made in Anatolia in 2010.

Six-CD anthology compiled by Manfred Eicher and Steve Lake for the exhibition ECM: A Cultural Archaeology (Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2012-13): recordings from 1961 to 2012 by Steve Reich, Arvo Pärt, Eleni Karaindrou, Old and New Dreams and many others.

Beethoven's five piano concertos in order of composition, with Alexander Lonquich as soloist and director of the Münchener Kammerorchester (concertmaster Daniel Giglberger). Recorded January 2022 at the Rathausprunksaal, Landshut. 3CD.

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.

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.

An expanded version of the previous rz LP by Jani Christou. All works by Christou, the late, legendary "freely-atonal" Greek composer. Features: "Enantiodromia" (1965-68, for orchestra); "Praxis" (1966-69, for string orchestra and piano), "Epicycle" (1968, for instruments, actors and voices); "Anaparastasis III" (1968-69, for soloist, ensemble and continuum [tapes]); "Mysterion" (1965-66, for narrator, actors, 3 choirs, orchestra and tapes)"Jani Christou tried to use and incorporate philosophica…

Complete Mozart piano sonatas, with three fragments completed by Robert Levin, played by Levin on Mozart's own Anton Walter fortepiano (c. 1782). Recorded February 2017 and February 2018 in the Great Hall of the Mozarteum, Salzburg. 7 CDs.

Heiner Goebbels' Walden (1998) for expanded orchestra and speaker, after Thoreau. Ensemble Modern Orchestra conducted by Peter Eötvös, with Bob Rutman as speaker, singer and on steel cello and bow chimes. Recorded live in November 1998 in Cologne and Frankfurt.

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.

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.

Wu Wei (sheng), Martin Stegner (viola) and Janne Saksala (double bass) play Monteverdi, Bach organ trio sonatas, Vivaldi's La Follia and a Norwegian bridal march. Recorded October 2022 at Teldex Studio, Berlin.

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.

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.

Jakob Ullmann's music realizes an infinite variety of gradations in all areas of musical formation. That the music of the "catalogue" is nearly always played very softly leads to the ear noticing the smallest differentiations; the listener is put into a state of constant, acute attentiveness. The musical stream is constantly subjected to small irritations, sometimes its flow quickens, sometimes there are brief splashes like those caused by pebbles thrown into water. Performers: Ensemble Oriol Be…

Samuel Beckett's last prose work, read by Paul Griffiths, with Trevor Bača's score for narrator and string quartet (2016-18) played by the JACK Quartet. Recorded May 2023 and September 2024 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano; produced by Manfred Eicher.

Choral and orchestral works by Veljo Tormis, including the four Reminiscentiae seasonal cycles for strings and The Tower Bell in My Village, by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra under Tõnu Kaljuste. Recorded autumn 2020, Methodist Church, Tallinn.

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.

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.

Vox Clamantis conducted by Jaan-Eik Tulve sing liturgical choral works by Norwegian composer Henrik Ødegaard, chief among them the eight-part Meditations over St. Mary Magdalene's Feast in Nidaros, with Gregorian chant. Recorded March 2021 at St. Nicholas Dome Church, Haapsalu.