Voice
44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776
First recording of all 44 Harmonies from Cage's Apartment House 1776, arranged for string quartet by Irvine Arditti and played by the Arditti Quartet, with Arditti's solo violin performance of Cheap Imitation.
Selected Recordings
ECM :rarum 11 (2004): nine pieces chosen by Egberto Gismonti from seven of his ECM albums recorded 1977-1995, solo and with Naná Vasconcelos, his Brazilian groups and the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra.
A House of Call - My Imaginary Notebook
Heiner Goebbels's cycle for large orchestra and archival voice recordings, in four parts and fifteen movements, played by the Ensemble Modern Orchestra under Vimbayi Kaziboni. Recorded September 2021 at the Prinzregententheater, Munich.
Christian Gerhaher, Juliane Banse, Ivan Ludlow, Sarah Maria Sun, Annette Schönmüller, Philharmonia Zürich, Basler Madrigalisten, Heinz Holliger
LuneaHeinz Holliger's opera Lunea on the poet Nikolaus Lenau, libretto by Händl Klaus, recorded live at Opernhaus Zürich in March 2018 with Christian Gerhaher, Juliane Banse, Sarah Maria Sun, Annette Schönmüller, Ivan Ludlow, Philharmonia Zürich and Basler Madrigalisten, Holliger conducting.
Arche
Concert recording of the premiere of Jörg Widmann's oratorio Arche, written for the opening of Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie: Kent Nagano, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Marlis Petersen, Thomas E. Bauer, Iveta Apkalna, three choirs. Recorded 13 January 2017.
Mnemosyne
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.
Kanon Pokajanen
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.
Edition Lockenhaus
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.
Spirits
Keith Jarrett alone on flutes, recorders, tablas, percussion, soprano saxophone, guitar, piano and voice, overdubbed in 26 short pieces. Recorded May to July 1985 at his Cavelight Studio, New Jersey; first released by ECM in 1986.
Travels
Pat Metheny Group (Metheny, Lyle Mays, Steve Rodby, Dan Gottlieb, Nana Vasconcelos) live in Dallas, Philadelphia, Hartford, Sacramento and Nacogdoches, July-November 1982. 2CD.
Silent Songs
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.
Hasretim - Journey to Anatolia
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.
Magnetic Works 1993-2001
Two-CD anthology compiled by Jon Balke from the Magnetic North Orchestra albums Further (1993), Solarized (1998) and Kyanos (2001), with Anders Jormin, Audun Kleive, Per Jørgensen, Arve Henriksen, Morten Halle and string players including the Cikada String Quartet.
Selected Signs III - VIII
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.
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 Codona Trilogy
3-CD box collecting Codona's three ECM albums (Codona, Codona 2, Codona 3) by Collin Walcott, Don Cherry and Naná Vasconcelos, recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, in 1978, 1980 and 1982, produced by Manfred Eicher.
In/Out
Dine Doneff's 'soundscape theater for double bass and tapes': a live solo against pre-recorded music and field recordings from Lisbon, Istanbul, Timisoara and Zurich. Recorded 1 July 2016 at the Domagk Ateliers, Munich; neRED/2.
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.
Walden
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.