Contemporary Composition / Piano

Momo Kodama plays Debussy's twelve Etudes (1915) interleaved with Toshio Hosokawa's six Etudes (2011-13); recorded in January 2016 at the Historischer Reitstadel, Neumarkt, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Fourth ECM New Series album of music by Alexander Knaifel: choral prayers, Pushkin songs and piano pieces, performed by Oleg Malov (piano), Tatiana Melentieva (soprano), Piotr Migunov (bass) and the Lege Artis Choir (Boris Abalian). Recorded 2012, Sm…

Solo piano recital by Anna Gourari: Prokofiev's complete Visions fugitives op. 22, Medtner's Fairy Tale op. 26/3 and Chopin's Sonata No. 3 op. 58, recorded in October 2013 at the Historischer Reitstadel, Neumarkt, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Argentine pianist Horacio Lavandera plays ten piano pieces written by bandoneon player Dino Saluzzi between 1960 and 2002, recorded with the composer present in October 2013 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Kate Moore's music for one, two, four and multiple pianos, all played by Saskia Lankhoorn, recorded in April 2013 at the Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Japanese pianist Momo Kodama plays Ravel's Miroirs, Takemitsu's Rain Tree Sketch (1982) and Messiaen's La fauvette des jardins (1970), recorded in September 2012 at the Historischer Reitstadel, Neumarkt.

Myung Whun Chung's first solo piano recording: ten short pieces by Debussy, Chopin, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Schumann and Mozart, recorded in July 2013 at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice.

Konstantia Gourzi's chamber music: piano pieces, two string quartets and two works for piano quintet, played by pianist Lorenda Ramou and Ensemble Coriolis. Recorded July 2012 at the Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Russian pianist Anna Gourari's ECM debut: Bach chorale preludes, the Chaconne and a prelude in transcriptions by Busoni and Siloti, with Gubaidulina's Chaconne and Hindemith's Suite 1922, recorded in May 2011 at the Reitstadel, Neumarkt.

Hungarian pianist Dénes Várjon's first solo ECM New Series album: Berg's Piano Sonata op. 1, Janáček's In the mists and Liszt's Sonata in B minor, recorded in April 2011 at the RSI Auditorio in Lugano and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Audio edition of Heiner Goebbels' music-theatre installation for five mechanised pianos, archival voices and texts after Adalbert Stifter, recorded 20-21 October 2007 at the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg.

Valery Afanassiev plays Schubert's six Moments musicaux D. 780 and the Piano Sonata in D major D. 850. Recorded September 2010 at the Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.

Robert Levin plays Henri Dutilleux's music for piano, from the 1946-48 Sonata to the three Préludes, joined by Ya-Fei Chuang in Figures de résonances for two pianos. Recorded in December 2008 at Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano, produced by Manfred E…

Alexander Lonquich plays the 1838 first edition of Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana op. 16 and Heinz Holliger's Partita (1999). Recorded November 2008 at the Auditorio Radio Svizzera, Lugano; produced by Manfred Eicher.

Till Fellner plays Bach's two-part Inventions, three-part Sinfonias and French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816, on piano; recorded in July 2007 at the Mozartsaal, Wiener Konzerthaus, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Valentin Silvestrov plays his piano Bagatellen; Alexei Lubimov, the Münchener Kammerorchester and Christoph Poppen play his works for strings and for strings and piano. Recorded February 2006 at the Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich.

András Schiff plays the encores from his live Beethoven sonata cycle at the Tonhalle Zürich (2004-2006): Schubert, Mozart, Haydn, Bach and Beethoven's Andante favori. Released 2016.

András Schiff plays Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Opp. 26, 27 Nos. 1 and 2 ("Moonlight") and 28 ("Pastorale"), recorded live at the Tonhalle Zürich in April 2005. Volume IV of his ECM cycle.

Herbert Henck plays the surviving piano music of Johann Ludwig Trepulka (Klavierstücke op. 2) and Norbert von Hannenheim (Sonatas Nos. 2, 4, 6, 12 and a concerto fragment). Recorded April 2005 at the Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt am Main.

Valentin Silvestrov's Metamusik (1992) and Postludium (1984) for piano and orchestra, played by Alexei Lubimov with the Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien under Dennis Russell Davies, recorded at the ORF Studio, Vienna, in April 2001.