ECM Records

25/07/2025

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Signum Quartett's new album A Dark Flaring - Works for String Quartet from South Africa

Listen to and order the album here: https://ecm.lnk.to/ADarkFlaring

A Dark Flaring marks the Signum Quartett’s impressive return to ECM’s New Series after debuting for the label with striking performances on Erkki-Sven Tüür’s acclaimed chamber music recording Lost Prayers (2020). Here, the quartet has put together a unique programme dedicated to six South African composers, born in the 20th century, whose works for string quartet are united by the way they blend respect for the past with an instinct for the future in a wide-flungidiomatic scope. Whether writing at home or abroad, all six composers reflect their country’s complex and troubled history through music which is strikingly original.

23/07/2025

Sir András Schiff will be honoured with Japan’s "Praemium Imperiale" prize this year. The prestigious decoration is awarded in the categories of painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and theater/film.

This year’s laureates “all share a love of ‘making’ – whereby concept and craft come together to create artistry of the highest order”, according to the announcement.

The close collaboration between ECM, Manfred Eicher and Sir András Schiff goes back over 25 years, creating a discography that includes some of the most significant recordings of works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann and many more.

Schiff’s live recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations will be released as a 2-LP vinyl edition for the very first time this autumn.

22/07/2025

Signed vinyl-editions of Joe Lovano and the Marcin Wasilewski Trio´s new ECM recording "Homage" are available now exclusively on the JazzEcho website: https://tinyurl.com/jazzecho

Joe Lovano and his Polish conspirators from the Marcin Wasilewski Trio are endowed with an especially adventurous spirit on their second joint endeavour for ECM. Building on the lyrical strengths that inhabited the group’s previous recording (“Arctic Riff”, 2020), on Homage the quartet moreover investigates the type of free-flowing interplay and expansive passages of improvisation that have become a staple in Lovano’s ventures with his Trio Tapestry.

21/07/2025

"I was like an upbeat suspended in the air, waiting for the phrase to start" (Arvo Pärt)

“Alina” was recorded 30 years ago this July.

Read more about the recording here: https://ecmrecords.com/arvo-part-alina-30th-anniversary/

15/07/2025

Discover the story behind Chick Corea’s last track “The Visitors”, through the words of legendary musicians Gary Burton and Kirill Gerstein, in conversation with BBC music critic Oliver Condy.
An Apple Music exclusive content.

Link: https://music.apple.com/us/album/chick-coreas-the-visitors-live-ep/1822296139

Chick Corea Gary Burton Kirill Gerstein

14/07/2025

Arvo Pärt - Alina

30th anniversary of the recording

"I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener" (Arvo Pärt)

14/07/2025

In the 55th episode of the ECM podcast we're joined by pianist and composer Fred Hersch, whose new trio date "The Surrounding Green" was produced by Manfred Eicher.

Fred talks about nature, mental health, the art of the trio and more.

Listen here: https://ecm.lnk.to/Podcast

Fred Hersch

13/07/2025

++ OUT NOW ++

Bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi’s new album “El Viejo Caminante” is out now on CD and digitally: https://ecm.lnk.to/ElViejoCaminante

"If heavenly gifts exist, then El VIejo Caminante might be one of them." - Junge Welt

Two guitars gently envelop the uniquely evocative bandoneon of Dino Saluzzi on El Viejo Caminante, (‘The Old Wanderer’). Here, the Argentinean father and son team of Dino and José María Saluzzi are joined by Norway’s Jacob Young, in an album of musical depth and great charm. “It fills me with joy”, says Dino Saluzzi, delighting in this recording’s sonic blend, with José on classical guitar and Jacob on Telecaster and acoustic steel-string guitar. “Jacob and José are very good together. They have different sounds, different visions, but when it comes to the artistic output there is something beautiful happening.”

11/07/2025

++ NEW RELEASE ++

Bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi’s new album “El Viejo Caminante” is out now on CD and digitally: https://ecm.lnk.to/ElViejoCaminante

"If heavenly gifts exist, then El VIejo Caminante might be one of them." – Junge Welt

Two guitars gently envelop the uniquely evocative bandoneon of Dino Saluzzi on El Viejo Caminante, (‘The Old Wanderer’). Here, the Argentinean father and son team of Dino and José María Saluzzi are joined by Norway’s Jacob Young, in an album of musical depth and great charm. “It fills me with joy”, says Dino Saluzzi, delighting in this recording’s sonic blend, with José on classical guitar and Jacob on Telecaster and acoustic steel-string guitar. “Jacob and José are very good together. They have different sounds, different visions, but when it comes to the artistic output there is something beautiful happening.”

08/07/2025

Fred Hersch´s new album “The Surrounding Green” as reviewed by French magazine Télérama

Order and listen to the album here: https://ecm.lnk.to/SurroundingGreenIB

Fred Hersch

05/07/2025

“Grown Jazz” on TIDAL, surrounded by Fred Hersch’s ,The Surrounding Green‘:

Playlist - Grown Jazz - 50 items