A composer and pianist as well, he was a prolific recording artist who integrated jazz, classical and world music traditions over six decades.
Category: ECM (Record Label)
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Arvo Pärt Reached Pop Star Status. Now He’s Ready to Rest.
Pärt’s 90th birthday has inspired celebrations, including at Carnegie Hall, even as the renowned composer has stopped writing.
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ECM New Series Reset My Expectations for Classical Music
For 40 years, ECM New Series has been a product of its founder’s vision and an indispensable part of the recording landscape.
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Carla Bley, Jazz Composer, Arranger and Provocateur, Dies at 87
Her music, which ranged from chamber miniatures to blaring fanfares, was suffused with a slyly subversive attitude.
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Meredith Monk’s ‘Indra’s Net’ Takes the Stage in Amsterdam
The staged premiere of her new work “Indra’s Net” in Amsterdam comes as a set of recordings offers a retrospective of one of our most humane artists.
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The Danish String Quartet’s ‘Prism’ Is Essential Listening
This group has wrapped its series of five albums that traced a lineage from Bach to late Beethoven to his successors into the 20th century.