Gidon Kremer - Edition Lockenhaus | ECM New Series 4764509

Gidon Kremer - Edition Lockenhaus

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Label: ECM New Series

Cat No: 4764509

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 5

Release Date: 8th April 2022

Contents

Artists

Gidon Kremer
Julius Berger
Eduard Brunner
Khatia Buniatishvili
Gerard Causse
Thomas Demenga
David Geringas
Irena Grafenauer
Hagen Quartet
Philip Hirschhorn
Heinz Holliger
Kim Kashkashian
Aloys Kontarsky
Robert Levin
Oleg Maisenberg
Boris Pergamenschikov
Alexander Rabinovich
James Tocco
Thomas Zehetmair
Tabea Zimmermann
Kremerata Baltica

Conductors

Roman Kofman
Simon Rattle

Works

Caplet, Andre

Conte fantastique

Franck, Cesar

Piano Quintet in F minor, FWV7

Janacek, Leos

String Quartet no.1 'The Kreutzer Sonata'

Messiaen, Olivier

Petites liturgies de la Presence Divine (3)

Poulenc, Francis

Fleurs
Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant

Schulhoff, Erwin

Duo for violin and cello
String Sextet

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Maxim trilogy: Suite, op.50a (excerpts)
Pieces (2) for string octet, op.11
String Quartet no.13 in B flat minor, op.138 (Adagio)
String Quartet no.14 in F sharp minor, op.142
The Gadfly, op.97
» Barrel Organ Waltz
» Romance

Strauss, Richard

Metamorphosen

Stravinsky, Igor

The Soldier's Tale (L'Histoire du Soldat)
» Dances (3)

Artists

Gidon Kremer
Julius Berger
Eduard Brunner
Khatia Buniatishvili
Gerard Causse
Thomas Demenga
David Geringas
Irena Grafenauer
Hagen Quartet
Philip Hirschhorn
Heinz Holliger
Kim Kashkashian
Aloys Kontarsky
Robert Levin
Oleg Maisenberg
Boris Pergamenschikov
Alexander Rabinovich
James Tocco
Thomas Zehetmair
Tabea Zimmermann
Kremerata Baltica

Conductors

Roman Kofman
Simon Rattle

About

To coincide with the 30th anniversary of Gidon Kremer’s Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival in Austria, ECM releases a 5-CD box set of recordings from 1981-2008. Out-of-print material reappears here, joined by never-before-released recordings of Richard Strauss (conducted by Simon Rattle) and Messiaen.

Edition Lockenhaus is the first New Series release in ECM’s Old & New Masters range, produced as a specially-priced limited edition, with 60-page booklet. It includes recordings from 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985 and 1986 – previously issued as Edition Lockenhaus Volumes 1/2 and 4/5 (ECM 1304/05 and 1347/48). These have been long unavailable on CD and LP, and are eagerly sought-after by Kremer aficionados.

Lockenhaus has been, above all, a young musicians’ festival and some of the very greatest have appeared there, alongside Gidon Kremer, early in their careers – including players strongly associated with ECM: Kim Kashkashian, Thomas Zehetmair, Thomas Demenga, Robert Levin, Heinz Holliger and more.

The edition opens with unreleased recordings – from 2001 and 2008 – with Sir Simon Rattle and Roman Kofman conducting Kremerata Baltica in revelatory performances of Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen and Olivier Messiaen’s Trois petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine. The committed interpretations convey the spirit of Lockenhaus (Kremer himself has described Rattle’s conducting of Richard Strauss’s music as “unforgettable”).
 
Discs two to five focus on music by César Franck, André Caplet, Francis Poulenc, Leos Janácek, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich and Erwin Schulhoff.

Contents:
CD 1:
Richard Strauss
- Metamorphosen (1945): Studie für dreiundzwanzig Solostreicher
Kremerata Baltica / Sir Simon Rattle  

Olivier Messiaen
- Trois Petites Liturgies De La Présence Divine (1943): Antienne De La Conversation / Séquence du verbe, Cantique divin / Psalmodie de l’ubiquité par amour
Shedryk Children’s Choir, Kiev
Kremerata Baltica / Sir Simon Rattle 

CD 2:
César Franck
- Piano Quintet in F Minor (1878/79) for Piano, 2 Violins, Viola and Violoncello
Alexandre Rabinovitch (piano), Lukas Hagen (violin), Krista Bennion Feeney (violin), Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Clemens Hagen (cello)

André Caplet
- “Conte Fantastique” (1919) after Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque Of The Red Death”
Ursula Holliger (harp), Daniel Phillips (violin), Michael Schnitzler (violin), Gérard Caussé (viola), Ko Iwasaki (cello)

Francis Poulenc
- Two Songs (1939) from “Fiançailles Pour Rire” (on Poems By Louise De Vilmorin): Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant / Fleurs
Christine Whittlesey (soprano), Robert Levin (piano)

CD 3:
Leoš Janácek
- String Quartet No.1 (1923) after Leo Tolstoi’s “Kreutzer Sonata”
Hagen Quartett

Igor Stravinsky
- Tango – Valse – Ragtime (1918) from “L’Histoire du Soldat”
Gidon Kremer (violin), Eduard Brunner (clarinet), Aloys Kontarsky (piano)

- Concerto en Ré (1931)

Kammerorchester der Jungen Deutschen Philharmonie / Heinz Holliger

Dmitri Shostakovich
- Waltz (1961) from “Maxim Film Trilogy” Suite Op.50a, for flute, clarinet and piano
- Barrel-Organ Waltz (1931) from “The Gadfly” Op.97a, for flute, clarinet and piano
Irena Grafenauer (flute), Eduard Brunner (clarinet), Oleg Maisenberg (piano)

- Two Pieces for String Octet Op.11 (1924/25)
Lukas Hagen (violin), Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Annette Bik (violin), Daniel Phillips (violin), Veronika Hagen (viola), Hatto Beyerle (viola), Clemens Hagen (cello), Markus Stocker (cello)

CD 4:
Dmitri Shostakovich
- String Quartet No.14, Op.142 (1973)
Gidon Kremer (violin), Yuzuko Horigome (violin), Kim Kashkashian (viola), David Geringas (cello)

- String Quartet No.13, Op.138 (1970)

Gidon Kremer (violin), Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Nobuko Imai (viola), Boris Pergamentschikow (cello)

- Adagio (1930-34)

- Allegretto (1929-30)
Gidon Kremer (violin), Annette Bik (violin), Veronika Hagen (viola), Thomas Demenga (cello)

CD 5:
Erwin Schulhoff
- Sextet Op.45 (1924)
Gidon Kremer (violin), Philip Hirschhorn (violin), Nobuko Imai (viola), Kim Kashkashian (viola), David Geringas (cello), Julius Berger (cello)

- Duo For Violin and Cello (1925)

Philip Hirschhorn (violin), David Geringas (cello)

- Cinq Études De Jazz Op.58 (1926): Charleston, Blues, Chanson, Tango, Toccata Sur Le Shimmy “Kitten on the Keys”
James Tocco (piano)

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