Gidon Kremer – Edition Lockenhaus (Box Set)

Contents

Strauss, R: Metamorphosen /Gidon Kremer (violin), Kremerata Baltica, Sir Simon Rattle

Messiaen: 3 Petites liturgies de la Presence Divine

1. Antienne de la conversation intérieure

2. Séquence du verbe, cantique divin

3. Psalmodie de l’ubiquité par amour

Igor Krasovsky (percussion), Dmytro Marchenko (percussion), Markus Bellheim (piano), Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Christine Rohan (ondes martenot), Khatia Buniatishvili (celesta), Kremerata Baltica, Shedryk Children’s Choir, Kiev – Roman Kofman

Franck, C: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 14

Alexandre Rabinovitch (piano), Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Clemens Hagen (cello), Krista Bennion Feeney (violin), Lukas Hagen (violin)

Caplet: Conte fantastique

Ursula Holliger (harp), Gerard Causse (viola), Ko Iwasaki (cello), Michael Schnitzler (violin), Daniel Phillips (violin)

Poulenc: Fiançailles pour rire, FP101 /Christine Whittlesey (soprano), Robert Levin (piano)

No. 4. Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant

No. 6. Fleurs

Janáček: String Quartet No. 1 ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’

Lukas Hagen (violin), Veronika Hagen (viola), Clemens Hagen (cello), Annette Bik (violin)

Stravinsky: L’Histoire du soldat – Concert suite / Part 2 – Three Dances (Tango-Waltz-Ragtime)

Gidon Kremer (violin), Aloys Kontarsky (piano), Eduard Brunner (clarinet)

Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D: Vivace – Arioso. Andantino – Rondo. Allegro

Kammerorchester der jungen deutschen Philharmonie, Heinz Holliger

Shostakovich: Four Waltzes For Flute, Clarinet And Piano, Op. 97c

No. 3 Waltz – Tempo di Valse Flute

No. 4 Waltz Charmaine – Allegretto

Irena Grafenauer (flute), Eduard Brunner (clarinet), Oleg Maisenberg (piano)

Shostakovich: Two pieces for string octet, Op. 11: 1. Prelude – Adagio 2. Scherzo – Allegro molto

Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Clemens Hagen (cello), Markus Stocker (cello), Veronika Hagen (viola), Hatto Beyerle (viola), Daniel Phillips (violin), Lukas Hagen (violin), Annette Bik (violin)

Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 14 in F sharp major, Op. 142

Gidon Kremer (violin), David Geringas (cello), Kim Kashkashian (viola), Yuzuko Horigome (violin)

Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 138: 1. Adagio – Doppio movimento – Tempo primo

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

Shostakovich: Two Movements For String Quartet: Adagio – Allegretto

Gidon Kremer (violin), Thomas Demenga (cello), Veronika Hagen (viola), Annette Bik (violin)

Schulhoff: String Sextet

David Geringas (cello), Gidon Kremer (violin), Kim Kashkashian (viola), Julius Berger (cello), Nobuko Imai (viola), Philip Hirschhorn (violin)

Schulhoff: Duo for violin & cello – 1-4. Moderato – Zingaresca – Andantino – Moderato

Philip Hirschhorn (violin), David Geringas (cello)

Schulhoff: Cinq études de jazz, WV 81: 1-5. Charleston – Blues – Chanson – Tango – Toccata sur le Shimmy “Kitten On The Keys”

James Tocco (piano)

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 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.