Release Date: 19 December 2008
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 028947672913
Genres: Classical
Description
Gidon Kremer’s return to J. S. Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas is a major event. Kremer’s first recording of these works was released almost a quarter of a century ago, and in the past few years the only solo piece of Bach’s which he has performed with any regularity has been the “Chaconne�. In 2001/2002 however, he once again took the greatest challenge for any violinist, Bach’s magnificent “Sei Solo�, in Kremer’s words the “Himalayas� of violin music. The recordings were made in locations closely linked with Kremer’s biography: the Sonatas were recorded in the Reformation Church of his birthplace, Riga, while the Partitas were realized in the Pfarrkirche at Lockenhaus, Austria, where he has held his famous annual chamber music festival since 1981.
Tracklisting
Various artists
Yuval Cohen Quartet
Thomas Stronen; Craig Taborn; Chris Potter; Sinikka Langeland; Jorge Rossy
Stephan Micus
Rainer Bruninghaus
Paul Bley
Mathias Eick; Kristjan Randalu; Ole Morten Vagan; Hans Hulbaekmo
Julia Hulsmann Quartet
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Vida Mikneviciute
Gidon Kremer, Keith Jarrett, & Dennis Russell Davies
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica, Simon Rattle etc.
Gidon Kremer, Giedre Dirvanauskaite & Khatia Buniatishvili
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Roman Kofman
Gidon Kremer, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Kremerata Baltica
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica, Kremerata Lettonica
Gidon Kremer, Keith Jarrett, Staatsorchester Stuttgart & Dennis Russell Davies
