Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica
Release Date: 20 January 2017
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 028948146048
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
This double album includes all four of the chamber symphonies written in the last decade of Polish-born Soviet composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg's life, plus a beautiful new arrangement - by Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica percussionist Andrey Pushkarev – of the early Piano Quintet of 1944, heard here in a premiere recording.
It is a recording which underlines the importance and originality of Weinberg's music. For Gidon Kremer, "Weinberg has become a source of unlimited inspiration. No other composer has entered my own and Kremerata Baltica's repertoire and programme concepts with such intensity." Weinberg's chamber symphonies are Kremer says, "the most personal reflections of a great composer on his own life and his generation, like a diary of the most dramatic period of the 20th century". This new recording – the second Kremerata Baltica album dedicated to Weinberg – is, Kremer feels, "the most valuable landmark in the orchestra's discography since its birth".
Recorded in Vienna and in Riga in June 2015, it marks the conducting debut on ECM of the CBSO's new music director Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla. The set is released in time for a major tour celebrating both Kremerata Baltica's 20th anniversary and leader Gidon Kremer's 70th birthday. The CD booklet includes liner notes by Weinberg biographer David Fanning, as well as a personal recollection of the composer by Alexander Raskatov.
Personnel: Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer (violin/director), Yulianna Avdeeva (piano), Mate Bekavec (clarinet), Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla (conductor)
Tracklisting
Vijay Iyer; Wadada Leo Smith
Anouar Brahem; Anja Lechner; Django Bates; Dave Holland
Patrick Demenga; Latvian State Academic Choir; Youth Choir Kamer; Riga Cathedral Boys Choir; Andres
Nicolas Masson; Colin Vallon; Patrice Moret; Lionel Friedli
Various artists
Yuval Cohen Quartet
Thomas Stronen; Craig Taborn; Chris Potter; Sinikka Langeland; Jorge Rossy
Stephan Micus
Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz
Antal Dorati; Minneapolis SO; Philharmonia Hungarica
Frans Bruggen, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Olga Pasiecznik, Roel
Lorenzo Coppola, {oh!} Orchestra, Martyna Pastuszka
Violina Petrychenko; Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra
Anaelle Tourret, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Vasily Petrenko
Various artists
Alexander Lonquich; Munchener Kammerorchester; Daniel Giglberger
