Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica, Simon Rattle etc.
Release Date: 08 April 2022
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 5
Barcode: 028947645092
Genres: Classical
Description
2022 repress of this sumptuous Gidon Kremer 5-CD box set from 2011, of recordings from 1981-2008, which is being re-released to coincide with his 75th birthday. The set gathered together out-of-print material alongside never-before-released recordings of Richard Strauss (conducted by Simon Rattle) and Messiaen.
Edition Lockenhaus was 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.
Personnel: Gidon Kremer, with Julius Berger, Eduard Brunner, Khatia Buniatishvili, Gérard Caussé, 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 with Roman Kofman, Simon Rattle and others.
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
Corrina Hewat
Saskia Coolen, Rainer Zipperling, Patrick Ayrton
New European Ensemble, Christopher Bouwman, Tito Munoz
Cristian Sandrin
Taz Modi
Various artists
Thomas Elwin and Lana Bode
New Dublin Voices
