Gidon Kremer, Giedre Dirvanauskaite & Khatia Buniatishvili
Release Date: 18 April 2011
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028947641711
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
The great violinist Gidon Kremer in a new trio with two outstanding young musicians, Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili and Lithuanian cellist Giedre Dirvanauskaite, celebrated as two of the most gifted players of their generation. It features a pair of compositions bracketing the history of Russian chamber music - a revelatory account of Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio, juxtaposed with Victor Kissine's Zerkalo of 2009.
Tchaikovsky has not previously been heard on ECM. When Kremer and friends play the Trio for piano, violin and violoncello op. 50, composed in 1882, they wring the emotion from the music's Russian soul, and simultaneously convey the sense that the music is both modern and timeless.
Kremer recorded the work live for another label some years ago, but he wanted to return to the music as an "elder statesman" and bring to it the knowledge and insights acquired along the way. The result is a landmark ECM album. The recording was made at Munich's Church of the Ascension (Himmelfahrtskirche) with Manfred Eicher producing: ECM New Series sound at its most glorious.
Cellist Giedre Dirvanauskaite has been a member of Kemerartica Baltica since 1997. In her native Lithuania she took masterclasses with Rostropovich and Tatjana Grindenko. Both Dirvanauskaite and Khatia Buniatishvili appeared on Kremer's recent Hymns and Prayers for ECM, where Buniatishvili, recent winner of a prestigious Borletti-Buitioni Trust Award, delivered an exceptional performance in the César Franck Piano Quintet.
Personnel: Gidon Kremer (violin), Giedre Dirvanauskaite (cello), Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)
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
Saskia Coolen, Rainer Zipperling, Patrick Ayrton
New European Ensemble, Christopher Bouwman, Tito Munoz
The Noise String Quartet, Veronique Serret, Mirabai Peart, James Eccles, Oliver Miller
Martin Rummel, Philippe Raskin
Zemlinsky Quartet
Joana Luisa Nogueira Amorim & Fernando Miguel Jaloto
Tom Mckinney, Simon Passmore, Victoria String Quartet
Roctet
