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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.
Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen
Metamorphosen
Olivier Messiaen: Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine
Antienne de la conversation intérieure
Séquence du verbe, cantique divin
Psalmodie de l'ubiquité par amour
César Franck: Quintet for Piano and Strings in F minor
1. Molto moderato quasi lento. Allegro
2. Lento, con molto sentimento
3. Allegro non troppo, ma con fuoco
Conte Fantastique after "Le Masque de la Mort Rouge"
Conte Fantastique after "Le Masque de la Mort Rouge"
Francis Poulenc: Fiançailles pour rire
Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant
Fleurs
Leos Janácek: String Quartet No.1
1. Adagio - Con moto
2. Con moto
3. Con moto - Vivo - Andante
4. Con moto (Adagio) - Più mosso
Igor Stravinsky: Histoire du soldat - Concert suite / Part 2
Three Dances (Tango-Waltz-Ragtime)
Igor Stravinsky: Concerto en Ré
Vivace - Arioso. Andantino - Rondo. Allegro
Dmitri Shostakovich: 4 Waltzes for Flute, Clarinet and Piano
Waltz
Barrel-Organ Waltz
Dmitri Shostakovich: Two Pieces for String Octet, Op.11
1. Prelude - Adagio - Più mosso - Adagio
2. Scherzo - Allegro molto - Moderato - Allegro
Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No.14 in F sharp major Op.142
1. Allegretto
2. Adagio
3. Allegretto
Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No.13 in B flat minor, Op.138
Adagio - Doppio movimento - Tempo primo
Dmitri Shostakovich: Adagio - Allegretto
Adagio - Allegretto
Erwin Schulhoff: Sextet for 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos
Metamorphosen