Track Listing
Click tracks with speaker icon to listen| 1 | Scene with Cranes (Jean Sibelius) | 6:01 |
| 2 | Passacaglia (Arvo Pärt) | 4:07 |
| 3 | De Profundis (Raminta Šerkšnytė) | 12:44 |
| 4 | Fugue No. 6, from Six Fugues on the Name B.A.C.H., Op. 60 (Robert Schumann) | 6:57 |
| 5 | Trysting Fields (Michael Nyman) | 5:47 |
| 6 | Minuet No. 3 and Trios in D Minor, D. 89 (Franz Schubert) | 5:52 |
| 7 | Lasset Uns den Nicht Zerteilen (Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer / J. S. Bach) | 1:29 |
| 8 | Adagio, from Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Dmitri Shostakovich) | 4:39 |
| 9 | Sogno di Stabat Mater bzw. Dialogues on Stabat Mater (alter Titel) (Lera Auerbach) | 12:06 |
| 10 | Melodía en La menor (Canto de Octubre) (Astor Piazzolla) | 4:37 |
| 11 | Flowering Jasmine (Georgs Pelecis) | 6:47 |
| 12 | Fragment (from an unfinished cantata) (Alfred Schnittke) | 6:30 |
News & Reviews
- Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Gidon Kremer’s "Hommage à Piazzolla: The Complete Astor Piazzolla Recordings" Eight-CD Set Out Now
Gidon Kremer’s Hommage à Piazzolla: The Complete Astor Piazzolla Recordings is out now. The eight-disc box set brings Kremer’s six previously released recordings of the Argentine composer’s music together for the first time, including four Nonesuch releases and two that were released by Teldec. The set’s seventh album, which is being released for the first time, features a 14-song live recording from the CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio from 1997.
- Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Gidon Kremer's "Art of Instrumentation" "Lovely and Alluring," Says NPR, With "Fresh, Intriguing" New Takes on Bach and More
Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra's new album, The Art of Instrumentation: Homage to Glenn Gould, is "lovely and alluring," says NPR Music, with "fresh and intriguing makeovers of several Bach keyboard classics ... There are many moments in this album to make you smile, wonder and simply bask in the beauty of the music." Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica continue their tour of Asia with performances at Tokyo's Suntory Hall.
About this Album
Nonesuch Records released Grammy Award–winning violinist Gidon Kremer’s De Profundis, featuring the Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra, on September 14, 2010. The album’s 12 pieces, selected from Kremer’s performing repertoire, all hold very special meaning to him, and are connected to each other on a deep, intuitive level.
The composers, whose works span nearly two centuries, are: Jean Sibelius, Arvo Pärt, Raminta Šerkšnytė (whose piece, De Profundis, lends the album its title), Robert Schumann, Michael Nyman, Franz Schubert, Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer, Dmitri Shostakovich, Lera Auerbach, Astor Piazzolla, Georgs Pelecis, and Alfred Schnittke.
Kremer explains: “The artists featured on this record affirm a deep-rooted personal expression that can resonate within anyone. Their spiritual missive can sustain humans by appealing to their profoundest emotions, by letting them open up, become more conscious, rather than ‘forget themselves.’ Each of the 12 pieces selected for this album sends its own individual message to the listener, one that my colleagues from Kremerata Baltica and I have tried to illuminate.”
Gidon Kremer dedicates De Profundis to all those who refuse to be silenced, “namely to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who—being a real patriot of Russia—can be seen as a symbol for democratic changes in his home country. Khodorkovsky continues to spend years of imprisonment in Siberia, where he has been sent by a questionable trial.” (Arvo Pärt dedicated his fourth symphony, Los Angeles, to Khodorkovsky as well.)
Kremerata Baltica was founded by Gidon Kremer in 1996 and is composed of a group of young musicians from the three Baltic States. They first performed in the violinist’s hometown of Riga, Latvia, in February 1996 and have since toured throughout the world. Kremer, who is the group’s artistic director, described the Kremerata Baltica, in an interview with the New York Times, as “a musical democracy ... open-minded, self-critical, a continuation of my musical spirit.”
Credits
MUSICIANS
Gidon Kremer, solo violin and artistic director
Kremerata Baltica:
Violin: Eva Bindere, Sandis Steinbergs, Dzeraldas Bidva, Rasa Vosyliute-Mickuniene, Migle Diksaitiene, Sanita Zarina, Jana Ozolina, Andrejs Golikovs, Andrei Valigura, Agne Doveikaite, Migle Serapinaite, Monta Vermane, Lasma Taimina
Viola: Daniil Grishin, Ula Ulijona Zebriunaite, Vidas Vekerotas, Zita Zemovica
Cello: Marta Sudraba, Eriks Kirsfelds, Giedre Dirvanauskaite, Peteris Cirksis
Double Bass: Danielis Rubinas, Indrek Sarrap
Percussion: Andrei Pushkarev
with
Clarinet: Mate Bekovac, Fabio Di Casola (1)
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Helmut Mühle
Recorded December 8–11, 2008, at Latvian Radio, Riga*
Recording Engineer: Varis Kurmins*
Editing: Johannes Müller
Mastering Engineer: Christoph Stickel
*except Schnittke’s Fragment, recorded October 23, 2001, at Recording Studio, Riga
Recording Engineer: Niels Foelster
Editing: Gudrun Maurer
Design by Barbara deWilde
Photography from the series Soul of Fuel by Alexandra Kremer-Khomassouridze
Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz
