EDITION LOCKENHAUS (BOX SET)

CD1:

Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen (1945) Studie für dreiundzwanzig Solostreicher

Olivier Messiaen: Trois Petites Liturgies De La Présence Divine (1943), Antienne De La Conversation / Séquence du verbe, Cantique divin / Psalmodie de l’ubiquité par amour

CD2:

César Franck: Piano Quintet In F Minor (1878/79) For Piano, 2 Violins, Viola And Violoncello, I. Mol / II. Lento, con molto sentimento / III. Allegro non troppo, ma con fuoco

André Caplet: “Conte Fantastique” (1919) After Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque Of The Red Death” /

Francis Poulenc: Two Songs (1939) From “Fiançailles Pour Rire” (on Poems By Louise De Vilmorin) Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant / Fleurs

CD3:

Leoš Janácek: String Quartet No. 1 (1923) after Leo Tolstoi’s “Kreutzer Sonata”, Adagio. Con moto / Con moto / Con moto. Vivo. Andante / Con moto (Adagio). Più mosso

Igor Stravinsky: Tango - Valse - Ragtime (1918) from “L’Histoire du Soldat” / Concerto en Ré (1931) Vivace, Arioso. Andantino, Rondo. Allegro / Dmitri Shostakovich: Waltz (1961) From “Maxim Film Trilogy” Suite Op. 50a, For Flute, Clarinet and Piano / Barrel-Organ Waltz (1931) from “The Gadfly” op. 97a, for flute, clarinet and piano / Two Pieces for String Octet op. 11 (1924/25) Prelude - Adagio. Più mosso. Adagio / Scherzo - Allegro molto. Moderato. Allegro

CD4:

Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 14, op. 142 (1973), Allegretto / Adagio / Allegretto / String Quartet No. 13, op. 138 (1970), Adagio, Doppio Movimento, Tempo Primo / Adagio (1930-34) / Allegretto (1929-30)

CD5:

Erwin Schulhoff: Sextet op. 45 (1924), Allegro risoluto / Tranquillo (Andante) / Burleska. Allegro molto con spirito / Molto Adagio / Duo For Violin And Cello (1925), Moderato - Zingaresca. Allegro Giocoso - Andantino - Moderato. Pres / Cinq Études De Jazz Op. 58 (1926), Charleston, Blues, Chanson, Tango, Toccata Sur Le Shimmy “Kitten on the Keys”

Artists include:

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.

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.

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