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Historic Russian Archives - Gidon Kremer | Brilliant Classics 8712

Historic Russian Archives - Gidon Kremer

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 8712

Barcode: 5029365871228

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 10

Release Date: 24th September 2007

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Artists

Gidon Kremer (violin)

Artists

Gidon Kremer (violin)

About

Despite being born in Latvia, violinist Gidon Kremer has Russian parents. As a musician,he developed an interest in contemporary music, introducing Schnittke to western audiences.
 
Although he plays a modern violin, Kremer has always included Baroque music in his repertoire and it is fitting therefore that Bach, Biber and Telemann are featured in this set. Music from the 20th-century, such as Schöenberg, Webern and Stockhausen, is also prominently represented as are the stalwarts of the violin repertory, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Predictably, Russian composers form a major part of this offering, from the well known (Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev) to the more obtuse (Karayev and Salmanov).
 
In short, this set displays Gidon Kremer in all his guises and in varied repertoire: solo, chamber and with orchestra. All recordings are live, made between 1970 and 1993.
 
CD 1
J S Bach 
1. Ciacona, from partita for violin solo in D minor BWV 1004
 
Partita for violin solo in E major BWV 1006 
2. Preludio
3. Loure
4. Gavotte en rondeau
5. Menuet I
6. Menuet II
7. Bourrée 
8. Gigue
 
From: Sonata for violin solo in A minor BWV 1003 
9. Grave
10. Fugue
 
Concerto for 2 violins & orchestra in D minor BWV 1043 
11. Vivace
12. Largo ma non tanto
13. Allegro
(Oleg Kagan, violin I / Gidon Kremer, violin II  / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, David Oistrakh)
 
CD 2
Mozart
Violin concerto No. 2 in D major KV 211 
1. Allegro moderato
2. Andante
3. Rondo, allegro
(German Chamber Philharmonic Society, Gidon Kremer)
 
Concertone for 2 violins & orchestra in C major KV 190 
4. Allegro con spirito 
5. Andante grazioso 
6. Tempo di menuetto
7. Violin concerto No. 3 in G major KV 216: allegro (transcription for violin and piano)
(Tatiana Grindenko, violin II / Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Saulius Sondetskis)
 
Violin sonata No. 31 in C major KV 404 (unfinished) 
8. Andante
9. Allegretto
(Yuri Smirnov, piano )
 
Boccherini 
10. Menuet, from string quintet in E major G 275
(Oleg Maisenberg, piano) 
 
CD 3
Beethoven
 
Violin sonata in G major Op. 96 
1. Allegro moderato
2. Adagio espressivo 
3. Scherzo, allegro 
4. Poco allegretto 
(Oleg Maisenberg, piano)
 
5. Variations in F major on Mozart's "Se vuol'ballare"
(Oleg Maisenberg, piano)
 
6. 6 German dances
(Oleg Maisenberg, piano)
 
Biber 
7. Ciacona from mystery sonata No. 4 in D minor "The Presentation"
(Oleg Maisenberg, piano)
 
Telemann
Sonata en canon in A minor for 2 violins Op. 5 No. 6 
8. Vivace
9. Soave
10. Allegro assai
(Tatiana Grindenko, violin II)
 
Sonata en canon in G major Op. 5 No. 1 
11. Vivace
12. Adagio
13. Allegro 
(Tatiana Grindenko, violin II)
 
CD 4
Schubert

1. Rondo for violin & strings in A major D 438
(German Chamber Music Society, Gidon Kremer)
 
2. Introduction, theme & variations on "Trockne Blumen" from "Die Schöne Müllerin" in E minor D 802
(Oleg Maisenberg, piano)
 
Rondo brillant in B minor D 895 
3. Andante
4. Allegro
(Oleg Maisenberg, piano)
 
Tchaikovsky
5. Valse-scherzo
(Yuri Smirnov, piano)
 
6. Melodie (from souvenir d'un lieu cher) Op. 42 No. 3        
(Yuri Smirnov, piano)
 
CD 5
Mendelssohn

Concerto for violin & strings in D minor 
1. Allegro molto
2. Andante
3. Allegro
(Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Bashmet)
 
Chausson 
4. Poeme, for violin and piano Op. 25
(Maria Bondarenko, piano)
 
Ysaye
Sonata for solo violin Op. 27 No. 5 "Pastorale" 
5. L'aurore
6. Danse rustique
 
Sonata for violin & piano in F minor after Locatelli 
7. Lento assai e mesto
8. Allegro
9. Lento
10. Tempo moderato
(Maria Bondarenko, piano)
 
Ravel
11. Blues, from violin sonata       
(Oleg Maisenberg, piano)
 
CD 6
R Strauss 

Violin sonata in E flat major Op. 18 
1. Allegro ma non troppo
2. Improvisation, andante cantabile
3. Finale: andante-allegro
 
Reger
Violin sonata in C minor Op. 139 
4. Con passione
5. Largo
6. Vivace
7. Andantino con variazioni
(Oleg Maisenberg, piano)
 
CD 7
Prokofiev
Violin sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 80 
1. Andante assai
2. Allegro brusco
3. Andante
4. Allegrissimo-andante assai come prima
(Oleg Maisenberg, violin)
 
5. Scherzo, vivacissimo, from violin concerto No. 1 in D major Op. 19, transcription for violin & piano
(Yuri Smirnov, piano)
 
Sonata for 2 violins in C major Op. 56 
6. Andante cantabile
7. Allegro
8. Commodo
9. Allegro con brio
(Tatiana Grindenko, violin II)
 
Kupkovic
10. Souvenir 
(Oleg Maisenberg, violin)
 
CD 8
Karayev

Concerto for violin & orchestra 
1. Allegro moderato
2. Andante 
3. Allegro ben marcato 
(USSR State TV & Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kozhukhar)
 
Salmanov
Sonata for violin & piano No. 2 
4. Allegro molto  
5. Andante  
6. Presto
(Maria Bondarenko, piano)
 
Schoenberg
7. Fantasy for violin & piano
(Oleg Maisenberg, piano)
 
Webern
4 pieces Op. 7 
8. Sehr langsam
9. Rasch
10. Sehr langsam
11. Bewegt
(Oleg Maisenberg, piano)
 
Stockhausen
Excerpts from "Tierkreis" 
12. Aquarius, Gemini, Pisces, Libra, Sagittarius, Leo, Aquarius  
(Tatiana Grinkdenko, violin II)
 
CD 9
Martynov
Come in! For violin & ensemble 
1. Movement 1
2. Movement 2 
3. Movement 3
4. Movement 4
5. Movement 5
6. Movement 6
(Tatiana Grindenko, violin II / Mikhael Muntyan, celesta / Moscow Philharmonic Society Soloists, Yuri Bashmet)
 
Lourie
Concerto da camera for violin & string orchestra 
7. Entrata: allegro capriccioso, ma non rubato
8. Aria, lento ma non troppo
9. Intermezzo, languido quasi adagio
10. Fantasia, allegro molto appassionato, ma sempre dolcissimo
11. Serenata, moderato
12. Epilogo
(German Chamber Philharmonic Society, Gidon Kremer)
 
CD 10
Paganini
1. Cantabile in D major for violin & piano
 
2. Caprice No. 4 in C minor (maestosa)
 
3. Caprice No. 17 in E flat major
 
Ernst
4. Variations on an Irish air "The last rose of summer"
 
5. Grand caprice for solo violin after Schubert's "Erlkönig"
 
Bartok
6. Tempo di ciacona, from sonata for solo violin
 
Stravinsky
7. Elegy, for solo violin
 
Berio
8. Duet for violins "Leonardo" (dedicated to Leonardo Pinzauti)
 
9. Duet for violins "Annie" (dedicated to Annie Neuberger)
 
10. Duet for violins "Aldo" (dedicated to Aldo Bennici)
 
Shchedrin
11. In the style of albeniz
 
Maria Bondarenko, piano (1 - 11)
Tatiana Grindenko, violin II (8 - 10)
 
Grigoras Dinicu
12. Hora staccato
(Oleg Maisenberg, piano)

13. Borzo/Bihari: Csardas in A minor
(Oleg Maisenberg, piano)
 
Camille Saint-Saens
14. Creatures with long ears (from carnaval des animeaux)
(Tatiana Grindenko, violin II)

 

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