Name: Edition Lockenhaus
Brand: Gidon Kremer

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4764509

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Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-08

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028947645092

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5 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Gidon Kremer

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Classical

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ECM Records, also known as "The Creative Label," is a German independent label that was co-founded by producer Manfred Eicher, Manfred Scheffner, and Karl Egger in Munich (Pasing) in 1969. With the label code LC 2516 / LC 02516, ECM stands for Edition of Contemporary Music and focuses on jazz and Western classical music. They showcase both acoustic and electronic artists who produce eclectic versions of contemporary music.

ECM's extensive catalog features a wide range of genres, from contemporary works by renowned composers like Steve Reich, Arvo Pärt, and Philip Glass to experimental and electronic jazz from artists such as Nils Petter Molvær, Pat Metheny Group, and Jan Garbarek. Over the past 40+ years, ECM has released more than 1500 recordings that have been acclaimed for their exceptional music quality, creative production techniques, and outstanding sound.

Although an independent label, ECM titles are distributed by Universal Music Group (UMG) in the US, Japan, and throughout Europe. However, they have also collaborated with other distributors over the years. Notably during the period when Polydor distributed ECM products in Germany; [l447694] was used for pressing identified by a CP suffix on labels and runouts. Afterward,[l25946] became their primary distributor.

2022 repress of this sumptuous Gidon Kremer 5-CD box set from 2011, of recordings from 1981-2008, which is being re-released to coincide with his 75th birthday. The set gathered together out-of-print material alongside never-before-released recordings of Richard Strauss (conducted by Simon Rattle) and Messiaen.

Edition Lockenhaus was the first New Series release in ECM's Old &amp; 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.

Personnel: 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.

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