The Art of Instrumentation: Homage to Glenn Gould

Typical of Gidon Kremer's concept albums, it imaginatively showcases a number of contemporary composers — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Oct 2012
Catalogue No: 7559796345
Label: Nonesuch
Length: 57 minutes

Sylvestrov: Dedication to J.S.B.

Work length5:57

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Valentin Silvestrov
Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer

Johann Sebastian Bach, Victor Kissine: Aria from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Work length3:02

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Georgs Pelecis
Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer

Alexander Raskatov, Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in D minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 851

Work length3:27

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Alexander Raskatov
Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer

Alexander Wustin, Johann Sebastian Bach: Three Voice Invention in F minor, BWV 795

Work length3:12

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Alexander Wustin
Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer

Carl Vine, Johann Sebastian Bach: Slow Movement from Cembalo Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056

Work length5:11

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Carl Vine
Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer

Johann Sebastian Bach, Raminta Serksnyte: Prelude and Fugue in A minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 889

Work length4:10

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Raminta Serksnyte
Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer

Giya Kancheli, Johann Sebastian Bach: Bridges to Bach

Work length7:49

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Giya Kancheli
Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer

Johann Sebastian Bach, Leonid Desyatnikov: Sarabande in E minor from Partita No. 6, BWV 830

Work length6:18

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Leonid Desyatnikov
Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer

Johann Sebastian Bach, Victoria Vita Poleva: Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 883

Work length6:38

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Victoria Vita Poleva
Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer

Tickmayer: After Gould: Goldberg Variations Nos. 30, 19, 4, 18, 22, 26 and Intermezzi from Arnold Schönberg's Op. 19 and Op. 47

Work length5:57

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Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer
Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer

Johann Sebastian Bach, Victor Kissine: Aria from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

Work length6:17

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Victor Kissine
Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer

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Nonesuch Records releases The Art of Instrumentation: Homage to Glenn Gould, by violinist Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra, on September 25, 2012, which would have been Gould's 80th birthday. The album comprises 11 pieces and arrangements by contemporary composers that quote from or are inspired by works, mostly by Bach, that Gould famously recorded during his career; two Arnold Schoenberg pieces also are drawn upon in one piece.

Kremer explains: "For the tenth anniversary of the Chamber Music Connects the World festival in Kronberg, Germany in 2010, I took up an idea that happens to have been voiced by a friend of mine, Robert Hurwitz, president of Nonesuch. One day, we were discussing Glenn Gould-whom Bob had known for years and with whom I had spent a long night in the studio, along with András Schiff-when Bob asked me, ‘Wouldn't you like to arrange some of the works played by Glenn Gould for strings sometime?'

"When artistic director Raimund Trenkler asked me what could be done to make the anniversary celebration special, I knew the answer. The focus was to be on one of the greatest figures of all time-Johann Sebastian Bach-and on our times. A bridge was to be built," Kremer continues. "The resulting program's distant gaze extends into the realm of Bach but pays tribute at the same time to one of the greatest personae of modern interpretation, Glenn Gould. A persona, whose handwriting cannot be mistaken for anyone else's. That is precisely what I have always valued so highly and still do-the unique."

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December 2012

Typical of Gidon Kremer's concept albums, it imaginatively showcases a number of contemporary composers

November 2012

Kremer is ideally placed to bring together the old and new, having championed Bach and been a tireless promoter of the music of living composer. Yet many of the transcriptions featured here are so faithful that one wonders whether the composers were afraid to tinker too much with the original.

4th October 2012

It could all seem supremely tacky and self-indulgent, and some of the tracks certainly are, but the best of the arrangements are extremely skilful and seriously musical, and Kremer and his superb young orchestra give them the respectful attention they deserve.

The Art of Instrumentation: Homage to Glenn Gould

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