Selected Signs III-VIII (Music for ECM - A Cultural Archeology)
Gidon Kremer, Keith Jarrett, Tatjana Grindenko, Alfred Schnittke, Márta Kurtág, Márta & György Kurtág, Kim Kashkashian, Alexei Lubimov
Steve Reich and Musicians, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Rosamunde Quartet, Münchener Kammerorchester, Saulius Sondeckis, Alexander Liebreich
Five stars for mostly reissued music might seem generous, but the way this set has been assembled creates transporting new narratives – or meditations – from sequences that were never meant...
Selected Signs III-VIII (Music for ECM - A Cultural Archeology)
Gidon Kremer, Keith Jarrett, Tatjana Grindenko, Alfred Schnittke, Márta Kurtág, Márta & György Kurtág, Kim Kashkashian, Alexei Lubimov
Steve Reich and Musicians, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Rosamunde Quartet, Münchener Kammerorchester, Saulius Sondeckis, Alexander Liebreich
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Five stars for mostly reissued music might seem generous, but the way this set has been assembled creates transporting new narratives – or meditations – from sequences that were never meant...
About
In the winter of 2012/13, the Haus der Kunst in Munich - one of Europe’s most important museums for contemporary art - hosted the exhibition ‘ECM - A Cultural Archaeology’. The goal of curators Okwui Enwezor and Markus Müller was to show the range of the label’s artistic endeavours in music, graphic art, and photography and its creative interchanges with film, theatre and literature.
For this exhibition, Manfred Eicher and Steve Lake created this six-CD box-set accentuating directions in ECM’s rich musical history.
Many themes and streams are touched upon here including the range of composition in the New Series, music for and from films, imaginative historical reconstructions, transcultural music, ambient minimalism, and jazz and improvisation of many hues, in a collection with a playing time of more than seven hours.
Contents and tracklist
- Heiner Müller (vocalist), Heiner Goebbels (piano), Arto Lindsay (guitar), Ernst Stötzner (vocalist), Don Cherry (trumpet), Fred Frith (guitar), Charles Hayward (drumkit), George Lewis (trombone), Ned Rothenberg (saxophone)
- Recorded: 1988
- Steve Reich (piano), Shem Guibbory (violin), Ken Ishii (cello), Elizabeth Arnold (vocalist), Rebecca Armstrong (vocalist), Nurit Tilles (piano), Larry Karush (piano), Gary Schall (marimba), Bob Becker (marimba), Russ Hartenberger (marimba), James Preiss (piano), Steve Chambers (piano), David Van Tieghem (piano), Glen Velez (xylophone), Virgil Blackwell (clarinet), Richard Cohen (clarinet), Jay Clayton (piano), Pamela Fraley (vocalist)
- Recorded: 1976-12-31
- Recording Venue: New York
- Gidon Kremer (violin), Keith Jarrett (piano)
- Recorded: 1983-10-31
- Recording Venue: Radiostudio, Basel
- Gidon Kremer (violin), Tatjana Grindenko (violin), Alfred Schnittke (preparedpiano)
- Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
- Saulus Sondeckis
- Recorded: 1977-11
- Recording Venue: Bonn
- Márta Kurtág (piano)
- Recorded: 1996-07-10
- Recording Venue: Mozart Saal, Konzerthaus, Vienna (Wien)
- Márta Kurtág (piano), György Kurtág (piano)
- Recorded: 1996-07-10
- Recording Venue: Mozart Saal, Konzerthaus, Vienna (Wien)
- Andreas Reiner (violin), Simon Fordham (violin), Helmut Nicolai (viola), Anja Lechner (cello)
- Rosamunde Quartett
- Recorded: 2004-05-24
- Recording Venue: Propstei St. Gerold
- Kim Kashkashian (viola)
- Munich Chamber Orchestra
- Alexander Liebreich
- Recorded: 2008-03-11
- Recording Venue: Himmelfahrtskirche Sendling, München
- Alexei Lubimov (piano)
- Recorded: 2000-12-04
- Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich
- Rosamunde Quartett (stringquartet), Andreas Reiner (violin), Simon Fordham (violin), Helmut Nicolai (viola), Anja Lechner (cello)
- Recorded: 2000-05-31
- Recording Venue: Festeburgkirche, Frankfurt/Main
- Meredith Monk (vocalist), Nurit Tilles (piano)
- Recorded: 1987
- Recording Venue: Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg
- Heiner Müller (vocalist), Heiner Goebbels (piano), Arto Lindsay (guitar), Ernst Stötzner (vocalist), Don Cherry (trumpet), Fred Frith (guitar), Charles Hayward (drumkit), George Lewis (trombone), Ned Rothenberg (saxophone)
- Recorded: 1988
- Joseph Bierbichler (vocalist), Dietmar Wiesner (flute), Catherine Milliken (oboe), Wolfgang Stryi (bassclarinet), Wolfgang Stryi (saxophone), Noriko Shimada (bassoon), Franck Ollu (frenchhorn), William Forman (trumpet), Uwe Dierksen (trombone), Rainer Römer (percussion), Hermann Kretzschmar (piano), Ueli Wiget (piano), Ueli Wiget (sampler), Thomas Fichter (doublebass), Thomas Fichter (electricbassguitar), Jagdish Mistry (violin), Geneviève Strosser (viola), Michael M. Kasper (cello)
- Ensemble Modern
- Recorded: 1998-10-04
- Recording Venue: Hebbel-Theater, Berlin
- Kim Kashkashian (viola)
- Orchester Der Beethovenhalle Bonn
- Dennis Russell Davies
- Recorded: 1992
- Recording Venue: Beethovenhalle, Bonn
Awards and reviews
25th July 2013
Five stars for mostly reissued music might seem generous, but the way this set has been assembled creates transporting new narratives – or meditations – from sequences that were never meant to coexist.
