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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2000-10-10
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Ludus (With Movement)
- Silemtium (Without Movement)
- Movement 1
- Movement 2
- Movement 3
- Movement 4
- Movement 1
- Movement 2
- Movement 3
- Movement 4
- Movement 5
- Movement 6
- Darf Ich? - Gidon Kremer, P?rt, Arvo
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Free Music Review: Much vacuous music, and the large Part piece exists in better performance elsewhere
Hit: 2 Stars
This 2001 Nonesuch record is a sad example of the label's love for gimmicky programming, and it's sad to see great violinist Gidon Kremer and his chamber ensemble Kremerata Baltica associated with it. In the 1970s and 1980s, composers in both the Soviet Union and the United States explored styles of calm contemplation and minimal development.
Arvo Part, the devoutly religious Estonian composer, is represented here by two pieces. "Tabula Rasa" (1977) is a sort of concerto grosso for two violvins, prepared piano, and string orchestra. Its first movement, "Ludus", is loud and active where a theme is gradually developed before collapsing into aleatoric writing. In the second movement, "Silentium", the ensemble goes over another theme at slow tempo and low dynamics. "Tabula Rasa" is an interesting piece, containing a great deal of musical substance yet utterly transparent in its construction. While this recording does feature the three dedicatees of the work, violinists Kremer and Tatiana Grindenko and conductor Eri Klas, and has great sound quality, I much prefer the classic ECM recording which has a greater clarity of line. The other piece here by Arvo Part is the four-minute "Darf ich..." for violin solo, bell and strings (1995, rev. 1999) is structured as Part's other tintinnabuli works, but the solo violin part
While Part is a composer who shows great invention behind the facade of timeless bell-like tones, the other composers here represent minimalism at its most vacuous and commercial. Philip Glass' "Company" for string orchestra (1983) was written as incidental music for a Beckett play. Glass' music probably works quite well when accompanying some theatrical work--and the composer even calls his genre "theatrical music", but there's very little in the way of purely musical substance here. Vladimir Martynov's "Come In!" for two violins and string orchestra (1988) is, excellent for a woodblock occasionally marking time, the very picture of a generic film score.
If you are an Arvo Part completist, this disc might interest you because of the world-premiere recording of "Darf ich...". However, in the non-Part pieces here there's very little of substance, and even people who are looking for audience-friendly contemporary music and buy this will probably end up bored and disappointed.
Silencio Poster
Violinist Gidon Kremer and his ensemble, Kremerata Baltica, have tackled repertoire that ranges from Baroque to contemporary, but they seem to shine on the newer stuff. The group has an obvious ear for the music of the Baltic region, and Kremer's icy precision and passionate playing are tailor-made for the modern masters. On Silencio, Kremer delivers another stunning recording, this one featuring meditative music by a trio of composing mavericks: Arvo P?rt, Philip Glass, and Vladimir Martynov. Martynov may be the least-known of the three, but his work marks the disc's highlight composition, "Come In!" The moving piece for violin and orchestra--which features plenty of Romantic, lyrical playing (and the occasional sound of a door knocking)--is mystical but also tender and sweet. A string orchestra arrangement of Glass's String Quartet No. 2 ("Company") is almost as intense as the original played by Kronos. A short P?rt world premiere rounds out this disc: "Darf Ich" is a glorious piece for violin and orchestra reminiscent of P?rt's sublime "Summa". This is a gorgeous disc you'll get lost in; another gem from Kremer. --Jason VerlindeClassical Music CDs
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