Pages of a Biography
Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica play Georgs Pelēcis' title concerto, written for Kremer, Andrius Žlabys' Kaleidoscope of Lost Time and two works by Arvo Pärt, Passacaglia and Darf ich.
Directors
Celebrated Czech musicians Floex & Jan Šikl present Directors, a collaborative album exploring neoclassical composition, electronic experimentation and chamber ensemble performance. Across four movements, Directors reveals a musical language where classical formality and electronic spontaneity exist as equal voices due out on via Minority Records. The dream of melding classical music with contemporary music, electronic in particular has been a cherished if not always successful one – it is as if…
Double String Trios
John McGuire’s Double String Trios brings together three substantial works for paired string trios composed between 2012 and 2021 and conducted by Axel Lindner. The project originated when Walter Zimmermann invited Bernd Härpfer of Initiative Musik und Informatik Köln – GIMIK e.V. to arrange a concert premiere marking McGuire’s 80th birthday.
McGuire’s musical language was forged in the electronic studios of postwar Cologne, shaped by studies with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Krzysztof Penderecki, …
Icarus Tapes #1
*2025 stock* Icarus Records proudly presents Icarus Tapes #1: Bow, Icarus Live Session #59, a live performance recorded for the Icarus Radio Show, a weekly radioshow broadcast at Belgian radiostation Urgent.fm.
One afternoon in March 2019, a Ghent studio at the edge of an arm of the Scheldt river, the 5 musicians of Bow settled down and got ready. After a glance and a deep breath, the 5 fellows leap into the void.
Bow takes the gamble for this recorded radio session to improvise its music en…
Prolegomena
This CD is about quality not quantity - less than thirty minutes in total, but absolutely some of the most incredible music Zorn has ever composed. Dramatic, intense, mercurial, challenging, and endlessly virtuosic, Zorn’s writing for strings is amongst the most exciting ever achieved in the classical world. Here he expands the fabulous Jack Quartet to a quintet and sextet with the addition of two of the most accomplished musicians in the New York scene: Yura Lee and Michael Nicolas. Composed in…
A lifetime of annotations
Feldman and Tobias Hume (performed by Luciana Elizondo and Guy Vandromme).
Active Field
*2025 stock* Electroacoustic composition by Tristan Perich 10 violins, 10-channel 1-bit electronics
Occam Ocean Vol. 3
Éliane Radigue's Occam Ocean 3: three pieces for viola, violin and cello with Julia Eckhardt, Silvia Tarozzi and Deborah Walker, recorded in 2019 in an abbey near Bologna. Music born of oral transmission and water images.
Music for Strings
Lou Harrison's Suite No. 2 for Strings, Suite for Symphonic Strings and Concerto for Pipa with String Orchestra, three first recordings in their categories, played by Wu Man and The New Professionals Orchestra, London, conducted by Rebecca Miller.
Filz
Three works by Enno Poppe for Ensemble Resonanz: the viola concerto Filz with Tabea Zimmermann, Stoff in its version for nine strings, and Wald for four string quartets, conducted by the composer. First recordings, co-produced with Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Sala / Musica Appassionata / Credo
Pēteris Vasks's Sala (2006), Musica appassionata for strings (2002) and Credo (2009), played by the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra under Atvars Lakstīgala; recorded at the Liepāja Latvian Society House in 2014.
Vox Amoris
Three works by Pēteris Vasks for violin and string orchestra (Vox Amoris, Tālā gaisma, Vientuļais eņģelis), played by Alina Pogostkina with Sinfonietta Rīga under Juha Kangas, recorded in Riga in June 2011.
Viatore
Three works by Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks, Musica adventus and Viatore for string orchestra and the Concerto for cor anglais, played by Sinfonietta Rīga with Normunds Šnē as conductor and soloist, recorded in Riga in June 2007.
Griechenland / Trio für Oboe, Viola und Harfe / Diaphonie
Orchestral and chamber works by Frank Michael Beyer: Griechenland (1981), the Trio for oboe, viola and harp (1980) with Heinz and Ursula Holliger and Hirofumi Fukai, and Diaphonie (1975), from radio recordings of 1978-1983.
Cantabile per Archi / Botschaft / Musica Dolorosa / Symphonie "Stimmen"
String orchestra works by Pēteris Vasks: Cantabile per archi, Vēstījums (Message), Musica dolorosa and the symphony Balsis (Voices), with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and the Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, recorded in Riga in May 1992.
Chamber Symphonies & Piano Quintet
Kremerata Baltica and Gidon Kremer play Weinberg’s four Chamber Symphonies and the 1944 Piano Quintet (arranged, with Yulianna Avdeeva). Recorded June 2015 at the Musikverein, Vienna (live) and in Riga.
Mieczysław Weinberg
Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica, with Daniil Trifonov, Daniil Grishin and Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, in Weinberg's Violin Sonata No. 3, Trio Op. 48, Sonatina Op. 46, Concertino Op. 42 and Symphony No. 10. Recorded 2012-2013 in Neuhardenberg and Lockenhaus.
Edition Lockenhaus
Five-CD box for the 30th anniversary of Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus festival: Kremerata Baltica under Simon Rattle (Strauss, 2001) and Roman Kofman (Messiaen, 2008), plus Edition Lockenhaus Vols. 1/2 and 4/5, recorded at Lockenhaus 1981-86. ECM New Series 2190-94.
Reminiscentiae
Choral and orchestral works by Veljo Tormis, including the four Reminiscentiae seasonal cycles for strings and The Tower Bell in My Village, by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra under Tõnu Kaljuste. Recorded autumn 2020, Methodist Church, Tallinn.
Mieczysław Weinberg, Giedrius Kuprevičius, Raminta Šerkšnytė, Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica, Vida Miknevičiūtė
Songs of FateGidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica and soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė play Weinberg, Kuprevičius, Šerkšnytė and Jančevskis in a programme on Jewish and Baltic heritage. Recorded July 2019 in Vilnius and live in July 2022 at Lockenhaus; produced by Manfred Eicher.