Nicolas Altstaedt – Creation (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:21 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Forty years have passed since Gidon Kremer created a little musical oasis in the Austrian town of Lockenhaus in 1981. The violinist’s open-minded attitude has left its mark on this event, which has become a must in the concert calendar, and the cellist Nicolas Altstaedt, who took up the torch in 2012, continues the same philosophy. For this fortieth anniversary, he has decided to call on composers who have come to Lockenhaus or had works performed there in the past ten years. Hence the programme contains two premieres – the cello concertos of Raphaël Merlin and Helena Winkelman – but also short pieces by Erkki-Sven Tüür, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Lera Auerbach, Patkop, Maja Ratkje, Matan Porat, Kurt Schwertsik and Johannes Fischer. Musical postcards that celebrate the anniversary while foreshadowing the next forty years!
Tracklist:
01. Nicolas Altstaedt – Winkelman: Atlas: I. Passacaglia – Atlas and Heracles (08:55)
02. Nicolas Altstaedt – Winkelman: Atlas: II. Adagietto fluido – The Golden Apples in The Garden of The Hesperides (07:04)
03. Nicolas Altstaedt – Winkelman: Atlas: III. Perpetuum Mobile – Ladon the Dragon (09:20)
04. Nicolas Altstaedt – Winkelman: Sonett 74 (08:54)
05. Nicolas Altstaedt – Porat: Fragment (01:22)
06. Nicolas Altstaedt – Tüür: Memo (01:48)
07. Nicolas Altstaedt – Mustonen: Inventio (00:54)
08. Nicolas Altstaedt – Kopatchinskaja: Ghiribizzi: I. Wer weiss (00:48)
09. Nicolas Altstaedt – Kopatchinskaja: Ghiribizzi: II. Nicht zusammen, doch zusammen (00:56)
10. Nicolas Altstaedt – Kopatchinskaja: Ghiribizzi: III. Nein (00:38)
11. Nicolas Altstaedt – Kopatchinskaja: Ghiribizzi: IV. Nostalgic (01:16)
12. Nicolas Altstaedt – Kopatchinskaja: Ghiribizzi: V. Giocoso-Serioso (01:10)
13. Nicolas Altstaedt – Kopatchinskaja: Ghiribizzi: VI. Intermezzo (00:59)
14. Nicolas Altstaedt – Ratkje: Hymn (01:40)
15. Nicolas Altstaedt – Schwertsik: Locken-House / Un-Locked (01:44)
16. Nicolas Altstaedt – Salonen: Two Fragments for Lockenhaus: Ritual (01:55)
17. Nicolas Altstaedt – Salonen: Pentatonic Chain (02:31)
18. Nicolas Altstaedt – Merlin: See: Sea & Seeds. Si!: I. See (06:32)
19. Nicolas Altstaedt – Merlin: See: Sea & Seeds. Si!: II. Sea (03:13)
20. Nicolas Altstaedt – Merlin: See: Sea & Seeds. Si!: III. Seeds (02:29)
21. Nicolas Altstaedt – Merlin: See: Sea & Seeds. Si!: IV. Si! (03:07)
22. Nicolas Altstaedt – Fischer: Still Here (03:24)
23. Nicolas Altstaedt – Auerbach: Don’t Prolong Goodbyes (01:30)
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