"The Lyre of Orpheus, The Canticle of The Sun : Kremer(Vn)Kremerata Baltica, Altstaedt(Vc)etc"

Sofia Gubaidulina:
The Lyre of Orpheus, for violin, string orchestra and percussion

Gidon Kremer, violin
Marta Sudraba, cello
Kremerata Baltica
Live Recorded: 07/2006

The Canticle of the Sun

Nicolas Altstaedt, cello
Andrei Pushkarev, Rihards Zalupe, percussion
Rostislav Krimer, celesta
Chamber Choir Kamer / Maris Sirmais, conductor
Live Recorded: 07/2010

Sofia Gubaidulina's 80th birthday in October 2011 generated much press coverage around the world, appropriately stressing the uniqueness and the variety of her compositional approaches. Both are in evidence on this album of recordings from the Lockenhaus Festival in Austria.

Gidon Kremer is the soloist and Kremerata Baltica the ensemble on the world premiere recording of The Lyre of Orpheus, dedicated to the memory of Gubaidulina's daughter, while cellist Nicolas Altstaedt takes the solo role in The Canticle of the Sun, which the composer wrote in tribute to Mstislav Rostropovich on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1997.