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Happy Birthday

Gidon Kremer/Kremerata Baltica

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No matter how brilliantly played, how beautifully recorded, how enthusiastically performed, a disc of joke encores is still a disc of joke encores. No one could complain that the KREMERata BALTICA is a less than superb chamber orchestra or that Gidon Kremer is less than a spectacular violinist or that Nonesuch has not given Kremer and the KREMERata stunning sound. No one could complain that the pieces are not fun and funny and sometimes a little touching. But who could possibly listen to the disc straight through? Heck, who could possibly want to listen to some of these pieces more than once? Once, Alfred Schnittke's Polka is a little racy, a little scary, and a little funny. Once, Peter Heidrich's "Happy Birthday" Variations are vaguely funny in a "What if Mozart wrote Happy Birthday way. Once, Vato Kakhidze's "Blitz" Fantasy is, well, not really funny but silly with its string sound effects and its singing orchestral players. Once, not all the way through but at least for the first few minutes, Ghys and Servais' Variations brillantes et concertantes on "God Save the King" is diverting. More than once, Tchaikovsky's Elegy is fairly affecting in a schmaltzy, smarmy way. Not even once is Teddy Bor's idiotic McMozart's Eine Kleine Bricht Moonlight Nicht Musik even remotely funny. Once or maybe twice, the "Auld Lang Syne" Variations by Franz Waxman (yes, the film composer) might provoke a smile, especially the "Homage to Shostakofiev" that blends "Auld Lang Syne" with the Scherzo from Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1 and Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2. But by the time the disc has wound down to Ladislav Kupkovic's inane Souvenir, there are no smiles left and absolutely no more patience for joke encores.

© TiVo

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1
Polka
Gidon Kremer
00:02:29

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Violin, MainArtist - Alfred Schnittke, Composer - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Sergei Dreznin, Arranger

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

2
"Happy Birthday" Variations: Thema
Peter Laenger
00:00:28

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

3
"Happy Birthday" Variations: Variation nach Joseph Haydn
Peter Laenger
00:01:17

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

4
"Happy Birthday" Variations: Nach Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Peter Laenger
00:00:43

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

5
"Happy Birthday" Variations: Nach Ludwig van Beethoven
Peter Laenger
00:00:59

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

6
"Happy Birthday" Variations: Nach Johannes Brahms
Peter Laenger
00:00:58

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

7
"Happy Birthday" Variations: Nach Robert Schumann
Peter Laenger
00:01:34

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

8
"Happy Birthday" Variations: Nach Antonin Dvorak
Peter Laenger
00:00:33

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

9
"Happy Birthday" Variations: Polka/Valse
Peter Laenger
00:00:53

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

10
"Happy Birthday" Variations: Variation im Stil von Filmmusik
Peter Laenger
00:00:57

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

11
"Happy Birthday" Variations: Ragtime
Peter Laenger
00:00:31

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

12
"Happy Birthday" Variations: Tango
Peter Laenger
00:01:00

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

13
"Happy Birthday" Variations: Czardas
Peter Laenger
00:01:43

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

14
"Blitz" Fantasy: Adagio
Gidon Kremer
00:07:30

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Vocals, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Lasma Muceniece, Vocals - Vato Kakhidze, Composer, Piano, Vocals

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

15
"Blitz" Fantasy: Allegretto
Gidon Kremer
00:02:48

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Vocals, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Lasma Muceniece, Vocals - Vato Kakhidze, Composer, Piano, Vocals

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

16
"Blitz" Fantasy: Ad libitum
Gidon Kremer
00:01:42

Kremerata Baltica, Vocals, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Violin, Vocals, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Lasma Muceniece, Vocals - Vato Kakhidze, Composer, Piano, Vocals, Synthesiser

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

17
"Blitz" Fantasy: Presto
Gidon Kremer
00:02:09

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Vocals, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Lasma Muceniece, Vocals - Vato Kakhidze, Composer, Piano, Vocals

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

18
Variations brillantes et concertantes sur l'air "God Save the King", op. 38
Gidon Kremer
00:10:08

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Violin, MainArtist - Marta Sudraba, Cello - Niels Muller, Engineer - Sibylle Strobel, AssistantEngineer - Adrien Francois Servais, Composer - Joseph Ghys, Composer

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

19
Elegy
Gidon Kremer
00:06:08

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Violin, MainArtist - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

20
McMozart's Eine Kleine Bricht Moonlicht Nicht Musik
Philipp Nedel
00:03:28

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Teddy Bor, Composer

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

21
"Auld Lang Syne" Variations: I. Eine kleine Nichtmusik
Gidon Kremer
00:02:43

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Violin, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Marta Sudraba, Cello - Ula Ulijona, Viola - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Louis Lortie, Piano

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

22
"Auld Lang Syne" Variations: II. Moonlight Concerto
Gidon Kremer
00:05:11

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Violin, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Marta Sudraba, Cello - Ula Ulijona, Viola - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Louis Lortie, Piano

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

23
"Auld Lang Syne" Variations: III. Chaconne a son Gout
Gidon Kremer
00:02:59

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Violin, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Marta Sudraba, Cello - Ula Ulijona, Viola - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Louis Lortie, Piano

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

24
"Auld Lang Syne" Variations: IV. Hommage to Shostakofiev
Gidon Kremer
00:02:01

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Violin, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Marta Sudraba, Cello - Ula Ulijona, Viola - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Louis Lortie, Piano

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

25
Souvenir
Philipp Nedel
00:05:42

Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Ladislav Kupkovic, Composer

© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records

Album review

No matter how brilliantly played, how beautifully recorded, how enthusiastically performed, a disc of joke encores is still a disc of joke encores. No one could complain that the KREMERata BALTICA is a less than superb chamber orchestra or that Gidon Kremer is less than a spectacular violinist or that Nonesuch has not given Kremer and the KREMERata stunning sound. No one could complain that the pieces are not fun and funny and sometimes a little touching. But who could possibly listen to the disc straight through? Heck, who could possibly want to listen to some of these pieces more than once? Once, Alfred Schnittke's Polka is a little racy, a little scary, and a little funny. Once, Peter Heidrich's "Happy Birthday" Variations are vaguely funny in a "What if Mozart wrote Happy Birthday way. Once, Vato Kakhidze's "Blitz" Fantasy is, well, not really funny but silly with its string sound effects and its singing orchestral players. Once, not all the way through but at least for the first few minutes, Ghys and Servais' Variations brillantes et concertantes on "God Save the King" is diverting. More than once, Tchaikovsky's Elegy is fairly affecting in a schmaltzy, smarmy way. Not even once is Teddy Bor's idiotic McMozart's Eine Kleine Bricht Moonlight Nicht Musik even remotely funny. Once or maybe twice, the "Auld Lang Syne" Variations by Franz Waxman (yes, the film composer) might provoke a smile, especially the "Homage to Shostakofiev" that blends "Auld Lang Syne" with the Scherzo from Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1 and Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2. But by the time the disc has wound down to Ladislav Kupkovic's inane Souvenir, there are no smiles left and absolutely no more patience for joke encores.

© TiVo

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