Happy Birthday

Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica - Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday
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Artist: Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-01-28
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
  1. Polka
  2. Thema
  3. Variation Nach Joseph Haydn
  4. Variation Nach Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  5. Variation Nach Ludwig Van Beethoven
  6. Variation Nach Johannes Brahms
  7. Variation Nach Robert Schumann
  8. Variation Nach Antonin Dvorak
  9. Polka/Valse
  10. Variation Im Stil Von Filmmusik
  11. Ragtime
  12. Tango
  13. Czardas
  14. Adagio
  15. Allegretto
  16. Ad Libitum
  17. Allegro. Presto
  18. Variations Brillantes Et Concertantes Sur L'air 'God Save The King,' Op.38
  19. Elegy
  20. McMozart's Eine Kleine Bricht Moonlicht Nicht Musik
  21. I. Eine Kleine Nichtmusik
  22. II. Moonlight Concerto
  23. III. Chaconne A Son Gout
  24. IV. Hommage To Shostakofiev
  25. Souvenir

Music reviews of Happy Birthday

Music Review: You will not believe how much you will like this
Rating: 5 Stars

Slow and timid to start like the sun beginning to brighten a long summer day, do not take this CD frivolously. The music captured here melts across the speakers. Never have I been so mystified, lost and utterly annoyed all at once by all the different interpretations of Happy Birthday music. In some ways the art here is brilliant in supplying intriguing Mozartesque, Beethoveny and Brahmsesque renderings of such a banal tune. On the other hand, I can also imagine the equivalent of a musician's Adobe Photoshop that at a press of a button reconfigures the tune to fit the style: tango, ragtime, adagio, presto!

Thankfully, the second half of this collection entertains with superbly done variations of `God Save the King' and `Moonlight' tunes.

Make jest of this compilation if you like. However, it is fundamentally sound and top notch. I highly recommend this CD for classical music DJs that can mix in a quirky tune with the conservative - your listeners may consciously never notice. In addition, it is also perfect for those with a sense of humor as well as serious aficionados that have a 100+CD changer and can slip this one in for levity.

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Description of Happy Birthday

These young Baltic musicians possess a vivid spectrum of string color, thoroughly polished execution, and a direction of effort in service to the composer... There is no violinist with greater versatility and commitment to musical truth than Kremer. Slipcase. Nonesuch. 2003.
To celebrate its sixth anniversary as an ensemble, Kremerata Baltica presents a light, loving, and musically interesting confection. After an opening polka by Schnittke (who knew he could be so frothy?), we get 11 variations on the song "Happy Birthday" by Peter Heidrich, à la Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms, and some dance movements. Delightful. Elsewhere, Franz Waxman's Variations on "Auld lang syne" are as clever as they are unexpected and charming. More variations--this time on "God save the King" by the 19th century composers Ghys and Servais--afford Kremer and cellist Marta Sudraba a fine time, and Teddy Bor's brief riff on Mozart's omnipresent "Eine kleine nachtmusik" is a hoot. There's more, but the point is made: Classical music can be fun and sophisticated, and Kremer and his group remain virtuosi, one and all. --Robert Levine

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