ECM's Gidon Kremer/Kremerata Baltica - US & Can - Jan & Feb

[GA Russell]

Kremerata Baltica / Gidon Kremer violin  Yulianna Avdeeva piano | Mate Bekavec clarinet  Andrey Pushkarev percussion | Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conductor “Weinberg has become a source of unlimited inspiration. No other composer has entered my own and Kremerata Baltica’s repertoire and program concepts  with such intensity.” - Gidon Kremer  This double album, recorded in Vienna and in Riga in June 2015, includes all four of the chamber symphonies written in the last decade of Polish-born Soviet composer Mieczysław Weinberg’s life, plus a beautiful new arrangement - by Gidon Kremer and Kremerata percussionist Andrey Pushkarev - of the early Piano Quintet of 1944, heard here in a premiere recording. Weinberg’s chamber symphonies are Kremer says, “the most personal reflections of a great composer on his own life and his generation, like a diary of the most dramatic period of the 20th century.” This new recording – the second Kremerata Baltica album dedicated to Weinberg - again underlines the importance and originality of Weinberg’s music and is, Kremer feels, “the most valuable landmark in the orchestra’s discography since its birth”. It is released in time for a major tour celebrating both Kremerata Baltica’s 20th anniversary and leader Gidon Kremer’s 70th birthday. In addition to an artist’s statement from Gidon Kremer, the CD booklet includes liner notes by Weinberg biographer David Fanning, as well as a personal recollection of the composer by Alexander Raskatov. Gidon Kremer/Kremerata Baltica In Concert Jan 19, 20, 21, 24 - Boston, MA @ Boston Symphony Hall Jan 26-28 – Washington, DC @ Kennedy Center Jan 31 - Shenandoah @ Armstrong Concert Hall Feb 1 - Chicago, IL @ Chicago Symphony Center Feb 2 - New York, NY @ 92Y Feb 3 - Princeton, NJ @ McCarter Theatre Center Feb 4 - Toronto, ON @ Koerner Hall Feb 6 - Quebec, PQ @ Salle Louis- Fréchette Feb 7 - Montreal, PQ @ Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Feb 9 - Calgary, AB @ Jack Singer Concert Hall Feb 10 - Stanford, CA @ Bing Concert Hall

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[JSngry]

Might be interesting to hear Kremer's tone through the ECM perspective.

In fact...just pre-ordered from Amazon.