Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Vida Mikneviciute
Release Date: 19 January 2024
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 28948598502
Genres: Classical
Description
"Gidon Kremer has perhaps never before revealed himself as intimately and as existentially focused as on this recording", observes Wolfgang Sandner in his liner note accompanying the Latvian violinist's album Songs of Fate. Together with his Kremerata Baltica chamber ensemble and soprano Vida Mikneviciute, Kremer approaches scores by Baltic composers Raminta Serksnyte, Giedrius Kuprevicius, Jekabs Jancevskis and the Polish-Jewish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg. In a performer's note, Kremer explains how, reflecting on the different threads that create the fabric of this programme, "I realise - to my own surprise - that in many ways, this project revolves around the notion of 'Jewishness'."
Poignant deliveries of excerpts from the Chamber Symphony The Star of David and Kaddish by Giedrius Kuprevicius as well as the Jewish Songs by Mieczyslaw Weinberg emphasise this connotation. Bookending Songs of Fate are premiere recordings of Raminta Serksnyte's This too shall pass and Jekabs Jancevskis's Lignum, bringing the voices of a younger generation of composers to the fore. The album was produced by Manfred Eicher.
Kremerata Baltica
Gidon Kremer: artistic director, principal violin
Vida Mikneviciute: soprano
Magdalena Ceple: cello
Andrei Pushkarev: vibraphone
Tracklisting
Danish String Quartet
Anna Gourari, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Markus Poschner
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Vida Mikneviciute
Keith Jarrett
The Wire
The Wire
The Wire
The Wire
Karolos
Daniel Di Prinzio, Ihor Kordiuk
Nora von Marschall
Isabel Schicketanz
The Counterpoints
Narratio Quartet
Danbi Um; Juho Pohjonen
Lea Suter
