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Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica - New Seasons: Philip Glass, Arvo Part, Giya Kancheli, Shigeru Umebayashi (2015)

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Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica - New Seasons: Philip Glass, Arvo Part, Giya Kancheli, Shigeru Umebayashi (2015)

Gidon Kremer - New Seasons (2015) with Kremerata Baltica
Philip Glass - Arvo Pärt - Giya Kancheli - Shigeru Umebayashi

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 341 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 203 Mb | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 479 4817 G H | Time: 01:17:43

The New Seasons referred to in the title here are the so-called American Four Seasons, the Violin Concerto No. 2 of Philip Glass, which has even less of a connection to Vivaldi's model than do Astor Piazzolla's Buenos Aires Four Seasons and other works that take Vivaldi as a point of reference. The work is in eight sections, but which ones are supposed to represent which season is left up to the listener. It's really a typical but unusually effective example of late-period Glass, with the composer's usual textures intact but lots of harmonic motion. Part of the interest here lies in hearing Latvian violinist and conductor Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica, long champions of minimalism's Baltic branch, tackle a work by one of the leaders of Western minimalism. The American Four Seasons get a treatment that's a bit rougher than usual, but then Kremer turns around (after a Pärt girls' choir interlude) and delivers pristinely smooth, glassy textures in Giya Kancheli's Ex contrario. The program closes with a fascinating little melody by Japanese rock musician and film composer Shigeru Umebayashi, a daring and effective choice.

Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Vida Miknevičiūtė - Songs of Fate (2024)

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Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Vida Miknevičiūtė - Songs of Fate (2024)

Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Vida Miknevičiūtė - Songs of Fate (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 219 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 133 Mb | 00:57:29
Classical, Vocal | Label: ECM Records

“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 new album Songs of Fate. Together with his Kremerata Baltica chamber ensemble and soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė, Kremer approaches scores by Baltic composers Raminta Šerkšnytė, Giedrius Kuprevičius, Jēkabs Jančevskis and the Polish-Jewish composer Mieczysław 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 Kuprevičius as well as the Jewish Songs by Mieczysław Weinberg emphasize this connotation.

Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica - Eight Seasons: Vivaldi / Piazzolla (2000)

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Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica - Eight Seasons: Vivaldi / Piazzolla (2000)

Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica - Eight Seasons: Vivaldi / Piazzolla (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 301 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 165 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Baroque, Contemporary, Tango | Label: Nonesuch | # 79568-2 | Time: 01:03:54

Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer's 2000 release Eight Seasons is a conceptual masterwork. Kremer, long known for his skillful interpretations of Astor Piazzolla's Argentinean tangos, had the brilliant idea of matching four of the Latin master's tone poems of the seasons in his native Buenos Aires with Antonio Vivaldi's conceptually similar masterpiece "The Four Seasons," alternating seasons between the two works. Besides the conceptual perfection of the idea, the performances are exquisite. Kremer and his conservatory orchestra, the Kremerata Baltica, do a particularly masterful job with the Vivaldi, avoiding the ornate bloat that affects so many recordings of this work. Their performances are brisk and to-the-point, with bright tempos that add a vitality not often found in this rather shopworn old standard. As always, Kremer's solos in the Piazzolla works are absolutely superb, with the dramatic flourishes of the massed string section providing startling counterpoint, especially on the breathtaking "Verano Porteno". Eight Seasons is a truly remarkable work by an underrated performer.

Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica - The Art Of Instrumentation: Homage To Glenn Gould (2012)

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Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica - The Art Of Instrumentation: Homage To Glenn Gould (2012)

Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica - The Art Of Instrumentation: Homage To Glenn Gould (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 266 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 162 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Nonesuch Records | # 528982-2 | Time: 00:58:51

Nonesuch Records releases The Art of Instrumentation: Homage to Glenn Gould, by violinist Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra, on September 25, 2012, which would have been Gould’s 80th birthday. The album comprises 11 pieces and arrangements by contemporary composers that quote from or are inspired by works, mostly by Bach, that Gould famously recorded during his career; two Arnold Schoenberg pieces also are drawn upon in one piece.

Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica - Silencio (2005)

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Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica - Silencio (2005)

Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica - Silencio (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 307 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 180 MB | 01:08:39
Genre: Classical | Label: Nonesuch

Violinist Gidon Kremer and his namesake chamber orchestra present works by three composers on this delightful Nonesuch recording. The CD opens with a version of Aarvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa that comes across as a more expressive, less "mystical" arrangement and interpretation than previously encountered. Kremer and Tatjana Grindenko play the solo violin parts, Reinut Tepp plays the prepared piano, and conductor Eri Klas leads the chamber orchestra in this work, which was originally dedicated to and premiered by Kremer, Grindenko, and Klas in 1977.

Gidon Kremer, Oleg Maisenberg, Kremerata Baltica, The Bridge Ensemble - Kancheli: In l'istesso tempo (2005)

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Gidon Kremer, Oleg Maisenberg, Kremerata Baltica, The Bridge Ensemble - Kancheli: In l'istesso tempo (2005)

Gidon Kremer, Oleg Maisenberg, Kremerata Baltica, The Bridge Ensemble - Kancheli: In l'istesso tempo (2005)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 268 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 164 MB | 01:04:14
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM

Eagerly anticipated album by Georgia’s Giya Kancheli (“the most important composer to have emerged from the former Soviet Union since the death of Shostakovich.” – Time Magazine), released in the year of his 70th birthday. This disc features one of Kancheli’s most ardent champions, the great violinist Gidon Kremer., who plays in duo with his old comrade, Russian pianist Oleg Maisenberg on the 26 minute 'Time… and again”, and leads the Kremerata Baltica on “V & V” for violin, taped voice, and string orchestra.

Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica - Schubert: String Quartet G Major (2007)

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Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica - Schubert: String Quartet G Major (2007)

Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica - Schubert: String Quartet G Major (2007)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 250 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 139 MB | 54:57
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM

As a tireless champion of new interpretations of the old, the ever-adventurous Gidon Kremer has over the years forged a lasting relationship with, above most others, the music of Franz Schubert. One can only imagine, then, the excitement he must have felt when he learned of composer Victor Kissine’s having finished a string orchestral version of Schubert’s G-major String Quartet (op. posth. 161, D 887).

Evgeny Kissin, Kremerata Baltica - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 27 (2010)

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Evgeny Kissin, Kremerata Baltica - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 27 (2010)

Evgeny Kissin, Kremerata Baltica - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 27 (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 63:16 | 253 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: 5099962664

Since his international debut as an astonishing child prodigy in the early 1980s, Evgeny Kissin has matured into one of the finest piano virtuosos of the age. His phenomenal keyboard technique and impeccable artistry continue to astound and amaze audiences and critics alike, leading The Washington Post to call Kissin "one of the world's greatest artists".
Kissin continues his fruitful relationship with EMI Classics with this new recording of two of Mozart's most famous piano concerti: Nos.20 in D minor and 27 in B-flat Major.

Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica - After Mozart (2001)

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Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica - After Mozart (2001)

Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica - After Mozart (2001)
W.A. Mozart - Alexander Raskatov - Valentin Silvestrov - Alfred Schnittke - Leopold Mozart

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 290 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 177 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Nonesuch | # 79633-2 | Time: 01:06:25

After Mozart, the 2001 Grammy winner for Best Small Ensemble Performance, by Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica, brings together the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (and his father, Leopold), with three contemporary works inspired by him. The works included, by contemporary Eastern European composers such as Alexander Raskatov, Valentin Silvestrov and Alfred Schnittke, invoke Mozart’s memory in ways direct and more subtle, and the more familiar Mozart pieces sandwiched in serve to bring the listener to a new way of hearing the more familiar pieces. The disc is an attempt, in Kremer’s words, to “set Mozart in the frame of our own time”.

Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer, Mario Brunello - Searching for Ludwig: Beethoven, Ferré, Sollima (2020)

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Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer, Mario Brunello - Searching for Ludwig: Beethoven, Ferré, Sollima (2020)

Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer, Mario Brunello - Searching for Ludwig: Beethoven, Ferré, Sollima (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 315 Mb | Total time: 78:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 660 | Recorded: 2011, 2019

Gidon Kremer and Mario Brunello pay tribute to Beethoven by presenting two of his most famous quartets in a version for string orchestra played by Kremerata Baltica. The ensembles founder Gidon Kremer directs op.131 from the violin, while Mario Brunello conducts op. 135 and adds two contemporary pieces, one by Leo Ferre, the revolutionary, anarchic, inspired singer-songwriter and great lover of Beethoven: Muss es sein? Es muss sein! We perform this hymn to free music in a version arranged by Valter Sivilotti for cello, strings and percussion with Ferres original voice Note sconte means hidden notes in Venetian dialect.