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2022-09-28 15:23:58
exystence by exy / September 28, 2022 at 11:43AM Internationally prominent violinist and conductor G
2022-06-07 09:54:32
i bērzs, i smilgas... (and a birch and grasses...) - Latvian song across the generations from Emils Melngailis & Kristaps Pētersons
[…] Osokins provides fine support and in the moments when Melngailis does allow the piano more of a role, Osokins charms and he is allowed to come to the fore in Melngailis' delightful piano solo, Vientuliba no cikla klavierem Mazie meti (Loneliness from cycle for piano Little Sketches). Born over 100 years after Melngailis, the music of Kristaps Pētersons is vastly different in its concerns. He is both a composer and performer and plays bass in Kremerata Baltica. His Music for Piano was written to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. A substantial piece, its concerns seem to be for texture rather than harmonic content. The work begins with intense, placed individual notes creating a slow moving texture. As the work develops, Pētersons pushes the piano to its limits in some powerful climaxes (and it has to be admitted that the recorded piano sound is not ideal), but all the […]
2022-02-21 14:50:04
Handel, 2022
[…] a violinist. Gidon Kremer will turn 75 on the 27th, he was born on that day in 1947 in Riga, Latvia. Latvia, now independent, was then part of the Soviet Union; Kremer studied at the Moscow Conservatory with David Oistrakh, became a laureate of several major competitions, and then won the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1970. In 1980 Kremer emigrated from the Soviet Union and settled in Germany. In 1997 Kremer founded a chamber orchestra called Kremerata Baltica. Even though Kramer’s repertoire is very broad (he’s a big promoter of contemporary music), as far as we know he hasn’t recorded a single violin sonata of Handel. So instead we’ll hear Kremer playing a violin sonata by Handel’s contemporary, Johann Sebastian Bach. Here’s Bach Violin Sonata No.3 in C major BWV 1005, written in 1720. The recording was made in 1981.
2021-11-03 20:14:00
For his 50th birthday in 1997, the Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer founded the Kremerata Baltica, a hand-picked ensemble of the finest young string players from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. The orchestra serves as laboratory, classroom and amplifier for Kremer’s open-minded creative curiosity, which often translates into commissions, collaborations, and new ways of presenting and hearing [...]
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