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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-09 21:08:25
[…] never opening it. Ten years later he did a semi-staged Wozzeck, with Luxon and Behrens in the lead roles, and George Perle told me afterward it was one of the most moving performances he had ever heard. A few years later I had a fourth-row seat at a special concert that included the American premiere of Arthur Lourié’s fascinating Blackamoor of Peter the Great, followed by a magical performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Kremer, all superbly controlled. I didn’t hear more than a portion of Messiaen’s seven-hour opera St. François d’Assise, when the BSO did a few excerpts after the Paris premiere; I thought the music was hideous, but couldn’t fault the performance, and Messiaen had personally selected Ozawa to direct it for him. And I was present in Symphony Hall in 1981 for the premiere of Roger Sessions’s Concerto for Orchestra, which Ozawa used, along with Beethoven’s […]
2024-02-09 15:09:42
LEBRECHT LISTENS | Gidon Kremer’s Most Personal Release Is Austere, Uplifting
This is Kremer’s most personal release, bringing together composers from Baltic states with Mieczyslaw Weinberg, who is Kremer’s pet project.
2024-01-19 17:27:31
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2023-11-30 12:42:00
Recent Releases No. 67 (CD Reviews)
by Karl NehringTractus. Arvo Pärt: Littlemore Tractus; Greater Antiphons I-VII; Cantique des degrés; Sequentia; L’abbé Agathon;These Words…; Veni creator; Vater unser. Maria Listra, soprano; Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir; Tallinn Chamber Orchestra; Tönu Kaljuste, conductor. ECM New Series 2800 485 9166Recorded in Tallinn’s Methodist Church last year, Tractus extends the line of Arvo Pärt albums on the ECM label that began with Tabula rasa in 1984, the recording which first brought Pärt’s music to widespread awareness. I was in graduate school back then, working weekends as a security guard at a factory. Late one night as I drove from the main plant to check on an off-site location while listening to classical music on WOSU-FM, they played music from that album, which featured not only classical violinist Gidon Kremer but also jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. I was transfixed by Pårt’s music, becoming an immediate fan. I purchased the CD that very week and went on to acquire dozens more over the next four […]
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