Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5

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…Kremer's performances are irresistibly alert and inventive, with playing that's imbued with his personality throughout. The 'Turkish' episode of the A major Concerto's finale, with its stamping... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 20th Jul 2009
Catalogue No: 7559798863
Label: Nonesuch
Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat major K207

Work length19:46

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Gidon Kremer
Kremerata Baltica

Allegro moderato

Track length6:43

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Adagio

Track length7:18

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Presto

Track length5:45

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Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, K211

Work length19:35

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Gidon Kremer
Kremerata Baltica

Allegro moderato

Track length8:29

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Andante

Track length6:51

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Rondeau Allegro

Track length4:15

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Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K216

Work length22:26

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Gidon Kremer, Polina Peskina (flute), Rahel Leuenberger (flute)
Kremerata Baltica

Allegro

Track length8:36

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Adagio

Track length7:43

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Rondeau Allegro

Track length6:07

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Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K218

Work length21:15

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Gidon Kremer
Kremerata Baltica

Allegro

Track length8:03

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Andante cantabile

Track length5:41

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Rondeau Andante graz.

Track length7:31

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Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K219 'Turkish'

Work length27:27

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Gidon Kremer
Kremerata Baltica

Allegro aperto

Track length9:11

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Adagio

Track length9:43

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Rondeau Tempo di Men.

Track length8:33

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Following the Grammy Award-winning Latvian violinist’s performance of Mozart’s complete violin concertos at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival in 2006, the New York Times declared “Gidon Kremer's great interpretive strength has always been his ability to make a work, however familiar, entirely his own, dissimilar in most important details from the way other violinists play it, yet fully within both the spirit and letter of the score.”

This new two-disc set, with historical liner notes by critic and musicologist Michael Steinberg, presents Kremer and Kremerata Baltica, his touring ensemble of young musicians from the Baltic States, in a performance of Mozart’s five violin concertos, recorded at the Salzburg Festival in Austria two days after his Lincoln Center shows. Said Times critic Allan Koznin of the New York event, “Mr. Kremer's phrasing, in both his solo lines and his direction of the orchestra, avoided the predictable or the metronomic: phrases ebbed and flowed, with sharp accenting and dynamic contrast that kept the music fresh and, in its best moments, surprising. In all five works Mr. Kremer played the concise, stylish cadenzas by Robert Levin, which adhered to the conventions of Mozart's time.”

According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, “You can't ever expect a performance by violinist Gidon Kremer to be staid, or even ordinary. His fertile and original mind, married to phenomenal technique and great musicianship, makes every concert in which he appears a musical adventure.” In his Nonesuch career, the 62 year-old Kremer has perhaps most famously explored the repertoire of Astor Piazzola; he recently released a specially commissioned piece, Russian Seasons, by Ukrainian composer Leonid Desyatnikov, pairing it on disc with an interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s 12-part The Seasons. On his 2001 After Mozart, Kremer contrasted Mozart’s own work with Mozart-inspired pieces by contemporary Eastern European composers Alexander Raskatov, Valentin Silvestrov, and Alfred Schnittke. This summer and fall Kremer will be performing with Kremerata Baltica in Europe and touring Asia with the virtuosic music/comedy duo of violinist Aleksey Igudesman and pianist Richard Hyung-ki Joo. In July, he will preside over the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, an intimate event he organises annually in the village of Lockenhaus, Austria.

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September 2009

…Kremer's performances are irresistibly alert and inventive, with playing that's imbued with his personality throughout. The 'Turkish' episode of the A major Concerto's finale, with its stamping rhythms accentuated by the double-basses slapping their strings with upside-down bows, has never sounded more vivid. ...an impressive achievement.

2nd August 2009

Taking his cue from the famous last movement of the A major concerto (No 5) — in which the sounds of Hungarian fiddle folk-dance rudely interrupt elegant salon minuets — Kremer invests all of the concertos’ fast movements with an earthy vigour, even abrasiveness, revealing the 19-year-old Mozart already proclaiming his rebellious genius on the threshold of his maturity. Even if Kremer’s insights teeter on the brink of mannerism, these are bracing, controversial but always compelling alternatives to recent complete recordings by outstanding younger players…

31st August 2009

the last four of the five concertos were all written in the same year, 1775, when the composer was 19, and share a certain air of prolific juvenile confidence, which Kremer conveys through deft, cheeky ornamentation. More youthful still is the often overlooked first concerto which is bursting with melodic invention in the opening and closing passages and the central Adagio.

Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1-5

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