Gidon Kremer - Finding Your Own Voice - Accentus Music: ACC20414 - DVD Video

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This sequence of almost mini-documentaries, beautifully paced, shows different sides of his character, musicianship and history…The cameras follow him to Moscow where he studied with David Oistrakh,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, More…

Release Date: 4th Oct 2019
Catalogue No: ACC20414
Label: Accentus Music

International Classical Music Awards

2020

Winner - Video Documentary
BBC Music Magazine

May 2020

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Weinberg: Twenty-Four Preludes, Op. 100

Gidon Kremer (violin)

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That art is not an end in itself, but is associated with a mission, a moral obligation, is evident in the artistic endeavor of Gidon Kremer. In his playing, the violinist has never stopped searching for truths hidden within the depth and beauty of music. “Gidon Kremer – Finding Your Own Voice” is a calm, thoughtful film about a great intellectual whose ethos, as a mediator of such truths, is alien to any form of self-aggrandizement.

Over the course of one year, Paul Smaczny accompanied Gidon Kremer with the camera, observing him with his Kremerata Baltica in Paris and Riga, as a soloist in Moscow and Tokyo, as well as encountering him as a socially and politically active person. The film also recalls important stages in the artist’s life and tells of influences and partnerships that have shaped him to this day. A calm, thoughtful film that conveys the experience of the highest art of interpretation and deep musical content to the viewer and generates a stirring intensity with poetic images.

The DVD also includes a concert recording from the Gogol Center in Moscow, “Preludes to a Lost Time,” the 24 Preludes op. 100 by Mieczysław Weinberg, which Gidon Kremer adapted for violin. The work can be regarded as a milestone in the violinist’s artistic involvement with the music of this remarkable composer. Kremer performs them to projections of black-and-white images of Lithuanian photographer Antanas Sutkus, thereby visually emphasizing the narrative power of the music.

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May 2020

This sequence of almost mini-documentaries, beautifully paced, shows different sides of his character, musicianship and history…The cameras follow him to Moscow where he studied with David Oistrakh, but there’s more than simple reminiscence here…[The performance of Weinberg’s 24 Preludes] forms the substantial bonus and has riveting intensity, enhanced by the changing photographic backdrops. Kremer’s authenticity always shines out.

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