Songs of Fate

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it’s the Three Jewish Songs, played in stunningly effective arrangements for voice and string orchestra by Veniamin Basner, that make the greatest impact, particularly when the singing of soprano... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 19th Jan 2024
Catalogue No: 4859850
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 57 minutes

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Šerkšnytė: This Too Shall Pass

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Gidon Kremer (violin), Magdalena Ceple (cello), Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Kremerata Baltica (chamber orchestra)
Gidon Kremer
Recorded: 2022-07
Recording Venue: Pfarrkirche St.Nikolaus, Lockenhaus

This Too Shall Pass

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Kuprevičius: Chamber Symphony 'The Star of David'

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Vida Miknevičiūtė (soprano), Kremerata Baltica (chamber orchestra)
Gidon Kremer
Recorded: 2019-07
Recording Venue: Plokštelių studija, Vilnius

David's Lamentation

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Kuprevičius: Kaddish-Prelude

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Gidon Kremer (violin), Andrei Pushkarev (percussion)
Recorded: 2019-07
Recording Venue: Plokštelių studija, Vilnius

Kaddish-Prelude

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Kuprevičius: Penultimate Kaddish

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Vida Miknevičiūtė (soprano), Kremerata Baltica (chamber orchestra)
Gidon Kremer
Recorded: 2019-07
Recording Venue: Plokštelių studija, Vilnius

Penultimate Kaddish

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Kuprevičius: Chamber Symphony 'The Star of David'

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Vida Miknevičiūtė (soprano), Gidon Kremer (violin)
Recorded: 2019-07
Recording Venue: Plokštelių studija, Vilnius

Postlude. The Luminous Lament

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Weinberg: Nocturne

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Gidon Kremer (violin), Kremerata Baltica (chamber orchestra)
Gidon Kremer
Recorded: 2019-07
Recording Venue: Plokštelių studija, Vilnius

Weinberg: Aria, Op. 9

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Kremerata Baltica (chamber orchestra)
Gidon Kremer
Recorded: 2019-07
Recording Venue: Plokštelių studija, Vilnius

Aria, Op. 9

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Weinberg: Children’s Songs, Op. 13, for soprano and piano, to poems by Itzhok Lejb Perez

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Vida Miknevičiūtė (soprano), Kremerata Baltica (chamber orchestra)
Gidon Kremer
Recorded: 2019-07
Recording Venue: Plokštelių studija, Vilnius

No. 2, Breytele

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No. 4, Der Yeger

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No. 5, Oyfn grinem bergele

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Weinberg: Kujawiak

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Gidon Kremer (violin), Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Kremerata Baltica (chamber orchestra)
Gidon Kremer
Recorded: 2019-07
Recording Venue: Plokštelių studija, Vilnius

Kujawiak

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Jančevskis: Lignum

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Kremerata Baltica (chamber orchestra)
Gidon Kremer
Recorded: 2022-07
Recording Venue: Pfarrkirche St.Nikolaus, Lockenhaus

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"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 album Songs of Fate.

Together with his Kremerata Baltica chamber ensemble and soprano Vida Mikneviciute, Kremer approaches scores by Baltic composers Raminta Serksnyte, Giedrius Kuprevicius, Jekabs Jancevskis and the Polish-Jewish composer Mieczyslaw 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 Kuprevicius as well as the Jewish Songs by Mieczyslaw Weinberg emphasise this connotation. Bookending Songs of Fate are premiere recordings of Raminta Serksnyte's This too shall pass and Jekabs Jancevskis's Lignum, bringing the voices of a younger generation of composers to the fore. The album was produced by Manfred Eicher.

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March 2024

it’s the Three Jewish Songs, played in stunningly effective arrangements for voice and string orchestra by Veniamin Basner, that make the greatest impact, particularly when the singing of soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė is so hypnotically affecting...Jančevskis’s work utilises a distinctive yet accessible range of sonorities, and certainly makes an immediate impact on first hearing.

May 2024

Accompanied once more by the everreliable Kremerata Baltica and also featuring Vida Miknevičiūtė's searing soprano voice, ‘Songs of Fate’ presents this remarkable musician’s journey in an altogether personal and intimate light.

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