Queen Elisabeth Competition: Gidon Kremer (1967)
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Label: Muso
Cat No: MU018
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 23rd April 2021
Contents
Artists
Gidon Kremer (violin)Marina Mondarenko (piano)
Grand Orchestre Symphonique de la RTB
National Orchestra of Belgium
Conductors
Daniel SternefeldRene Defossez
Works
Poeme, op.25Violin Concerto in B minor, op.61
Phantasie in C major, op.131
Artists
Gidon Kremer (violin)Marina Mondarenko (piano)
Grand Orchestre Symphonique de la RTB
National Orchestra of Belgium
Conductors
Daniel SternefeldRene Defossez
About
In the final, three of the four laureates are Latvian, something that could not but ruffle the feathers of the Soviet authorities. Philippe Hirschhorn’s first place was beyond doubt, he was more than imperial and playing like that had unquestionably not been heard since Leonid Kogan in 1951. Yet on the third step of the podium, the public discovered an extraordinary musician in a young man aged barely twenty: Gidon Kremer. He presented an unusual programme, performing the Elgar Concerto, a work rarely played in the final of leading competitions. He was disappointed at his ranking, yet such a nature could not leave the members of the jury indifferent, in one way or another!
All of Kremer can already be found in these very first recordings of someone who would mark the history of his instrument for the next 50 years. His playing is nervy, at times abrasive, yet always soulful. There is no sense of artificial beauty with Gidon Kremer; he is a fighter for art, an outstanding musical personality that his subsequent immense career has shown every day.
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