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A chamber programme of Shostakovich’s private idioms and public masks

Philip Glass' Double Concerto proves to be a substantial, rewarding work in the hands of Gidon Kremer and Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė with fine support from the Belgrade Philharmonic under Hossein Pishkar. 

A perennially unsettling pair of complementary post-war masterpieces, conducted by Andrey Boreyko, and a moving return to London for Gidon Kremer. 

With an assist from Gidon Kremer, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra shines in an overheated, challenging program.

With superb support from Kremerata Baltica and a smart set of soloists, Gidon Kremer continues a love affair that began 25 years ago.

Piazzolla rubs shoulders with Lanner and Kreisler at the Martha Argerich Music Festival in Hamburg's Laeiszhalle. 

Violinist Gidon Kremer has championed the music of 20th-century Polish composer, Mieczysław Weinberg, whose music, influenced by Shostakovich, has so far been rarely heard. Here, Kremer performed the Violin Concerto.

Nearly a century after his birth, Weinberg's final completed symphony is given its UK premiere by the CBSO and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.

It was Omer Meir Wellber’s turn to conduct the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in its first concert of the new season, a programme of music by Dvořák and Bartók which promised to be the perfect antidote to the Daily Grind.

Bergen Philharmonic’s programme of Grieg’s Piano Concerto and Gubaidulina’s violin concerto Offertorium offered fascinating insight into the relationship between orchestra and soloist.

Music by Mendelssohn framed Schumann’s misunderstood Violin Concerto in this sensitive concert led by Ludovic Morlot and featuring guest violinist Gidon Kremer.

A first performance of Weinberg for the NSO and a thoroughly fearsome Shostakovich Eighth.

Balance and transparency may have been in short supply elsewhere Friday afternoon, but not in Symphony Hall where Juanjo Mena led the Boston Symphony in a bracing program of works by Prokofiev, Weinberg and Tchaikovsky.The 26 year-old Prokofiev wrote the Symphony no.

Gidon Kremer, long-time champion of Sofia Gubaidulina, joined the Berliner Philharmoniker and Christian Thielemann for a performance of In tempus praesens.

Gidon Kremer brought the latest version of his Kremerata Baltica ensemble to Prague Spring on Friday night for more than a concert., in which he proved there is still no one quite like him who combines political consciousness with superb musicianship.

With musicians of this caliber, it is the soul of the music that matters not the mathematics, and Martha Argerich and Gidon Kremer were nothing if not soulmates in this Istanbul recital.

Aux côtés de Gidon Kremer, Maxim Rysanov et Gautier Capuçon pour un florilège de sonates, le pianiste russe a magnifiquement servi la musique de Chostakovitch.

En sonate puis en trio dans le chef-d'œuvre de Tchaïkovski, les trois artistes ont livré un concert inégal, ponctué de quelques moments d'exception.

Gidon Kremer konnte bei Bartóks Erstem Violinkonzert seine ganze Kunst vorführen. Markus Poschner dirigierte Mahlers Erste Symphonie.

En trio, le violoniste letton livre une lecture bouleversante d'œuvres de compositeurs contemporains méconnus, avant un Trio « Élégiaque » n° 2 de Rachmaninov plus ordinaire.

L'Orchestre de Radio-France s'invite à la Philharmonie pour un programme à l'accent américain, de Fauré à Bernstein en passant par Glass (création française du Double concerto) et Copland.

Un concert qui laissera comme une trace lumineuse, un souvenir de joie sans mélange.

Avec Fratres et Tabula Rasa, c’est un nouveau chemin qui s’ouvre à la musique. Mais plus qu’un chemin de la nouveauté, c’est le chemin d’un retour à une certaine forme de pureté de l’inspiration, qui passe dans l’écriture et la réalisation par une économie de moyens. 

Mit Sofia Gubaidulinas zweitem Violinkonzert und Bruckners Neunter boten Gidon Kremer und die Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden unter der Leitung von Christian Thielemann ein wahres Klangerlebnis für das Berliner Publikum.