Two to tango: Gidon Kremer celebrates Piazzolla in Prague

By Frank Kuznik, 24 November 2021

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“Glorvigen gave a virtuoso demonstration of its capabilities... soulful, elegant, jazzy and ferocious”

Reviewed at Lucerna: Grand Hall, Prague on 22 November 2021

Piazzolla, Tres Minutos con la Realidad

Glorvigen, Tango funèbre for bandonéon and orchestra

Piazzolla, Tristezas de un doble A (arr. Joner/Glorvigen)

Rota, Concerto for string orchestra

Piazzolla, Milonga sin palabras

Piazzolla, Le Grand Tango (arr. Gubaidulina)

Piazzolla, Vardarito (arr. José Bragato)

Piazzolla, Celos (arr. Pushkarev)

Piazzolla, Fuga y misterio

Piazzolla, Oblivion

Gidon Kremer, Violin

Georgijs Osokins, Piano

Per Arne Glorvigen, Bandoneon

Andrei Pushkarev, Percussion

Kremerata Baltica

From tangos to Viennese cafés at Hamburg's Martha Argerich Festival

Linda Holt, 25th June

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

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Ghostly remembrances: Weinberg championed in Birmingham

Mark Pullinger, 24th November

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

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Bach goes Baltic: Kremerata Baltica at the Elbphilharmonie

Alexander Hall, 12th November

An intriguing combination of three contemporary Baltic composers matched against Bach, delivered with consummate musicianship by Kremerata Baltica.

*****

Gidon Kremer at Prague Spring: political consciousness and superb musicianship

Frank Kuznik, 16th May

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.

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Revivir la leyenda: Martha Argerich y la Kremerata Baltica

Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 26th November

Un concierto magistral, de altos vuelos, gracias a intérpretes excepcionales, Martha Argerich y la Kremerata Baltica, además de un programa interesante y equilibrado.

*****

Dépouillement et vérité chez Arvo Pärt, avec Gidon Kremer et la Kremerata Baltica à la Fondation Louis Vuitton

Manuel Gaulhiac, 31st March

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.

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Frank Kuznik

Frank Kuznik is the former Editor-in-Chief and Culture Editor of The Prague Post, Central Europe’s premier English-language weekly newspaper. He currently divides his time between Prague and his hometown in the US, Cleveland, where he covers northeast Ohio's dynamic classical music scene. In Prague he is an habitué of the Rudolfinum, National Theater, State Opera and other storied classical music venues, and an unabashed fan of Czech music.

Two to tango: Gidon Kremer and friends celebrate Piazzolla in Prague