GIDON KREMER / KREMERATA BALTICA 30 YEARS
Gidon Kremer is a living legend. Few artists can claim to have given so much to the history of music. The concert he brings to Verbier this evening is a reflection of the man himself: essential and wide-ranging.
Programme
Three Baltic Pieces — Swiss premieres, dedicated to Gidon Kremer’s 80th birthday and Kremerata Baltica’s 30th anniversary: Jēkabs Jančevskis (Latvia), Andrius Žlabys (Lithuania), Alisson Kruusmaa (Estonia)
GYÖRGY LIGETI (1923-2006)
String Quartet No. 1 “Métamorphoses nocturnes” (arr. A. Keller & Kremerata Baltica)
Interval
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810-1849)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Op. 11 (arr. Y. Sharlat)
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992)
Three Pieces for Violin, Vibraphone and Strings (arr. A. Pushkarev)
– Tres minutos con la realidad
– Celos
– Grand Tango
Artist(s)
- Gidon Kremer violin
- Andrei Pushkarev vibraphone
- Tianyao Lyu piano
- Kremerata Baltica ensemble
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2027 marks a double anniversary for Gidon Kremer: the Latvian violinist’s 80th birthday and the 30th anniversary of his remarkable ensemble, Kremerata Baltica. Kremer’s name is naturally inseparable from the music of our time, including, this evening, three Swiss premieres from the vibrant Baltic school of composition: Jēkabs Jančevskis (Latvia), Andrius Žlabys (Lithuania), Alisson Kruusmaa (Estonia). With Kremerata Baltica, the violinist-director pursues a clear legacy: giving Baltic artists an international platform but also passing on his exacting standards to a new generation of musicians. The concert, which the ensemble gives at the Église, is once again a model of its kind: new arrangements of Ligeti’s First String Quartet rejected by the Soviet authorities, an invitation to the young (and already celebrated) Chinese pianist Tianyao Lyu and a return to pieces by Astor Piazzolla whose interpretation Kremer transformed in the late 1990s. Happy (double) anniversary, Mr Kremer!
