Vida Miknevičiūtė

Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica, Vida Miknevičiūtė – Songs of Fate (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:29 minutes | 954 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM New Series

“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’.”

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