Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica's recording of the complete Mozart violin concertos is out in a two-disc set on Nonesuch today. The Scotsman says "there's magic" on this recording from the "brilliant violinist" and gives it a perfect five stars. "This double album is truly sensational," exclaims the review ... There isn't a single moment where the interest pales, or the energy saps, or Kremer fails to surprise us." New Statesman says Kremer "captures the restlessness of the young Mozart," while the Kremerata "plays with tight ensemble and gleamingly honed tone." The double-disc set is currently the CD of the Week on the UK's Classic FM Morning Show.
Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica's recording of the complete Mozart violin concertos is out in a two-disc set on Nonesuch today. The recording was made at the group's 2006 performance of the concertos in the composer's home town, at the Saltzburg Festival. Following their performance of the works at Lincoln Center's 2006 Mostly Mozart Festival, two days prior, the New York Times praised Kremer's "ability to make a work, however familiar, entirely his own, dissimilar in most important details from the way other violinists play it, yet fully within both the spirit and letter of the score.”
The Scotsman says "there's magic" on this recording from the "brilliant violinist" and gives it a perfect five stars. "This double album is truly sensational," exclaims reviewer Kenneth Walton. "It has all the qualities I crave for in Mozart performance: exuberance of spirit, warmth of character, pristine intonation, and a complete (sometimes mischievous) sense of individuality that honours Mozartian musical principles without resorting to stylistic dogma."
While the works on the album may be familiar, this new recording offers excitement throughout. "There isn't a single moment where the interest pales, or the energy saps, or Kremer fails to surprise us," says Walton. "These are interpretations of extraordinary freshness and probing exploration ... The wonderful thing is, the whole band follows his lead to the ultimate extreme. This is single-minded genius on a corporate scale."
Read the complete five-star review at thescotsman.scotsman.com.
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New Statesman, in its review, provides a detailed account of the pieces' history, examining the composer's frame of mind when he composed them and suggesting that Kremer "captures the restlessness of the young Mozart" on the album.
Writer Rick Jones goes on to praise the Kremerata Baltica's performance, saying the group "plays with tight ensemble and gleamingly honed tone, heard especially in individual long notes held and swelled excitingly through the precise orchestral bustle."
Read the article at newstatesman.com.
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The double-disc set is currently the CD of the Week on the UK's Classic FM Morning Show with Simon Bates. Every morning, Bates will play a selection from this "outstanding new recording." For more information, visit classicfm.co.uk.
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