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Label/No. & Format Accentus Music ACC30476 CD
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Release: February 8, 2019


* Weinberg: 24 Preludes for Violin Solo
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Recorded at Paliesiaus Dvaras, Lithuania, December 2017

The 24 preludes for cello solo by Mieczysaw Weinberg have a particular history.
Composed in the late sixties for Mstislav Rostropovich, he never actually played them.
Their musical language is aphoristic, often brutal, provocative in its inner conflict.
It contains many different gestures and is very intense. To perform these preludes
might have been problematic in the Soviet Union back then.
Gidon Kremer has adapted the Preludes for solo violin and this is the world premiere
recording of his adaptation. In his concerts, Kremer often plays them to projections of works
by the Lithuanian photographer Antanas Sutkus in the background.

No. Composer Works Performance Information
1 Weinberg, Mieczyslaw Preludes (24) for cello solo, Op. 100 Gidon Kremer (violin)
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