Gidon Kremer at Rockport Chamber Music Festival

Gidon Kremer at Rockport Chamber Music Festival

17/08/2023
News

Fireworks for Gidon Kremer and Friends

The cognoscenti’s violinist and his group of young Balto-Slavic collaborators performed to a large Russian-speaking contingent in a packed Rockport Chamber Music Festival on Saturday. Gidon Kremer has always championed young talent and contemporary music and the evening featured both. Except for the Brahms Sonata No. 4 for violin and piano, the concert looked to post-Stalin Slavic modernism. Composers ranged from the well- to lesser-known—Shostakovich to Silvestrov (Ukrainian, born in 1937).

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