Review of the new CD “Songs of Fate” in NY Times

“This is one of Kremer’s most personal undertakings. His playing — especially in Serksnyte’s “This Too Shall Pass” and Weinberg’s simple, sad “Nocturne” — has the breath and rhythm of halting speech. Soprano Vida Mikneviciute imparts a similar tone to Kuprevicius’s “Kaddish” and to excerpts from Weinberg’s “Jewish Songs.” Jancevskis’s “Lignum” for string orchestra and chimes, played with deep sensitivity by the chamber orchestra Kremerata Baltica, progresses from dissonance to resounding affirmation to an open-ended conclusion. It sounds like Kremer’s description of the album’s purpose: “reminding us of tragic fates along the way and that we each have a ‘voice’ that deserves to be heard.” David Weininger 

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