Title: 24 Preludes for Violin Solo Artist: Weinberg / Kremer Label: Accentus Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 4260234831856 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2019-04-05 Number of Discs: 1
The 24 preludes for cello solo by Mieczyslaw 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 it's 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.
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