Complete Violin Concertos

by Christoph Eschenbach / Gidon Kremer

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  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 24 October 2000
  • Label: Teldec
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 1:51:37
  • Community rating: 3.83/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Gidon Kremer's complete recording of Alfred Schnittke's four violin concertos, with Christoph Eschenbach conducting, reissued by Teldec as a set. Kremer was the dedicatee and first interpreter of much of Schnittke's violin music, and remains the only violinist to have recorded the cycle complete.

Genres

Descriptors: orchestral, virtuosic, dissonant, complex, instrumental, modern

Tracklist

  1. Schnittke: Violin Concerto No. 1: I. Allegro ma non troppo (12:46)
  2. Schnittke: Violin Concerto No. 1: II. Andante (10:03)
  3. Schnittke: Violin Concerto No. 1: III. Allegro scherzando (8:22)
  4. Schnittke: Violin Concerto No. 2 (21:47)
  5. Schnittke: Violin Concerto No. 3: I. Moderato (8:32)
  6. Schnittke: Violin Concerto No. 3: II. Agitato (6:04)
  7. Schnittke: Violin Concerto No. 3: III. Andante (10:11)
  8. Schnittke: Violin Concerto No. 4: I. Andante (5:10)
  9. Schnittke: Violin Concerto No. 4: II. Vivo (Cadenza visuale) (6:55)
  10. Schnittke: Violin Concerto No. 4: III. Adagio (9:36)
  11. Schnittke: Violin Concerto No. 4: IV. Lento (Cadenza visuale) (12:11)

Credits

  • Gidon Kremer - primary artist, violin
  • Christoph Eschenbach - primary artist, conductor

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