ASIA TOUR 2015

Masks and Faces

Kremerata Baltica
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone)

Program

Arvo Pärt (1935)
“Fratres” for violin solo, string orchestra and percussion

Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Concertino for violin and string orchestra

Excerpts from “The Art of Instrumentation: Tribute to Glenn Gould”

   Valentin Silvestrov (1937)
   “Hommage to J.S.B.” for violin and “Echo sounds”

   Andrius Zlabys (1977)
   Quarter=87

   Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer (1963)
   Nos. 30, 4, 18 and 26, and Three Intermezzi from op. 19 and op. 47 of Arnold Schoenberg

   Victor Kissine (1953) 
   Aria from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

“Russia: Masks and Faces” 

A joint video project by Gidon Kremer (violin), Maxim Kantor (painter and writer) and Kremerata Baltica based on the music by M. Mussorgsky (“Pictures at an exhibition” version for string orchestra by J.Cohen/A. Pushkarev), I. Loboda and V. Silvestrov.