Beethoven & Chopin: Piano Trios Gidon Kremer, Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, Georgijs Osokins

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827): Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56 (Arr. C. Reinecke for Piano Trio):
• 1 Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56 (Arr. C. Reinecke for Piano Trio): I. Allegro 18:44
• 2 Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56 (Arr. C. Reinecke for Piano Trio): II. Largo 05:07
• 3 Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56 (Arr. C. Reinecke for Piano Trio): III. Rondo alla polacca 13:56
• Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849): Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 8, B. 25:
• 4 Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 8, B. 25: I. Allegro con fuoco 10:56
• 5 Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 8, B. 25: II. Scherzo. Vivace 06:45
• 6 Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 8, B. 25: III. Adagio. Sostenuto 06:13
• 7 Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 8, B. 25: IV. Finale. Allegretto 05:38
• Total Runtime 01:07:19

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„Außergewöhnlich und unberechenbar!“ So hieß es in der Presse, als er mit 19 Jahren beim Internationalen Chopin-Wettbewerb 2015 erstmals für Aufsehen sorgte. Seither erobert sich der charismatische Pianist Georgijs Osokins geradezu im Handstreich die internationalen Konzertpodien. In der vergangenen Saison gab er sein Debüt beim Klavier-Festival Ruhr. Zu den frühen Förderern des jungen Letten gehörte sein berühmter Landsmann Gidon Kremer – mit ihm und der litauischen Cellistin Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, die in Kremers Orchester Kremerata Baltica schon lange eine wichtige Rolle spielt, kehrt Osokins nun zum Festival zurück. Das selten gespielte g-Moll-Trio von Frédéric Chopin steht am Anfang ihres Programms, danach widmet sich das Trio dem Tripelkonzert Ludwig van Beethovens. Dabei ist das gleichberechtigte Miteinander aller drei Stimmen in einer rein kammermusikalischen Fassung zu erleben: Volle Konzentration auf die von Beethoven in Musik gegossene Demokratie!

Gidon Kremer, Violine
Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, Cello
Georgijs Osokins, Klavier

Gidon Kremer
Violinist, artistic director and founder of Kremerata Baltica.

Driven by his strikingly uncompromising artistic philosophy, Gidon Kremer has established a worldwide reputation as one of his generation’s most original and compelling artists. His repertoire encompasses standard classical scores and music by leading twentieth and twenty-first century composers. He has championed the works of Russian and Eastern European composers and performed many important new compositions, several of which have been dedicated to him. His name is closely associated with such composers as Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Giya Kancheli, Sofia Gubaidulina, Valentin Silvestrov, Luigi Nono, Edison Denisov, Aribert Reimann, Pēteris Vasks, John Adams, Victor Kissine, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, Leonid Desyatnikov and Astor Piazzolla, whose works he performs in ways that respect tradition while being fully alive to their freshness and originality. It is fair to say that no other soloist of comparable international stature has done more to promote the cause of contemporary composers and new music for violin.

Gidon Kremer has recorded over 120 albums, many of which have received prestigious international awards in recognition of their exceptional interpretative insights. His long list of honours and awards include the Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis, the Bundesverdienstkreuz, Moscow’s Triumph Prize, the Unesco Prize and the Una Vita Nella Musica – Artur Rubinstein Prize. In 2016 Gidon Kremer has received a Praemium Imperiale prize that is widely considered to be the Nobel Prize of music.

In 1997 Gidon Kremer founded the chamber orchestra Kremerata Baltica to foster outstanding young musicians from the Baltic States. The ensemble tours extensively and has recorded almost 30 albums for the Nonesuch, Deutsche Grammophon, Burleske and ECM labels. “After Mozart” (Nonesuch, 2001) received an ECHO prize and a GRAMMY award in 2002, while their recent release on ECM of works by Mieczysław Weinberg was nominated for a GRAMMY in 2015.

Maestro Kremer will lead Kremerata Baltica on landmark tours of North America and Europe in 2016-17 to celebrate the orchestra’s 20th anniversary and his 70th birthday year.

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