A Baltic breeze wafted through Carnegie’s Zankel Hall Thursday night, as a trio of Latvian and Lithuanian musicians paid ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Gidon Kremer has never been one to do things the usual way. While other violinists give their umpteenth performances of concertos by Beethoven or Bruch, ...

Cesar Franck—Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 14 Kancheli—Silent Prayer Tickmayer—Eight Hymns in memoriam Andrei Tarkovsky A beautifully-recorded album from master violinist Gidon Kremer and his ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. What Kremer doesn’t say is that for him beauty is hardly skin deep. His ...

More than one sage has said that if you want to stay young, be around young people. Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer seems to subscribe to that notion, for the 66-year-old virtuoso is touring with a ...

Violinist Gidon Kremer has established a worldwide reputation as one of the most original and compelling artists of his generation, praised for his high degree of individualism, his rejection of the ...

Latvian-born violinist Gidon Kremer is not only an esteemed virtuoso but also a musical adventurer — a dogged champion of the new and unusual, no matter its source. In addition, the world-class ...

Gidon Kremer’s repertory fascinations have been a boon to listeners over the years, not least because his work as a director of ensembles and festivals has let him look beyond the confines of his own ...

The underlying element uniting these two chamber pieces, composed more than a century Apart, are their Russian origins and the piano trio format as compositional vehicle. Jurg Stenzl, in his notes, ...

Gould's name could easily have been left off of this fascinating project except that both Kremer and Nonesuch record label head Robert Hurwitz both knew Gould, and it was Hurwitz who suggested some ...

When Herbert von Karajan famously called Gidon Kremer the greatest violinist in the world in 1976, the legendary German conductor didn’t know what he was talking about. Kremer was the best. He had ...