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Kremer gives a beautifully tender account of the first movement of the Concerto, aided by a markedly slower opening tempo than usual and by a really hushed pianissimo at the outset. The result is that the change of mood and tempo when the music moves from andante to allegretto are immediately perceptible: the allegretto has not been pre-empted by earlier accelerations, as can easily happen. Any risk of sleepiness is averted by his firm rhythmic phrasing, and he is a very expressive player... The chorale is played with affecting restraint, the woodwind really hushed...
Kremer's performance...is worth considering as a gentler alternative to Perlman's marvellous account on DG (especially if you do not want his coupling—the
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Stravinsky Concerto). This is particularly true of the CD version, where the sensitive dynamic shadings are finely rendered and the internal balance is to a degree restored.
-- Gramophone
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Works on This Recording
1.
Concerto for Violin by Alban Berg
Performer:
Gidon Kremer (Violin)
Conductor:
Sir Colin Davis
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1935; Austria
Date of Recording: 03/1984
Venue: Munich
Length: 11 Minutes 53 Secs.
2.
Pieces (3) for Orchestra, Op. 6 by Alban Berg
Conductor:
Sir Colin Davis
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1915/1929; Austria
Date of Recording: 12/1983
Venue: Munich
Length: 18 Minutes 2 Secs.
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