Word: kremer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra, sporting a full program of internationally renowned conductors and soloists, rounded out another fine summer at the Tangle-wood Music Center. Perhaps the most exciting of the thrice-weekly concerts was that involving both Bernard Haitink and Gidon Kremer...
Haitink, who had been conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam for more than twenty years, led the BSO in a performance of the Prelude to the First Act of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnburg, the Sibelius Violin Concerto, and Brahms' First Symphony. Kremer joined the orchestra as soloist in the concerto...
...Kremer came on stage...
...Sibelius dressed in a black shirt and pants, canary yellow jacket and yellowish how tie. A former student of David Oistrakh. Kremer uncharacteristically let his innovation stop with his wardrobe. Instead of inserting strains of modern composers' work, as he has with cadenzas by Schnitke and Robert Levin '68, he stuck to Sibelius's own cadenzas...
...Sibelius concerto's first movement consists of a series of impressive solo passages interspersed with cascading tuttis and fine wind entrances. As the orchestra began, its glistening harmonics were accompanied by a low roll of thunder; it was raining hard by the third movement. Kremer played the beginning of the first lick a bit raggedly but was well on target by the time he handed the melodic line over to the orchestra. His second solo passage came off perfectly, with brilliantly intoned harmonizations...