Word: preludio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kremer even dabbled in electronics. This came in a shortish Preludio by the contemporary Soviet composer Alfred Schnittke. The music had an eerie, almost macabre aura, heighte at one point when Kremer played against a passage that he had taped earlier and that was being beamed into the hall over loudspeakers. But Kremer's interpretations of two unaccompanied works by Bach-the Partita No. 1 in B-minor and, as an encore, the fiendishly difficult Chaconne-were the biggest surprise. This was Bach done in a robust, free style that damned scholarship and gave the music continuous life...
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