Latvian Violinist Gidon Kremer to Perform at UCLA on Sunday, Nov. 19
Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer performed at UCLA?s Royce Hall on Sunday, Nov. 19 at 7 pm. Kremer, heralded as ?one of the most expressive and fiercely original artists of his generation,? has been performing from an enormous, wide-ranging repertoire for 30 years.
Kremer, along with Lithuanian pianist Andrius Zlabys and Ukrainian percussionist Andrei Pushkarev, performed a set entitled ?After Bach,? comprised of Bach’s “Fuga Canonica” from Musical Offering, BWV 1079, Arvo P?rt’s “Fratres,” B?la Bart?k’s “Sonata for Solo Violin,” Stevan Kovac Tickmayer’s “Three Variations on a Hymn of J.S. Bach” and Astor Piazzolla’s “Grand Tango” and “Three Milongas.”
Kremer has shared the stage with Leonard Bernstein, Andre Previn and Zubin Mehta, and such diverse composers as Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, Aribert Reimann and John Adams. He has also recorded more than 100 albums and won a Grammy for his 2001 release, ?After Mozart?. Most recently, he released “Johann Sebastian Bach: The Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo” as a 2-CD set on ECM in fall 2005.
The concert?ran 1 hour and 30 minutes with an intermission.
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