Gidon Kremer: Mozart – Complete Violin Concertos (2 CD, FLAC)

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Orchestra: Kremerata Baltica
Conductor: Gidon Kremer
Audio CD
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks+cue)
Label: Nonesuch
Size: 507 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

Disc 1
01. Violin Concerto, K207: Allegro Moderato
02. Violin Concerto, K207: Adagio
03. Violin Concerto, K207: Presto
04. Violin Concerto, K211: Allegro Moderato
05. Violin Concerto, K211: Andante
06. Violin Concerto, K211: Rondeau Allegro
07. Violin Concerto, K216: Allegro
08. Violin Concerto, K216: Adagio
09. Violin Concerto, K216: Rondeau Allegro

Disc 2
01. Violin Concerto, K218: Allegro
02. Violin Concerto, K218: Andante Cantabile
03. Violin Concerto, K218: Rondeau Andante Graz.
04. Violin Concerto, K219: Allegro Aperto
05. Violin Concerto, K219: Adagio
06. Violin Concerto, K219: Rondeau Tempo Di Men.

This new two-disc set, with historical liner notes by critic and musicologist Michael Steinberg, presents Kremer and Kremerata Baltica, his touring ensemble of young musicians from the Baltic States, in a performance of Mozart s five violin concertos, recorded at the Salzburg Festival in Austria two days after his Lincoln Center shows. Said Times critic Allan Koznin of the New York event, ‘Mr. Kremer’s phrasing, in both his solo lines and his direction of the orchestra, avoided the predictable or the metronomic: phrases ebbed and flowed, with sharp accenting and dynamic contrast that kept the music fresh and, in its best moments, surprising. In all five works Mr. Kremer played the concise, stylish cadenzas by Robert Levin, which adhered to the conventions of Mozart’s time.’