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No matter how brilliantly played, how beautifully recorded, how enthusiastically performed, a disc of joke encores is still a disc of joke encores. No one could complain that the KREMERata BALTICA is a less than superb chamber orchestra or that Gidon Kremer is less than a spectacular violinist or that Nonesuch has not given Kremer and the KREMERata stunning sound. No one could complain that the pieces are not fun and funny and sometimes a little touching. But who could possibly listen to the disc straight through? Heck, who could possibly want to listen to some of these pieces more than once? Once, Alfred Schnittke's Polka is a little racy, a little scary, and a little funny. Once, Peter Heidrich's "Happy Birthday" Variations are vaguely funny in a "What if Mozart wrote Happy Birthday way. Once, Vato Kakhidze's "Blitz" Fantasy is, well, not really funny but silly with its string sound effects and its singing orchestral players. Once, not all the way through but at least for the first few minutes, Ghys and Servais' Variations brillantes et concertantes on "God Save the King" is diverting. More than once, Tchaikovsky's Elegy is fairly affecting in a schmaltzy, smarmy way. Not even once is Teddy Bor's idiotic McMozart's Eine Kleine Bricht Moonlight Nicht Musik even remotely funny. Once or maybe twice, the "Auld Lang Syne" Variations by Franz Waxman (yes, the film composer) might provoke a smile, especially the "Homage to Shostakofiev" that blends "Auld Lang Syne" with the Scherzo from Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1 and Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2. But by the time the disc has wound down to Ladislav Kupkovic's inane Souvenir, there are no smiles left and absolutely no more patience for joke encores.
© TiVo
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Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Violin, MainArtist - Alfred Schnittke, Composer - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Sergei Dreznin, Arranger
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Arranger, MainArtist - Peter Laenger, Engineer - Peter Heidrich, Composer
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Vocals, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Lasma Muceniece, Vocals - Vato Kakhidze, Composer, Piano, Vocals
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Vocals, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Lasma Muceniece, Vocals - Vato Kakhidze, Composer, Piano, Vocals
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, Vocals, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Violin, Vocals, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Lasma Muceniece, Vocals - Vato Kakhidze, Composer, Piano, Vocals, Synthesiser
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Vocals, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Lasma Muceniece, Vocals - Vato Kakhidze, Composer, Piano, Vocals
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Violin, MainArtist - Marta Sudraba, Cello - Niels Muller, Engineer - Sibylle Strobel, AssistantEngineer - Adrien Francois Servais, Composer - Joseph Ghys, Composer
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Violin, MainArtist - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Teddy Bor, Composer
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Violin, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Marta Sudraba, Cello - Ula Ulijona, Viola - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Louis Lortie, Piano
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Violin, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Marta Sudraba, Cello - Ula Ulijona, Viola - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Louis Lortie, Piano
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Violin, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Marta Sudraba, Cello - Ula Ulijona, Viola - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Louis Lortie, Piano
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, Violin, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Marta Sudraba, Cello - Ula Ulijona, Viola - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Louis Lortie, Piano
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Kremerata Baltica, MainArtist - Gidon Kremer, MainArtist - Philipp Nedel, Engineer - Niels Muller, AssistantEngineer - Ladislav Kupkovic, Composer
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2002 Nonesuch Records
Album review
No matter how brilliantly played, how beautifully recorded, how enthusiastically performed, a disc of joke encores is still a disc of joke encores. No one could complain that the KREMERata BALTICA is a less than superb chamber orchestra or that Gidon Kremer is less than a spectacular violinist or that Nonesuch has not given Kremer and the KREMERata stunning sound. No one could complain that the pieces are not fun and funny and sometimes a little touching. But who could possibly listen to the disc straight through? Heck, who could possibly want to listen to some of these pieces more than once? Once, Alfred Schnittke's Polka is a little racy, a little scary, and a little funny. Once, Peter Heidrich's "Happy Birthday" Variations are vaguely funny in a "What if Mozart wrote Happy Birthday way. Once, Vato Kakhidze's "Blitz" Fantasy is, well, not really funny but silly with its string sound effects and its singing orchestral players. Once, not all the way through but at least for the first few minutes, Ghys and Servais' Variations brillantes et concertantes on "God Save the King" is diverting. More than once, Tchaikovsky's Elegy is fairly affecting in a schmaltzy, smarmy way. Not even once is Teddy Bor's idiotic McMozart's Eine Kleine Bricht Moonlight Nicht Musik even remotely funny. Once or maybe twice, the "Auld Lang Syne" Variations by Franz Waxman (yes, the film composer) might provoke a smile, especially the "Homage to Shostakofiev" that blends "Auld Lang Syne" with the Scherzo from Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1 and Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2. But by the time the disc has wound down to Ladislav Kupkovic's inane Souvenir, there are no smiles left and absolutely no more patience for joke encores.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 25 track(s)
- Total length: 01:06:34
- Main artists: Gidon Kremer Kremerata Baltica
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rhino - Warner Records
- Genre: Classical
© 2005 Warner Strategic Marketing ℗ 2005 Warner Stategic Marketing
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