Gidon Kremer’s musicians are sitting at home watching cartoons
mainScattered around the northern lands, the Kremerata Baltica have been revisiting a Soviet children’s cartoon ‘Boniface’s Holiday’.
Just so happens, the music is by … Gidon’s passion and mine, Mieczysław Weinberg.
So Andrei Pushkarev rearranged the score for string orchestra and solo violin and everyone started playing it at home.
Here’s the short version:
And here’s the Soviet original:
Thanks. I just love Kremer !
And did you ever hear a 73 year old string player play SO in tune ? GK still has razor-precise intonation
Probably Janos Starker, but I take your point.
Have to say the Weinberg bandwagon has so far thankfully largely passed me by… but from what I have heard, I am left wondering if he’s really worth all the hype…? suspect, at best, maybe…. like kurtag