Gidon Kremer created what became one of the world’s finest chamber orchestras at Austria’s Lockenhaus Festival in the summer of 1997. Since 2003 the orchestra has held its own festival in Latvia. It arrives in Istanbul from Moscow and continues to Baku on March 14.
Programme:
Krzysztof Penderecki (born 1933) Chaconne from the “Polish Requiem” for string orchestra
Milosz Magin (1929–1999) Piano Concerto No. 3
Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919 –1996) Sinfonietta No. 2, Op. 74 for strings and timpani
Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, version for piano and strings by Gilles Colliard