Kremerata Baltica / Gidon Kremer

»This man,« said Gidon Kremer about the Soviet composer Mieczysław Weinberg, »was completely underestimated for many years; he sank into oblivion. I actually believed myself that he was nothing more than a second-rate Shostakovich. What a mistake that was! On the contrary, Weinberg had a voice entirely his own.« And the Latvian artist has been making this individual voice known to concert audiences for quite a long time. At this concert, part of the Elbphilharmonie’s Weinberg spotlight, Gidon Kremer presents the composer’s lyrical, melodic Symphony No. 10 and his Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra, in which Kremer himself plays the solo part. After the interval we hear Shostakovich’s light-hearted Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Orchestra, a work by Weinberg’s closest musical friend and mentor, as well as a film score by the Ukrainian composer and former Bolshoi director Leonid Desiatnikov.