Kremerata Baltica / Gidon Kremer

In Gidon Kremer’s second concert as part of the Elbphilharmonie’s Weinberg spotlight, he presents the new project »Chronicle of Current Events«, in which works by Weinberg are combined with visualisations by Russian artists inspired by these works. Director Kirill Serebrennikov, who recently caused a stir in Hamburg with his production of »Nabucco«, selected the visualisations.

It took Mieczysław Weinberg a long time to emerge from the shadow cast by his friend Dmitri Shostakovich. But the work of the Soviet composer with Polish-Jewish roots has been capturing the world’s concert halls for some years now – not least thanks to the support of the famous violinist Gidon Kremer, who is one of the composer’s greatest advocates. To mark the 100th anniversary of Weinberg’s birth, which the composer would have celebrated in 2019, Kremer gives two concerts at the Elbphilharmonie together with his ensemble Kremerata Baltica.