MEZZO-Concerto&Kremerata BITS Parts Selection

The film directed by Imre Szabó Stein is showcasing the unprecedented concert collaboration of Concerto Budapest and Kremerata Baltica , András Keller and Gidon Kremer, recorded in Müpa on 4 December. It had its  international premiere on MEZZO TV at 8.30 pm on 29 May, 2020. From the 30th until the 6th of June Concerto Budapest had the permission from MEZZO to hand over the film for streaming to Index.hu. This long selection of parts of each concert gives a good overview of both the concert and the film. MEZZO will broadcast the film for the 5 coming years.

 The artistic friendship between András Keller, the conductor of the concert and the world-famous violinist Gidon Kremer is well-known; it was the union of their orchestras this time, however, that conveyed the sense of individual transiency and of global cataclysm with an exceptional force. The massive musical venture arched from the Adagietto movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 to the Chaconne of Busoni's transcription of J.S: Bach's Violin partita no. 2 in D minor arranged for string ensemble by Gidon Kremer himself, to Schnittke’s rarely performed masterpiece, his Violin concerto No. 3, finally coming to the Hungarian premiere of Weinberg’s poignant and highly revelational Symphony No. 21 („Kaddish”), which was dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Warsaw ghetto by the Polish-born Jewish composer.