COMPOSERS: Beethoven
LABELS: Newton Classics
WORKS: Violin Concerto
PERFORMER: Gidon Kremer (violin); Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner
CATALOGUE NO: Newton Classics 8802064 (1980)
Polished and full of interpretative flair, Kremer’s 1982 recording is unique in using the extraordinary cadenzas Alfred Schnittke wrote for Kremer. Calum MacDonald