℗ 2024 ECM Records, under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon, Berlin
| Released | January 19, 2024 |
| Duration | 57m 24s |
| Record Label | ECM New Series |
| Genre | Classical |
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1.1
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This Too Shall Pass
Raminta Šerkšnytė; Gidon Kremer |
8:18 | |||
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Chamber Symphony "The Star of David"
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1.2
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David's Lamentation
Giedrius Kuprevičius; Vida Miknevičiūtė |
2:45 | |||
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1.3
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Kaddish-Prelude
Giedrius Kuprevičius; Gidon Kremer |
3:06 | |||
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1.4
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Penultimate Kaddish
Giedrius Kuprevičius; Vida Miknevičiūtė |
7:01 | |||
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1.5
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Postlude. The Luminous Lament
Giedrius Kuprevičius; Vida Miknevičiūtė |
4:26 | |||
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1.6
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Nocturne
Mieczysław Weinberg; Gidon Kremer |
3:09 | |||
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1.7
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Aria, Op. 9
Mieczysław Weinberg; Kremerata Baltica |
3:46 | |||
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Jewish Children Songs, Op. 13
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1.8
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No. 2, Breytele
Mieczysław Weinberg; Yitskhok Leybush Peretz; Vida Miknevičiūtė |
2:01 | |||
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1.9
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No. 4, Der Yeger
Mieczysław Weinberg; Yitskhok Leybush Peretz; Vida Miknevičiūtė |
1:50 | |||
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1.10
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No. 5, Oyfn grinem bergele
Mieczysław Weinberg; Yitskhok Leybush Peretz; Vida Miknevičiūtė |
5:29 | |||
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1.11
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Kujawiak
Mieczysław Weinberg; Gidon Kremer |
3:17 | |||
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1.12
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Lignum
Jēkabs Jančevskis; Kremerata Baltica |
12:16 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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“Gidon Kremer has perhaps never before revealed himself as intimately and as existentially focused as on this recording”, observes Wolfgang Sandner in his liner note accompanying the Latvian violinist’s new album Songs of Fate. Together with his Kremerata Baltica chamber ensemble and soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė, Kremer approaches scores by Baltic composers Raminta Šerkšnytė, Giedrius Kuprevičius, Jēkabs Jančevskis and the Polish-Jewish composer Mieczysław Weinberg. In a performer’s note, Kremer explains how, reflecting on the different threads that create the fabric of this programme, “I realise – to my own surprise – that in many ways, this project revolves around the notion of ‘Jewishness’.“
Poignant deliveries of excerpts from the Chamber Symphony "The Star of David" and "Kaddish" by Giedrius Kuprevičius as well as the "Jewish Songs" by Mieczysław Weinberg emphasize this connotation. Bookending Songs of Fate are premiere recordings of Raminta Šerkšnytė’s "This too shall pass" and Jēkabs Jančevskis’s "Lignum", bringing the voices of a younger generation of composers to the fore.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – ECM New Series Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -4.82 -11.36 to -1.15 | -29.19 -34.88 to -25.85 | -24.58 -28.70 to -22.20 | 15 12 to 17 | |
| 1 | This Too Shall Pass | -1.54 | -26.83 | -22.5 | 14 |
| 2 | David's Lamentation | -11.36 | -32.80 | -28.7 | 13 |
| 3 | Kaddish-Prelude | -1.15 | -29.53 | -24.4 | 17 |
| 4 | Penultimate Kaddish | -2.25 | -28.89 | -24.1 | 15 |
| 5 | Postlude. The Luminous Lament | -6.83 | -34.88 | -28.7 | 15 |
| 6 | Nocturne | -2.18 | -25.85 | -22.2 | 13 |
| 7 | Aria, Op. 9 | -6.60 | -26.79 | -23.3 | 12 |
| 8 | No. 2, Breytele | -5.35 | -29.51 | -24.0 | 15 |
| 9 | No. 4, Der Yeger | -4.03 | -28.40 | -24.2 | 16 |
| 10 | No. 5, Oyfn grinem bergele | -5.06 | -29.72 | -24.4 | 16 |
| 11 | Kujawiak | -8.78 | -29.45 | -26.2 | 13 |
| 12 | Lignum | -2.66 | -27.65 | -22.3 | 15 |