BACK when Gidon Kremer was young, when the Latvian-born Tchaikovsky Competition winner was known as a “Russian” violinist, Herbert von Karajan called him the greatest violinist in the world. What the ...
Looking forward to Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 later in the hour, we hear some smaller scale Beethoven. Violinist Gidon Kremer and pianist Martha Argerich play the closing movement from Beethoven's ...