Gustav Mahler / Dmitri Shostakovich

The Baltic chamber ensemble Kremerata Baltica, founded in 1997 by Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer, is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Under Kremer's artistic direction, the ensemble will perform the Adagio from Gustav Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony and simultaneously present Shostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony. This work, often described as a late masterpiece, incorporates settings of poetic works by García Lorca, Apollinaire, and Rilke, composed during the composer's personal crises. In their performance, the musicians of Kremerata Baltica succeed in conveying both the painful depths and the aesthetic sublimity of these remarkable musical creations.