If you see music as a counterpoint to the world around you, escape with Jacques Offenbach. But if you feel like relaying, through a sort of meditation or sonic introspection, the tensions and doubts that inhabit us, this record is worth your attention. This Too Shall Pass by the Lithuanian Raminta Šerkšnytė, for violin, cello, vibraphone and string orchestra, is like Pēteris Vasks, but without an ounce of love. Echoes him, at the end of the program, Lignum by the Latvian Jēkabs Jančevskis (31 years old), a haunted work for strings and chimes, which the composer wants to imagine to be a dialogue with the trees, beings of sap which nourish a form of hope in the great climax. At the heart of the program, captured in 2019 and 2022, four Hebrew laments by Giedrius Kuprevičius, three of which with soprano, and brief works by Weinberg (three songs, too), whose music Kremer faithfully defends. Homage to the performer’s dual Jewish and Baltic heritage, Songs of Fate is a hard and poignant record that leaves an impression on the listener.
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