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This new two-disc set, with historical liner notes by critic and musicologist Michael Steinberg, presents Kremer and Kremerata Baltica, his touring ensemble of young musicians from the Baltic States, in a performance of Mozart s five violin concertos, recorded at the Salzburg Festival in Austria two days after his Lincoln Center shows. Said Times critic Allan Koznin of the New York event, 'Mr. Kremer's phrasing, in both his solo lines and his direction of the orchestra, avoided the predictable or the metronomic: phrases ebbed and flowed, with sharp accenting and dynamic contrast that kept the music fresh and, in its best moments, surprising. In all five works Mr. Kremer played the concise, stylish cadenzas by Robert Levin, which adhered to the conventions of Mozart's time.'