The Krein Family: World Premiere Recordings

Featuring

Jascha Nemtsov
Alexander Krein
Grijory Krein
Yulian Krein

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Alexander Krein, influenced by the Jewish avant-garde, sought to synthesize Jewish traditional art with modern expression, protesting persecution and assimilation through Jewish melodies.

Critical Reception

Grigori Krein's harmonic experiments often caused a stir and led to scathing reviews from conservative critics, with one calling it "nothing short of criminal to propagate Grigori Krein's music."

Composer Biography

David Krein, one of Abram's sons, had an international career as a violinist, playing in a duo with Sergey Rakhmaninov and performing worldwide with the famous Moscow Trio.

Composer Biography

Julian Krein, son of Grigori Krein, was a child prodigy who could perform complex modern scores from memory on the piano after a single hearing at the age of nine.

Composer Biography

The Krein family, a widely ramified Russian Jewish family, produced several outstanding musicians and composers, though they are almost unknown outside of Russia.

Composer Biography

The Krein family patriarch, Abram Krein, earned his living tuning pianos and playing in a klezmer group, often performing as a badchen (master of ceremonies and entertainer) at Jewish weddings.

Performer Biography

Jascha Nemtsov, the pianist on this recording, is a Russian-Jewish musicologist who has recorded nearly 30 CDs, several of which have received awards, including the German Record Critics Prize.