Sebastian Bohren / Andrei Pushkarev / GKO PROKOFIEV Sonata Op. 80 for Violin & Orchestra

The version of the sonata for solo violin, string orchestra and percussion goes back to the initiative of Sebastian Bohren. It was created by Andrei Pushkarev, percussionist in Gidon Kremer’s ‘Kremerata Baltica’, an accomplished arranger whose arrangements can be found in the reper- toire of numerous musicians. Pushkarev’s version follows the well-known orchestration of Shostakovich’s Violin Sonata op. 134 in the same instrumentation – albeit with vibraphone instead of xylophone – which he produced together with Michail Zinman in 2005 and which was also recorded by Sebastian Bohren in 2018.