Tag: Mieczysław Weinberg
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5 Star Review of the Weinberg: String Quartets Nos. 7 & 8, Serenade for Orchestra, Sinfonietta No. 2
Gary Lemco of Audiophile Audition gives Weinberg: String Quartets Nos. 7 & 8, Serenade for Orchestra, Sinfonietta No. 2 Five Stars! “The 1952 Sinfonietta No. 2 in A Minor for string orchestra and timpani is performed by Rudolf Barshai and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra in 1962. In four movements of approximately equal duration, the piece opens with…
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Mieczysław Weinberg: String Quartets Nos. 7 & 8, Serenade for Orchestra, Sinfonietta No. 2
Alto’s newest release its Mieczysław Weinberg series returns to international availability some of the earliest recordings of his music played by close artistic collaborators. These rare Weinberg recordings, made by some of the Soviet era’s greatest artists, flew under the radar of music journalists and reviewers when they were first released, and ring with unparalleled…
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Weinberg Symphony No. 2, Chamber Symphony No. 2
*** [Three stars – top rating] “The lyrical Second Symphony is haunted by a restless melancholy… yet the result is in no way depressing. Chamber Symphony No.2 is a relatively late work and although it is freely rhapsodic, the mood is more positive and often songful…the nostalgic feeling returns in the central movement, but the…
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Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4
3 Stars [Top Rating] – “The Chamber symphonies come from the last decade of his life, the First for string orchestra, from the same year as the 18th symphony. … It is pastoral in character, closer in feeling to a divertimento or sinfonietta. … The Fourth… [is] unremitting as late Shostakovich, and strongly valedictory in…
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Mieczysław Weinberg: Piano Quintet, Violin Concerto & Moldavian Rhapsody
Mieczyslaw Weinberg has emerged at last as one of the leading Soviet composers of the post-Shostakovich generation, following decades of almost scandalous neglect in the music world. This prolific composer’s works retain the unabashed post-romantic candor of Shostakovich, but evolved in a unique and inimitable style as his career progressed. For the first time, three…
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Weinberg: Works for Cello & Piano
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Weinberg: Complete Sonatas for Solo Cello
1st complete set on one disc ! The four sonatas for solo cello are the most immediately captivating of the series of 12 for solo string instruments that Weinberg composed from 1960 until his death…Her playing is generous in tone, full-blooded in expression, passionate and confident, evidently fired by love for and commitment to the…
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Weinberg: Cello Concertino, Op. 43 & 24 Preludes, Op. 100
The Concertino for Cello & Orchestra was found in 2016 and established as a separate fore-runner to the later Cello Concerto. The Preludes autographed edition was presented to Marina Tarasova when she studied with Weinberg in 1979. “Tarasova is alive to the klezmer intonations that surface most obviously in the Scherzo third movement, and in…
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1941-1945: Wartime Music, Vol. 5
The Wartime Music CD series includes symphonic opuses of several Russian composers created in the years of terrible ordeals undergone by Russia in the Great War. The main goals of the unique project are to preserve the creative heritage of outstanding figures of Russian culture, and to restore historic justice in respect of undeservedly forgotten…
