Tag: Thord Svedlund
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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…
