Mieczysław Weinberg

  • Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Complete Music For Solo Cello, Vol. 1
    Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Complete Music For Solo Cello, Vol. 1

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    The importance of Mieczysław Weinberg’s 24 Preludes for solo cello, written for Rostropovich, lies beyond their superficial resemblance to Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier or the piano preludes of Chopin or Weinberg’s colleague Shostakovich. Instead, it resides...


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    Release Date: December 14, 2010

  • Weinberg: Cello Music, Chamber Symphony no. 4 / Wispelway, Charlier, Feye, Les Métamorphoses
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    Pieter Wispelwey is finally back! Research on Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s music is very much ongoing, and several previously unknown works have been discovered in recent years. Perhaps most surprising of these is the Cello Concertino op. 43bis....


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    Release Date: April 08, 2022

  • Weinberg: Wir Gratulieren! / Stoupel, Kammerakademie Potsdam
    Weinberg: Wir Gratulieren! / Stoupel, Kammerakademie Potsdam

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    After his move to Moscow in 1943, Weinberg had to face widespread anti-Semitism, both among the population and on the part of politicians. Perhaps for this very reason, he composed the opera Congratulations! especially for...


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    Release Date: September 04, 2020

  • Weinberg: Symphony No. 13 & Serenade for Orchestra / Lande, Siberian State Symphony
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    Weinberg: Symphony No. 13 & Serenade for Orchestra / Lande, Siberian State Symphony

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    Weinberg’s Symphony No. 13, dedicated to the memory of his mother, is cast in a single movement that unfolds in a symmetrical arc. A large orchestra is used sparingly in chamber-like textures with motivic ideas...


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    Release Date: September 14, 2018

  • Weinberg: Symphony No. 3; The Golden Key Suite No. 4 / Svedlund, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
    Weinberg: Symphony No. 3; The Golden Key Suite No. 4 / Svedlund, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

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    Written at the height of the era of "Soviet Realism" in the USSR, when composers were being criticized or banned for music deemed "formalistic", Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Symphony No. 3 embraces the dictum of positiveness that...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: May 31, 2011

  • Weinberg: Clarinet Music / Oberaigner, Schoch, Jurowski, Dresden Chamber Soloists
    Weinberg: Clarinet Music / Oberaigner, Schoch, Jurowski, Dresden Chamber Soloists

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    Mieczyslaw Weinberg was familiar with the clarinet from his youth, given its prominent place in klezmer bands and theatre ensembles, and he wrote three works specifically for the instrument. In the Clarinet Concerto he draws...


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    Release Date: March 13, 2020

  • Weinberg: Violin Concerto - Sonata for 2 Violins / Kremer, Gatti, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
    Weinberg: Violin Concerto - Sonata for 2 Violins / Kremer, Gatti, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

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    With 22 symphonies, 17 string quartets, 9 concertos, and 7 operas, the composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg left behind an extensive oeuvre. Musically, one can hear the composer's close friendship with Dmitri Shostakovich, although Weinberg's music is...


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    Release Date: January 15, 2021

  • Weinberg: Symphony No. 17 & Suite for Orchestra / Lande, Siberian State Symphony
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    Mieczys?aw Weinberg – whose music was virtually unknown in the West until quite recently – composed, despite the incredible difficulty of the circumstances of his life, an enormous amount of music, including seventeen string quartets...


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    Release Date: October 14, 2016

  • Weinberg: Music for Orchestral, Vol 2 / Vasilyev, Siberian Symphony
    Weinberg: Music for Orchestral, Vol 2 / Vasilyev, Siberian Symphony

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    The Toccata Classics 2014 release of Mieczys?aw Weinberg’s Symphony No. 21, Op. 152 Kaddish and Polish Tunes, Op. 47, No. 2 was remarkable and created considerable interest. Now Toccata present a second Weinberg volume comprising...


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    Release Date: January 08, 2016

  • Weinberg: Symphony 18, Trumpet Concerto / Lande
    Weinberg: Symphony 18, Trumpet Concerto / Lande

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    Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Eighteenth Symphony is the centerpiece of his symphonic trilogy On the Threshold of War, focusing on the traumas of the Soviet Union in World War II and stands as one of the most...


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    Release Date: May 27, 2014

  • Weinberg: Symphonies Nos 1 & 7 / Svedlund, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
    Weinberg: Symphonies Nos 1 & 7 / Svedlund, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

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    The Chandos series of Weinberg orchestral works is proving a benchmark series, and contributed significantly to his reappraisal. The most recent album by the Gothenberg forces (CHSA5064) was described as' one of the most exciting...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: May 25, 2010

  • Weinberg: Concertos, Fantasia For Cello / Svedlund, Gunnarsson, Claesson
    Weinberg: Concertos, Fantasia For Cello / Svedlund, Gunnarsson, Claesson

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    This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.


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    Release Date: June 24, 2008

  • Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 / Krimer, East-West Chamber Orchestra
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    Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 / Krimer, East-West Chamber Orchestra

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    Symphonic thinking dominated Mieczysław Weinberg’s final decade, and these chamber symphonies are part of an interrelated sequence that reworks and cites earlier pieces. The Second Chamber Symphony draws on a string quartet from 1944, reflecting...


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    Release Date: September 10, 2021

  • Weinberg: Symphony No 6, Rhapsody On Moldavian Themes / Lande, St Petersburg  Symphony Orchestra
    Weinberg: Symphony No 6, Rhapsody On Moldavian Themes / Lande, St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra

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    WEINBERG Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes. Symphony No. 6 • Vladimir Lande, cond; Glinka Choral College Boys’ Ch; St. Petersburg St SO • NAXOS 8572779 (61:02) Mieczysaw Weinberg’s sad and tortured life is described in the...


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    Release Date: April 24, 2012

  • Weinberg: Children's Notebooks / Majerová
    Weinberg: Children's Notebooks / Majerová

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    The music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919–1996), Soviet composer of Polish origin whose impressive legacy of many outstanding compositions has been often compared to his illustrious compatriots, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, but also unduly neglected in their...


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    Release Date: November 19, 2021