While Sergey Prokofiev and Dmitry Shostakovich are the two most prominent figures in music of the Soviet era, a growing consensus of opinion would put Polish-born Mieczyslaw Weinberg with them, even at the forefront of all modernist composers. Weinberg (known also as Moisey Vainberg, and sometimes given erroneous transliterations of his name, even ...
Ah, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, not Moishey Vainberg. One can understand the mistake. Mieczyslaw Weinberg was the Polish composer who emigrated to the Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics at the start of World War II. Moishey Vainberg was the Russian composer who was the close friend and artistic confidant of Dmitry Shostakovich. But Weinberg or ...
Yuri Bashmet, known to many as a phenomenal violist, appears here as conductor of the Moscow soloists, which he founded in 1992. The group is composed entirely of musicians under the age of 30, all of whom are recent graduates of the Moscow Conservatory. There's nothing young or immature sounding about this ensemble; in fact, it produces an ...
This brilliant program of Dmitry Shostakovich's one and only violin sonatas with two of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's five violin sonatas would have been better served by better playing. Weinberg's sonatas, both from 1947, are tonal works of grave seriousness and solemn intensity, while Shostakovich's sonata from 1968, although still basically tonal, ...
An homage to the venerable Russian cellist, conductor, and humanitarian Mstislav Rostropovich could easily occupy several dozen CDs, countless DVDs, or a small library of books. His career was one of the most distinguished in the history of classical music, having premiered more than 150 new works for the cello -- more than any other cellist in ...
This remarkable disc of chamber music and vocal music by Polish-Russian composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg adds greatly to our understanding of his rarely recorded chamber music. All three works come from 1944-1945, the final two years of the Great Patriotic War, that is, the years after the Polish composer had moved to the U.S.S.R. following the German ...
Even though the dominant figures of Soviet music were Dmitry Shostakovich and Sergey Prokofiev, it has become clear that the work of a third composer, Polish-born Mieczyslaw Weinberg, should be ranked as equally significant. His reputation has rapidly increased in the west due to a growing number of major recordings that confirm his standing, and ...
One of the most interesting composers to emerge from the collapse of the Soviet Union was Polish-born Mieczyslaw Weinberg; resident in Moscow since 1943, Weinberg had been the recipient of many honors within the Soviet Union but had never really been heard in the west. A close friend, though not a student, of Dmitry Shostakovich, Weinberg at times ...
That Moisei Vainberg was indebted to Dmitry Shostakovich's compositional example is well known to those who are familiar with his music. As this disc of chamber music shows, Vainberg's music is steeped in the style and rhetoric of his mentor and friend, and Vainberg's ironically heroic themes, relentlessly astringent harmonies, and emotional ...
Hänssler Classic's Revolution for Cembalo is taken from a series of Revolution recordings licensed from King Records of Japan; at the outset, there is a MAJOR problem with this package in that we are told that Revolution for Cembalo (i.e., harpsichord) is performed by Sumina Arihashi playing the piano. No, the disc, as advertised in the title, ...
Mieczyslaw Weinberg's oeuvre is slowly starting to make its way into the international market. This 2009 Alto disc, a repackaged remastering of a 1998 Olympia disc, pairs the Polish-Russian composer's First and Fourth chamber symphonies. The First is a four-movement work for string orchestra from 1986, while the Fourth is a four-movements-in-one ...
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