Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies & Piano Quintet

Release Year: 2017

Label: ECM New Series

Performers

Tracks

CD 1
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG – CHAMBER SYMPHONY NO. 3 OP. 151

1. Lento
2. Allegro molto
3. Adagi
4. Andantino

MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG – CHAMBER SYMPHONY NO. 2 OP. 147

5. Allegro molto
6. Pesante moderato
7. Andante sostenuto

MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG – CHAMBER SYMPHONY NO. 1 OP. 145

8. Allegro
9. Andante
10. Allegretto
11. Presto

CD 2

MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG – PIANO QUINTET OP. 18

1. Moderato con moto
2. Allegretto
3. Presto
4. Largo
5. Allegro agitato

MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG – CHAMBER SYMPHONY NO. 4 OP. 153

6. Lento
7. Allegro molto – Moderato
8. Adagio – Meno messo
9. Andantino – Adagissimo

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Reviews and impressions

This is evocative music, grippingly played by the Kremerata Baltica. – Financial Times

Kremerata Baltica have a deal of experience in playing both Weinberg and Shostakovich, and understand how to make the two composers’ music sound distinct... Strongly recommended. – Gramophone

The overriding atmosphere in all these works is introspective and restrained, the music often tinged with a bittersweet, almost Mahlerian vein of nostalgia. – Classical Music

Unmissable, and the best introduction to Weinberg I can think of. – The Arts Desk

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