Lebrecht Weekly | Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
What small labels do best is backing the owner’s hunches. BIS in Stockholm produced symphonies by Alfred Schnittke when he was unheard outside Russia. Hyperion…
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Lebrecht Weekly | Mieczyslaw Weinberg: 12th symphony/Dawn (Chandos)
In Dmitri Shostakovich’s last years, Mieczyslaw Weinberg stopped writing symphonies. After his 51th in 1970, nothing more stirred in him until, in December 1975, four…
Lebrecht Weekly | Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Cello works (Evil Penguin), Piano sonatas 1-3 (Polskie Radio)
Evil Penguin: ***** Polskie Radio: **** When I first came across Weinberg 30 years ago, he was listed as Vainberg in western dictionary and the…
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Chamber symphonies 2&4, chamber music (Naxos/Evil Penguin Classic)
At the turn of the century there was hardly any Weinberg to be found on record, except on scratchy old Soviet LPs. Two decades on,…
Lebrecht’s Album of the Week – Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Cello Concerto (CPO)
There are certain composers whom I need to hear on a regular basis or I suffer withdrawal pangs. Not Mahler, who is so well lodged…
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Chamber works (Sony, Genuin, Naxos)
****/** The 2019 centenary of the composer’s birth has exhumed several dozen unknown works on record, enabling us to form a broader understanding of his…
Mieczyslaw Weinberg : Symphonies nos 2 and 21 (Deutsche Grammophon)
There was never any question what was going to be my album of the week once the envelope disgorged this little twin-set from DG. I…
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra &c. (Claves)
This recording almost slipped by unnoticed. It opens with a neither here nor there performance of the first Shostakovich concerto, neither rippled with black comedy…
Lebrecht Weekly – Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies (ECM)
When I first started writing about Weinberg quarter of a century ago, there was no consistent western spelling of his surname (mostly printed Vainberg) and…
Lebrecht Weekly | Exploring Grazyna Bacewicz’s Musical World
I am starting to think that Grazyna Bacewicz might be the next Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Bacewicz trod water under Polish Communism and saw her music eclipsed by the authorised forces of Lutoslawski and Penderecki.
