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: 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,…
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…
