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…
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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…
