Author: Gidon Kremer/Kremerata Baltica

Format: Audiobook

Release Date: 03-03-2014

Details: The music of Mieczysław Weinberg is finally beginning to receive the attention it has long deserved. Weinberg’s lifetime spanned the 20th century: born in 1919 in Warsaw, he died in 1996 in Moscow, in semi-obscurity. Along the way, his allies and supporters included Dmitri Shostakovich, who considered him one of the great composers of the age. This double album with the Kremerata Baltica, recorded in Neuhardenberg and Lockenhaus, makes a strong case for that claim. Effectively a portrait album, it begins with Weinberg’s extraordinary Violin Sonata No. 3, brilliantly performed by Gidon Kremer, and progresses from chamber music works (the Sonatina op. 46, the Trio op. 48) to strikingly contrasting compositions for string orchestra, the graceful Concertino op. 42 inspired by the late-romantic idiom, and the adventurous Symphony No. 10, bringing 12-tone rows and chordal structure into unexpected juxtapositions.brbrRecorded November 2012 in Neuhardenberg and July 2013 in LockenhausbrRecording Engineer: Peter LaengerbrDDDbrProduced by Manfred Eicher

UPC: 028948106691

EAN: 0028948106691

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood