Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies & Piano Quintet

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Kremer's commitment is clear in this compellingly performed release of the four chamber symphonies Weinberg composed during the last decade of his life...The overriding atmosphere in all these... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 13th Jan 2017
Catalogue No: 4814604
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Record Review

11th February 2017

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Weinberg: Chamber Symphony No. 3, Op. 151

Work length33:42

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Kremerata Baltica (chamber ensemble)
Gidon Kremer
Recorded: 2015-06-13
Recording Venue: Musikverein, Großer Saal, Vienna

1. Lento

Track length10:02

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2. Allegro molto

Track length4:44

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3. Adagio

Track length6:42

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4. Andantino

Track length12:14

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Weinberg: Chamber Symphony No. 2 for string orchestra & timpani, Op. 147

Work length22:40

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Kremerata Baltica (chamber ensemble), Gidon Kremer (violin)
Recorded: 2015-06-13
Recording Venue: Musikverein, Großer Saal, Vienna

1. Allegro molto

Track length8:42

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2. Pesante moderato

Track length5:23

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3. Andante sostenuto

Track length8:35

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Weinberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1 for string orchestra, Op. 145

Work length23:18

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Kremerata Baltica (chamber ensemble)
Gidon Kremer
Recorded: 2015-06-13
Recording Venue: Musikverein, Großer Saal, Vienna

1. Allegro

Track length6:30

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2. Andante

Track length8:41

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3. Allegretto

Track length4:24

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4. Presto

Track length3:43

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Weinberg: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 18

Work length43:26

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Yulianna Avdeeva (piano), Kremerata Baltica (chamber ensemble)
Gidon Kremer
Recorded: 2015-06-10
Recording Venue: Latvian Radio Studio, Riga

1. Moderato con moto

Track length8:10

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2. Allegretto

Track length6:22

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3. Presto

Track length6:00

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4. Largo

Track length14:28

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5. Allegro agitato

Track length8:26

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Weinberg: Chamber Symphony No. 4 for string orchestra & clarinet, Op. 153

Work length36:07

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Mate Bekavec (clarinet), Kremerata Baltica (chamber ensemble)
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Recorded: 2015-06-10
Recording Venue: Latvian Radio Studio, Riga

1. Lento

Track length8:55

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2. Allegro molto - Moderato

Track length7:56

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3. Adagio - Meno messo

Track length10:18

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4. Andantino - Adagissimo

Track length8:58

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This double album includes all four of the chamber symphonies written in the last decade of Polish-born Soviet composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s life, plus a beautiful new arrangement – by Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica percussionist Andrey Pushkarev – of the early Piano Quintet of 1944, heard here in a premiere recording. It is a recording which underlines the importance and originality of Weinberg’s music. For Gidon Kremer, “Weinberg has become a source of unlimited inspiration. No other composer has entered my own and Kremerata Baltica’s repertoire and programme concepts with such intensity.” Weinberg’s chamber symphonies are Kremer says, “the most personal reflections of a great composer on his own life and his generation, like a diary of the most dramatic period of the 20th century”. This new recording – the second Kremerata Baltica album dedicated to Weinberg – is, Kremer feels, “the most valuable landmark in the orchestra’s discography since its birth”. Recorded in Vienna and in Riga in June 2015, it marks the conducting debut on ECM of the CBSO's new music director Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla. The set is released in time for a major tour celebrating both Kremerata Baltica’s 20th anniversary and leader Gidon Kremer’s 70th birthday. The CD booklet includes liner notes by Weinberg biographer David Fanning, as well as a personal recollection of the composer by Alexander Raskatov. Personnel: Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer (violin/director), Yulianna Avdeeva (piano), Mate Bekavec (clarinet), Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla (conductor)

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April 2017

Kremer's commitment is clear in this compellingly performed release of the four chamber symphonies Weinberg composed during the last decade of his life...The overriding atmosphere in all these works is introspective and restrained, the music often tinged with a bittersweet, almost Mahlerian vein of nostalgia.

February 2017

Played by the Kremerata Baltica, the refashioned string quartets conjure a powerful atmosphere of Soviet times past

April 2017

…this new set…is a cut above in terms of expressive vision, virtuosity of performance and superb recorded sound. This is the survey to have…Strongly recommended.

30th April 2017

Although the composer’s style owes much to his mentor [Shostakovich], this is important music, full of vigour and emotional depth. Kremer’s hand-picked strings and soloists dig deep into the soul of these works.

Classical Music June 2017

[Kremer's] direction of three of the four late chamber symphonies, all from the difficult last decade of the composer’s life, is exemplary...each imaginatively written work vibrant, intense and distinctive…a fascinating and important reliease

Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies & Piano Quintet

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