Weinberg: Orchestral & Chamber Works

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Kremer and his associates deliver incisive, committed performances...a fascinating piece, performed here with great brilliance. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 10th Feb 2014
Catalogue No: 4810669
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

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Weinberg: Sonata No. 3, Op.126

Work length22:14

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Gidon Kremer (violin), Giedre Dirvanauskaite (cello), Daniil Trifonov (piano), Daniil Grishin (viola)
Recorded: 2013-07
Recording Venue: Lockenhaus

Weinberg: Trio, Op.48

Work length14:48

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Gidon Kremer (violin), Giedre Dirvanauskaite (cello), Daniil Grishin (viola)
Recorded: 2012-11
Recording Venue: Neuhardenberg

Allegro con moto

Track length5:57

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Andante

Track length4:23

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Moderato assai

Track length4:28

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Weinberg: Sonatina for Violin & Piano, Op. 46

Work length13:18

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Gidon Kremer (violin), Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Recorded: 2013-07
Recording Venue: Lockenhaus

Allegretto

Track length4:11

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Lento

Track length5:18

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Allegro moderato

Track length3:49

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Weinberg: Concertino For Violin And String Orchestra, Op. 42

Work length15:51

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Gidon Kremer (violin)
Kremerata Baltica
Recorded: 2012-11
Recording Venue: Neuhardenberg

Allegretto cantabile

Track length5:42

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Lento

Track length5:30

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Allegro moderato poco rubato

Track length4:39

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Weinberg: Symphony No. 10, Op. 98

Work length34:26

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Gidon Kremer (violin)
Kremerata Baltica
Recorded: 2012-11
Recording Venue: Neuhardenberg

Concerto grosso. Grave

Track length9:26

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Pastorale. Lento

Track length8:52

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Canzona. Andantino

Track length8:16

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Burlesque. Allegro molto

Track length3:15

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Inversion. L’istesso tempo

Track length4:37

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The music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg is finally beginning to get the hearing it has long deserved. Weinberg’s lifetime spanned the 20th century: born 1919 in Warsaw, he died 1996 in Moscow, in semi-obscurity. Along the way, his allies and supporters had included Dmitri Shostakovich, who considered him one of the great composers of the age. This double album by violinist Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica, recorded in Neuhardenberg and Lockenhaus, makes an excellent case for that claim.

Effectively a portrait album, it opens with one of Weinberg’s most remarkable creations, the extraordinary and complex third violin sonata of 1978 brilliantly performed by Gidon Kremer. The violinist ranks this work alongside Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin as one of the masterpieces for the instrument. With friends (including star pianist Daniil Trifonov) he explores some chamber music - the Trio op 48 (composed 1950) and the Sonatina op.46 (1949) - and the commitment and skills of the Kremerata musicians are brought to bear on two strikingly-contrasting compositions for string orchestra, the graceful and lyrical Concertino op. 42 (1948) and the adventurous and gripping Symphony No 10 (1968), bringing 12-tone rows and chordal structure into unexpected juxtapositions.

Latvian-born master violinist Gidon Kremer founded Kremerata Baltica in 1997 to foster outstanding young musicians from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, the three Baltic States.

Their other ECM recordings are Hymns and Prayers with works by Tickmayer, Franck and Kancheli; a pairing of the adagio of Mahler’s unfinished Symphony No 10 and the 14th Symphony of Shostakovich; Schubert’s G Major String Quartet orchestrated by Victor Kissine; Gubaidulina’s Lyre of Orpheus; Kancheli’s In l’istesso tempo; Kissine’s Between Two Waves, and, in the Edition Lockenhaus box set, Messiaen’s Trois petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine and Strauss’s Metamorphosen.

Reviews

July 2014

Kremer and his associates deliver incisive, committed performances...a fascinating piece, performed here with great brilliance.

April 2014

Kremer himself opens his survey with a masterly account of the Sonata No. 3...The other three works...show the composer's more genial side. Kremer and his colleagues are in tune with that too...his interpretative daring and technical resources bring out qualities others miss and make each piece more urgently communicative than ever before.

2nd May 2014

Kremer’s playing is superb as one would expect and shows complete understanding of the material by a violinist who has clearly lived with the work for some considerable time. The Kremerata Baltica is a fantastically impressive ensemble whose every fibre is strained to ensuring readings of the highest quality.

20th February 2014

There's one startingly impressive work here, the Third Sonata for unaccompanied violin from 1979, which Kremer delivers with the unswerving commitment and intensity he brings to everything he tackles, familiar or unfamiliar, and making his comparison of it with Bartók's solo sonata not at all far-fetched.

14th February 2014

arrestingly varied stuff, ranging from late Romanticism to stringent neo-Classicism and passages of real anguish

Weinberg: Orchestral & Chamber Works

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