If Mieczysław Weinberg had lived for another decade or so after his death in 1996, he would have seen his status change from obscure outlier to general acceptance as one of the major twentieth-century composers. His violin works have likewise been recognised as major additions to the repertoire. Since Yuri Kalnits and Michael Csányi-Wills began what will be a four-volume survey of Weinberg’s music for violin and piano, other musicians have discovered and recorded many of these masterworks, but on its completion this cycle will still be the first to record all of Weinberg’s works for solo violin and violin and piano.

“a most auspicious introduction to Weinberg’s violin music, offering a chameleon-like variety that extends from the feral onslaught of the Solo Sonata to the profundities of the Fourth Sonata and to the outright melodiousness of the First. Strongly recommended for repertoire, performances, and recorded sound.” – Robert Maxham, Fanfare (Vol.1, TOCC0007)

“The terseness of the cultural references in all the works here is brought out with honest intensity by the Moscow-born violinist Yuri Kalnits and British pianist Michael Csányi-Wills, whose performance is very much one of musicians who carry the music in their blood.” – Caroline Gill, Gramophone (Vol.2, TOCC0026)