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Weinberg - Symphonies 14 & 16 | Chandos CHAN10334

Weinberg - Symphonies 14 & 16

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Label: Chandos

Cat No: CHAN10334

Barcode: 0095115133422

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 2nd October 2006

Contents

Artists

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice

Conductor

Gabriel Chmura

Works

Weinberg, Mieczyslaw

Symphony no.14, op.117
Symphony no.16, op.131

Artists

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice

Conductor

Gabriel Chmura

About

Weinberg was one of the most prolific and inventive creative musical figures of the twentieth century. The reason
for the neglect of his music is largely political, for Weinberg, as a bourgeois Jew, suffered under both Nazism and
Soviet Communism. It is only since the barriers between the Soviet Union and the West were lowered that scholars
worldwide have come to realise the importance of Weinberg’s legacy.
 
The music of Mieczysław Weinberg is full of colour and rhythmic energy (Shostakovich was his most important
influence and described Weinberg as ‘one of the most outstanding composers of the present day’), often slightly
quirky in nature, and always inventive. Besides Shostakovich, other palpable influences on Weinberg’s music were
Prokofiev, Stravinsky and especially Mahler. More of a romantic than his mentor, Weinberg composed music
which is notable for the lyrical beauty of its melodies and its extraordinarily fine thematic development. Its neglect
is due in large part to the circumstances of the composer’s life, rather than to its intrinsic quality, and it is therefore
well suited to receiving the full Chandos treatment, which will bring it to the wider audience it deserves.

Gabriel Chmura and the Polish National Radio Orchestra revel in the Rhapsody’s many opportunities for
virtuosity, and they deliver vibrant and committed accounts of the Symphony and Sinfonietta. Add to this equation
Chandos’s customary state-of-the-art engineering, and you have a release that deserves the widest possible
dissemination.
 
This is a premiere recording of Symphony No. 16. The disc is the third volume in Chandos’ exciting Weinberg Symphonies series. The National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Katowice is Poland’s leading orchestra and has premiered works by some of the twentieth century’s most significant composers.

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