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This disc completes Naxos’ survey of the four Weinberg Chamber Symphonies, featuring the excellent East-West Chamber Orchestra under Rostislav Krimer. As with the prior release,
It’s easy to hear why Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s assured compositional technique and basically dry and grim style appealed to his friend and older colleague Shostakovich, and
Mieczyslaw Weinberg composed his 24 solo cello Preludes in the late 1960s for Mstislav Rostropovich. The pieces are terse, aphoristic, and unpredictable, redolent of Shostakovich’s
For it being one of the absolutely great chamber works of the 20th century, there aren’t actually that many good recordings of the Mieczysław Weinberg
After lavish and huge boxed sets for Maria Callas and
Nicolas Altstaedt is a terrific cellist when he tries to be musical rather than “authentic” (see my review of his gruesome disc of CPE Bach
As with previous anthologies culled from Lugano Festival’s Progetto, Martha Argerich, the 2014 edition offers a fairly diverse range of music. Argerich herself participates in
If you’ve been following this series, you already know that it’s one of the great Shostakovich quartet cycles, outstanding even in a very crowded field.
Oh, how I wish I could love this disc. Weinberg
This is the third volume in Cedille’s ongoing series of Shostakovich quartets, enriched by additional works by the composer’s Soviet colleagues, and like the two
