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WEINBERG: Symphony and Chamber Symphony No. 2
Budget Periods: 20th Century
Composers: Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Directors: Thord Svedlund
Performers: Umea Symphony Orchestra
Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Symphony No.2
Chamber Symphony No.2
Umea Symphony Orchestra
Thord Svedlund, director
Original World Premiere Recording
Weinberg was an important Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin. He lived in the Soviet Union and Russia since 1939 and lost most of his family in the Holocaust.
He left a large body of work that included twenty-two symphonies and seventeen string quartets; according to one reviewer he ranked as, "the third great Soviet composer, along with Prokofiev and Shostakovich".
| Track Listing | Time | MP3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 for String orchestra (1945-46) | |||
| 1 | Allegro moderato | 13:22 | |
| 2 | Adagio | 9:34 | |
| 3 | Allegretto | 9:33 | |
| Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 147 for String orchestra and timpany (1987) | |||
| 4 | Allegro molto | 8:53 | |
| 5 | Pesante | 5:02 | |
| 6 | Andante sostenuto | 10:13 |
“The lyrical Second Symphony is haunted by a restless melancholy… yet the result is in no way depressing. Chamber Symphony No.2 is a relatively late work and although it is freely rhapsodic, the mood is more positive and often songful…the nostalgic feeling returns in the central movement, but the atmosphere darkens in the long drawn finale which reaches a passionately plangent climax before its quietly resigned coda with a single timpani stroke resolution….both played with great eloquence and warmly and naturally recorded .
Penguin Guide