Weinberg reviews
Weinberg: Violin Concerto, Op. 67, etc
Gidon Kremer (violin); Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Daniele Gatti, et al (Accentus)
Weinberg: String Quartets Nos 2, 5 & 8
Arcadia Quartet (Chandos)
Weinberg - Congratulations!
Katia Guedes, Anna Gutter, et al; Potsdam Chamber Academy/Vladimir Stoupel (Oehms)
Weinberg: The Passenger
Natalia Karlova, Dmitri Starodubov, Olga Tenyakova, Irina Kulikovskaya, Tatiana Nikandrova; Ekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre Orchestra/Oliver von Dohnányi; dir. Thaddeus Strassberger (Dux; DVD)
Weinberg: Cello Concerto Op. 43 etc
Raphael Wallfisch (cello); Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra/Łukasz Borowicz (CPO)
Weinberg: Flute Concertos Nos 1 & 2, etc
Claudia Stein (flute), et al; Szczecin Philharmonic/David Robert Coleman (Naxos)
Weinberg: Piano Trio; Cello Sonata, etc
Trio Khnopff (Pavane)
Trio Khnopff give Weinberg the recognition he deserves
'Trio Khnopff are enterprising, placing the Piano Trio next to other compositions Weinberg wrote following the end of the Second World War, rather than the obvious coupling with Shostakovich’s Second Piano Trio- completed a year before his'
'The most gifted young Polish musicians... master all the technical difficulties of these two scores' by Prokofiev and Weinberg
The harmonic and textural adventurousness of Weinberg’s powerful Fifth Symphony is indicative of the changing cultural climate in the Soviet Union during the early 1960s. A large-scale four-movement work that moves from a restless opening Allegro moderato and a gloomy Adagio sostenuto to a grotesque Scherzo and an elegiac and emotionally ambiguous Andantino Finale, this is hardly a conventional Socialist Realist symphonic narrative.