Release Date: 31 January 2020
Label: Cpo - Full Price / CPO
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 761203523429
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Mieczys?aw Weinberg
Description
Mieczyslaw Weinberg grew up in Warsaw, a city in which Poles then accounted for two thirds of the populace and Jews for one third of its residents. The Jews increasingly regarded themselves as Poles, just as he did. The three works on this CD clearly attest to the fact that Weinberg felt that he belonged to both traditions. The Concertino and the Cello Concerto have Jewish roots, while the Fantasy is a piece with a typically Polish character. If the Concertino, in which the orchestra is extraordinarily sparingly used and the violoncello practically plays a solo, may be described as the composer’s »lyrical journal« in music notes, then the Cello Concerto derived from it has even more clearly been written for the grand stage. It is more fully developed, the work has assumed a new character, and the orchestra plays a more important role in it.
Slovak Chamber Orchestra; Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein; Salzburger Hofmusik; Bohdan Warch
Gernot Submuth; Ramon Jaffe; Monica Gutman
Zwarg:Dreissig:Riemer
Zurcher Kammerorchester
Zurich Co:Griffiths
Zassimova:Breuninger
Yamamasu:Wdr So Koln
Winter:Norin:Kobow:Max
