Elena Kelessidi; Vienna Boys Choir;Prague Philharmonic Choir;Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Description
WEINBERG was born in Warsaw in 1919. When Nazi Germany invaded Poland, he had no alternative but to flee to the Soviet Union. He made his way eastwards by foot, holding the hand of his sister Ester, two years his junior. After a few kilometres the walking had injured her feet and she returned to her parents. WEINBERG never saw the three of them again; this trauma continued to haunt him even at an advanced age. He always understood his composing to be the work of mourning, and considered it his life's task to remind people, with music, of the tragic fate of his family together with the millions of murdered Jews.
All of WEINBERG's major compositions are magnificent. This is especially true of the REQUIEM, written in 1965-67 and setting poems by Federico García Lorca, amongst others. It is not so much a religious work as an anti-war monument.
The Requiem is a large-scale work with very demanding vocal parts. A boys' choir is included, as in the Sixth Symphony. But this work also incorporates a mixed choir and a soprano soloist.
The American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945 had plainly shown people a new destructive power of war. WEINBERG succeeded in presenting a general criticism of war above and beyond any national standpoint of the victors and the defeated.
Tracklisting
Andreas Skouras, Bela Bartok, Gyorgy Ligeti, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Pascal Dusapin, Unsuk Chin, Y
Mikael Rudolfsson, Olivier Vivares, Gerard Grisey, Luciano Berio, Eloain Lovis Hubner, Bernhard Gan
John Palmer, Delphine Henriet, Barbara Maurer, Hofer Symphoniker, Alinde Quartett, Johannes Klumpp,
Johannes Maria Staud, Boulanger Trio, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, Ludwig Chamber Players,
Eres Holz, Ingolfur Vilhjalmsson, Laurent Bruttin, Florian Juncker, E-MEX Ensemble, Christoph Maria
Robert M. Helmschrott
Robert M. Helmschrott
Kevin Juillerat, Cedric Pecia
Yoichi Sugiyama
Slava Guerchovitch
Francesco Ledda, Opera Discovery Orchestra, Stefanna Kybalova, Valer Borin, Marcello Lippi, Paolo B
Karolos
Daniel Di Prinzio, Ihor Kordiuk
Nora von Marschall
Isabel Schicketanz
The Counterpoints
