Orchestral, Weinberg (composer)
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Weinberg: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 21
RecommendedGidon Kremer (violin)
Kremerata Baltica, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
The Second Symphony in general conveys a message of vigour and youthful optimism…and it is presented here in a performance of consummate technical brilliance and sustained emotional conviction…Gražinytė-Tyla... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd May 2019
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Record Review, 11th May 2019, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Recording of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, Summer Issue 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Orchestral
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Winner - Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Recording of the Year
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Weinberg: Orchestral & Chamber Works
RecommendedGidon Kremer (violin & director), Daniil Grishin (viola), Giedre Dirvanauskaite (cello), Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Kremerata Baltica
Kremer and his associates deliver incisive, committed performances...a fascinating piece, performed here with great brilliance. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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These are two of Weinberg’s most immediately approachable and engaging works, and they make an excellent introduction for newcomers to his output. Nor should anyone taking the economy option... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Weinberg: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7
Kirill Gerstein (harpsichord), Marie-Christine Zupancic (flute), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Here at last is the follow up to Mirga GražinytėTyla’s awardwinning 2019 Weinberg release – an equally superb, charismatically interpreted and intelligently programmed recording. This vividly... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies & Piano Quintet
Gidon Kremer (violin/director), Yulianna Avdeeva (piano), Mate Bekavec (clarinet)
Kremerata Baltica, Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla
Kremer's commitment is clear in this compellingly performed release of the four chamber symphonies Weinberg composed during the last decade of his life...The overriding atmosphere in all these... —
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Record Review, 11th February 2017, Recording of the Week
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the Seventh Symphony is emotionally elusive...Daniel Grossmann and the Jewish Chamber Orchestra have the measure of its complexities and deliver a committed performance. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Concerto
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[the Third Symphony is] an immensely attractive work, the folk melodies with their distinctly Belorussian and Polish inflections skilfully woven into the symphonic fabric and clothed in imaginative... —
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Weinberg: Symphony No. 19 ‘Bright May’ & The Banners of Peace
St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Lande
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Weinberg: Symphony No. 12 ‘In memoriam D. Shostakovich’
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Lande
Lande and the St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra negotiate the considerable technical demands of this complex score with impressive assurance. Supported by a wonderfully focused recording... —
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Symphony No. 13, memorialising Weinberg’s mother, is so bleak that it’s quite the shock when the perky Serenade begins. Fervent performances add to the composer’s growing posthumous reputation. —
