Chamber, Weinberg (composer)
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Weinberg - Chamber Music
RecommendedGidon Kremer (violin), Yulianna Avdeeva (piano), Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė (cello)
Highly immediate sound and decent notes round out a valuable addition to Weinberg’s discography in his centenary year. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th October 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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Diapason d’Or, December 2019, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Chamber
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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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What a ride!..we alternately wrestle with the composer’s experimental-beautiful soundworld and marvel at his epic vision. The Sixth is a 35-minute rollercoaster, played with attack and aplomb... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2024, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Chamber Music
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I hear both power and pain in the Arcadia Quartet’s excellent playing... Overall, the playing on this album is excellent. I am truly happy that... there is another fill cycle available on record.... —
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The Arcadia Quartet make a very auspicious impression for their first Weinberg entrée that brings together three of the composer’s most accessible contributions to the genre, all recorded in... —
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Record Review, 9th January 2021, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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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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Those who have been following this cycle need not hesitate; anyone new to this music could hardly do better than begin here. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Their music-making is uniquely bonded from the start, an easeful gliding into the simple language of the Shostakovich Cello Sonata (Weinberg's melodic uniqueness, too, in his Second Sonata)...All... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th June 2025
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2025, Recording of the Week
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The Schubert requires different interpretative skills [from the Weinberg], such as grace and elegance as well as a subtlety and variety of tonal colouring in balancing the three instruments... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Chamber Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Chamber Music Recording of the Year
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