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 recorded performance [of the Seventh Symphony], featuring Kirill Gerstein and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, brilliantly communicates all the music’s intensity and strangeness.

for those new to this repertoire, DG’s extremely well-filled disc is self-recommending.

This successor to the much-garlanded recording of Symphonies Nos. 2 and 21 from the same forces proves absolutely worth the wait: the weird and wonderful Seventh Symphony surprises at every turn, kicking off with a neo-Baroque-meets-jazz harpsichord solo and showcasing the full might of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie strings in the Shostakovich-esque scherzo. The Third, with its eerie klezmer-ish violin solos and nods to folk dances, may call to mind Mahler for some listeners, though Weinberg's voice is always very much his own.