Weinberg: Symphony No. 18 ‘War – there is no word more cruel’
Andrew Balio (trumpet)
St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, St Petersburg Chamber Choir, Vladimir Lande
The present performance boasts a compelling contribution from Andrew Balio, who revels in the witticism of the Finale while also encapsulating the darker undertones of the wistful central movement....
Weinberg: Symphony No. 18 ‘War – there is no word more cruel’
Andrew Balio (trumpet)
St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, St Petersburg Chamber Choir, Vladimir Lande
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The present performance boasts a compelling contribution from Andrew Balio, who revels in the witticism of the Finale while also encapsulating the darker undertones of the wistful central movement....
About
Mieczysław Weinberg’s Eighteenth Symphony is the centrepiece of his symphonic trilogy On the Threshold of War, which focusses on the traumas of the Soviet Union in World War II and stands as one of the most significant creations of his later years. Using texts by important Soviet poets, the work reflects on war with eloquent expressive power. The Trumpet Concerto is amongst Weinberg’s most substantial and diverse works from the 1960s. Ranging in effects from pointillist modernism to the grotesque and sardonic, it was described by Shostakovich as a ‘symphony for trumpet and orchestra’.
Contents and tracklist
- Andrew Balio (trumpet)
- St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra
- Vladimir Lande
- Recorded: 25 and 27 December 2010
- Recording Venue: Petersburg Recording Studio at the St Catherine Lutheran Church, St Petersburg, Russia
- Tatyana Perevyazkina (soprano), Ekaterina Shikunova (alto), Vladimir Dobrovolsky (tenor), Zahar Shikunov (baritone)
- St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Chamber Choir
- Vladimir Lande
- Recorded: 29-30 December 2012 and 9-12 January 2013
- Recording Venue: Petersburg Recording Studio at the St Catherine Lutheran Church, St Petersburg, Russia
Awards and reviews
July 2014
The present performance boasts a compelling contribution from Andrew Balio, who revels in the witticism of the Finale while also encapsulating the darker undertones of the wistful central movement. The St Petersburg State Symphony offers strong support.
15th June 2014
The Symphony No 18, subtitled “War – there is no word more cruel”, is grandly conceived but imperfectly sustained....In the Trumpet Concerto, played by Andrew Balio, the sardonic outer movements come from a different universe to the weighty, pensive slow movement.
August 2014
Lande and the St Petersburg State Symphony with the St Petersburg Chamber Choir here maintain the standard of their previous Weinberg recordings, which is to say that the depth of sound and the dramatic intensity of their Soviet counterparts are rarely matched.
