Weinberg: Orchestral Music, Volume Two

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It's difficult to understand how such an accessible and brilliantly scored orchestral work as Weinberg's Six Ballet Scenes remained unperformed until last year…Kirill Umansky has done a sterling... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Nov 2015
Catalogue No: TOCC0313
Label: Toccata Classics
Length: 71 minutes

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Weinberg: 6 Ballet Scenes, Op. 113 "Choreographic Symphony"

Work length31:48

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Siberian Symphony Orchestra
Dmitry Vasilyev

No. 1, Allegro molto

Track length4:48

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No. 2, Adagio

Track length6:05

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No. 3, Allegretto

Track length4:18

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No. 4, Adagio - Moderato

Track length7:28

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No. 5, Adagio

Track length6:12

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No. 6, Presto

Track length2:57

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Weinberg: Symphony No. 22, Op. 154

Work length39:59

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Siberian Symphony Orchestra
Dmitry Vasilyev

I. Fantasia. Lento

Track length24:25

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II. Intermezzo. Con moto

Track length5:09

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III. Reminiscences. Adagio

Track length10:25

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Mieczysław Weinberg, born in Warsaw in 1919, became a close friend of Shostakovich in Moscow, after fleeing eastwards before the invading Nazis in 1939. His style has much in common with Shostakovich’s: fluent contrapuntal skill, a keen feeling for melody, often inflected with Jewish cantilena, and an acute sense of drama.

Since his death in 1996, his vast output – which includes 26 symphonies, seven operas and seventeen string quartets – has enjoyed increasing recognition as some of the most individual and compelling music of the twentieth century.

This recording pairs a mature orchestral work, the Six Ballet Scenes, Op. 113 (1973), to which Weinberg gave the subtitle Choreographic Symphony, (1973), with the last symphony he composed, No. 22, leaving it in a piano score which has been orchestrated by Kirill Umansky. Both works receive their first recordings here.

Dmitry Vasiliev was born in 1972 in the city of Bolshoi Kamen, Russia. He graduated from the Rostov State Conservatoire and then took a post-graduate course under the guidance of Alexander Skulsky at the Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatoire. He has since been active all over Russia. Since 2005 he has been principal conductor of the Siberian Symphony Orchestra in Omsk. The Siberian Symphony Orchestra, based in Omsk, is a regular recording partner of Toccata Classics: this is their fourth recording on the label.

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April 2016

It's difficult to understand how such an accessible and brilliantly scored orchestral work as Weinberg's Six Ballet Scenes remained unperformed until last year…Kirill Umansky has done a sterling job in orchestrating [the Symphony No. 22] somewhat austere work so idiomatically…the Siberian Symphony Orchestra under Dmitry Vasilyev performs both pieces with great aplomb.

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