Weinberg: Violin Concerto & Sonata for Two Violins

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Kremer’s approach differs significantly from all other recorded interpreters in adopting far more expansive tempos throughout the concerto..Kremer and Latvian violinist Madara Pētersone deliver... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th Feb 2021
Catalogue No: ACC30518
Label: Accentus Music
Length: 50 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2022

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Weinberg: Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 67

Work length32:24

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Gidon Kremer (violin)
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Daniele Gatti

I. Allegro molto (Live)

Track length9:18

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II. Allegretto (Live)

Track length8:27

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III. Andante (Live)

Track length6:16

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IV. Allegro risoluto (Live)

Track length8:23

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Weinberg: Sonata for two violins, Op. 69

Work length18:35

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Gidon Kremer (violin), Madara Pētersone (violin)

I. Allegro molto

Track length5:59

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II. Adagio

Track length7:06

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III. Allegro

Track length5:30

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"With 22 symphonies, 17 string quartets, 9 concertos, and 7 operas, the composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg left behind an extensive oeuvre. Musically, one can hear the composer's close friendship with Dmitri Shostakovich, although Weinberg's music is more lyrical and romantic in nature. Nevertheless, the composer was long forgotten and his music has only been rediscovered in the last ten years. Gidon Kremer has dedicated himself to the rediscovery and cultivation of Weinberg's music.

In February 2020, he performed Weinberg's Violin Concerto op. 67 with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig under the musical direction of Daniele Gatti as part of a series of concerts in honor of the composer's 100th birthday at the Leipzig Gewandhaus.

Weinberg completed the concerto in 1959, the culmination of one of his most creative and successful phases of the 1950s. The work captivates with its large symphonic structure and its four movements, which are rather atypical for a concerto. Also in 1959, Weinberg composed the Sonata for Two Violins op. 69, which Kremer recorded with the Latvian violinist Madara Petersone, concert master of the Kremerata Baltica."

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April 2021

Kremer’s approach differs significantly from all other recorded interpreters in adopting far more expansive tempos throughout the concerto..Kremer and Latvian violinist Madara Pētersone deliver a riveting performance [of the Sonata for Two Violins] with near perfect ensemble and great variety of tone.

May 2021

Gatti may have conducted little Weinberg but the rapport between him, the Leipzig Gerwandhaus and Kremer is evident at the outset of a charged and incisive opening Allegro.

25th February 2021

Another significant part of Kremer’s mission in recent years to gain Weinberg’s music the recognition he believes it deserves. His careful approach, broader and warmer than most, certainly suggests that he’s out to win friends for the concerto, and there are moments when more urgency and bite would have paid dividends.

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