Mieczyslaw Wajnberg: String Quartets Nos. 5 & 6

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the performances of all the Silesians’ releases that I have heard are uniformly excellent and musically insightful, as is also the case with this latest release. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)

Release Date: 2nd Dec 2022
Catalogue No: ACD298
Label: CD Accord
Length: 61 minutes

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Weinberg: String Quartet No. 5, Op. 27

Work length23:39

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Silesian Quartet (string quartet)

I. Melody. Andante sostenuto

Track length5:45

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II. Humoresque. Andantino

Track length5:16

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III. Scherzo. Allegro molto

Track length2:08

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IV. Improvisation. Lento

Track length4:45

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V. Serenade. Moderato con moto

Track length5:45

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Weinberg: String Quartet No. 6, Op. 35

Work length31:33

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Silesian Quartet

I. Allegro semplice

Track length8:16

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II. Presto agitato

Track length2:25

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III. Allegro con fuoco - Lento

Track length1:50

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IV. Adagio

Track length6:42

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V. Moderato comodo - Furioso subito

Track length5:09

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VI. Allegro maestoso e pesante

Track length7:11

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Weinberg: Improvisation & Romance for String Quartet

Work length6:10

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Silesian Quartet

I. Improvisation. Adagio

Track length3:01

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II. Romance. Andante

Track length3:09

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String Quartet No. 5 was written in the autumn of 1945 and was performed on 17 May 1947 in Moscow by the Beethoven Quartet, to whom it was dedicated. Years later, the composer returned to this Quartet and arranged it for orchestra as the four-movement Chamber Symphony No. 3, Op. 151 (performed on 18 November 1991). It was several years before that he had first begun to turn to his scores from almost half a century earlier, and he already had 17 string quartets under his belt. It was also then that he arranged his String Quartets No. 2 and No. 3 as Chamber Symphonies No. 1 and No. 2, and in the summer of 1987 that he confided to a friend: “I’m looking through the baggage of my youth. Sometimes I find something in there that is worth rethinking.” (...) Initially, the String Quartet No. 6 had a promising reception.(...) However, the Sixth Quartet proved to be an unlucky work for Weinberg, and it was probably not until 24 January 2007 in Manchester that the piece was heard by an audience for the first time, performed by Quatuor Danel. (...) Wajberg briefly returned to quartet format in the autumn of 1950 when he wrote his Improvisation & Romance (Adagio. Andante). (...) The first ever performance of Improvisation and Romance that we know of only took place in 2018 (Quatuor Danel, Lucerne). Featured in this album, the piece is not only related in its character to String Quartet No. 5 but it also crowns Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s complete string quartets recorded by the Silesian Quartet – like an unpretentious encore after a successful concert. Danuta Gwizdalanka

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February 2023

the performances of all the Silesians’ releases that I have heard are uniformly excellent and musically insightful, as is also the case with this latest release.

Mieczyslaw Wajnberg: String Quartets Nos. 5 & 6

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