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On sale -50%Thanks in part to the efforts of conductor Vladimir Lande and the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, featured here, the large orchestral output of Polish-born Russian composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg is getting a second look. During his career he faced many of the same issues Shostakovich did, but his musical solutions to those issues are often different and quite fresh. Like Shostakovich, he went through enforced phases of trying to please Soviet authority, and the two works on this album seem to belong to one of those phases. The Symphony No. 19, Op. 142 ("Bright May"), is the more interesting work. The title refers not to the 1917 May revolution but to the Soviet Union's final victory over Nazi Germany in May 1945. You might not guess that that was the topic if you listened to the work cold; the extremely variegated first movement mixes triumphant passages in brass with pastoral scenes, as if the composer were surveying a devastated landscape. The movement ends in great uncertainty, and that mood pervades the entire symphony. The work doesn't have the memorable tunes that Shostakovich offers, but it has a style of its own. The shorter tone poem The Banners of Peace, Op. 143, dates from the same year; it is a more bombastic work whose conclusion, even annotator Richard Whitehouse concedes, is most notable for "its evident lack of irony." The orchestra, made up of players for whom stuff like this was written, does quite well, and those who have discovered Weinberg along the way will find the music interesting. Those who want to sample this composer, though, might try one of the earlier symphonies released in Naxos' series devoted to his music.
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Symphony No. 19, Op. 142, "the Bright May"
Vladimir Lande, Conductor - St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Mieczysław Weinberg, Composer
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
Vladimir Lande, Conductor - St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Mieczysław Weinberg, Composer
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
Vladimir Lande, Conductor - St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Mieczysław Weinberg, Composer
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
The Banners of Peace, Op. 143
Vladimir Lande, Conductor - St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Mieczysław Weinberg, Composer
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
Album review
Thanks in part to the efforts of conductor Vladimir Lande and the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, featured here, the large orchestral output of Polish-born Russian composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg is getting a second look. During his career he faced many of the same issues Shostakovich did, but his musical solutions to those issues are often different and quite fresh. Like Shostakovich, he went through enforced phases of trying to please Soviet authority, and the two works on this album seem to belong to one of those phases. The Symphony No. 19, Op. 142 ("Bright May"), is the more interesting work. The title refers not to the 1917 May revolution but to the Soviet Union's final victory over Nazi Germany in May 1945. You might not guess that that was the topic if you listened to the work cold; the extremely variegated first movement mixes triumphant passages in brass with pastoral scenes, as if the composer were surveying a devastated landscape. The movement ends in great uncertainty, and that mood pervades the entire symphony. The work doesn't have the memorable tunes that Shostakovich offers, but it has a style of its own. The shorter tone poem The Banners of Peace, Op. 143, dates from the same year; it is a more bombastic work whose conclusion, even annotator Richard Whitehouse concedes, is most notable for "its evident lack of irony." The orchestra, made up of players for whom stuff like this was written, does quite well, and those who have discovered Weinberg along the way will find the music interesting. Those who want to sample this composer, though, might try one of the earlier symphonies released in Naxos' series devoted to his music.
© TiVo
Details of original recording : 55:36 - DDD - Enregistré du 28 au 30 avril 2011 à Saint-Pétersbourg - Notes en anglais
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 4 track(s)
- Total length: 00:55:21
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra Vladimir Lande
- Composer: Mieczysław Weinberg
- Label: Naxos
- Area: Pologne
- Genre: Classical
- Period: Modern Style
(C) 2012 Naxos (P) 2012 Naxos
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