Mieczysław Weinberg: Piano Quintet, String Quartets Nos. 10 & 13
10/1/2015, 10 Tracks, 1:18:44
Featuring
František Souček
Petr Střížek
Petr Holman
Vladimír Fortin
Nikita Mndoyants
Zemlinsky Quartet
Mieczysław Weinberg
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Composer's Artistic Vision
Weinberg considered it his moral duty to write about the horrors of war and the suffering of mankind, particularly the loss of children and the fate of his relatives.
Composer Biography
Dmitri Shostakovich, a renowned Soviet composer, was immensely impressed by Weinberg's First Symphony and arranged for him to come to Moscow, where they became lifelong friends.
Compositional Technique
Weinberg was a prolific composer, writing 26 symphonies, 17 string quartets (two more than his friend Shostakovich), 28 instrumental sonatas, 7 concertos, and over 150 songs.
Composer Biography
Weinberg's father, Shmuel, was a violinist and conductor in Yiddish theatre in Warsaw, and introduced his son to traditional and liturgical Jewish music.
Performer Biography
Nikita Mndoyants, the pianist on this recording, began playing and composing at a very young age, giving his first public recital at eight and winning the III Myaskovsky International Competition of Composers in 2014.
Composer Biography
Mieczysław Weinberg, a Polish-Jewish composer, was born in Warsaw in 1919 and fled to the Soviet Union in 1939, escaping the Nazi invasion.
Performer Biography
The Zemlinsky Quartet, founded in 1994, has won numerous international awards, including first prize at the Bordeaux String Quartet Competition in 2010.
