Katarzyna Neugebauer, the pianist on this album, focuses on contemporary music, leading to many performances and premieres of works by young composers.
Composition History
Weinberg's Three Romances Op. 22 from 1945, using texts by the great romantic bard Adam Mickiewicz, can be seen as an expression of nostalgia for his lost homeland.
Performer Biography
Joanna Klisowska, the soprano on this album, specializes in baroque and classical music but also has interests in French music of the late Nineteenth Century, song, and contemporary music.
Composer Biography
Weinberg fled Warsaw during World War 2, leaving his family behind, and became a Soviet Union citizen, spending the rest of his life there.
Composer Biography
Mieczysław Weinberg was friends with many leading cultural figures in the Soviet Union, with Dmitri Shostakovich being the most prominent.
Composer Biography
Mieczysław Weinberg, born in Warsaw in 1919, helped his father in Jewish theatres and cabarets as a small boy and later studied piano professionally.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Julian Tuwim, a Polish poet and translator, was Mieczysław Weinberg's favorite poet, and the composer often returned to his works.
