Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919–1996)
Naxos 8572320-21 (2 CDs)
Grigory Kalinovsky, Violin
Tatiana Goncharova, Piano
10 March 2017
Mieczyslaw Weinberg is now recognised as one of the outstanding Russian
composers of the second half of the twentieth century.
Fêted for his symphonies
and string quartets, he also wrote a sequence of Violin Sonatas crucial to the
development of his distinctive and elusive musical idiom.
Shostakovich’s influence is evident in the Third Violin Sonata, as are Jewish
melodic elements, while the Fourth Violin Sonata is alternately sombre and
hectic.
His masterpiece is the Fifth Violin Sonata, symphonic in scale but
subtle in form, and containing some of his most affecting writing.
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| Disc: 1 |
| Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 12 |
21:19 |
| 1 |
I. Allegro |
6:07 |
| 2 |
II. Adagietto |
6:43 |
| 3 |
III. Allegro |
8:29 |
| Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 15 |
23:35 |
| 4 |
I. Allegro |
8:22 |
| 5 |
II. Lento |
6:32 |
| 6 |
III. Allegro moderato - Allegro con fuoco - Tempo |
5:13 |
| Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 37 |
18:47 |
| 7 |
I. Allegro moderato |
4:37 |
| 8 |
II. Andantino |
6:54 |
| 9 |
III. Allegretto cantabile - Lento (quasi adagio) |
9:14 |
| Disc: 2 |
| Violin Sonata No. 4, Op. 39 |
18:08 |
| 1 |
I. Adagio |
9:23 |
| 2 |
II. Allegro ma non troppo |
4:03 |
| 3 |
III. Adagio tenuto molto rubato - Adagio primo |
4:24 |
| Violin Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 |
22:51 |
| 4 |
I. Andante con moto |
5:18 |
| 5 |
II. Allegro molto |
5:48 |
| 6 |
III. Allegro moderato |
4:14 |
| 7 |
IV. Allegro - Andante - Allegretto - Andnate |
7:17 |
| Violin Sonata No. 6, Op. 136bis |
12:00 |
| 8 |
Violin Sonata No. 6, Op. 136bis |
12:00 |
| Violin Sonatina, Op. 46 |
14:01 |
| 9 |
I. Allegretto |
4:36 |
| 10 |
II. Lento - Allegro - Tempo primo |
5:31 |
| 11 |
III. Allegro moderato - Lento |
3:54 |