Weinberg - Piano Works 1951-1956
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Label: MDG (Dabringhaus und Grimm)
Cat No: MDG91822836
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 14th July 2023
Contents
Artists
Stefan Irmer (piano)Works
Partita, op.54Piano Sonata no.4 in B minor, op.56
Piano Sonata no.5, op.58
Sonatina, op.49
Artists
Stefan Irmer (piano)About
Mieczysław Weinberg's fate is exemplary for Jewish artists of his generation: the only one of his family to escape the Holocaust, he also faced anti-Semitic hostility in the Stalinist Soviet Union. No wonder that such existential experiences are reflected in his music, which to this day has been denied the recognition it deserves. In the Partita, op.54: the most delicate sounds are suddenly juxtaposed with brute eruptions - a reflex to the imprisonment just survived during the last wave of Stalinist purges? The ten-part work challenges player, instrument and listener alike.
Weinberg's relationship to the Soviet Union was ambivalent: on the one hand, he owed his survival during the National Socialist era to the state, but on the other, this state also held its artists on a very short leash. More than almost any other composer, Weinberg succeeded in outwardly fulfilling the socialist guidelines while developing a very individual, personal style out of tonality and avant-garde, Jewish tradition and light muse.
A fine melancholy often pervades Weinberg's music, for example in the Sonata no.4, which was premiered in its symphonic dimensions by Emil Gilels, or in the compelling Passacaglia of the Fifth Sonata.
Under Stefan Irmer's hands on MDG's magnificent Steinway concert grand "Manfred Bürki", Weinberg's music emerges grandiose and new - a long overdue rehabilitation of a great composer!
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