Chefkoch Magazin Oktober No 10 2015

For some years the extensive and highly significant oeuvre of the Polish-Russian composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg has been recognized in the West – a process documented on internationally renowned cpo recordings. The Symphony No. 10 is the most stylistically advanced and experimental composition among his purely instrumental works. The Polish violinist and composer on the disc, Evelina Novicka, has recorded several premieres of his works, including the Concertino op. 42 and Rhapsody op. 47 heard on this most recent CD. She herself has arranged the lost version of the Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes for violin and orchestra.

Chefkoch Magazin • Januar 2023
German | 84 pages | True PDF | 23.33 MB

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The "Under Stalin's Shadow" subtitle of this release may be confusing inasmuch as the opening Passacaglia from the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District dates from before the period when Stalin made Shostakovich's life a living hell, and the main attraction, the Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93, was finished ten months after Stalin's death. Actually the album is the first in a set of three; the others will cover the symphonies No. 5 through No. 9, all written during the period of Stalinist cultural control. But even here the theme is relevant: the pieces are linked by a dark mood that carries overtones (of a feminist sort in the case of the opera) of repression. And the Symphony No. 10 is decidedly some kind of turning point, with repeated (and finally triumphant) assertions of the D-S-C-H motif (D, E flat, C, B natural in the German system) that would appear frequently in the composer's later work.