Weinberg - Complete Violin Sonatas, Violin Sonatina | Naxos 857232021

Weinberg - Complete Violin Sonatas, Violin Sonatina

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 857232021

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 10th March 2017

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About

Mieczysław 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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