Mieczysław Weinberg: Complete Songs, Volume One
Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-96), the Polish-born composer who spent most of his life in the Soviet Union, was a close friend of Shostakovich, with whose musical language his own has much in common. Weinberg's vast output includes 26 symphonies, seventeen string quartets and some 200 songs. The three song-cycles recorded here date from across Weinberg's career. They demonstrate his extraordinary ability to create atmosphere, often from just a handful of notes, and encompass a wide range of emotion, from wartime suffering, through playfulness and protest, to maternal love.
Olga Kalugina, soprano
Svetlana Nikolaeva, mezzo soprano
Dmitry Korostelyov, piano
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Children’s Songs, Op. 13, for soprano and piano, to poems of Itzhok Lejb Perez (1943)
- No. 1, Introduction
- No. 2, The Bread Roll
- No. 3, Cradle Song
- No. 4, The Hunter
- No. 5, On the Green Mountainside
- No. 6, Grief (The Orphan’s Letter) attacca Coda
- No. 1, Dedication
- No. 2, War burns indomitably
- No. 3, What for?
- No. 4, Much has fallen silent
- No. 5, The poor ignoramuses laughed
- No. 6, A Spring Evening
- No. 7, In the Twilight
- No. 8, Someone was sighing at the grave
- No. 9, A Voice
- No. 10, Memory
- No. 1, The child was left alone
- No. 2, And I am not alone
- No. 3, Little feet, little hands
- No. 4, Rocking the cradle
- No. 5, Night
- No. 6, A sorrowful mother
- No. 7, The dew
- No. 8, Meekness
- No. 9, Fear
- No. 10, A discovery
- No. 11, My song
Beyond the Border of Past Days, Op. 50: Song-cycle for mezzo soprano and piano, to poems of Alexander Blok (1943)
Rocking the Child, Op. 110: Song cycle to poems of Gabriela Mistral (1943)
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