Elena Kelessidi; Vienna Boys Choir;Prague Philharmonic Choir;Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Format Details: Weinberg Edition Vol 3
Description
WEINBERG was born in Warsaw in 1919. When Nazi Germany invaded Poland, he had no alternative but to flee to the Soviet Union. He made his way eastwards by foot, holding the hand of his sister Ester, two years his junior. After a few kilometres the walking had injured her feet and she returned to her parents. WEINBERG never saw the three of them again; this trauma continued to haunt him even at an advanced age. He always understood his composing to be the work of mourning, and considered it his life's task to remind people, with music, of the tragic fate of his family together with the millions of murdered Jews.
All of WEINBERG's major compositions are magnificent. This is especially true of the REQUIEM, written in 1965-67 and setting poems by Federico GarcÃa Lorca, amongst others. It is not so much a religious work as an anti-war monument.
The Requiem is a large-scale work with very demanding vocal parts. A boys' choir is included, as in the Sixth Symphony. But this work also incorporates a mixed choir and a soprano soloist.
The American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945 had plainly shown people a new destructive power of war. WEINBERG succeeded in presenting a general criticism of war above and beyond any national standpoint of the victors and the defeated.
Tracklisting
Claude Lenners, Noise Watchers Unlimited Ensemble
Munchener Kammerorchester, Ilan Volkov, Jessica Niles, Tobias Vogelmann
Tobias Eduard Schick
Cuarteto Ornati
Festival Strings Lucerne Chamber Players
Klara Tomljanovic, Alberto Carretero, Marton Illes, Vito Zuraj, Steingrimur Rohloff, Nikolaus Brass, Detlef Heusinger
Ensemble Musikfabrik, Carl Rosman, Patrick Stadler
lovemusic & Santiago Diez Fischer
Ensemble La Francais
Kenneth Hamilton
Christoph Croise; Andrey Baranov; Alexander Panfilov
Trio Parnassus
Katharina Kammerloher (mezzo-soprano), Arttu Kataja (baritone), Eric Schneider (piano)
BachWerkVokal, Gordon Safari
Ostrava New Orchestra, Owen Underhill, Ostravska Banda, Petr Kotik, Elision Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Switch~ Ensemble, Jason Thorpe Buchanan
Kilian Herold, Barbara Buntrock, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff
