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Mieczysław Weinberg: Light in Darkness

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premiera polska:
18.02.2022
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
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Editor's info:
first recordings of a lot of Weinberg's oeuvre
premiere of Piano Trio was in 1947 together with Dimitrij Zyganow (violin) and Sergej Schirinskij (violoncello), who were both members of the famous Beethoven Quartet
the Piano Trio is based on the 1945 manuscript, which contains all of the original ideas about the dynamics, phrasings and peculiarities of the composition
the album is a reminder that luminous hope always follows the darkness.

Linus Roth first encountered the music of Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996) in 2010 when he was scheduled to play his Piano Trio at a chamber music festival. After the first rehearsal, Roth was shocked and moved by the intensity and energy of the music and touched by the beauty of this composition, which was new to him. Not only were the characteristics of the inner turmoil obvious - , the deep abysses and darkness in this music - but also those of the hope contained therein, which repeatedly shone through. At the time Roth knew almost nothing about Weinberg’s biography or any of his other works, so he left the festival in the hope that Weinberg may have composed something else for violin.

It was then that a treasure chest opened up for Roth: a Violin Concerto with symphony orchestra and one with chamber orchestra, 3 solo Sonatas, 7 Sonatas with piano, many other pieces and a number of chamber music works. Much of it had never been recorded and Roth immediately saw the discovery of this music as a huge stroke of luck. As a musician, when do you ever get to discover an entire oeuvre that is first-rate and yet has been forgotten?! The idea was obvious to tackle the complete recording of all works for violin. As this project has meanwhile been completed, Roth wanted to return here to his first encounter with the music of Weinberg, the Piano Trio op.24.

After Weinberg and his wife were able to move to Moscow in 1943 with the help of Shostakovich, he wrote the Piano Trio op.24 in 1945. In 1947 the premiere took place at the Moscow Conservatory with Weinberg, who was himself an excellent pianist, together with Dimitrij Zyganow (violin) and Sergej Schirinskij (violoncello), who were both members of the famous Beethoven Quartet. The present recording is based on a copy of the manuscript from 1945, which contains all of the original ideas about the dynamics, phrasings and peculiarities of the composition. The opening Prelude of the Trio shows great assertiveness and a determined character, but is brought to an abrupt end by the Aria, performed by a lonely and sometimes fragile violin with interjections by the piano. The second movement, the ‘Toccata’, has a captivating drive right from the start, a typical feature of Weinberg’s compositional style and one which he uses again and again with huge skill and to great effect. The series of notes pound down wildly on the listener.

This is followed by the third movement, appropriately titled ‘Poem’. First, the piano raises its voice accusingly in a longer monologue, before the violin and cello spin a melody that emerges from the silence, leading to a brilliant climax, which in turn leads back to the opening melody. The finale is equally virtuosic for all three instruments. It contains a remarkable fugue and sound sequences that are definitely reminiscent of Shostakovich, but which come across in a very different guise. Here too Weinberg uses a stylistic feature that is unique to his musicality: he quotes himself and processes the opening theme of the first movement once again. An inserted waltz in a plaintive manner is followed by a swan song after warning and threatening deep bass notes from the piano. After all the huge drama this trio contains, Weinberg sends a ray of light down to the listener in the form of the bright and long-lasting harmonics of the strings. Like so many of his works, this one too ends in pianissimo and morendo, a typical characteristic of many of Weinberg’s final bars.

Until shortly before his death in 1996, Weinberg’s works were regularly performed with great enthusiasm by Russian artists and now, they slowly but increasingly are reaching the international concert stage. His Piano Trio, like his other numerous works, shows his immense mastery of all compositional forms, genres and styles - always shaped by events in his own fateful life, such as escape, expulsion, the murdering of his family and the constant danger to his own being.

This production was supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
Financed by the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport of the Republic of Poland as part of the Multi-annual Programme NIEPODLEGŁA 2017–2022

Linus Roth, who received the ECHO KLASSIK Award in 2006 as ‘Best Newcomer’ for his début CD on EMI, was honoured with his second ECHO award in 2017 for his recording of the violin concertos by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky with the London Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Sanderling. Roth has made a name for himself internationally both in core classical repertoire as well as for his discovery and rediscovery of works that have undeservedly fallen into oblivion. He has devoted special attention to the works of Polish composer, Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996), both in concerts and in the recording studio. In 2015 Roth founded the International Weinberg Society which organises and sponsors concerts, readings, exhibitions, interdisciplinary events and publications on Weinberg’s life and work. Linus Roth’s recording of the complete works for violin and piano by Mieczysław Weinberg was released to great acclaim in 2013 by Challenge Classics. It was followed by a recording of Weinberg’s Violin Concerto with the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester under Mihkel Kütson and then the Concertino with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn under Ruben
Gazarien, both CDs being selected as a coveted ‘Editor’s Choice’ by Gramophone magazine. For the centenary of Weinberg’s birth in 2019, Linus Roth was invited to curate two days of events dedicated to Weinberg at Wigmore Hall. As well as his chamber music, these events also included Weinberg’s six sonatas for violin and piano as well as the three sonatas for solo violin.

Linus Roth has played as soloist with many leading orchestras including the Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra, the National Polish Radio Orchestra Katowice, the Estonian National Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta de Cordoba, the Orchestra della Toscana in Florence, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Chamber Philharmonic, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra del Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Cologne Chamber Orchestra and the Bruckner Orchester Linz. He has worked with such noted conductors as Gerd Albrecht, Herbert Blomstedt, Andrey Boreyko, Dennis Russell Davies, Hartmut Haenchen, Manfred Honeck, James Gaffigan, Mihkel Kütson and Antoni Wit.

As a passionate chamber musician, he has performed with Nicolas Altstaedt, Gautier Capuçon, Kim Kashkashian, Albrecht Mayer, Nils Mönkemeyer, Andreas Ottensamer, Itamar Golan and Danjulo Ishizaka, among many others. He has also worked together for several years in musical partnership with the Argentine pianist José Gallardo.

Linus Roth attended preparatory classes with Prof.. Nicolas Chumachenco at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Germany, before going on to study with Prof.. Zakhar Bron. Subsequently, he pursued his studies for several years with Prof.. Ana Chumachenco at the music universities in Zurich and Munich. Salvatore Accardo, Miriam Fried and Josef Rissin have also been important influences on his studies. Linus Roth was the recipient of a student scholarship from the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.

In October 2012, Linus Roth was appointed Professor for Violin at the ‘Leopold-Mozart-Zentrum’ at Augsburg University. He was the Artistic Director of the 10th Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition which took place in 2019 in Augsburg. In addition, Linus Roth is the Founder and Artistic Director of the International Festival Ibiza Concerts and since 2020 is Artistic Director of the Music Festival Schwäbischer Frühling in Ochsenhausen, Germany. Linus Roth plays on the 1703 Stradivarius violin ‘Dancla’ on generous loan from the music foundation of the L-Bank Baden-Württemberg.
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muzycy:
Linus Roth Violin
Danjulo Ishizaka Violoncello
José Gallardo Piano
Janusz Wawrowski Violin

utwory:
1. Piano Trio op. 24 - I. Praeludium and Aria (05:56)
2. Piano Trio op. 24 - II. Toccata (04:09)
3. Piano Trio op. 24 - III. Poem (09:11)
4. Piano Trio op. 24 - IV. Finale (10:34)
5. Sonata for 2 Violins op. 69 - I. Allegro molto (06:46)
6. Sonata for 2 Violins op. 69 - II. Adagio (07:23)
7. Sonata for 2 Violins op. 69 - III. Allegro (05:56)
8. 2 Songs without words - I. Andantino (04:06)
9. 2 Songs without words - II. Larghetto (03:43)
10. Sonatensatz II - Largo (05:03)

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Evil Penguin
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Mieczysław Weinberg
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Mieczysław Weinberg: Light in Darkness
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1CD
Data premiery
2022-02-18
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