Thord Svedlund has previously made three recordings of the orchestral music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg. First was his 1998 recording of the Polish-Russian modernist's First and Fourth chamber symphonies issued first on Olympia and later on Alto, then his 1999 version of the Second Symphony and Second Chamber Symphony, likewise issued on Olympia and then Alto, then his 2005 recording of four of Weinberg's concertos issued by Chandos. Now, Svedlund at last gets his crack at two full-fledged symphonies, No. 1 and No. 7, with the ...
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Thord Svedlund has previously made three recordings of the orchestral music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg. First was his 1998 recording of the Polish-Russian modernist's First and Fourth chamber symphonies issued first on Olympia and later on Alto, then his 1999 version of the Second Symphony and Second Chamber Symphony, likewise issued on Olympia and then Alto, then his 2005 recording of four of Weinberg's concertos issued by Chandos. Now, Svedlund at last gets his crack at two full-fledged symphonies, No. 1 and No. 7, with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra on Chandos, and the results are stunning.Weinberg's First has had only one previous recording, by Alexander Titov and the St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony, and while it is more than serviceable, it cannot compare with this account. Written in 1942 and dedicated to the Red Army, the First is the smoothest and by far the most sincere pastiche of Shostakovich and Prokofiev's styles imaginable, and if it does not quite touch the depths of Shostakovich's...
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