St. Petersburg Chamber Choir, St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Lande - Weinberg: Symphony No. 18 - Trumpet Concerto (2014)

Tracklist

01. Trumpet Concerto in B-Flat Major, Op. 94: I. Etudes
02. Trumpet Concerto in B-Flat Major, Op. 94: II. Episodes
03. Trumpet Concerto in B-Flat Major, Op. 94: III. Fanfares
04. Symphony No. 18, Op. 138 "War, there isn't a Crueller Word": I. Adagio - Allegro -
05. Symphony No. 18, Op. 138 "War, there isn't a Crueller Word": II. He was buried in the Earth -
06. Symphony No. 18, Op. 138 "War, there isn't a Crueller Word": III. My dear little berry, you do not know the pain that is in my heart -
07. Symphony No. 18, Op. 138 "War, there isn't a Crueller Word": IV. War - there is no word more cruel

Mieczysław Weinberg’s Eighteenth Symphony is the centrepiece of his symphonic trilogy On the Threshold of War, which focusses on the traumas of the Soviet Union in World War II and stands as one of the most significant creations of his later years. Using texts by important Soviet poets, the work reflects on war with eloquent expressive power. The Trumpet Concerto is amongst Weinberg’s most substantial and diverse works from the 1960s. Ranging in effects from pointillist modernism to the grotesque and sardonic, it was described by Shostakovich as a ‘symphony for trumpet and orchestra’.

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