Mieczysław Weinberg: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in C minor, Op. 43
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 พ.ค. 2024
- Claes Gunnarsson, Svedlund, Göteborgs Symfoniker
0:00 Adagio
7:20 Moderato - Lento
12:59 Allegro - Cadenza. L'istesso tempo, molto appassionato - Andante - Allegro - Andante
21:42 Allegro - Adagio - Meno mosso - เพลง
This is like finding a $100 bill on a walk with the dog....sheer joy! Thank you for finding this and sharing with us!
Hearing this for the first time...perhaps it's not too late at 66 to make this a piece to grow up with!
First time for me as well and I'm only 75, young enough to become a Weinberg devotee!
Me too at 71, so good to discover this great composer. Thank you.
Pete Gage
Chris Verhoustraeten
Me too ! I am only 94 and I look forward to listen to it for many years more.... and to many other works composed by this exceptional pupil of Dimitri Schostakovich !
Dear sir, I agree that Weinberg is a great composer. I just wanted to clarify that he was not Shostakovich's pupil, but his very close friend although he was 13 years younger than Shostakovich. Their friendship was so close that it is believed that Weinberg is the source for Shostakovich's interest in Jewish music. (Weinberg was a Jewish-Polish composer). Shostakovich dedicated his String Quartet No.10 to Weinberg, and Weinberg dedicated his Symphony No.12 to Shostakovich in return.
You are right. Here is some details of his life:
culture.pl/en/artist/mieczyslaw-weinberg
The first 7 minutes are breathtaking
Yeah, it’s like Clint Mansell on sedatives
I find what happens after the first 7 minutes breathtaking.
Been a professional 'Cellist most of my 60 years. Never heard of this before. Gorgeous.
Because of "iron curtain" in Soviet Union! In his Music's heritage of Prokofiev & Schostakovich , and ancient Jewish tradition, too
I'm gonna listen to this one over and over again
Finally a composer with the sense of music.
Very human and touching deep in our soul.
Thank you.
Claes Gunnarsson is the first cellist of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. World class playing here .
Adding to my comment from 5 years ago: I still love this concerto.
I also recommend hearing Myaskovsky' Cello Concerto, also very sorrowful, probing, painfully lyrical.
May this noble and powerful music always be with you in your heart.
A beautiful concerto, written with genuine love for the instrument.
Yes I think this is very unique, he love the cello.
What a beauiful and originally melodic music ! It should not be forgotten as it is nowadays.
I have to say ... this piece caught me off guard . The first movement is so great I can't put it into words . I'm floored .
Восхитительно
Amazingly moving. Reminds me of Miaskovsky's neglected Cello Concerto. Memories of Shostakovich, Jewish music, and amazingly Vaughan Williams. So glad I discovered it, thank you You tube.
Yes, I hear chordal density and dissonances reminiscent of Vaughn-Williams as well.
Sense of painful burden is conveyed powerfully at the first movement .
He is a new discovery for me. Thank you for posting. I will look for other pieces from him.
I guess he is a discovery for many these days. Happily, the world has finally discovered Weinberg.
Listen to his symphony #3!
... brilliant, brilliant, BRILLIANT ...
Nunca es tarde si la dicha es buena. Weinberg fue un grandísimo músico, silenciado en la URSS por su condición de extranjero (era de origen polaco) y judío. En vida se le consideró un simple discípulo de Shostakovich (a pesar de que Dimitri Dimitrevich lo tenía como un compositor de inmenso talento) y al final de su vida se le calificaba como demasiado clásico, alejado de las vanguardias ( a él que sólo le encargaban en su país componer música para dibujos animados o para películas del social realismo). A pesar de todas las dificultades que tuvo a lo largo de su vida, su música merece estar entre lo más sobresaliente de cuanto se compuso en el siglo XX. Todo el respeto y cariño para este genio oculto que la historia pondrá en su justo lugar
Íñigo García-Borreguero ......gracias Iñigo por su esclarecedor comentario.
Thank you for this.
Sublime...
Many of composers in Russia were Poles. Not only Mieczysław Weinberg - but also Szostakowicz, Glinka, Strawiński, Rymski-Korsakow, Niemirowicz-Danczenko, Mieczysław Weinberg... or modern composer Sergiusz Słonimski (he died this year unfortunately)....
About the others I don't know, I imagine they had Polish ancestors, but about Glinka I read that the origin of his name is Lithuanian. I researched it because the surname doesn't sound Russian. But in fact, Lithuania and Poland together formed, at some point in history, a kind of powerful Confederate nation (I just looked at Wikipedia, this was between 1569 - 1795). Weinberg, was a Jewish Pole (meaning that in Poland, a country with a long anti-Semitic tradition, his position was problematic), immigrated to Soviet Russia to escape the Nazis. In fact, Soviet Russia was no less anti-Semitic than imperial Russia and Poland, and this composer almost suffered in Russia the fate that the Germans imposed on his family in his native country.
@@pedrohenriqueprata Dear Mr. Borges, Glinka is a Polish name (quaite popular in Polar) and Polish world, check in translator "clay
- glina, glinka,
alumina
- glinka". Lithanians are not Slavonics and their names are very different (for example Visniaulskas, Brazauskaite etc.). The Glinka`s ancestors are from Lomza (town in Mazovia district of Poland). poland and Lithuania became a confederation in 1386. In 1569 in Lublin they decided to create the unitar state with capital in Cracow, polish king was a head of the state and polish language was the only state official language (all nobiles in Lithuania spoke Polish as a native language, they have not used Lithuanian which was used by peasants only. Similiar situation as in Czechia or Latvia where elites were German, local languages were spoken by peasants only). In XVIII century 70% of all world Jews lived in poland because Poland was the only non-antisemitic country. That is why they escaped from Germany and other European countries to Poland. It is true that Weinberg was a Pole of Jewish origin (like many other Polish composers - like Henryk Wieniawski, Sergiusz Slonimski, Henryk Wars, Jerzy Petersburski) - but they considered themselves as Poles. That is why Weinberg changed in 70-ties its name "Moses" (Moisey) into pure Polish name "Mieczysław". He escaped from Poland from Germans (not from Poles). All his family was killed by Germans. Many Jews escaped from poland because of German occupation - for example two Nobel prize scientists Józef Rotblat or Leonid Hurwicz - but all their life they were proude of being Polish. Poland is not antisemitic, it is very safe for Jews, they are Jewish festivals in the streets... a week ago I was on the Jewish festiwal in my town Grodzisk Mazowiecki - there was big concert - there was no any policeman or guard - because all is safe. Such situation is impossible in anti-Semitic countries like Germany or france. That is why many Jews emigrates from France every year. Many of them emigrate to safe Poland where they can wear their national clothes or hats in any part of Poland - and they are safe.
@@JulianRulko Sorry, I didn't know you were Polish and I didn't mean to insult your nationality. What I am writing is reminiscent of things I have read, and which I have a very fragmentary memory of, and possibly erroneous in details or as a whole. I would like to make considerations about many things but that would make the comment unpleasantly long, so I will stick to one specific point, which is the issue of offspring or parentage. Most Brazilian classical composers were the children of immigrants, such as Camargo Guarnieri, who was the son of Sicilians, or Francisco Mignone, who was not only the son of Italians, but also carried out a large part of his musical training as a fellow in Italy. And yet Oscar Lorenzo Fernández, who was the son of Spaniards, the list could be extended indefinitely. I'm sorry if your opinion is not that, but for me a person's nationality is determined by the way that person identifies himself, the language he used daily, the answer that person would give if they asked him his country of origin. From this point of view, Kafka, for example, although he was born and lived in Prague, as an Austrian Jew with a German language and background, he can hardly be considered a Czech writer: the city in which he was born was one of the main cities of the "Danubian Monarchy" , with a very complex ethnic and cultural composition, and he did not use or speak Czech and wrote only in German. Some of the composers you mentioned as Polish, like Szostakowicz (Shostakovitch, or even Chostakóvich, as it is transliterated in Brazil) or Rimsky-Korsakov, it seems to me that they were deeply integrated, since their birth, with the Russian cultural complex and asked themselves which one their country of origin, I suppose they would reply that it was Russia. The issue of anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe is a complex one, some time ago I saw a Romanian film called "Aferim!" that dealt with it laterally. I don't want to be creating harsh controversies about anything, it's just a fallible point of view.
@@JulianRulko wait - Do you mean that _today_ there are jews emigrating from France because of antisemitism?
Bellissimo! Grazie.
So beautiful!
Thank you!
wunderschön!
Wonderful! (:
This piece is absolutely fascinating!
Ricardo da Mata I have a chamber piece of his, a string quartet or something....I'll find it.....Most Disturbing to hear....yet you want to listen repeatedly! More vexing that those Shostakovich symphonies......
thank you!
Just listen and admire...
beautiful, sustained and shaped melodic line... Thanks for uploading it.
Great music! Great composer!
Wow, just wow
Piękne ❤️
He is a great Jewish composer. His music touches every single nerve in a Jewish soul!
I agree...pure pain...sublime
While I can appreciate that, it doesn't have all to do with being Jewish. All of humanity understands pain. There is no corner on the market. Listen to Finzis concerto. The second movement is absolute loss and melancholy.
All Jewish composers got their musical education in Israel, live and work in Israel
@alléespach , Mahler was an Austrian composer. I don't know Schönberg and Korngold.
@alléespach , I don't have time for that. I am making video "30 top Russian composers". by the way watch my video "60 best soviet composers"
A masterpiece!Phenomenal cello!!
Отличный концерт!
Это исключительная музыка!!! Сама русская судьба, русская душа мечется в этих струнных аккордах... Видеоряд напрашивается сам ...- Филонов Павел; Эрика Булатова картина с матерью,проважающей сына на фронт - ее глаза, это - шедевр; Гелий Коржев, ... И еще, еще...
Невозможно передать словами какие чувства вызывает эта музыка. Это замечательно. Слов нет
Can you provide a link for the painting of Erika Bulatova? It's really hard to find, in fact I haven't found it yet.
@@DressedForDrowning Эрик Булатов - мужчина. Напишите электронку - вышлю картину.
@@user-jt7by6xx9w I see. Thank you very much. There was a misspelling in my translation software. Now everything's okay. 😀
@@user-jt7by6xx9w No, wait a second. You wrote Эрика Булатова ... that's clearly a woman, isn't it?
I am speechless.
Nunca la había escuchado, es bellísima!! Muchas gracias por compartir!
Weinberg and Shostakovitch were very close and influenced each other musically. However, although Weinberg production was much larger then Shostakovitch's (about 27 symphonies if I'm not mistaken) for some reason the later is considered the 20th century greatest composer and Weinberg was almost forgotten. This cello concerto is, in my opinion, one of his best works. Some of his symphonies are fine but none rises to the stratospheric heights of Shostakovitch's.
Sounds like the second half of your comment (which I agree with) answers the "for some reason" question of the first.
Quality of art isn't limited by measuring stick of addicts of hierarchy ("greatest", "almost forgotten", "one of the best", "rises to the stratospheric heights", etc.)
His 12th symphony is better than some of Chosta imo.
a master of Adagio
A stunningly beautiful performance evoking pathos and hope.
great
Great work. Thums up...
Great work. Great composer. Thumbs up. Hats off...
Oeuvre magistrale magnifiquement interprétée .
So glad I found out about this composer! After reading about his tragic life, I'm astounded to hear the music he wrote.
In my modest and uninformed opinion, most of Weinberg's works do not suggest that his artistic imagination could have been the result of a happy life or an optimistic sensitivity. Much of what I heard from this composer makes one think of the "terrible and threatening" of Shostakovich's music, but without the balance of irony. Listen, for example, to the first movement of your 16th symphony: th-cam.com/video/7xmoC53rvuU/w-d-xo.html
Спасибо
Rique - Thank you for sharing this masterpiece. I've just recently come upon this composer, and he is definately equal to Prokofiev and Shostakovitch. Beautifu!
прекрасная музыка..спасибо......
Splendid as usual, with Wajnberg 🌺
Спасибо большое за эту необыкновенную музыку.
It's first movement ever connects me with my painful past that I've experienced
Is it just me or the cellist has unusually *good* intonation? It really helps bringing out the color of complex tonal music like this.
Ik!!! I’ve been tryna get my hands on this piece for more than one reason
@@cadenweinberg4301 I have a full score for cello and orchestra, and a piano reduction. You want scans of it? I lent the piano reduction to a friend so if you need that you might have to wait a month or two.
Maroc Polo I’d love it
@@cadenweinberg4301 aight dude, I wont forget, the moment I get the piano reduction back Ill send it over. For now, Ill give you the full orchestra score which inlcudes the cello part obviously. Do you have google hangouts?
@@marocpolo2882 Hello Marco - I'll be performing the concerto in May 2021, do you think you could send me the full score as well? (I already the piano reduction for practicing at home, but I'd be delighted to be able to practice from the full score as well). Best!
[Google Translate: This was above specifies: Claes Gunnarsson is the cellist & Svedlund [Thord] is the conductor.]
Isto foi especifica acima: Claes Gunnarsson é o violoncelista & Svedlund [Thord] é o condutor.
very touching as other music of Polish born composer Weinberg
Marcin Blazewicz, Mojsze Wajnberg is a typical Polish name
@@russian_classic Weinberg was given the Polish name Mieczyslaw. He was tagged with the name Moisei by an immigration officer in Minsk, Belarus as a generic Jewish moniker. Later he reverted to his given name as, given the precarious status of Jews in Russia, he did not want his children to wear that brand.
@@russian_classic he was Pole. Cry russian
@@Johnnygold332 , how many music he wrote living in Poland? no one? o, really "a Polish composer" uahah)
Very interesting music
Very unknown composer....but this goes deep...Thank you
El cincierto es buenissimo.
Гениально…
Прекрасная музыка
неймовірно!
Tango second movement is touching, and the slow first movement is melancholic. This is my first time to hear this but IMO I love this more than Dvorak's VCC.
I think I'm even more in love with Weinberg rather than Shostakovich ( don't kill me please )
Never!
As a layperson I consider their stylistic idiom being very similar... they loved each other's music, absorbed from each other. And I love MW's unique and treasurable voice, his solid-like-rock vulnerability
0:00 is a good place to start.
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After some detective work - always necessary with Rique - I found out that the conductor is one of the few privileged people in this world, that actually also do have a first name - imagine that ! He is Thord Svedlund. It is against Rique's political conviction though, to mention the word Thord - ever !
These Scandinavian names are unpronounceable in Portuguese.
@@pedrohenriqueprata So?
@@brkahn No, I'm exaggerating. I think Dutch names tend to be much more difficult. Or rather, by the way they are written, it is difficult to deduce how they sound.
Quel artiste exceptionnel , dommage qu'il ne soit éternel! Merci
The prevalent view of Weinberg's 'Cello Concerto here is laudatory, and while I agree to an extent, my enthusiasm is somewhat more constrained. It is an emotional, atmospheric work that speaks out of personal experience and is adept in conception and form, but to me it lacks that last bit of imagination in development and inspirational spark that would make it a truly great work. It's written in a very conservative idiom, more so than Shostakovich or even Bloch, and as such needs a truly exceptional composer to allow it to achieve its potential to be a totally satisfying or memorable work. Its finest distinction I think is its excellent orchestration, which certainly presents the sometimes pedestrian material in the best light possible. This is the first music I've heard by Weinberg, and I'm aware that hearing more of it (including re-hearing this) may increase my appreciation and bring more of its strengths to light.
From what I have read, Mieczysław Weinberg is being gradually taken to the position of third great Soviet composer, after Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Perhaps this is fair, considering the length and quality of his work, but at some point in his career he seems to have given up exploring or building a personal language (present, for example, in this concert) to make his music wholly derivative of the darkest in Shostakovich.
The conductor is Thord Svedlund.
Svedlund is a rare champion of Weinberg (sometimes spelled Vainberg). I wish the world had more Svedlunds! His interpretation of the 7th Symphony is fantastic - those opening phrases in the 1st mvmt! In any event, I'm always going to be a big fan of Weinberg's Symphs 6 and 12 no matter what may come or how I might change over the years. Each so different from the other. Each so magnificent.
Tiny lick of Shostakovich first concerto at 5:51.
Only that Shostakovich's first cello concerto was composed in 1959, 11 years after Weinberg wrote his. Usually whenever we hear Shostakovich in Weinberg, it is because the former was inspired by the latter, not the other way round...
Vackert!
Does anyone know where I could buy the music for this Concerto?
www.jwpepper.com/Concerto-for-Cello-and-Orchestra-Op-43-/10318202.item#/submit
......////czas minoł//////żyleta!!!!, kierowca Tira jestem, enszuldigung, żyleta....
7:44
Wow. I wonder if he is Polish. Weinberg is a German and Jewish name.
CWtheCommander 9 He is a sensitive human, it's enough
żyleta.
Commercials at the beginning and end, and perhaps one in the middle - but when they come every three minutes, I am just going to stop listening.
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Holy shit it's TNO humanist guy!
H U M A N I S T
Ур...ы
4% Воронеж.
I don’t know what to think about it, there are parts that are really beautiful and brilliant and others that just sound boring and flat...
Great luck that he went to Russia, otherwise he would have been destroyed by Polish or German nationalists in the 30s.
Szkoda, że nie miało tyle szczęścia ponad 140 tysięcy Polaków wymordowanych w radzieckich syberyjskich łagrach i obozach ,jak chociażby Kozielsk i Katyń. Tam także Rosjanie zamordowali wielu wspaniałych muzyków.
Weinberg and Shostakovitch were very close and influenced each other musically. However, although Weinberg production was much larger then Shostakovitch's (about 27 symphonies if I'm not mistaken) for some reason the later is considered the 20th century greatest composer and Weinberg was almost forgotten. This cello concerto is, in my opinion, one of his best works. Some of his symphonies are fine but none rises to the stratospheric heights of Shostakovitch's.