CBSO/ Gražinytė-Tyla ****
Symphony Hall, Birmingham, 24th November 2018
Has Mieczysław Weinberg’s time come? With 21 completed symphonies, 17 string quartets, 70 film scores and seven operas (including The Passenger), he was as prolific a composer as his close friend Shostakovich, but Weinberg is often accorded footnote status in the annals of Soviet music. This weekend, two of his greatest advocates, Gidon Kremer and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, argued a convincing case in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s Weinberg Weekend, the centrepiece of which was a powerful UK premiere of his Symphony no. 21“Kaddish”.
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts the CBSO
© Benjamin Ealovega
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