Mieczysław Weinberg - Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 67

Mieczysław Weinberg (1919 - 1996) - Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 67 (1959)

I. Allegro molto [0:00]
II. Allegretto [7:06]
III. Adagio [13:19]
IV. Allegro risoluto [19:33]

Leonid Kogan, violin
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin (1960)

Mieczysław Weinberg's Violin Concerto in G minor is a work in four movements typically lasting around 26 minutes.

"Weinberg owed much to his great friend and mentor Shostakovich, and Mahler and Bartók as well. He also enriched his vocabulary with Jewish and Polish folk songs, the music of the Yiddish theater he grew up in, and the various genres he mastered to earn a living. Yet he always remained uniquely himself. There are hints of all these influences in his 1959 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, which begins with an insistent, menacing rhythmic motif repeated in a series of variations like the underscoring for a chase scene. Melodic inventiveness gives voice to the two middle movements, the sighs and laments of the Allegretto and the stoic, yearning lyricism of the Adagio, the most ear-ravishing passage in the score. The concluding Allegro risoluto march recapitulates the dominant rhythm of the first movement avoiding the strident hysteria Shostakovich brought to similar episodes, and ends softly with a plaintive, rueful coda for the violin."

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