Chamber Music

Chamber Music

• Brand: CPO
• Trio Op.24; Sonatina Op.46; Sonata Op.108

For some years now the extensive and eminently significant oeuvre of the Polish-Russian composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg has been being discovered and receiving proper recognition even in the West - a gradual process and a fortunate one! cpo's internationally highly acclaimed recordings also attest to this development, and the pianist Elisaveta Blumina has tirelessly committed herself to this cause. Following her successful cpo releases of Weinberg's piano works and chamber music for winds, she now deserves our thanks for formulating the idea and program design for yet another cpo CD. If Weinberg's amazing musical maturity created surprises in his early piano works, then in the chamber compositions selected here he shows even more emotional depth, seriousness, and high drama. And the interpreters - with Elisaveta Blumina at the piano - skillfully master the astonishingly high technical demands of these pieces, and in this way ""with her musical colleagues she provides for a finely felt, gripping, and captivating interpretation of Weinberg's music!"""" (Pizzicato). The tragic element in Weinberg's life experiences repeatedly finds expression in his works, but very often the minor key ends up going over into major. Weinberg's quest for a good end, for peace, is encountered almost everywhere in his music.