Russian Piano Music Series: Vol 10 – Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Mieczystaw Weinberg (1919-1996)
Piano Sonata No. 4, Op. 56 (1955) [26.43]
[1] I Allegro 7.01
[2] II Allegro 3.13
[31 II Adagio 8.13
[4] IV Allegro 8.03
Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 58 (1956) [27.05]
[5] Allegro 8.40
[6] II Andante 10.27
[7] III Allegretto 749
Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 73 (1960) [12.38]
[8] I Adagio 6.57
[9] II Allegro molto 5.40
Total CD duration 66.46
Product Code: DDA25107
About
Mieczyslaw Weinberg — who actually preferred the non-German spelling ‘Vainberg’ — was born in Warsaw in 1919, the son of a composer and violinist at a Jewish theatre. When he was only ten he began his musical career there as a pianist and music director; two years later he started piano studies at the Warsaw Conservatory. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 he was forced to flee the country and he went to the USSR, initially to Minsk. There he attended composition classes at the conservatory for two years, but when the Germans attacked the USSR in 1941 he had to flee again: he spent the next few years at the opera house in Tashkent, Uzbekistan