Umea Symphony Orchestra - Weinberg, Chamber symphonies 1 & 4 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The lyrical Second Symphony is haunted by a restless melancholy... yet the result is in no way depressing. Chamber Symphony No.2 is a relatively late work and although it is freely rhapsodic, the mood is more positive and often songful... The nostalgic feeling returns in the central movement, but the atmosphere darkens in the long drawn finale which reaches a passionately plangent climax before it's quietly resigned coda with a single tympani stroke resolution... both played with great eloquence and warmly and naturally recorded. (Penguin Guide 3 stars)

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In honor of Remembrance Day and the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands, Canadian composer Jaap Nico Hamburger presents two symphonies recorded in November 2019. While these two works address serious and challenging themes, they are simultaneously filled with hope and optimism. InchRemember to ForgetInch is both a chamber symphony and an opera without words, inspired by the biography of one of the great composers of our time, György Ligeti. InchChildren's War DiariesInch is a symphony for chamber orchestra in five short movements, inspired by a visit to the Children's Memorial at Yad Vashem and the overwhelming starkness of the Children's Memorial and the blazing Jerusalem sunlight.