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Mieczysław Weinberg: Complete Songs, Volume One
Catalogue Number: TOCC0078
Children’s Songs, Op. 13
Olga Kalugina, soprano Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-96), the Polish-born composer who spent most of his life in the Soviet Union, was a close friend of Shostakovich, with whose musical language his own has much in common. Weinberg’s vast output includes 26 symphonies, seventeen string quartets and some 200 songs. The three song-cycles recorded here date from across Weinberg’s career. They demonstrate his extraordinary ability to create atmosphere, often from just a handful of notes, and encompass a wide range of emotion, from wartime suffering, through playfulness and protest, to maternal love. Booklet texts (PDF) |
Track Listing, MP3 Downloads and Streaming Samples
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| 1-6 | Children’s Songs, Op. 13, for soprano and piano, to poems of Itzhok Lejb Perez (1943) Mieczysław Weinberg, composer Olga Kalugina, soprano Svetlana Nikolaeva, mezzo soprano Dmitry Korostelyov, piano (first recording) |
13:35 | |||
| 1 | No. 1, Introduction | 1:13 |
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| 2 | No. 2, The Bread Roll | 0:49 |
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| 3 | No. 3, Cradle Song | 2:40 |
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| 4 | No. 4, The Hunter | 1:37 |
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| 5 | No. 5, On the Green Mountainside | 1:20 |
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| 6 | No. 6, Grief (The Orphan’s Letter) attacca Coda | 5:56 |
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| 7-16 | Beyond the Border of Past Days, Op. 50: Song-cycle for mezzo soprano and piano, to poems of Alexander Blok (1943) Mieczysław Weinberg, composer Olga Kalugina, soprano Svetlana Nikolaeva, mezzo soprano Dmitry Korostelyov, piano (first recording) |
22:03 | |||
| 7 | No. 1, Dedication | 2:29 |
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| 8 | No. 2, War burns indomitably | 1:29 |
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| 9 | No. 3, What for? | 2:29 |
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| 10 | No. 4, Much has fallen silent | 1:42 |
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| 11 | No. 5, The poor ignoramuses laughed | 2:21 |
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| 12 | No. 6, A Spring Evening | 2:06 |
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| 13 | No. 7, In the Twilight | 1:11 |
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| 14 | No. 8, Someone was sighing at the grave | 3:21 |
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| 15 | No. 9, A Voice | 1:45 |
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| 16 | No. 10, Memory | 3:10 |
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| 17-27 | Rocking the Child, Op. 110: Song cycle to poems of Gabriela Mistral (1943) Mieczysław Weinberg, composer Olga Kalugina, soprano Svetlana Nikolaeva, mezzo soprano Dmitry Korostelyov, piano (first recording) |
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| 17 | No. 1, The child was left alone | 2:35 |
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| 18 | No. 2, And I am not alone | 1:50 |
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| 19 | No. 3, Little feet, little hands | 2:50 |
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| 20 | No. 4, Rocking the cradle | 1:54 |
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| 21 | No. 5, Night | 1:46 |
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| 22 | No. 6, A sorrowful mother | 1:20 |
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| 23 | No. 7, The dew | 2:09 |
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| 24 | No. 8, Meekness | 1:06 |
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| 25 | No. 9, Fear | 4:00 |
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| 26 | No. 10, A discovery | 2:02 |
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| 27 | No. 11, My song | 2:59 |
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Artists
Mieczysław Weinberg, composer
[credit: Tommy Persson]
Olga Kalugina, soprano
Svetlana Nikolaeva, mezzo soprano
Dmitry Korostelyov, piano
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