Complete Songs, Volume 1
WEINBERG, Mieczysław

Catalogue Number: TOCC0078
EAN: 5060113440785
Release Date: 12 October 2008
Duration: 60:09

Beyond the Border of Past Days, Op. 50
Children's Songs, Op. 13
Rocking the Child, Op. 110

Olga Kalugina, soprano
Svetlana Nikolaeva, mezzo soprano
Dmitry Korostelyov, piano

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.

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Track Listing, MP3 Downloads & Streaming Samples

Track No.	Track Title/Details	Duration	Sample	Download Track
	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
2	No. 2, The Bread Roll	0:49
3	No. 3, Cradle Song	2:40
4	No. 4, The Hunter	1:37
5	No. 5, On the Green Mountainside	1:20
6	No. 6, Grief (The Orphan's Letter) attacca Coda	5:56
	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
8	No. 2, War burns indomitably	1:29
9	No. 3, What for?	2:29
10	No. 4, Much has fallen silent	1:42
11	No. 5, The poor ignoramuses laughed	2:21
12	No. 6, A Spring Evening	2:06
13	No. 7, In the Twilight	1:11
14	No. 8, Someone was sighing at the grave	3:21
15	No. 9, A Voice	1:45
16	No. 10, Memory	3:10
	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)	24:31
17	No. 1, The child was left alone	2:35
18	No. 2, And I am not alone	1:50
19	No. 3, Little feet, little hands	2:50
20	No. 4, Rocking the cradle	1:54
21	No. 5, Night	1:46
22	No. 6, A sorrowful mother	1:20
23	No. 7, The dew	2:09
24	No. 8, Meekness	1:06
25	No. 9, Fear	4:00
26	No. 10, A discovery	2:02
27	No. 11, My song	2:59

Artists

Mieczysław Weinberg, composer

Olga Kalugina, soprano

Svetlana Nikolaeva, mezzo soprano

Dmitry Korostelyov, piano