Mieczysław Weinberg - Symphony No. 12; Flute Concerto (Maxim Shostakovich)

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Composer: Mieczysław Weinberg

• (01) Symphony No. 12 (In Memoriam D. Shostakovich)
• (04) Flute Concerto in D minor, Op. 75

Alexander Korneyev, flute (4, 5)
Moscow Chamber Orchestra
Rudolf Barshai, conductor (4, 5)

Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
Maxim Shostakovich, conductor (1-3)

Date: 1968 (4, 5), 1979 (1-3)
Label: Russian Disc

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Mieczysław Weinberg (8 December 1919 in Warsaw – 26 February 1996 in Moscow) was a Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin. From 1939 he lived in the Soviet Union and Russia and lost most of his family in the Holocaust. He left a large body of work that included twenty-two symphonies and seventeen string quartets. Weinberg's works frequently have a strong programmatic element. Throughout his life, he continually referred back to his formative years in Warsaw and to the war. Although he never formally studied with Shostakovich, the older composer had an obvious influence on Weinberg's music.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieczys%C5%82aw_Weinberg

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Maxim Shostakovich (born in Leningrad on 10 May 1938) is a Russian conductor and pianist. He is the second child of Dmitri Shostakovich and Nina Varzar. He was educated at the Moscow and Leningrad Conservatories where he studied with Igor Markevitch and Otto-Werner Mueller. Since 1975, he has conducted and popularised many of his father's lesser-known works. Maxim is the dedicatee and first performer of his father's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102. While he was principal conductor of the Moscow Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, he conducted the premiere of his father's 15th Symphony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Shostakovich

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