Blumina Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt Gazarian: Piano Quintet 18 - COMPACT DISCS

Blumina Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt Gazarian: Piano Quintet 18 - COMPACT DISCS

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Piano Quintet 18

Artist:

Blumina Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt Gazarian

Label:

Capriccio

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

845221053660

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2020-10-02

Number of Discs:

1

Five years after Shostakovich premiered his quintet to turbulent success in 1940, his new 24-years young friend Weinberg premiered one of his own. For the premiere on March 18th, the 27-year old Weinberg got the String Quartet of the Bolshoi and a 30-year old pianist, already famous then, by the name of Emil Gilels. The Quintet op.18 is one of the unequivocally great chamber pieces of that time and it is a superb entry-point into the world of Weinberg. As with any truly great masterpiece, a work like the Piano Quintet benefits and indeed demands many and diverging interpretations. This also includes different versions, such as this arrangement of the quintet for chamber ensemble. The idea is hardly far-fetched: Weinberg arranged several of his own works for chamber orchestra; his friend Shostakovich's string quartets have popularly lent themselves to such arrangements. It suits the treatment naturally - and the orchestral version, therefore, gives us just one more way to discover and enjoy one of Weinberg's ingenious gifts to his belated but finally eager public.

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