Weinberg: Symphony No. 13 & Serenade Siberian State Symphony Orchestra & Vladimir Lande

• Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996):
• 1 Symphony No. 13, Op. 115 34:42
• Serenade, Op. 47 No. 4:
• 2 I. Allegretto 03:44
• 3 II. Allegro molto 05:26
• 4 III. Adagio 02:45
• 5 IV. Allegro giocoso 06:11
• Total Runtime 52:48

Info for Weinberg: Symphony No. 13 & Serenade

Weinberg’s Symphony No. 13, dedicated to the memory of his mother, is cast in a single movement that unfolds in a symmetrical arc. A large orchestra is used sparingly in chamber-like textures with motivic ideas that evolve over the course of the work. The result is music of gripping and unsettling power, both emotionally intense and architecturally complex. Some years earlier Weinberg wrote the light-hearted Serenade, Op. 47, No. 4 which offers a study in contrasts: by turn capricious, rumbustious and wistful.

"Lande does a magnificent job with this music, as he did in his previous releases, and this is clearly a disc of superb music, superbly performed." (Lynn René Bayley)

Siberian State Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Lande, conductor

Siberian State Symphony Orchestra
The Siberian State Symphony Orchestra dates back to 1977. The orchestra, then led by eminent Soviet conductor Ivan Shpiller, soon won a reputation as one of the best orchestras in the former Soviet Union. The SSSO has worked with conductors including Leonard Slatkin, Dmitri Jurowski, Gintaras Rinkevičius and Vladislav Chernushenko, and has performed regularly with soloists including Mikhail Pletnev, Vadim Repin, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Lazar Berman, Igor Oistrakh, Denis Matsuev, Rudolf Buchbinder and Nikolai Lugansky. Political changes enabled the orchestra to start touring internationally to critical acclaim. In 1993, by special decree of the Russian Ministry of Culture, the orchestra was awarded the title of State Orchestra and in 2009 received the honour of being named an important element of Cultural Heritage. In 2015 Vladimir Lande became the orchestra’s new Artistic Director and Chief Conductor. Since then, the SSSO has embarked on a recording programme with international labels such as Naxos, Delos and Parma Records, and televised concerts have become available for online streaming.

Vladimir Lande
Music Director and Conductor of the Siberian State Symphony Orchestra (Krasnoyarsk), Vladimir Lande has, since 2008, served as Principal Guest Conductor of the St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Music Director and Conductor of the Washington Soloists Chamber Orchestra, Guest Conductor of the National Gallery of Art Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director of the COSMIC Symphony Orchestra. In 2015 he became Artistic Director of the Asian Pacific Festival (APF), for countries of the Asian-Pacific region. He has worked with distinguished orchestras and soloists and has enjoyed an extraordinarily active recording career. He is recording a seventeen-volume cycle of orchestral works by the neglected Russian composer Mieczysław Weinberg for Naxos. In June 2011 he also launched a series of video recordings for Naxos of Concerts from the Palaces of St Petersburg. His many other recording projects include works by Respighi and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

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