Weinberg: Piano Works

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Children’s Notebooks are more than exercise pieces: demanding and dramatic, they sound like distant cousins of Bartók’s folksong pieces, albeit with darker motifs and unsettling scales. The... — Financial Times, 9th April 2011, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Feb 2011
Catalogue No: 7775172
Label: CPO
Length: 60 minutes

Weinberg: Children's Notebooks, Book 1, Op. 16

Work length13:29

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Elisaveta Blumina

I. Larghetto

Track length1:23

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II. Allegro

Track length1:28

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III. Moderato maestoso

Track length2:14

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IV. Tempo di valse

Track length1:38

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V. Allegretto

Track length1:43

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VI. Presto

Track length0:55

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VII. Andante tranquillo

Track length2:34

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VIII. Larghetto

Track length1:34

$1.00

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Weinberg: Children's Notebooks, Book 2, Op. 19

Work length18:45

$8.00

$10.40

Elisaveta Blumina

I. Largo

Track length4:25

$1.00

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II. Allegretto

Track length1:36

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III. Moderato

Track length1:36

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IV. Lento

Track length2:43

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V. Allegro

Track length1:26

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VI. Andantino

Track length1:30

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VII. Marziale lugubre

Track length3:19

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VIII. Andante

Track length2:10

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Weinberg: Children's Notebooks, Book 3, Op. 23

Work length13:25

$7.00

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Elisaveta Blumina

I. Allegro marcato

Track length1:28

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II. Allegro commodo

Track length1:08

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III. Moderato

Track length1:54

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IV. Prestissmo

Track length1:05

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V. Allegretto quasi andantino

Track length2:29

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VI. Lento funebre

Track length3:29

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VII. Andantino semplice

Track length1:52

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Weinberg: Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 5

Work length14:52

$4.00

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Elisaveta Blumina

I. Adagio

Track length6:18

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II. Allegretto

Track length2:20

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III. Andantino

Track length2:57

$1.00

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IV. Allegro molto

Track length3:17

$1.00

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Following on from CPO’s successful ongoing series of Weinberg’s Violin Sonatas and Works for Violin and Piano, is a disc of the Russian composer’s Piano Works. The first Piano Sonata, written when Weinberg was only twenty, is a work of emotional depth and musical maturity. Depth, seriousness, drama and technical demands differentiate Children’s Notebooks from other similarly titled exercises for children from the likes of Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Khachaturian. Nevertheless the textures are lighter than typical Weinberg and the music is extremely approachable.

These complex pieces are interpreted by the Russian pianist Elisaveta Blumina.

Reviews

9th April 2011

Children’s Notebooks are more than exercise pieces: demanding and dramatic, they sound like distant cousins of Bartók’s folksong pieces, albeit with darker motifs and unsettling scales. The Sonata, written at the age of 20, is a work of quirky individuality, alternately threatening and clownish. Blumina makes powerful sense of it.

May 2011

Elisaveta Blumina's achievementis to provoke a re-evaluation of this corner of the Weinberg repertoire. Where previously one might have suspected the 21-year-old composer's debut sonata of a degree of formal and textural miscalculation, Blumina's superior clarity and agility reveal it as a bold and uncompromising statement...She crafts each piece with care and insight.

Weinberg: Piano Works

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