Mieczysław Weinberg: Symphony No. 18 “War - There is no word more cruel” (1986)

Classical Music Discord: Original BiliBili Upload: 【【魏因伯格】第十八交响曲「战争-没有更残酷的词了」(Война - жесточе нету слова) (1986)】 Mieczysław Weinberg ( 1919 - 1996 ) Mieczysław Weinberg (also Moisey or Moishe Vainberg, Moisey Samuilovich Vaynberg; Russian: Моисей Самуилович Вайнберг; Polish: Mojsze [Mieczysław] Wajnberg; 8 December 1919 – 26 February 1996) was a Polish composer who resided in the USSR. Ever since a revival concert series in the 2010 Bregenz Festival in Austria, his music has been increasingly described as “some of the most individual and compelling music of the twentieth century“. Weinberg’s output was extensive, encompassing 26 symphonies, 17 string quartets, nearly 30 sonatas for various instruments, 7 operas, and numerous film scores. Symphony No. 18 “War - There is no word more cruel” ( 1986 ) Among the most significant projects of Weinberg’s later years is a symphonic trilogy which was given the collective title On the Threshold of War—reflecting the traumas of the Soviet Union (and indirectly that of Poland, from which he was forced to flee in September 1939) during the Great Patriotic War of 1940–45, as well as a need for Soviet composers to embody the eventual Socialist victory that persisted almost to the end of the Soviet era. Not that Weinberg’s trilogy is in any sense an establishment undertaking: both outer symphonies, the Seventeenth ‘Memory’ and the Nineteenth ‘Bright May’ [Naxos ], are purely orchestral works which bear epigraphs by the once ostracized poet Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), while the Eighteenth ‘War—there is no word more cruel’ features a chorus in settings from Sergey Orlov (1921–77) and Alexander Tvardovsky (1910–71)—poets, it might be noted, whose initially ‘official’ writings soon became more inward and questioning—which frame a text derived from folk sources. Composed during 1982–84, the piece was given its first performance at the Moscow Autumn Festival in October 1985, with the Latvian State Academic Chorus and the USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev (who had given the premières of almost all Weinberg’s symphonies since the Thirteenth and continued to advocate the composer’s music throughout his last years and beyond). Movements 0:00 I. Adagio. Allegro 15:34 II. He was buried in the Earth 28:10 III. My dear little berry, you do not know the pain that is in my heart 40:14 IV. War - there is no word more cruel Instrumentation For Orchestra Performer St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra St Petersburg Chamber Choir Conductor: Vladimir Lande The music published in my channel is exclusively dedicated to divulgation purposes and not commercial. This within a program shared to study classic educational music which involves thousands of people around the world. If someone, for any reason, would deem that a video appearing in this channel violates the copyright, please inform me immediately before you submit a claim to Youtube, and it will be my care to immediately remove the video accordingly. Your collaboration will be appreciated.