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Reviews
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12/04/2002
NOSPR in Bristol (Bristol Evening Post)
Polished performers
After watching the demonstrative way in which conductor Gabriel Chmura drove the orchestra into Beethoven's overture Coriolan Op. 62, I feared for the principal work of the evening, Mahler's Symphony No.1.
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NOSPR in Chichester Festival (West Sussex Observer)
Superlative playing ensures a memorable concert
A strong and colourful version of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D ‘Titan' was presented by the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Chichester Festival Theatre's International Celebrity Concert Series.
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11/28/2002
NOSPR in Croydon (Croydon Advertiser)
It's not hard to wax lyrical about the variety of the shining tone of the large Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. It was unerringly tidy at all times last Thursday, ever working toward the same musically-balanced end with impeccable phrasing. Its sound was consistently rich without ever seeming overly thick in texture.
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12/05/2002
NOSPR in Northampton (Chronicle & Echo)
Most exciting
The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra chose a wide-ranging programme for their concert at Derngate on December 2. Mahler, a composer of large scale symphonies, was represented by his No.1, and for romantic tastes there was Max Bruch's No. 1 Violin Concerto, sald to be the most played of all concertos. Easy listening came from Górecki, whose compositions seek to please.
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11/20/2002
NOSPR in Nottingham (Evening Post)
So full of imagination
Everything is relative, no doubt, but the programme's description of Gustav Mahler's First Symphony as "relatively tame and conservative" hardly fitted the performance we heard.
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02/26/2004
Weinberg's Compositions (Die Zeit)
Sound Carrier
Child's longing
Dmitry Shostakovich was inclined rather to biting, sometimes caustic remarks than to exaggerated compliments. The name of Moisiey Wainberg, however, was mentioned several times in a remarkably friendly manner in his letters to his close friend Isaac Glikman. Once a "wonderful" symphony no.4 was mentioned, some other time "astonishingly beautiful" no.10 or "really beautiful" violin concerto, the opportunity to listen to which Glikman should not miss, if such an occasion arose. In 1953, only thanks to friend's intervention, Wainberg escaped death from Stalinist assassins and shortly before his death Shostakovich effectively fought for première of Wainberg's opera, which did not come into effect at the last moment.
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03/20/2004
Weinberg's Compositions (Franfurter Allgemeine)
A new man each time
Two out of twenty two symphonies by Mieczysław Weinberg
(...) Interpretations of Chmura and his orchestra located itself on the highest level, as regards quality. Chmura's unusual sense for emitting tones, so characteristic of him from the very beginning of his career, his artistry of colourful differentiations, his ability to keep in suspense of symphonic elaborations is perfectly applied by his orchestra. This allows us to expect continuation of this class.
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Weinberg's Compositions ( Muzyka21)
Outstanding recording of National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Gabriel Chmura
Reviewed album is worth great appreciation. Why? A renowned West European company, Chandos from England has published forgotten Polish music outstandingly performed. The matter concerns Symphony no. 5 and Sinfonietta no. 1 of forgotten in Poland Mieczysław Weinberg. Additional attention should be paid to the shameful fact that neither Słownik muzyków polskich[1] nor Encyklopedia Muzyki PWN[2] gives information concerning this composer, it seems that the authors of the mentioned publications consider him a foreigner. -
Weinberg's Compositions (BBC Music Magazine)
Weinberg
Symphony No.5, Sinfonietta No.1
National Polish Radio Symphony
Orchestra/Gabriel Chmura
Chandos CHAN 10128 67’51’’
(...)Chandos's disc is announced as the first in a complete survey of Weinberg's 19 symphonies (I'm not aware if an earlier such survey on Olympia was ever completed). The Fifth was composed in 1962 in the immediate aftermath of the resurrection of Shostakovitch's longbanned Fourth Symphony, and seems to contain several acts of homage to that work (including the celesta solo at the end). It's a serious, cogent, expressively rich score, full of good ideas meaningfully developed.