The Lithuanian conductor Mirga Grazinyté-Tyla sees the dissemination of the works of the Polish-Jewish composer Mieczslaw Weinberg as a mission. Her DG debut in 2019 with its Symphonies 2 & 21 was met with acclaim.
With the symphonies 3 & 7 and Weinberg’s flute concerto she puts on a sensational sequel. By conveying personal technical interpretations, the conductor understands a participation in the ability to communicate with the orchestra and not just the routine reading of the musical text in order to convey his individual understanding of the work to the listener.
Effects have no place with her and are absolutely to be avoided in gestures. What respectful treatment of the music creators and their works. The composer Weinberg, who was hit hard by the fate of his time, is one who particularly deserves the care and discovery of his creative work.
In the third symphony it is described tonally. The five-movement Symphony No. 7 is a kind of baroque concerto grosso in a contemporary context with a particularly colorful tonal spectrum, and the 1961 flute concerto refers to Jewish music, once interpreted by Weinberg himself.
Participating are the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the soloists Kirill Gerstein (piano) and Marie-Christine Zupancic (flute).
