WEINBERG: Symphony No. 2 & Chamber Symphony No. 2 - Umeå Symphony Orchestra, Thord Svedlund (DIGITAL DOWNLOAD)

“The lyrical Second Symphony is haunted by a restless melancholy …yet the result is in no way depressing. Chamber Symphony No.2 is a relatively late work and although it is freely rhapsodic, the mood is more positive and often songful…the nostalgic feeling returns in the central movement, but the atmosphere darkens in the long drawn finale which reaches a passionately plangent climax before its quietly resigned coda with a single tympani stroke resolution….both played with great eloquence and warmly and naturally recorded .” (Penguin Guide 3 stars) Symphony No.2, Op. 30 (1945-6)for String orchestra (32:31)[1] I. Allegro moderato 13:22[2] II. Adagio 9:34[3] III. Allegretto 9:35 Chamber Symphony No.2, Op. 147 (1987) for Stringorchestra & timpani (24:09)[4] I. Allegro molto 8:53[5] II. Pesante 5:02[6] III. Andante sostenuto 10:14 Mieczysław Weinberg (formerly mistakenly Moishe Vainberg) was born in Warsaw in 1919, the son of a composer and violinist at a Jewish theatre. When he was o