Weinberg: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2

In the twenty years since his death the star of the Polish-born Moscow-based Mieczyslaw Weinberg (191996) has risen rapidly: his music a highly individual amalgam of the Jewish idioms of his youth and the style of his mentor and friend Dmitry Shostakovich is now seen as one of the most distinctive contributions to twentieth-century music. This further instalment in the Toccata Classics examination of his output couples a mature dance-based score not performed before this recording with his last symphony, orchestrated after his death by the composer Kirill Umansky.