Polish-Russian composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg wrote his Requiem a few years after he became familiar with Britten's War Requiem, and although the two works have little in common musically, they share a strong anti-war sentiment because of their choice of texts. Weinberg sets poems by a nationally diverse set of writers: Dmitri Kedrin (Russia), Federico García Lorca (Spain), Sara Teasdale (U.S.), Munetoshi Fukagawa (Japan), and Mikhail Dudin, a Soviet contemporary of the composer's. The piece was never performed during ...
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Polish-Russian composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg wrote his Requiem a few years after he became familiar with Britten's War Requiem, and although the two works have little in common musically, they share a strong anti-war sentiment because of their choice of texts. Weinberg sets poems by a nationally diverse set of writers: Dmitri Kedrin (Russia), Federico García Lorca (Spain), Sara Teasdale (U.S.), Munetoshi Fukagawa (Japan), and Mikhail Dudin, a Soviet contemporary of the composer's. The piece was never performed during Weinberg's lifetime and had to wait until 2009 for its premiere. The composer and Shostakovich were close friends, and it's easy to trace a musical kinship with Shostakovich in the dark tone and musical vocabulary of the Requiem. It's a more starkly modernist piece than Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony, written for similar forces a few years before, more eccentrically spare in its practically skeletal orchestral and vocal textures, and even darker emotionally. The accompaniment for the...
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