ヴァインベルク: 室内楽作品集

ポーランドの天才的作曲家に鬼才クレーメルが挑む!

ポーランド出身で旧ソ連に亡命した作曲家ミェチスワフ・ヴァインベルク(1919-1996)の作品は、ドイツ・グラモフォンから交響曲第2番と第21番がリトアニアの女性指揮者ミルガ・グラジニーテ=ティーラの演奏でリリースされ好評を博しましたが、今回はラトヴィアのヴァイオリニスト、ギドン・クレーメルによる室内音楽集のアルバムになります。『ヴァイオリンとピアノのための3つの小品』は1934/35年の冬、ヴァインベルクが15歳で、まだ作曲の手ほどきを何も受けていないときに完成された作品です。その作曲の完璧さはもちろん、あくまで美を追求している姿勢に驚かされます。ロシア出身の女性ピアニスト、ユリアンナ・アヴデーエワ、リトアニア出身の女性チェリスト、ギードレ・ディルヴァナウスカイテが共演しています。
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS

Composer Mieczysław Weinberg has increasingly often gained performances in the 21st century, mostly for his larger works (he wrote 22 symphonies). However, his oeuvre continues to yield worthwhile and rarely performed music, and the present set of chamber pieces offers a good example. They have been assembled by violinist Gidon Kremer, who has plenty of experience with Weinberg and is a persuasive interpreter. Here, he performs with cellist Giedre Dirvanauskaite and pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, and the readings are crisp and clean. The common line on Weinbergs music is that it is inspired by, or derivative of Shostakovich, depending on your perspective, and certainly one can hear the influence of the older composer here. The Violin Sonata No. 6, Op. 136bis, was written in 1982, after Shostakovichs death, but certainly reflects the decades of close cooperation between the two. Elsewhere, though, Weinbergs music has a positive note missing from that of Shostakovich, acidic except when he was absolutely forced not to be. The opening Three Pieces for violin and piano, written when Weinberg was 15 and not given an opus number, is an attractive piece of juvenilia from the years before the composer experienced the horrors of World War II; the finale, Traum von einer Puppe (A Dolls Dream, sample this), is a piece on the edge of Romanticism that sounds nothing like Shostakovich. The strongest work is the Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 24, is a fully accomplished chamber work largely devoid of the grim quality of Shostakovichs wartime chamber works. The music, whether in a Shostakovich vein or not, is consistently absorbing, and the album is a good choice for Russian and Eastern European chamber collections.