Product Description

Mieczyslaw Weinberg's genuinely awe-inspiring complete string quartets (17) are now available in a box set in interpretations by the Belgian Danel Quartet. Inspired by Shostakovich's widow Irina (and other factors), the Quatuor Danel began acquiring the scores of all seventeen Weinberg quartets in 1995 and after a number of years (2007 to 2012) has now finished its complete recording for cpo.

Review

In content and skill the works are equal to good works by Shostakovich, but this does not at all mean that Weinberg was a Shostakovich imitator. The Danels perform with unabating, often almost urgent intensity. A full 10 for exciting music and its enthralling interpretation by an exciting ensemble. --klassik-heute.com