Featuring
Programme
- Weinberg Selection from the 24 preludes for cello solo, op.100 (1969)
- Weinberg Symphony No. 4 in A minor, op. 61 (Austrian premiere)
- Shostakovich Concerto for violoncello and orchestra No. 2 in G minor, op.126
- Weinberg Symphony No. 3 in B minor, op. 45
Together with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the internationally sought-after conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla draws the sounding portrait of an extraordinary friendship that began in 1943 as Shostakovich, based on two symphonies by Mieczysław Weinberg and the 2nd cello concerto by Dmitri Shostakovich played by the Austrian shooting star Julia Hagen 13 years younger Weinberg unselfishly paved the way.