Симфония №17 “Память“ - Мечислав Вайнберг

Siberian State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Lande I - Adagio sostenuto: 0:00 II - Allegro molto: 9:53 III - Allegro moderato, pesante: 25:05 IV - Andante: 29:40 Composed between 1982-84, Weinberg’s Symphony bears the dedication “In memory of the fallen in the Great Patriotic War“. It received its premiere at the Moscow Autumn Festival on 1st November 1984, with Vladimir Fedoseyev directing the USSR Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra. It forms part of a symphonic trilogy which was given the collective title “On the Threshold of War“, reflecting the traumas of the Soviet Union (and indirectly that of Poland, from which he was forced to flee in September 1939) over the Great Patriotic War of 1940-45, as well as a need for Soviet composers to embody the eventual Socialist victory such as persisted almost to the end of the Soviet era....