Children’s Notebook No. 3 Op. 23

Lento funebre


  • Recorded: 2nd June 2021
  • Record Place: Atrium Žižkov, Prague
  • First Release: 2021
  • (P) 2021 Animal Music
  • Genre: Chamber Music

Artists

  • music by: Mieczysław Weinberg
  • piano: Aneta Majerová

Album

Aneta Majerová

Weinberg: Children's Notebooks

Catalogue Number: ANI096-2
Published: 29th October 2021
Genre: Chamber Music
Format: 1 CD
The music of Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996), Soviet composer of Polish origin whose impressive legacy of many outstanding compositions has been often compared to his illustrious compatriots, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, but also unduly neglected in their shadow, has been at the centre of the Slovak pianist Aneta Majerová's attention for some time. Majerová (*1979) dedicated to Weinberg already her previous recording for Animal Music from 2016, which features the composer's Piano Quintet. Her new album includes a complete of Weinber'g "Children's Notebooks" for piano, a cycle of 21 beautiful and very diverse short pieces which originated during the last years of Stalin's dictatorship. Despite its title, the compositions in the cycle are very demanding and require a wide array of professional skills. Weinberg's "Children's Notebooks" represent one of the most beautiful piano cycles of the 20th century and deserve to be performed much more often that has hitherto been the case. Aneta Majerová's is the third performer in the world to have come up with the collection's complete recording.
Mieczysław Weinberg
Children’s Notebook No. 1 Op. 16
1. Larghetto 01:39
2. Allegro 01:21
3. Moderato maestoso 01:34
4. Tempo di valse 01:14
5. Allegretto 01:13
6. Presto 00:46
7. Andante tranquillo 03:02
8. Larghetto 01:43
Mieczysław Weinberg
Children’s Notebook No. 2 Op. 19
9. Largo 03:11
10. Allegretto 01:19
11. Moderato 01:19
12. Lento 02:46
13. Allegro 01:34
14. Andantino 01:24
15. Marziale lugubre 02:24
16. Andante 02:26
Mieczysław Weinberg
Children’s Notebook No. 3 Op. 23
17. Allegro marcato 01:18
18. Allegro commodo 01:03
19. Moderato 01:39
20. Prestissimo 01:01
21. Allegretto quasi andantino 02:04
22. Lento funebre 03:06
23. Andantino semplice 01:35