Symphony No. 21 (Weinberg)

The Symphony No. 21, Opus 152, subtitled Kaddish, was composed by Mieczysław Weinberg in 1991. It was the last full-orchestral symphony that Weinberg completed (he died in 1996). The work is dedicated to the Warsaw Ghetto's Holocaust victims.

The symphony is a single-movement work in six sections:

Largo: this section quotes from Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G minor.
Allegro molto
Largo
Presto
Andantino
Lento: this section introduces a soprano singing a wordless requiem.

The symphony was first recorded in 2014, by the Siberian Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Dmitry Vasilyev) on the Toccata Classics label. The Symphony has also been recorded in 2019 by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Kremerata Baltica conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla on Deutsche Grammophon.

References

Category:Classical music about the Holocaust
Category:1991 compositions
Category:Compositions by Mieczysław Weinberg
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