Works for violin and piano (2009)

Het Valerius Ensemble speelt op 20-11-2016 de Vijfde sonate voor viool en piano, Op. 53 in het Muziekcentrum, Enschede. "Vainbergs violin sonatas are not the most known and digested of his large corpus of pieces. It appears however that the Fifth Violin sonata has never previously been recorded so this makes the appearance of Stefan and Andreas Kirpals recording something of a coup. Its coupled with the Fourth sonata and the very early Three Pieces, written when the composer was in his mid teens. The Fourth Sonata dates from 1947. The Fifth Sonata was written in 1953 and dedicated to Shostakovich. In comparison with its predecessor, the four movements are much more conventionally laid out. The opening has a Miaskovskian, earnest, lyric beauty, whilst the second has moments of easy folkloric influence. The Three Pieces were written in 1934. Weinberg certainly knew how to do crepuscular and the scherzo elements of Perpetuum Mobile Gothic, even at the age of fifteen." (Jonathan Woolf, Musicweb International)

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