Mieczysław Weinberg - String Quartet n°5 op. 27 (1945) 

... only to find out that Weinberg had become my favorite composer. Why? I don't know. I love the heart and soul in his music.

Deeply affecting music. Thoroughly compelling, fascinating string quartet 'art' of the highest order. Weinberg pulls you in and does not let go. I have three quartets in my collection. Need to track down the remaining 14 as soon as I can!

For me is it without a shadow of doubt one of the great string quartets of the 20 th century.

At no point in this work does one feel that the composer "mailed it in". It has its own existence unlike anything else I've heard in the genre. This is an intriguing piece of music. Just when I think I'm going to get comfortable something unexpected occurs. Wonderful find!

I acquired a couple of his Quartets quite by accident when some book/music seller had a big discount on lots of music I'd never heard about. Of them all, Vaynberg (Weinberg) has given me a disproportionate amount of "pleasure" (I use the term advisedly because his music troubles me so much, yet satisfies some psychic need that'd genetically burrowed over centuries and, finally, into my smallish brain.) [Greetings from Puerto Aventuras, Mexico]

That second movement was unexpected.

A still from Tarkovskys "Nostalghia"!

At times emotionally disturbing , but allways exciting. I can't stop listening, enchanted. Like walking on a tight rope. What a discovery ! Thank you very much !

I enjoyed this very much! Thanks for posting.

this music is touching the soul...

Wonderful to experience this music. Thank you! Important composer.

This quartet is imbued with a bittersweet sadness, a longing perhaps for a chance to turn back the clock and change the events of history. It seeks to console, but only in shades of gray. It probes and sears into the innermost being, and in its final movement attains a heart-rending poignancy. Weinberg's Fifth Quartet is a great work, lifting my opinion of his music to a higher level than I had for it after hearing his 'Cello Concerto, my only other exposure to it. I'll continue to acquaint myself with more of it.

shostakovichs 1st, 5th and 8th string quartets are in the same keys as weinbergs 1st, 5th and 8th

Thanks so much for posting this.

Спасибо.Если в России великого композитора забыли,где то помнят.

Divine!

very good

❤

very moving

Highly entertaining.

How did Weinberg survive WW2? This piece reminds me of Partos' "Yizkor'" which also features a viola, and was written in the same era.

It's actually the TNO humanist guy!

The disgusting amount of ads placed throughout this performance completely ruined the spectacle. There were 5 interruptions sprinkled through the symphony and not even placed between the movements. An F for RU-vid.

Beautiful, but too much viola