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The Seckerson Tapes: Violinist Linus Roth
The Seckerson Tapes: Violinist Linus Roth
Weinberg's sonatas and concerto for violin
Sunday, 16 February 2014
Linus Rothwww.wildundleise.de
The Polish composer Miecyzlaw Weinberg - his Holocaust opera The Passenger caused quite a stir in David Pountney’s premiere staging - has a new champion. The talented young German violinist Linus Roth has taken his music and his legacy to heart in a big way. New recordings of the complete Sonatas and the little-heard Violin Concerto (in a coupling with the Britten Concerto) on the enterprising Challenge label reveal a composer of many facets and a deep and abiding conviction.
His music chronicles a life of tragedy, determination, and defiance, and in this podcast Roth talks about Weinberg’s extraordinary journey - his flight from the Nazis, his kinship with Shostakovich, and the finding of his own distinctive voice. Roth reveals what it was about Weinberg that spoke so directly to him and how he believes that the Violin Concerto is a major work which will in time achieve the widest currency. He sees his advocacy of the new and the neglected, past and present, as a responsibility - and that it is players not promoters who keep the repertoire growing.
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