Composers: Weinberg
Compositions: Symphonies No 2 and No 21 (Kaddish)
Performers: Gidon Kremer v, City of Birmingham SO, Kremerata Baltica/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Catalogue Number: DG 4836566 (2CD)

Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996) has finally made it, with a double-CD issue of two of his symphonies from Deutsche Grammophon no less. So too has young Lithuanian conductor Mirga Gražintye˙-Tyla, who was appointed Chief Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 2016 and is contracted until 2021. Conducting that orchestra in the Symphony No 21, and Gidon Kremer’s string ensemble Kremerata Baltica in the Second Symphony, Gražinytė-Tyla produces performances of gripping expressivity.