USSR TV & Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maxim Shostakovich

I - Allegro moderato: 0:00
II - Allegretto: 19:23
III - Adagio - attacca: 26:44
IV - Allegro: 37:44

Weinberg's Symphony No.12 was composed between 1975-76. The work had to wait over three years for its first performance, given on 13 October 1979 by the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Shostakovich's son, Maxim Shostakovich, who also made the first recording. The catalyst of the symphony was the death in 9 August of 1975 of Shostakovich, with whom Weinberg had been on a close friendship since their first meeting 32 years earlier and who was the single most important influence on his evolution

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