Recently appointed first guest conductor of the “Philhar”, Lithuanian Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla conducted a little-known Weinberg symphony. A score which evokes the death of his mother, killed by the SS, and aroused great emotion.
A few days after being named first guest conductor of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla justified this position by inviting us on a musical and human journey which will leave traces in the history of this formation. In one week, it brought together two kindred spirits: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996).
We now know the fate of Weinberg, who lost his family in the Nazi camps and fell from one terror to another when leaving Poland for the USSR, where Shostakovich took him under his wing. If the music of the first is well known, the time of the second is only coming: it is the fight of the Lithuanian leader. Seeing the commitment of the orchestra and the fervor of the public, we would not be surprised if more and more performers appropriate this very unique music, which constantly speaks in the first person.
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