Is this the next Weinberg?

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

I am starting to think that Grazyna Bacewicz might be the next Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Forgive me, non-Polophones, if the names are had to pronounce, but if you’ve got used to Szymanowski and Paderewski down the years you can certainly live with this pair. Weinberg fled to Russia in 1939 and became the composer closest to Shostakovich, albeit under-performed. He emerged from the shadows in the 1990s and is now deemed indispensable. Weinberg’s opera, The Passenger, has played in major capitals and his symphonies are bursting forth on record.

Bacewicz, who died in 1969, trod water under Polish Communism and saw her music eclipsed by the authorised forces of Lutoslawski and Penderecki…

Read on here.

En francais ici.

In The Critic here.