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Mieczyslaw Weinberg, born December 8, 1919 in Warsaw, died February 2, 1996 in Moscow.
Aliases - Mieczyslaw Vainberg, Moisei Vainberg, Moisey Samuilovich Vainberg, Moisey Vainberg, Samuel Weinberg, Samuil Weinberg.

 - Vainberg/Weinberg Vol.13 - Piano Sonatas II Nos.4, 5 & 6 Murray McLachlan, piano [OLYMPIA 2000]
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sonatas-4-Mclachlan-Mieczyslav-Vainberg/dp/B000026A6Y/ref=sr_1_6?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1346087975&sr=1-6

 - Symphonies Nos. 1 and 7 (Gothenburg Symphony, Svedlund) CHANDOS 5078, 2010
https://arkivmusic.eu/music/album/489494/Weinberg-Symphonies-Nos-1-7-Svedlund-Gothenburg-Symphony-Orchestra

 - Symphony No. 3, The Golden Key Suite No.4(Gothenburg Symphony, Svedlund) CHANDOS 5089, 2011
https://arkivmusic.eu/music/album/565527/Weinberg-Symphony-No-3-The-Golden-Key-Suite-No-4-Svedlund-Gothenburg-Symphony-Orchestra

With the general increase in the popularity of Dmitry Shostakovich's music, that of his protégé Mieczyslaw Weinberg has also been gaining a hearing outside the former East Bloc. A Polish-born Jew, Weinberg survived two waves of Nazi invasion only to find himself buffeted by the same political forces as Shostakovich, by then his mentor, in the postwar Soviet Union. It's not Shostakovich, but it's quite absorbing, and the performances by Sweden's Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra are clean and on top of Weinberg's long lines in the outer movements of the symphony. A strong entry in the catalog of a composer on the rise.