related works

Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 2

Genre: Unknown

Oerania : voor alt en harp, 1950 / op tekst van P.C. Boutens, Henri Zagwijn

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: alt hp

To whom : for soprano and ensemble, opus 23, 1973/2000 / poem by Adrian Mitchell, Peter Schat

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr 2cl 3fg h trp pf el.g el. g-b

Dichten : voor stem en acht cello's / Boudewijn Tarenskeen; tekst Wislawa Szymborska

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: zang 8vc

composition

Trois Chansons : for flute, voice and harp or piano / Rosy Wertheim; text by Li-Tai-Po

Other authors:
Li T'Ai Po (Text writer/Librettist)
Wertheim, Rosy (Composer)
Description:
The series 'Forbidden Music Regained' proudly presents works by composers who were persecuted during the Second World War. Performances of these works were forbidden during the war. Many composers were imprisoned, several did not survive and others went into hiding.
After the war a new generation took over. The pre-war composers were soon forgotten and their compositions remained hidden in closets and archives or fell otherwise into oblivion. In recent decades numerous works have been rediscovered through the efforts of the Leo Smit Foundation. Some scores were found in attics, others in a garden shed and a pile of music was found by young children next to a garbage can. These compositions are of a high quality and deserve to be performed again. The diversity of styles represents the entire spectrum of the first half of the Twentieth century: romanticism, impressionism, modernism, neoclassicism, jazz, and so forth. This project aims to encourage musicians, young and old, from across the globe to perform these compositions, and for concert audiences to (once again) become acquainted with this ‘unheard’ music.