related works
D'ou viens-tu bergère : Pour choeur (ou Deux voix de femmes) et solo de Soprano / Rosy Wertheim
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Female choir and piano
Scoring:
VK pf
Five Songs : for soprano, basset horn and string quartet / John Dowland; arranged by Hans Koolmees
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr basseth 2vln vla vc
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr fl(pic fl-a fl-b) perc hp cb
The Song of Songs : for soprano, tenor, alto flute, tambourine and harp / Josef Malkin
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr ten fl-a/tamb hp
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.