related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 4
Genre:
Unknown
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind and string instrument(s); Flute
Scoring:
2fl vc/fl-a
4 inventies : voor 2 fluiten, serie I / Jaap Geraedts
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Flute
Scoring:
2fl
Rocking Birds : for flute quartet / Marijn Simons
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Flute
Scoring:
4fl
composition
Five Pastorales : for flute / Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab
Other authors:
Colaco Osorio-Swaab, Reine
(Composer)
Contains:
Poco allegro
Andante
Allegretto
Con moto
Allegro vivace
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.