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Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 2
Genre:
Unknown
... in terra aliena... : for three voices and chamber ensemble / Lewis Nielson
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
2sopr bar-bass cl(cl-b) trb vl vla vc db perc
Marie : for vocal quartet and recorder quartet / Calliope Tsoupaki; text Anthonis de Roovere
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
4zang rec-a rec-t rec-basset rec-cb
Rilke Lieder II : voor altstem en 10 blazers, 1986 / Roland Voortman
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
alt 2fl ob ob(eh) cl cl(cl-b) fg fg(cfg) 2h
composition
La chanson déchirante : for mezzo-soprano, flute and piano / Rosy Wertheim; text by Li-Tai-Po
Author(s):
Leo Smit Stichting
(Partner)
Li T'Ai Po
(Text writer/Librettist)
Wertheim, Rosy
(Composer)
Contains:
Vous me répétiez
Une dernière fois
Pourquoi pleurez-vous, jeunes filles qui vous mariez?
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.