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Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 4
Genre:
Unknown
La Commedia : for symphony orchestra / Alexey Retinsky
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl picc 3ob 3cl(cl-b) 3fg(cfg) 4h 4tpt 3trb tb timp 5perc hp str
Raving : for large orchestra and electronic dance pulse / Willem Boogman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg fg-c 4h 3trp 2trb trb-b tb timp dr dr-b g-b str elec
Four epigrams for orchestra : opus 16, 1961-62 / Rudi M. van Dijk
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4331 timp perc hp pf str
composition
Serenade : for orchestra / Robert (Bob) Hanf
Other authors:
Hanf, Robert
(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.