related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 3
Genre:
Unknown
Hysteria at penumbra slumbers : for orchestra, 1993 / Kim Bowman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3333 3shawm-b/3sax-bas 6431 5perc hp pf str
Ciacona e fuga : per orchestra / Alexander Voormolen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3222 4331 timp perc str
Dry Bones, Arise! : for symphony orchestra / br Kris Oelbrandt ocso
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 2fl 2ob eh 3cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 2trb-ten trb-b tb timp 3perc hp 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.