related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 4
Genre:
Unknown
Concert : voor piano met orkest begeleiding / Sem Dresden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and orchestra
Scoring:
2222 3200 timp perc str pf-solo
Concertino voor piano en orkest : 1934 / Kees van Baaren
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and orchestra
Scoring:
1110 sax-a 1000 str(8.8.6.4.4.) pf-solo
Aquarius : for piano and orchestra / Ángel Arranz
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and orchestra
Scoring:
pf-solo 3fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp 2perc str
composition
Pianoconcertino : for piano and chamber orchestra / Daniël Belinfante
Other authors:
Leo Smit Stichting
(Curator)
Belinfante, Daniel
(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.