related works

Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 1

Genre: Unknown

Cirkels II : voor harmonie- en strijkorkest, opus 90, nr. 2, 1993 / Jo van den Booren

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Band; String orchestra; Orchestra
Scoring: 2232 3sax 4331 2bug euph timp 2perc mar(xyl) str

Endlessly Luminous Path : for chamber orchestra / Krists Auznieks

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: picc fl 2ob(eh) 2cl(cl-b) 2fg 2h 2tpt perc str

Variations traditionelles : '54 / Hugo Godron

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2222 22(1)(1) perc (cel ad lib.) str

composition

Sept Poèmes : for small orchestra / Hans Lachman

Author(s):
Leo Smit Stichting (Partner)
Lachman, Hans (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.