related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 5
Genre:
Unknown
Two War Songs : Version for baritone and piano / Luc Van Hove; lyrics by Edward Thomas and Hugo Ball
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
bar pf
Nähe des Geliebten : for soprano and piano, 1994 / Text: W. von Goethe, Micha Hamel
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr pf
Wendungen : (siebzehn Gedichte von Wenda Focke), für Sopranstimme und Klavier, 1962 / Fré Focke
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr pf
composition
Eight Engelman Songs : for voice and piano / Marjo Tal; on words by Jan Engelman
Author(s):
Engelman, Jan
(Text writer/Librettist)
Leo Smit Stichting
(Partner)
Tal, Marjo
(Composer)
Contains:
En Rade (uit Tuin van Eros)
Wolken (uit Tuin van Eros)
Het onbereikbare (uit Het Bittermeer)
Over het gras (uit Tuin van Eros)
Vera Janacopoulos (uit Tuin van Eros)
Annabel (uit Tuin van Eros)
Diablerie (uit Tuin van Eros)
Anne Borg (uit Verspreide gedichten)
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.