related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 5
Genre:
Unknown
The Storm Cloud (Tucha) : Version for mezzo-soprano and piano / Elena Langer; lyrics: traditional
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
pf m-sop
Amsterdam : for alto voice and piano / Leon Rusanovsky; lyrics B. Rziankin
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
zang pf
De Liereman : voor midden stem met piano / Bernard Zweers, tekst: G.W. Lovendaal
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
voice 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.