related works
Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 5
Genre:
Unknown
Drie liederen : voor zang en piano / Hans Henkemans
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
medium pf
The young girl and the philosopher : for soprano and piano, 1998 / text: Heloïse, Richard Sims
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr pf
Kleine prelude van Ravel : voor alt en piano, 1938 / gedicht: Martinus Nijhoff, Leo Smit
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
alt pf
composition
Les Sept Poèmes d'amour en guerre : for voice and piano / Marjo Tal; on words by Paul Éluard
Author(s):
Eluard, Paul
(Text writer/Librettist)
Leo Smit Stichting
(Curator)
Tal, Marjo
(Composer)
Contains:
Un navire dans tes yeux
Jour de nos yeux mieux peoples
La source coulant douce et nue
C’est une plante qui frappe
Le coin du coeur disaient-ils gentiment
Nous ne vous chantons pas trompettes
Au nom du front parfait profond
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.