related works
Kinah : for solo voices, wind quintet and piano / Sim Gokkes
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and large ensemble
Scoring:
2sopr alt ten bar fl ob cl h fg pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s); Voice and piano
Scoring:
high cl ; high pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr-m pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
medium pf
composition
Eight Songs : for high voice and piano / Simon Gokkes; words by Jehuda Halevi, Jacob Israël de Haan, François Pauwels, Willem de Mérode, Ernest Bussy, Paul Verlaine, Jewish liturgy
Other authors:
Gokkes, Sim
(Composer)
Contains:
Bikjousou – Waddereg Tsijounnoh
Lekowoud admas Hadoudesj
De Pelgrim voor Jeruzalem
Duiven
Kermesse d’été
C’en est fait
La lune blanche luit dans les bois
Kaddish
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.